The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 21, 1906, Page 1

Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News ane cence Mason Swears ed the Bilessness pasting lack of frightful loss of life on s Federal investigation of the tragedy sclose to danger and had to be ofter ly startling and significant was were struggling for their lives in the scene of the accident and paid the signals of distress. that there will be others who wil ™ TrrrTrrrr ree ee se) th of the 50 or more victims than the incompetent|s ooo Jor pecovencs. 2 . * o v ose body is at the bottom of the Sound. RO Aare SE seit bi 1 @ the bod: { Albert McDonald, & by Inspectors, Nearing by attorneys. Both tn-/ They had picked up 2% peo je ae erroneet The #) Whitney of the Dix evectors ge rationed the nenees. er and had returned to} @ | been recovered; # nerete: Capt jason was the first wit-|the ehip at 7:46, aft ard going | @ netther have any of thy “* glad ~ = “<\nons. He testified that he was on | out again l@ of other victimes been found. ® Phill # Mason watch at the time of the accident. There was plenty of time to man @ * mesie ind Cage, | Aad with him on the bridge was the |the boats on the after she @e eee eee eee eeeee @f the Dix were | MmCond office The mate = in| strack and before she went down. | the ptlot howe, the third officer | aceording to Capt. Mason's opinion. | below. The captain was on the! The Jeanie was hardly scratched! of the two chief pleted when | ort side and the mate on the starboard. He gave a description iG, but i | of the arrangement of his ship, and or te, sald the proper lights were burn matrary, ine and the port light was bright The second officer course from the Great Northern docks, from where the ship backed At this time the tide was at ebb Saw Lights of © | He had seen the Dix about 16 @ time before the i shaped the fe Manned her boats owas mal H. Mason, of Re was on the im Sinking minutes before the saceident, and Geclared the Dix She had been easily visible She was brightly ftluminkt but he [five minutes in sink ‘tafe he could not remember having seen RAliew a is that the ap her green starboard light fe the dinester | He had first noticed danger, he Ie if not cn. | aid, when the boat was about 100 pareely. if not on | yards off, wad had ealled to the Dix asking what she meant. The Dix was at full speed, and he imme liately gave the signal to reverse he engines, he said A miinute later the shi The Dix struck the Mur jer the clipper bow of the @m the deck of directed the work Of the Dix, ad fleally turned rf Denison after having given Deni struck ad an Jeanie miGHIT HAVE SAVED VICTIMS OF WRECK on the Stand That There Was Time to Have Boats of the Dix Before She Sank Had There Been on the Vessel to Have Directed Operations--Investigation Lack of Discipline Caused Awful Disaster. eross criminal. carelessness, ‘discipline and forethoug the steamer Dix now under way aship Jeanie, which sank the Dix,and who is perhaps best} of all those present to tell what happened, there was plenty eto have launched the boats of the sinking ship hi i REbpocaning ington Bapaeryyt ‘been any responsible person on deck to have directed it.| But there was no one besides the incompetent mate Who, | oi !"aiine or smusaiing, wos in testimony brought out, had a curious fondness for steer- wht out upon the stand, that while the passengers of view of these early findings it is now believed THE SEATTLE STAR WEATHER FORECAST—Occasion al Rain Tonight and SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER a1, combined with} - yht, was the cause of AUNT brought out in in this) Work of Grand Jury: Capt. Bodfish Pleads as the sworn testimony of Captain Philip Mason of the lx Not Guilty. Thuteday; Li ght West Winds, 1906. UNITED STATES MARINE CONDUCTING THE DIX Capt. Mason, of the Jeanie, sits at the head of the table; reece RAHA HIS STAR OF HOPE See ett ee tee ee eee eee eee ete eee ee ee eee ee ee es The federal grand jury this morn nee, the former arrested reported on three “no true James A. I ticted. He is owt under bonds of 21,500. na a C. B Parham, ar ain San 1 warned against this! | Francisco on a charge of smugaling adpect of the convicted man to wuggest the long confinement as in the Puget sound country and @ Convict which is staring him in the face. He was bright of — Se geo ho 9 Bs pod ey, contaminatingly cheerful of manner, enthusiastic as the aia . fection ae t successful man in the full enjoyment of his liberty. ne Sw 1S e morrow to plead see t e ort tatement, Dr. J. D. Bherrick, indteted for “| have only this to say,” he declared. “I want to quote sending Hbelous matter through the matls pleaded guilty and was fined s on chitnc | #10 and costs by Judge Hanford the water, two ships Captain Bodfish, indicted on « charge of crusity while on h lwhaling ship, in the ing seas, pleaded not guilty (his morning and j bis (rial was set for December 6 No true” bills were returned in to be! the cases of George V. Williams, | Henry B. Atkins and Big Bill, an In | have to answer for)“ absolutely no atten- by the accident. After the aceident the Jeanie had cireled tn the vicin ity, returned to Seattle, gone back to the scene of the wreck and ermised tli morning. The Jeanie| had sounded over 6@ distress stg: | nals after the aceident, and during i this time two ships had passed, ane | | within a half mile of the accident, and pelther had responded. The} captain had beard no sigaals from | the Dix, except two short blasts from the whistle when she crossed the bowa Nine men had been taken from the sides of the Jeanie, | making tn all 37 saved. | The up uctute of the Dix Hhad locke! ti t to Captelt Mason Jat the time she passed the Jeanie, |” “Captain Lermond. Test ies. Captain Lermond took the stand and wee ow a H aald that he had t ha navigator for six years jana be onmand of the | Dex for &@ month and ten daye, that lhe wae paid by the owner of and responsible to the Port ware only the o at a time when she probably had| nisneley Mili company, Me had to steer after s mile an hour headway. The Cap | jerr genttic “ch on time, had | Duwamish bead pe oy hoy ' st tg me hacked the t Into her course and of the Dix that ca’ rd r nened } ot t the mate Ae te Distress Cais. |" «1 believe the Dix hit us tnstend |). chet tee eT Martling dieriowure. | of we them,” he sald, “as ar| “ste had instructed his mate at a Latand, was that t weight we would have gone Meht | time pre sa that he did not de- | ts Dix while | over the Title boat: eee vorees pe 8 3,8 they pald adso Passed to Stern. ger and that he Wad noticed this to the calls for Afte cromsing the bow of the | tendency on the part of the mate Jeanie the Dix had passed to the | He had been below about 18 minutes | the ex stern of the Jeanie on the starboard | 44 was in his cabir niting fares | side when two short #histies and a stow egeneed " | be: from the pilot house had} Me Jeanie’s bows | Charts were now prodaced j with mbling hands the gray | browsht hi k with a rush. | the cat bine, hatred captain drew a line indicat | rhaagananed the signa “ s. and |ing his course a jonving the Diz was wt to cross =the} Eiken the precau-|dock. The place he marked as | Jtsnie’s bow | faspection when | that of the accident was about Under Jeanie’s Bow. | mile north of Alki Point. The} SIEGES Ae NITION the collision he | time of the aceldent was 7:20 p.m v6 he had jamped to the side @bafi of the pilot } Pacific standard time « and ee and was call-; The concussion had not affected , pon ped end i pi! « whistle | the Jeanie perceptibly. From the} - 9 Dae ae mnt lbridge Capt. Mason saw the Di hy ® aS ie > roll to her port side, but not | a nineties Cae coctain Onel . pletely, right herself again un | ; sectgge the bow and pass down the side of| Ae gh gia Witnesses | the vessel. It war fully five min: | ee & avd eo stea before she went down som Shoad ag, Phonan s nea fl | distance astern upon an even ke oe a anne Hy who were ae oo | not understand how the mate could s vived Two Rescue Boats. Ihave failed to have seen her. The = i The Port Makeley Mi The two boats in charge of the| mate was the y « = waten x Z s Coast | firet and third officers of the Jeante 4 the wae no looked at the | water within four min-| time of the accident re im thy IIZ’S RETURN AGERLY AWAITED daa Service ter of notifying the mayor of the Cts * n w of takin ‘ t ‘ ) 1 promptly to San Th Ruef will have ” arrival of M , at the dock at from New York. | ve ehinit ane Mélther having » ' nveye a Of the other in the t ma nown only to Ruef INE POINT IN _NEWTH CASE : a Saroncs DECISION | othe Mac lixtrict of TOIURISDICTION WiLL BF rs MOM IMPORTANT one Berra Png 2s . ee q ——_. { i ngtor hsention of susie 1 vag a MB the LeAesad asus ts \ Pith the case of aaeit: tee tte On the hig eran that SPE 16 tnllew trovn 1 ; hather the ae the charge of a1, r nized 8 by 897, 16 years of ag t 4 if the ts Tater ousd ove: . ebinintitel aa the let court at & ah « their Juris ours, wae rage ae, Nag the party con i @r the alleged crime Ee eeriain district | ot Captain@Nowth ix tmprisonment } ae BS court inj of nut | b 15 yeurn and not MAYOR MOORE OO vc LGHNsT i 15 FOUND against a tough an ordl Mayor Moore ts sition, He ha The body of Patrick Cuthane,| jorore him for hi —— who was m the recent] Detore him vetates to him to sign cae ddises renee Tey his judgment as a lawye wa ae Coroner Cat) tote him he ought to veto. La ae fon to have It! post, while ed by the fire ce for burial. Dept-| gopartment as an emergency man this left for Kent) was injured in the performance of o }} tu The city charter provides that | hie duty, provielon may be mag f he or his f | POLICE Siri on Sen « jee | infu i, whethe « ju snd the intent to cha the ” . f th bd cit with Habilit must be s on p00 iyy ve armu-| within 30 days’ me of the date of 7 take sor injury. Post did not give the notice feage Fens h juired within the required time. | ” nbs The council last meeting passed the : perigee y ordinance now before Judge Moore | phan gp Ae nn OF | for hic signature, giving Post com : ; : he | pensation for his injuries. Hened : = elf | the Mayor's difficulty t ure a convi f e Ite ue Mule | de ee tt tt r of fa th ‘* *® ’ t.of guilty * GRANEY JN THE NET. . | The jon for a ne trial is * * a by vurt, and the attor= | # (Serippy Telegraph. Servies.) * ' at of ja motion of ap-|%# BAN FRANCIS( * peal | & —It wan rumored thin mort ing * - % that the grand jury would this ® Bass Takes the Stump. | afternoon return indictments ® |} The first out-of-town speeches to! ®@ against Mddie Graney, the fam- ® jbe made by the members of the| % ons fight referee, for bribery, # Shingle Milla bareau, preparatory) ® and against Abe Rugt and © to the close-down, will be made by| ® Mayor Sehimits for extortion in ® Dan W. Bass, president and map * the Belvedere music hall cages, ® * ager of the bureau, at Edmonds to day, rer rerrrr tr ar A ae al a ane saat HAS NOT YET SET With poetry of hope on his tips, George Edward Adams, the eelf confessed embexzier of clone to $96,000 im gold dust from the United States assay office, thie afternoon at 1 o'clock was taken from the county jail to begin to serve his sentence of 10 yeere at the federal prison on MoNeil's island, When interviewed this morning there was nothing in the the reply of Judge Walter Malone, of Memphis, to the poem “Opportunity,” written by Senator Ingals. It denies the creed that opportunity comes but once and then turns away forever, i agree with it heartily, Mere it te: “"They do me wrong, who say | come no more When once | knock and fail to find you in; For every day | stand outside your door, And bid you wake to rise and fight and win. “Wail not for precious chances past away; Wait not for golden ages on the wing, Each day | burn the records of the day; At sunrise every soul is born again. “ “Laugh Hike @ boy at eplendors that have fied, To vanished joys be blind and deaf and dumb, My judgments seal the dead past with its dead, But never bind a moment yet to come. settee eee ee eee eee eee Ee EER Re ee PERERA RARER AEE Ee WAITING FOR THE NEXT ALEXANDER FOR BOO TH ’S PLACE Attorney General John D. Atkin-| json, of the state of W ashington, to | day appointed J. 1. Alexander, o' Seattle, assistant attorney vice Rob ed tg attend to his rt Booth, who has resign | | duties as state] venator, J. B. Alexander, who ta a well known learned of his appotr attorney of Seattle, first (Scripps Telegraph Service.) tment this aft KANSAS CITY, Mo. Nov. 21 rnegn when notified by The Star. | nologates to the Trans-M He gaia that {t had been rumored | qo ney held cauc this that he was to be appointed. Mr. ling attended by By sr Alemander s offices in the Mu'| ihe’ resolutions, executt tual Jdfe building. ‘The appolat-| 144 congressional comm ment was made at Olympia [ots sa tans ag by the va T fittieth and hund rere nt be asked t x rt x | t ad 1 A. F 1 Assistant City Engineer J. C. Jof 4g iMate R tery returned this morning from a| Moses, Kansas; A Btetson, Call two-weeks’ vacation spent mostly | fornia R Hunt Iowa; Rob in Sam Franetsco, Mr. Jeffery saya | °T* mee ~e noe + that the work of rebuilding Sao] )yo5) GI FPranélaco is proceeding rapidly, lo-| ,ota: P. . King, Oklat ~ cal contractors Informing him that] puycar . L. W. Shurtlett there {# WO°more difficulty of ob- | Utah: (A \ 1 7. & taining either men or material there | eyarkeon . than’ there ts in Seattle, The elty | cru Weemins fe being rebuilt very mnch on the Among ¢ 1 president ines of the old city, though prob: | « Fre k L. TH t., of labiy& little better, Van Nes# av.| Catifornia; Governor of do, and H rd PAY [PAY ORLY ONE CEN DEMAND YOUR CHANG GRANGE PER MONTH eae] INSPECTORS INVESTIGATION VOL, 8 NO CENTS inspector Turner is standing, and inspector Whitney is in the revolving chair im- mediately in front of Turner. THEY STILL SCOUT THEORY OF SUICIDE JAIL ATTENDANTS REFUSE TO) ‘ker hour before her hrie the sudden fallur ot a BELIEVE THAT MRS. CREF- ne heart w the only rea “ Sheriff Lou Smil FIELD CAME TO HER DEATH ae 1 not this morning. BY HER OWN HANDS. eS a 0 believe that 4 strychnine?” Despite the discovery of evidence “= Attorney Kenneth of stryéhnine tm the stomach sald 1 can hardly | Mra. Maud Oreffied, whose Mrs. Creffield killed and mysterious death in her |the eounty jail not know the chemists and don't know marked the thi heir verdict may be Holy Rollerism, in authority nay that | was very much im the jatier's iff's offices | surprise this morning continued to scout the Judge ter, of the criminal de idea of suicide ot the superior court, | he refusal of the horities to commission found the two be that the prise had died ne, declared this mors- by her own hand ther with t he had formed no opinion. their practical unant of alle only reasonable, however, ter, looks sig me that the chem- the examina- t they were doing.” yesterd afternoon Esther skepticium tn the m: nificant to those who belleve infallibility of the Jentific applied by Osseward and Ruben ats stein, the expert chemists who were the girl murderess, employed to throw light into the charged jointly with Mra. Creffield myatery jof the of George Mitchell, Smuggling Impossible. | Was completely in newly clothes. Also, every article « in her cell was removed articles substituted to retion In the office of county jaile the authorities declare that th stringent surveillance alleged ney to become lax in the confines the jail, must necessarily eliminate the theory that poison could at any | and new guard against the possible se of potson Cell Thoroughly Searched. [time have been smuggled to the! fer cell was # - ler cell was searebed with the | dona Boge me Pgrengs Be greatest care. She is still confined ehement dental > D: eather) in the private cell immediately off inmates of the Mra. Creffield snuffed out Mitchell and by the | women’s ward, that would or could ha ‘her life, has made the jailer's office. She saw no vis- itors this morning, She pt much of the time this morning, her stote- the men the ism being completely dissolved by more tenacious in their adherence | the death of her companion to the theory of deat from neural-| f; is not likely that any arrests ata ne the heart, a# originally ad-) or further exaimantions of persons Vance bringing the two women gifts of Neuraigiac Heart. food will be ordered by the shertff, Deputy Sheriff Phil Kearny, who, That the jelly brought last Friday was the last of the jailers to see night contained poison is held im- because Esther Mitchell that and everything else which might possibly have caused foot bath,!/ the death of Mra. Creffield and speak to the victim of the possible strange death-hand, this morning ate of declared with conviction that after Mra. Creffields cold FOUND DEAD IN — | LONELY CABIN | ! | W. F. HARPER'S DEATH GIVES | Who had hed a long acquaintance with Harper and many business RISE TO RUMOR OF MURDER, jealings, and who had received no- of Harper's death from J. r, a West Seattle real es- } tification | - _ } |W. F. Harper, an Englishmar was found @ estigation of the case showed that Harper had probably met hie his solitary ¢ abe . & matte ath while in a spasm, although ‘eat Bea may have been foul play. He * whict evidently t eating at his early this years old morning in west of the car line, ir the, under clroumet first indicated a pomsible murde The roon was in great disorder and alt, fallen, it was thought de was caused by " 4 a murderous assault, as the man | w i struggled to- had a large bruise or ad. Har- | striking his forehead on the ‘anh per was dead about 24 hours when | as he fell again, and breaking his found ‘ nose, The blow probably stunned | Notification of the death was first so that he had only strength eived by the Bonney-Watson | enough to purt of Wert | ay craw! as far as the stove, = with his head almost under rms folded beneath him death struggle. empty pocketbook was found table. Harper was a bach- elor, and @ gardener and grader by He worked for the ferry and for J. FE. Longfel- ntractor pany, when } Seattle telephoned puty Cor mer Arnold that a man had beer discovered his shanty parently mx roll Immedtatel management MURDERS KRUGMAN AGAIN -GASHIER MRRESTE | \. of the eer employ- hy the Goldstein Jewelry ® arrested last 1 (Scripps Telegraph Service.) : INDIANAPOLIS, Ind N 1 } ea Wess eee WARPATH f.oop. rein , ent Sena (Star Spesial Sarviee. nd t he! VANCOUVER, B. GC, Nov, 21— the recor turbulent state of Veddar which show B k in the vieinity of Chilliwack, ; ippasedtly elected Ju ©, is diverting the course of the the munteipal court, to be beaten | ¢ vek river and causing much, by about 200 majority, The m a government wor The r threaten to shoot! 1 = the protective jviolent ti * ia now the retail business dintriet. | « The buildings are nearly all one Waeht Among the resolu | Wilmar and the race agitation | ork, but taee great difficulties, atery except the old residences | tio® par was one favoring the |causing extra police to be mlacod| Keen anxtety ts felt in Chilliwack Which were saved and converted | creation of « nattonal department he | quarters where trouble might Le oye the prospective flood which It is fexved will prove disastrous, for wee ae retail emporiume, mines and mining, expected. |