The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 27, 1906, Page 1

= 2 we oa Only | 4] DID MY DUTY, BUT THEY WILL HANG ME IF 1GO BACK” n Said to Be Responsible for Wednes ara Interurban Wreck wae His Home and Then Disappears--ls Belived to Have Lost Mind and to Be Wandering Aimlessly--Declares He Did His Full Duty--William Guion, Motorman, Dies of His Injuries. aca e eee eee eee (Star Special Service.) * >M : TACOMA, De It is learned today that shortly after the fright | fl wreck on the Seattio- Tacoma interurban yesterday, for which he * g solely blamed, Charles R. Foes, the missing flagman of e t train, visited bh heme, about 1 miles from t soene of e " * . and that wh there he bh yeterioa declared to the members * f hie family that he had net bee ponsible for the accident * They will hang me if | go back,” he eried wildly. “I did my duty ®) but | suppose the officiate will blaw e t the same. ® The man's entire manner wae ef one who had been ter t - d been temporarily r on @ | dtiven in: by t His eyes were bloodshot and his speech hyster & | leat and incoherent ' * According to his wife, Foss only stayed at the house a few FR] minutes, and hie stay was consumed by him in reiterating pas in the @ | NOMately again and again that he had “dene his duty ed to do & Finally, Mrs. F he staggered from the house, hysterically te a lex % | declaring he the officials.” Since then he has not been * | seen or heard of, and it be uy nm ™ rr. the belief that his mad grief and terror the man is wandering about, fleeing from a fear which in hie over wrgught state of mind he is unable to understand. (Star Special Service) Ps MA, I William D one lived with his wife and two children, whose ages range from th mn on the iit) 2 te 15, at 2313 South E ot, Tacoma. The missing flagman’s father & which was) and mother live there also. Fosse disappeared immediately er the be F ve soltision, and his visit te hie home ie the only thing heard of him Benny since hia disappearance a end t terurban. During the ene | arn — ee oma ts ace had he and & wor death of the © reeul the wreck erday infor wes h owt that « " t S ita cot g tt nd bg ites ‘Another eattle Pioneer : the wreckage, but last night | man whe Whe debria had beca cleared | for years A. ©. Anderson t only Conductor “ | and Third ra m Harris bad ) Passes Away. ) kilbes! ¥ | Official Statement. Homa, cond - This mors m, at the a ae | ook, general tg Pinch be | family rewide Cherry at, A . aay t nig wo was promt . ee Mee te wing Statement, giv he 4 the news of ne + Beatie eine veopmeciaticg: "| the Geath of ie , and came to st he a ts celtene bane’ | William 0. Guion. ® young man. He went t Festeriay morning fr «-| William D. Guion was born in| fornia, where he rema til the iapon arriving at Edgewood at| Leavenworth, Kan. in 1 and| arty $08, when he moved to Seat te mmpy have 4) was the eldest son of Frank M.| tie. This was the from Fae c . ot the firm of Frank M y and f me Pthere ant a of a & Co. He came with his/ > He took ion tre bh. The fo Seattle about 12 years; the lvoat ir som as yet ¥ Mr. Guion leaves viving | Mr. Andereor t im to us wae ben y« mo oie and daughter, his par hich } 1 ed je blame in supposed to rest ents, a brother and a steter, Mra. | “<* Semaman Foss he has not yet). N Halsted. all of Beatle . © years Ander ported to the afice and the coming by Mr, | #20 suffered & pa he at department has been too 1 in railroading, | ‘tired from » - F maring for the Injured of the & position as locomotive | he iaet five year t been cx Eto make « further investiqn- ad for tive years was | Ot hia he ' o days ago Brhere ie a slight OR. & N. company, with re ogg Boal ged p vs rapidly iy t be “Wholly bis hor at ” on, O anth bie death He lear a laree jeer Wright ot time of his ath he was ny . aes ry Bo 7 y ater = ae & member of the Brotherhood of > Seer pee, oe he henrd the Magman sive! tocomotive Firemen. For the past survives him. = to Conductor Ross, WhO! tour years Mr. Guion was in the ee etcie cela Baee lemploy of the Puget Soun Pe Tae edt — sang Foes Stil! Missing. | Rallway company, and was operat hardly supposed that Rose | ing a train bousd for Tacoma when Rake his life in hie own) he received the injuries soanee | DIVORCE GRIKD By allowing the train to £0! in his death if he had had such a com-| The hody will be brought to Se ON ON E MORE with the flagmen and un-/attle and funeral angements | eS that Foss was flagging bit) will be announced tate PAS we have not been able to “ll ~'s “ pA sed yy After a two days respite for the Bile Killed. this reported con-| af © eeeking ands and is more oF lees © nys- ee complaints were fled nar more on vem ors core) BELLINGHAM MEAN [rice es eee eo Gomes MW thourh we have evidence, | sidlianaeickannaes wants a decree of separation from ‘ | ed ¢ nan, alleging non-sup Begineer Wright, of the {rs A tian Wel. that some conversa- (Scripps Telegraph Service.) j Port for two years. fhe demands place between Foes, the; BELLINGHAM, Dec 27-—An | alimony in the sum of $2¢ a month and Conductor Rosa, of | amet : dentified man was |and asks for the custody of her thie sid hardly clear Foss | sr by a street car! little gil, Madelyn, aged # fm that his duties would | ¥ A Cathotic| Charles F. Dillion brought in that he sive his orders to| pray the name of | complaint against. Nora & oman. As Motorman Guion, | Bessie Johnson, wae the y mark | alleging desertion. Wittiar lerecked passenger, was killed. of identification upon bis person. | also climbed the hill to the He Grable to offer his version | The man was apyer ¥ about #0 | ho this morning and brought afte years of ge, dnd Wore a long flow-| bis leeally phrased tale of sorre W's was the first fatal ng beard. aliexing desertion. THE SEATTLE STAR ATHER FORECAST + Tonight) Friday Rain ght East SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, Dec 1906. ~-CHARLES R. FOSS “WIFE IN DUE = WMH wal ROOSMAN UNDER MORE BONDS Ha rth |MAN USES RIFLE AND WOMAN * wr REVOLVER—-THE PROSECUT.| "80 Hen her husband comin ING ATTORNEY NOTIFIED. aa an garage oye Ale = with which sbe returned her t , ' | A denperate duel between t band’s fire armed with a 1 shot high and on | he other with a! wrote e fired back | ul wae re ad tw have been « of the provecut-|1 not » a aaide suet attorney today tn a letter re} Again I fired, and again edb tant Prosecuting At/ high. My husband shot once more y Van r |dut, seeing that 1 was determine | T letter was written by Mreito return his ©, fin y loft Clara Hallworth, of Hol Wash,.| Mra, Hallworth in her letter ask-| (Scripps Telegraph Service.) } between and her husband/ed the prosecuting attorney's office| NOGALES, A Dec, 27-0 the @ was fought. Mra. Hall-| for advice in the mat but Att 100 n are the w path worth, after citing turbuleat do|ney Yandeveer, evidently the | cla. D f \ meatic Hietth in which her) betief that so plucky a womaa could | ing, which are bw peatedly threatened her) manage @ husband even as recalet.| say that 11 India , ne ife red that Inet night heltrant as she claime to be,! can ben killed = Th came to th house armed with a} merely wrote her te © the| to be different f the one riffe and opened fire on her as ahe| local justice of the peace and have | Colonel Maxson reports fre stood In the doorway }him placed under a peace bond Lanchot COAL DEALERS SAY COLD ‘That actual suffering is to be ex-|ed word that not more than 15 « t © of coal per t at th bunks r pertenced within the next few daya|}* Per cent of its men had returned | ts follows: Black D nd Ie A fe to the wines, The company $6; mine run, § News tle by Seattle citizens on account Of] coives the coal, which had been |lump, $4.60; Fulton lump an we § age situation is the be licoseped by the miners, this morn-|the Carbonado at $6 Neen lief of nearly every retailer of coalling. It amounted to nine cars of . to the ret who in in the city With the present cold | Gine ran and nut coal and one ca barges the consume cents re ather and the curtaflment of the |Of Blick Diamond lump. At % o'clock |per hour for the tiny walt pat of coal trom all the mines jn (GZ morsing this supply was ex-|ing for his coal. This usually makes Bausied. Fully 16¢ wagons were the coal the ee his section, rewulting from the min: tined up at the bunkers between t to $16 per ton Today laa aking advantage of the fall hol. bourse af 1 and 10 o'clock thie morn | t be had at any tay season, conditions in the coal|ing and many were compelled to South Prairie Coal | shortage situation have grown most leave with empty wagons. The « The output of ¢ South irie a pany reosived 20 cars of the boc mines at South Prai snow en The Pacific Coast company, whieh | ened eaal yesterday tirely in the hands of gas com practically ts the only source of sup-| The Carbonado Coal company bas | dine of Reattle and Tacoma. One for Seattle at the present time, | placed # placard in Its window read: | (oe of Renton coal reached Seattle declares t conditions are more ing “no coal today Laat night | this morning, but inasmuch aa th acute this morning than they have | four cars of the Carbonado lump | giarie Electric company handles been for many days The company | were reoatved, but it had been con | (n° output of that mine, local deal allowed tte men Christmas day tracted for and was all gone this oo Con unable to get any holiday, Before the men were al:| morning. The company haw also/" "1." pecitic Coast company de lowed to leave, & good supply of | announted a raise of 50 cents on 14 /| i.re5 that it is making every ¢ Binck Diamond, Fulton and New-|eoal, ‘This makes a raise of $1.50) ' 1, handle the situation, but un axtle coal was loosened ready to|gince Monday, when a $i raise way! ii) sis men return to work no coal je bolsted to the beakers This | Guasuanes will be forthcoming from " supply was believed to be ample for ‘Anacunce Further Raice. The Reatyn ned. Gee ol agp lays, when the meS) one Pasific Coast company has|now entirely in the h: beepaptibe a extern to game announced a ral ¢ 56 cents on | Northern cific ralir 1 Few Men Return. ft Jump and 25 cents on the mine | of the product of those mines is be Tt ning the company receiy-|run and nut coals. The present |ing sold In Seattle torla te compare Are methods | OVERLAND TRAINS ARE with Engtish } GETTING BACK TO TIME The visitors are L. A. McNary sity attorney; John P. Kavanaugh. Northern tr firet deputy: 1. G. Holden, fire) at 7 « ak this Bt ehiety W. ¥. Masters and wife, R.| Paul, is behind on EB. Menefee, A. NS. Wille, G. ® Shep- | arrive wu late this afternoon. The herd, 1. W. Wallace, John Annahd| Northern Pacific express train ar and H. A. Belding rived 30 minutes late this morning. sa The contingent is being tak This ie maid ¢ the beat time the j lar the city and shown the | Northern Paci bas ma m the (Scripps Telegraph Gervies.) =| workings of the different depart-| Spokane branch since the flood LAS ANIMAS, Colo, Dec. 27.--A | ments by Mayor William Ht on! The freight ir sheds of both Josperate effort was tade og Moore and City Engineer RO H rt and the Great lay by a mob to take Lawr Thompeon thie afternoon rm raiir * beginning to jberg, accused of the motder ‘a ot | Henry Lavenmeyer, a well soz" BASS LOSES HIS! far ver, from the at this place, ROYAL BETROTHAL. mob was met with stern re - feeal by the offictals of the jail, LIT TLE TOE (Seripos Telegraph Service.) and, although some violence was BERLIN, Dec. 27.—Princess Alex offered, the authorities succeeded monenan sndria Victoria of Schieswig, Hol in dispersing the mob. A second] pag W. Base, president of the | stein, Sonderburg and Glucksburg. attack is expected today, and every |chingle milla bureau, must go is betrothed to Augustua William preparation has been made to meet | through life minus the little toe of | the fourth son of the emperor & possible attack [hin right foot That member was jamputated today at the Minor hoe | grit ltryingyto rum the aeual gauntiet on raliroad av, and Main #t. between Aifferent freight trains, He had waited for some time for an oppor: | tunity to cross, but one aol oped and apparently did not in jteru to move Mr. Bass was | f lrve act of jumping between cars| MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL | when the engine started. The right) INSPECTING THIS CITY'S |foot of Mr Bass was caught sie METHODS OF DOING BUSI. |crushed He was taken to the Min wees. or hospital A large contingent from the . Sete ee Peeters * and elt uncil in in Bemttle to - snferring with the heeds af elvis (& MVOYERIOUS DEATH OF 4| ss departments retains te Gstiers 4 Geneve. * | CHERRINGTON WILL « of building, street improve. |@ (S¢ripps Telegraph Service.) *| RETURN NEXT GATRUDAY, sta, disposition of garbage and|@ LIVERPOOL, Dec, 27.—Col od | runing a fire department!) @ Degeimann, Rossi oc i@ H. Cherrington, secretary of among the things considered. |@ here, was found dead in bed #! the Anti-Saioon seague, will return Engineer Thomson, who is in @ this morning, death resulting # to Seattle next Saturday, after an aston of the latest plans of the | @ from a pistol shot. The aw # absence of nearly two months, in European crematories, will be|@ therities are uncertaln as to ®| which he bas attended @ national cone as Portland stands in| @ whether the case {is one of #/cenvention of the Antl-sdloon imperative need of a new inatitution | @ murder er suicide ® league at St. Lovia, and delivered of that kind \* * many speeches in different parts of ‘The party leaves tonight for Vie- ! & #a@ WM hs # * & # & & HH HH the country THESE MEN GOT $1.40 EACH FOR 24 DAYS’ WORK D a syatem of white “peonage’| ple Valley, at a stated price. They) tinue their work 1 decided to exist in the vicinity of Seattle? | Were to reecive thelr first pay at) come back to Seattle, My, Markus the end of 60 days. and every 30) ae tried t find out the t Does the state named after George | gaye thereafter. All supplies dur- | due them from H. J. Stump, th Washington, which has a county | ing the time of the contract must| gincer tn charge of t - % named after Abraham Lincoln with- | be bought from the employer, at| this information w fused in ite borders, a the exister {| fixed by him. The poor | laticmatibn Retuaed | practical slavery within her con-| foreigners, tanorant of the purport] 16 then tried to find out. the Special Bervice.) j the yowe of running down the} Michael A. Wyendorff, spectal| fines? f | of the contract, signed It and went| amount they owed for supplies fur 0 Dec, 27 thieves agent of the general land office, is When 19 men work for 24 daya| to work under it cad a thee ta ne ontive cous V the coal land looting tins | proper! ationed in this city, but| at Iding a railroad with Ty Men Go to Work, information w at first ref M res be cipally im the of | he t prominent part in| miles of Seattle, and suffer all the They were put to work on a class r, the man tt posendellbche: wut 4 coming, the the proce sat Salt Lake, Utah,| hardships incident to that clase of wit tor. whieh- the or ing sary department t * | m reach out in He has given much senaa- | rk, and at the end of that period | rate of wagen in from $2.60 to §3|ly, however, they ere Info 1 ‘ ext coal| tions, and reorganization of the tional ending to involve | recet than $1.40 per man fOr) ner aay in thie part of the country. | that there Was « total batar ced the ¢ ot | partment of intertor, including | several prominent officials in the| thelr work, It would seem ax though | troy worked for 34 days, At the | $29.45 due to the 19 men for of justice the land offtee, 1 ng m be-| tolls, and he claims that attempts | 4 f human sla hadt end of that time one of thelr num-| 24 days’ work, after deducting ut the gan- |e e the. fra t is charged,| have been made to poison him In| re-established. ber, having his leg broken by rea-| amount due f fons claimed, made fh through the|order to prevent his further activ in a Contract Jnon of a car containing dirt and| chased by them, Th ae ad ' the dom: ” officials in| ities in exposing the “system Some two weeks ago & party of} rock Upping over, Martin Markus | not be paid them unless the contr 2 imber rm department Among the officials involved in] 19 foreigners, y Russia on- | son, @ prominent Russian who acts | held by them was surrendered. ns of @ Ligation uly made in-;Myendorff's toatimony are Senator | tirely ignorant of our language and | as a friend In need to many of his | Markusson, not being a lawyer é ry rigs oo hat the fraud and corrup-| Francis B. Warren of Wyoming,| custome, were induced to sign a| leas fortunate countrymen, went to| the men betng too poor engag tigation the ew the organi-| Senator C. D. Cirake, of Wyoming ntract by some One representing | Maple Valley and tried to find out | an attorney, acceded to thence te f th c me of 1 inflaences was|Binger Herrman, former commis-| either the Chicago, Milwaukee & | somethifig about the conditions un- | surrendered the ntract and a Interstate Comme \ eh he ry heart of|sioner of general land office; and| st. Paul or one of the contractors,| der which the men were working. | cepted $29.45 tn full for their work. © secret servic th nd office, and ap |W. A. Richards, of Wyoming; pres-| by the terms of which they were to| When Mr. Markusson saw the con The man with the broken les ad jur nd the court ¢ ” eates its every!ent commissioner of general lagd} do ratiroad construction work, such| tract and explained the purport of | whose name ts Petroff, is now at the been set in mot office ‘as grading and blasting, near Ma- it to the men they refused to con- Providence hospital pennti eee ees tts p= WILL BRING SUFFERING #22222 —PAY OLY ONE CENT DEMAND YOUR CHANGE a a a ne MONTH WILL ASK CONGRESS FOR CONCRETE LOCK John H. McGraw and Senator Wilson Go to Washington on Behalf of Lake Washington Canal--Plan to Make Big Waterway Bigger and Better Than First Contemplated. f ‘ 4 ' ess “ ir . t nt BI od A Go to Washington. car oat Aah i John H 1 Gov w ¥ t $1 John ¢ tions already lt feral ald under advisement for| 2 nduit net $220, a a a ~NEW WITNESSES. ARE CALLED BY DEFENSE HARVEY ISBELL, WHO CAR. been at t stadent fn the high RIED CHESTER THOMPSON'S POhOo! and he then told of | how | FLOWERS TO MME. PATTI sity ‘with bi and had failed AND JOHN DANKEL, WHO koop up with his work WITNESSED PURCHASE OF — Willlam | Laube had been a GUN, ARE CALLED BY THE DE. [rMivinlly ciate tas had aed ae FENSE. |the youth a greater | in col- | sa | ities but could not even | TACOMA, Dec a satisfactory response to nd college life of Ch bis remarks ms wes again taken up by. th With this witness, as with the fense when court convened s |preceding one, the prosecuting morning. H. A 5 | Corney atten 1 to show that Ches sell King, Wil be and |ter had been hed” on accor Harry Isbell we ew ses ex: | Of the fact that he was a “good fel- males w This attempt failed a wi Harry I's testimony was acifce ‘ vor of the preceding ven yt wses have been Beeman hed know of flowers te Patt!, and John the high school as a shy, reserved |Dankel, the an who suggest. ieee GAME bs Saunas wae ed a bow and ar a more fits recess and at the noon ho ng purcha 6 night on which had seen him taking sung Th » purchased the gun oat auhens tooeue with which he Judge Emory Athletic club and at soi eer. TOWN DESTROYED John Russell King had known the defendant for twelve years and had BY EARTH UAKE jbeen his classmate in the third Q grade, thr hb grammar school and ~ |high school. He called the boy an| SANTIAGO DE CHILR, Dec. 27, |“inoffensive, loveable fellow.” Half of the town of Arica, in the yed by Attorney Harris as/| province of Tacna, has been de te hange tn the boy after he |stroyed by an carthquake, and oth- suffered from scarlet fever, the|er towns in the neighborhood have | witness stated that his habits of re-| suffered more or less severely. The serve seemed more pronounced port of Iquique, 120 miles south [King said young Thompson had'of Arica, was not damaged CORPORATIONS DONT WANT F. GOTTERILL IN SENATE AT OLYMPIA TThat’s Why E. C. Hughes “Has Been Selected as Joe Lyons’ Attorney in the Legal Contest for Seat to Which Cotterill Was Elected. F | . George Cotterttl, senator-elect ; the federal courts any next of kin, from the Thirty-sixth district, will] Whether wife, children, parent, teas ib niven tb dest to witch “Me brother or sister, is entitled to rev | r, Second, to amend the law was chosen by the people of the) so that in personal tnjury cases district, if the will of the heads of} me mere fact of contributory neg | certain porations is carried out.|tponbe w not bar the plaintiff | George Cotterill Is pledged (0) from recovering damages, if the de- | tain legistation, the eD-| fendant has been guilty of a greater jactment of which these corpe degree of negligence than the plain | ttons want to prevent, as it would | rire linvolve an additional expenditu Jury Shall Judge. Jon their part of several hundred] | gory, on dunce 1906, ps bara rom rs , pel h yeat.} an act providing that the mere know jat with G of ¢ itofyY Negligence shall r i in the senate, 1 ore plaintift from. recovery Consequently EB. C. Hughe Cart oi Aes “ol andi member of the law firm of Hugh t tate law on the point a MeMicken, Dovell & Rame att t ne into | ny with the neys for the ' t cor t at the Chiago, 2 « 1 Paul Railway 1 are 1 7 has been emp 1 to act for J of Washi in the senat ’ m an | Laws in Question t , of the | a ay whiet " ed by ¢ hb gape ire two if w, would be of pe ying as|t 1 ver in a large pereent+ S went. of |} nal in sin which they now ceived, wh mmedi Mg ea With ( n the ke had if the person | } Uon would bi as the right to reeoy i republican would care to the wife t t . eres i gy . 2 Songre t th e ' if he is compelled sion, amended ihe law so that in t » on record