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

NEWSPAPER “SCOOPS” AMOUS. THE eTar F yan AL INT . THE NEWS TILL NOON WE NOON EDITION, — —NicHT EDITION Mys Miss wire OF MAN SUPPOSED TO BE MURDERED RECEIVES FORG gp POSTAL WITH HUSBAND'S NAME SIGNED—HISTORY OF DISAPPEARANCE CLOUDED WITH STRANGE DOUBTS—Po- ce PUZZLED —__. mysterious silence ofjthe recipient of the postal as Me Ones clew to the where "riend Jeff.” Schmidt kn the fof Charles Sehridt, man slightly, but his wife clatms een murdered for | | that under noes would | iam ctr over & vee he address ¢ at way his wife Mrs e an ef — temple to have partment of jth Ancient Order of Pyramids, of » in Denver] which her husband was a member, to Mra/ accept murder as the cause of her had received | husband's death, A body found tied The postal/ in a mack and thrown Into the bay 10, 1905. | Was partly identified by her as his t Schmidt| remains, About the same date that ough in} Schmidt disappeared the police re « The re-| ceived a mysterious memsage from us postal) a Waterfront informant whe pre- tely forwarded it to] femsed to have witnessed the re- : moval of a body from a shack at the fame reseln: of the postal the | foot of Pike. He followed the ex- d murdered man's] prem wagon out to the northe met Ser cles aUives have | section of the city and th Xe letters ga to RBaker| track of the driver, whose actio unclaimed. | Were strangely nervous and who| * have been| kept up a show of hilarity, Months and @ full) afterwards two fishermen dragged posed mur-| the body from the mud in which it had been immersed. The crabs and tnierview Thursday morn-| fish had eaten the flesh from Schmidt denounced the put Sehinidt chatty gard as a forgery. It ts sign bar t a weight says that her? body tallied with thome of by ever knowledge, | ing husband. The body oh mame that way. The | terred the potter's field. Ferembles that of her | fter the finding of the shily, but a comparinon | in the bay Schmidt's Wah letters written by the postal believe that Charley was| gage. One of the clerks read ~ stated Mre Schmidt.| article published in The Star and fot do o trick like thie | notified the police. The trunk was & proud man and did not}opened and letters from Mra Schmidt, dated a few days before appearance. were found. and household eff balance of the tru had been on uch ax expressed in this | Our property rights are so motes that, should he de- lose as far as money is would be heavy, There} ply no cause for deser-| journey to Portland. After lying 7 Hived with him: for seven /at the Northern Pacific depot there His own relatives believe, in| for a month, it was returned to the ‘Mis postal card, that he ie point of shipment. Rot murdered here tn Seat- Schmidt has latd her case Thave the police commissioner, Wording of the pe ated Thursday vagrant. It states that | he believed the woman's story and ie “on the bum” and | thought that Schmidt had been mur- for handouts.” It addresnes | dered. ts ek, & mysterious fitled which the Rogey Man” Scares Neighborhood police are after a “demon ifeé hair and a hage butcher by whom the children liv- @ Thirteenth north of Yesier ip in that neighborhood. Children of flowers, but come fying back with barid tales of the strange ac- been scared into connip- | tions of the “bogey man.” Tuesday om various occasions. j the man begged for bread at sev to the report of Mrs. | eral houses in that district. Richard. 402 Thirtieth, the| The residents of that section lies day after day in the | think the man is insane and fear Enderbrush near the streets that he will kill some one. WAMBERLAIN | ‘8 URGED ie MORE DANGER The threatened epidemic of diph- itheria among the operators em- ployed by the Sunset Telephone company is now believed by the board of health to be well in hand. The examination of the 300 girls | bas been completed, and it hag been found that the girls sumpected of dadge C. H. Hanford, of the | being affected are in no danger Bates district court, has | With the exception of Mise Wini. Charles P. Chamber- | fred King, no further cases of re rial agent for the Great | tonsilitie or diphtheria have fallroad, to Governor ; discovered. Sppointment on the new The girlie employed by , commission heeame | pendent Telephone company will to a few Seattle politicians | next be inapected, but further dis- the visit of the governor | covery of the presence of contagious | dinease ts ont expected Pee ee eee eee ee eee) . the Inde- Chamberiain was at one Beonduetor on the O. R. & N M4, and later on the Central | * ! When the Central ® WANTED PIERPONT FOR & failed in the carly 90s | * HIS VALET . ‘Appointed receiver by Judge |*® Jobn Srv committed to t fom the recommendation of | ® Steilacoom for insanity on & ite John B. Allen, then Unit- | * Thursday, spent a week at the & senator. Judge Hanford |® County hospital looking for an *& Pleased with his ad-|* imaginary partner * Of the affairs of the | Sihith was sore hie partner # When Chamberlain came |* "#4 stecreted himself beneath #| Some three years ago | ® the blankets of his bed and oc- ® him for his present | * ©Upied his spare time in @ vain ®| As industrial agent of | * **areh * t Northern he works di-|% He was also a victim toa de- & Mbder J.D. Farrell sonistant |® luston that each day he grew #& Hill, and it is naturai- | * Ficher and, according to his # Be Sesamed that Mr. Farrell |* tisures, if he lived long enough # fecommended his appoint. | * he would have enough money #| % to hire J. Pierpont Morgan as ® two | * his valet 7 on are ex: | SERRE ERR Re ed within & SHY 15 “BONES” hild, it i8| GutanoDaveronie complained to mber, | the police this morning of the treat »vernor | ment accorded him at the Bennet opinion | jodging house, Fifth 4 Jackson. of Col-\ when he woke up this morning, 1. Ben- | after a night's rest at the place, he 4 few | misetd $15, which he In sure reposed ; poe in @ wallet underneath his head. He is now thought tol toid the pole t th 10Re Of the running landlady knew something about it y \e NEW YORK, May 25.--The Brit “hian, | ish steamer Haversham reports Me ann M houses sighting the schooner Hamburg, nd ce # lont May 21, 820 miles east of Sandy NDON. ay , | Hook. On the same day the Atlan flantinople : « that the |e was sighted by the White Star i insurgents have captured | ner Armenian 900 miles out. Indi n of Ho h, Yemen p cation are that the Atlantic leads all yachts by 90 mil morning that | wander from beaten paths in search | ShadaHeRRahOkkeED * * SEATILEITES % PTVeTETTTTT TT TT’ 3 % “™ S a > ~ a ee el "My firat job? “Why. the first job I ever haa | was washing down buggtes for the Seattio Transfer company—and it lasted half an hour! I wasn't post ed about turnig the hose on, 1 went| at it with a broom—and a man| named Armetrong came along and | fired me, I got a kick In the poe for my reward!"—Joho F. Ne Assistant Prosecuting Attorney COOK 1AKES MORPHINE | George Wilson, a Boulevard restaurant, took two ounces of morphine | Thursday afternoon and is now lying dangerously ii at the Provi dence hospital | Jt ts supposed that he had been drinking, as he was not at work Thursday and could not be found by his employer Wilson had engaged a room at the Abbot hotel and while in his room took the poison. He was dis covered by the clerk, who heard his moans. He found Wilson | stretched across the bed with a/ morphine vial in his hand, his face | ghastly white, and, thinking him | dead, sent for the patrol wagon. ‘The patrol driver came, but re- fused to take the man away, and the ambulance was sent for and conveyed him to Providence hos pital Wilson's condition ts critical CASHIER ATTEMPTS SUICIDE BANK CLOSES DOOhS cook at the) S21) Pike STOCKTON, May 25.—Following the attempted suicide of Louis Kahn, cashier of the Bank of Oak- dale, at his home in Oakdale, Wed- neaday, the bank closed it# doors this morning The state bank commissioner bas been sent for. Hundreds of depositors from miles around gathered in front of | the bank before 9 o'clock this morn ing to begin & run on the bank at hour of opening. Po errrrrrrrxy ey MINERS’ FEDERATION WILL STANO BY THE SEATTLE RIKER SALT LAKE, May 2%.—The Western Federation of Miners today passed a resolution of sympathy for the locked-out strikers at Seattle. The reso- lution pledged moral and fi- nancial assistance and called upon all organized labor, irre- spective of local and national affiliation, to assist the Seat- tle strikers. eeeeeteeeeeeee eee eee eee eee eee eee * Tee 1 Explosion Story “Knock” Manager C. H. Capwell, of the Port Orchard route, denied, Thurs- day, that there had been any explo- sion on the steamer Athlon, as stated in an evening paper Wed newday ‘The item which stated that an ex- | plosion had occurred on the Athion was an ad. for a certain kind of | coal sold by the Pacific Coast com pany and a “knock” on the use of | oll for fuel on steamers Mr. Capwell states that oil ts leafer, cheaper, cleaner and more | satisfactory tn every way than coal. GRUESOME FIND OF bICTIM'S Limi F. Bailey, Southeast Seattle, found the other mutilated limb of Ben 8. Miller, who was ground to pieces underneath the flying | wheels of a Northern Pacific freight | train Tuesday night near the Orien tal dock The limb fell through the trestle |work after being dismembered from the body police of his find) and they notified the coroner's office. The leg was taken to the Bonney-Watson un- dertaking establishment, where the rest of the body is being pre- pared for interment. GRAVESEND, May 25.—The| Brooklyn handicap was won by\ Delhi, Ostrich second, Graviallo third. Time, 2:06 2-6. eeeeeeeeeene | that SEATTLE, Nobonee!s Reds ery Deepens About ing Charles Schmidt The Seattle Sta THURSDAY, MAY 25, 190% Deadlock on Between STAR'S TEACHERS’ CONTEST I6 THE TALK OF THE ENTIRE CITY. The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News VOL, 7. NO. 79. 25 CENTS PER MONTH Council and Promoters ILKING 10 Moll oeATTLE REPORT CURRENT THAT ROCKEFELLER WILL PEND A DAY HERE EN ROUTE TO FAIR—GUITE ENGAGED AT HOTE WASHINGTON ee ee * Special to The Star. * CLEVELAND, 0., May 2% * Nothing definite can be learned & regarding John PD. Rockefel. # ler's contemplated trip to the # Pacific coast. It ts sald that # such a journey is planned and ® that the oll mag o has ar ®& ranged to be gone #ix weeks, & * eee eee eee ee ee | John D. Rockefeller, high “pooh bah” the richest man in the world, will probably visit Seattle soon. A report is current in the city that Manager Harbaugh, of the Hotel Washington, has received a letter from Cleveland, O., asking ommedations be reserved for the Rockefeller party for the last week in July Manager Harbaugh will neither affirm nor deny the report It ia understod that the oll mag- nate has expressed a desire to visit the Portiand fair and will leave Cleveland about July Should Rockefeller be a guest at the Hotel Washington, he will probably occupy the same sult that was assigned to President Roose will have a good view of ott Who, it a D. ROCKEFELLER Reported, Will Visit Se- atthe in July. the big’ stretch of water—an ar tiele t@ which the trust leader ts very FAIRBANKS VEWo oTniKt VICE PRESIDENT IN CHICAGO AND WILLING TO UGE INFLU- ENCE TOWARD SETTLEMENT—1@00 EXTRA SPECIAL PO- LICE BEING DRAFTED—HAR OWOOD FIRMS TIED UP CHICAGO, May 25.—With the spread of the teamsters’ strike to the bardwood imber concerns, which now seems inevitable, sev- eral hundred more teamsters will be involved. Fifty men responded thie morn- ing to the call for a thousand addi tional policemen issued by Mayor Dunne last night. Twenty-four hundred officers were sent out this morning xuarding 2.600 wagons. If the new installment of police are unable to cope with the situation Mayor Dunne will ask for troops. At Twenty-ninth and Dearborn at 9 o'clock this morning five men at- tacked Louis Flint, a colored strike breaker, who was beaten into in sensibility. The assailants escaped Flint is in @ critical condition Vice President Fairbanks reached Chicago on his way to Portland When questioned regarding the re port that he would be asked to use his influence to end the strike, he! said: “Of course, I feel an interest in the strike situation in Chicago, and I would exert myself to bring about an amicable agreement be tween the contending parties if my good offices were considered in the same manner that the efforts any good citizen would be consid ore.” It is not known whether Fair banks will be asked by either par- ties to the strike to take a hand in the settlement In the contempt hearing before Judge Kohlsaat today At pey Mayer especially asked that Preai dent Shea, of the teamsters, be sent to jail for contempt in refusing to answer the questions designated by the court. At 1:30 o'clock Judge Kobisaat took the contempt matter of Shea and other labor leaders under ad- visement. Senator Platt, president of the United States Express a statement issued in Ne ompany, York to. of} in lepving violated their contract as well ab the rules of the company to which they were comsequentiy the portant duties properly. LONDON, May 2. former WAR! spondent of wires from Manchuria Mistehenko abortive flutter on flank, retired northward tion.” 8ST. PETERSBU RO May 26. mira Biriloff The the London after a the May subscribers, drivers could not be trusted to perform im- . co rre Times m “Gener four-days Japanese ies He made no attempt on the Japanese lines of communica- lett St Ad Petersburg for Viadivostok today on a special SHANGHAI May 25.—It the admiral in |traim Aft otter trains will be side | tracked to enable | reach bis destination quickly to re ported that fiev volunteer cruisers of the Russian fleet three colliers, and by accompanied one regular cruiser, arrived at the mouth of the Later Woosung tonight. The Ballard Athletic club is plan. ning on baving a new gymnasium at a cost of $8,000. business men of the city | Yangtese river thie afternoon the regular cruiser departed three of the volunteers came up-to-date The hi ave pledged themselves to give a hand- some stm, and with the corts and ath! Ballard ball club etic the aseured by fall The building will be a two-story with all fixtures that “gym.” meets and reet will ray ald of con the be in brick with basement and furnished the day, declared the striking teamsters make up @ modern KHOR The Weather } Spotter * * * bed * * * * SERENE ES + Bhowers to- Friday night, showers ably light to winds becoming southeast. GROUND TO DEATH a Northern Pacific Brakeman H. L. Feldman, of Tacoma, lost his balance and fell beneath the wheels of the cars and was instantly ground to death The accident ocurred at $ o'clock air brakes on train, last night near Stampede, a small | station near the entrance to the |} mouth of the tunnel bearing that | name. Feldman was not missed from his post for some time after the i- dent. His fellow trainmen discov ered the mangled along the track for yards, They were picked up and taken to Has- kell's undertaking establishment, Tacoma. The dead man leaves a wife and | owe ebildren. SQUEEZED SHORTS CHICAGO, May 26.—The corner in May corn, said to have been en- gincered by James A. Patten and Wim. H. Bartlett, ended te settioment by the “shorts May corn opened at 68c and after the settlement dropped to 61c, amid omting times. It is said the lead- the corner took big profits op 12,000,000 bushels which they held. CASE NEARS END Assistant Prosecuting Attorney John F. Miller will probably finish | Wives of Gov. Mead’s the state's case against ©. D. Hilt man tn Judge Griffin's court Thurs- day afternoon, The jury sitting in the cane is being, by requent of the defense, kept together under charge of the court bailiffs. ‘The suit recently brought against Hillman by Attorneys Steele and Brown in Judge Frater’s court is for the purpose of recovering $3,500 in fees, which the attorneys claim ie due them for br ing about a reconctiiation between Hillman and his wife after divorce proceedings had been started. The original fee allowed by the court was $500, but the lawyers say that the benefit Hillman and his wife derived fr the reconeiiiation in p rty int oats made their share in the manip- ulation worth $3,500. MORANS LOOSE OUT Several months ago the Taylor Laundry company subscribed $50 towards securing the building of the battleship Nebraska for the Moran Bros. company, a note signed by S A. Taylor, manager, being given by the company. Subsequently Taylor sold out to his partners, the two Best brothers. Moran Bros. present- ed the note for payment when it feli due, but the new owners refused to pay the amount of the subscrip- tion. The shipbullders then sued the laundry company. The case came nesday before Judge Point- ction as against the de- SAILS FOR VALDEZ The steamer Bertha salle for Val- dex and Cook's Inlet on Thursday night. Among her passengers will be Alfred H. Brooks, of the United States geodetical survey, who is bound north to superinfend the sur- vey of the different mineral deposits along the coast Brooks will take charge of the ty which went north on May 10. The Bertha will take 20 passeng- ers and 400 tons of freight NEW YORK, May 25.—The Poil lon-Brokaw breach of promise suit was transferred to the June calep dar upon motion of Brokaw's coun sel, who said that efforts will be made to adjust the differences, It is believed that the case will be set tled out of court fendants Best. The Morans, under this decision, must look to Taylor | personally for their payment While engaged in uncoupling the | remains strung | |of the affair claim that owing to | | | : GILMAN TELLS CORPORATION COMMITTEE THAT HE CANNOT ACCEPT CONDITIONS IMPOSED IN STREET RAILWAY FRAN~ CHISE AND 18 “THROUGH"—"“MOORE CAN TAKE IT IF HE WANTS IT,” HE DECLARE6-—MOORE ALSO READY TO THROW UP THE SPONGE—COUNCILMEN OBSTINATE i CONDITIONS DEMANDED BY MOORE AND GILMAN. 1. Franchise to expire in 1945, city having right to purchase in 1934 with 4 per cent city warrants secured by the system. Sum paid by city to be fixed by arbitration, company being paid for value of franchise as well as for that of rolling stock, trackage, ete. If purchase fs not made in 1934, city can in 1945 take system by paying only for equipment, company not demanding remunera- tion for franchise, or “going” value; or, same provision as that in Seattle Electric company's franc hise equipment to city or remove it from by which company must sell streets, acceptable. A J. A. Moore and D. H. Gilman, ap-year when the Seattle Electric com- plicants for the new street railway ;pany’s franchise expires Should |franchine, are in a deadlock with|the city desire to buy at that time, the corporations committee of the| however, the applicants want re- council muneration for the franchise value, The final clash came Wednesday | itself, that ts, the “going” value at afternoon o the time limit of the| that time. They assert that they franchise. The committee insisted | cannot afford to go to the immense expense contemplated unless they are thus compensated at that time, The committee will not agree to the proposition. Several of the members want the franchise to ex- pire in 34 instead of in 1945. Others are willing to allow the franchise to run until 1945, but 1€ the city exercises its option of on certain conditions. Gilman then declared that “it was all off,” that| he was “out of the game.” | Unless Moore alone is able to| come to an agreement with the com mittee the franchise which the councilmen have been laboring over for months is already dead, and Se attle’s hopes for a decent street car system amount to only an irrides-| Purchase in 1934 they do not want cent dream the city to be obliged to pay fer The point involved is not com-|more than the value of the equip- plex. Moore and Gilman want a 45-| ment of the company. year franchise, the right to the city reserving purchase in 1934, the (Continued on Page Seven.) M other Ke eeps ps Family on Pittance How can the mother of four chfl- dren support them on 60 cents per ed the report that I drink ep my money. This report has prevented me from getting work in some places, and it has humiliated me re my neighbors. I never touch- a drop of liquor in my life, and do not think any explanation es hin is the question that is puz- sling Mra. Mary Boyd, mother of the three ttle ones who were by Judge | Frater turned over temporarily to the Washington Children’s home, Tuesday 4 of other little aged 10 who does his best to t bh mother by running er- # and doing chores for any one i) hire bin, 1 He where my money goes is needed, when I have four children and am getting only $0 cents a day. They tried to use this false rumor as @ f taking my children away 1 me and giving them to the hington Children’s home to be jopted out. I want to say right who ‘The father of the children, a tong- | W: whoreman, has deserted the family, and ax an excuse for leaving them | now, that I will never give my chil- to whift for themselves, says he | dren up, and even though I am poor ean not sect work during the/and n at times d charity 'to strike | keep them alive, no one has a right For weeks, Mra. Boyd has been|to take my babies away from me going about from house to house, | for life! working at house-cleaning by the Humane Officer Clark, who filed day. She says that she has done|the petition asking that some éts- her very best to support her child | ponttion be made of the children so ren, but that she finds it an im-|they could be given proper food, poamib ility clothing and schooling, states that And as if my lot was not hard|he did not know anyone who ever enough already.” she said Wednes-|saw Mra. Boyd drink, or under the day afternoon, “some one has start-' influence of intoxicants. Staff Are Mad —e “We are mad!” Thus spoke the wife of a mem- ber of Governor Mead’s staff Thurs- | day when she was informed by The Star that only the governor and Mrs, Mead are invited to the dinner an ultimatum sent out by the ex- hibition authorities to the effet that none of the former will be allowed seats on the ceremonial platform overlooking the lake where the opening exercises will be in honor of Vice President Fair- | held. | banks to be given in Portland on “It is just too mean for any- the opening day of the exposition.|thing!" exclaimed the indignant The Portland officials in charge | member of the female contingent. “And our husbands are being treat- jed as badly. They won't let any of the staff, except two, ride with Governor Mead In the big parade. A lot of us have a good mind not to go at all!” lack of space only the governor and his wife will be accommodated. Another thorn in the side of the women who will accompany Gov- ernor Mead’s party to Portland is finger between two planks. The finger was amputated at the Ballard | hospital. LITTLE HAPPENINGS Saturday mornin Albert B.|_ George Watson fell from a 15- Evans passed a check on the New| foot ladder Thursday morning while store, Ballard, for $25. The check|P#inting a house at Ballard and was refused at the bank. The po-| broke his left arm lice are looking for Evans. “Dr.” W. P. Kelly must appear in The old Washington Food com-|the superior court and explain to pany building, at Ballard, is to be | the public and to the King County turned into a first-class cereal fac- | Medical association why he is prac- tory. A. W. Mackie and G. W. Toop | ‘icing medicine and surgery with- are negotiating with parties who, if/0Ut @ license. An information on they take it, will make it one of| this charge was filed against him the best food companies on the Thursday morning. coast A Every one is looking forward to the big memorial services to be held reception is being tendered from 3 to 5 Thursday afternoon by the local organization of the Wom- at the Gillman Park M. EB. church,| en's Christian Temperance union at Ballard, next Sunday. In the af-| a¢ the Lincoln hotel, in compliment ternoon, at the park, there will be to Mrs. Léllian M. N. Stevens and speeches and music, The school) sigs Anna A. Gordon, the distin- children will take part in the pro guished officials of the national or- nC Tata, ‘Thursday | tization, who are now visiting in Mrs. Giuseppe eday | Kanizat morning. filed with the city aclaim|S°Oe, o. aia society, of the for $15,000 damages coy e de “9 Lake Congregational church of her husband io ‘iis i, | Will give a June festival at the Be eee hole at Hor. | Church parlors Wednesday, June 14 tieth and Fifteenth northeast, in| which her husband was working,| WINONA LAKR, Ind., May 25 was flooded, resulting in his death.|The Presbyterian assembly selected Roy Thomas, while at work in the| Des Moines as the place for holding Stimson mill, Monday, caubht his the next meeting