The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 9, 1907, Page 1

HARRY K. THAW MAY _ TAKE STAND MONDA Jevesuvensvevever TRIAL G aL the story of his mental tor Ms sufferings from a realiea bie wife's persecution with abitity to right them, and ‘of @ pure soul blackened movloss envoy of satan ed to surpass im dre Evelyn's tale of her the state th the ‘Thaw trial, wae are rested today and reprimanded for | intexteation. after which he waa dis. | minsed. Owens le supposed to know [the whereabouts of Nellie Leahy, formerty Evelyn's maid, whom Je~ rome is anxious to bring Inte court Owens says he does know where the weran Lia Three justices of the supreme court, Whose names are withheld, express the opinton that Thaw tx certain to gain a new tra} even if conyteted thie tine, on the grounds of a slight errer, The error made, they claim, was in permitting Evelyn to lean forward in the wit- ness chair, whimper lo the prosecutor the names of nen and women whom she knew to have b in the com. pany ef White, it having been pre- viously agreed Between the counsel that (hese names be unmentioned. YORK, Fed. %--Harry K fe will is to be used by Attor » as being conclusive the defendant's insanity, Jerome has objected to "i joe of the will, Delmas Ma to overcome this objection, and is confident of his gain the admission of the Monday will of itself,” sald Delmas orn! “ta sufficient evidence the effects of White's i- FIVE OVERLANDS REACH SEATTLE tal traffic conditions sight retiet yesterday a me than ever today, although five from three t seven days this morning. me Great Northern Overland te sill in @ #tate of inani- Puapension tn the Cascades. eenditions at Chiwaakum | March 25 in Jesse Hall Case. Superior Judge Morris this morn- ing eet Monday, March 25, as the attempted murder aguinet Willian Constantine, who last October made & desperate attempt upon the life of hie son-in-law, Joase M. Hall, by firtng three shots from bis revolver inte Halls body, The attack oc- curred in Hall's office in the Hoge block. The attempted murder was eald to have been caused by stories told Constantine by hie daughter, Hall's wife. For many weeks, Hall lay hovering between life and death at Providence hospital but as mon as he wae able to travel, he wae sent to California to reqein his health. north of Everett le demoralized, The Northern Pacific managed to get over the effects of the washout at Poengo yesterday and send through four overland trains of its own and one Burlington trein, Last night the Columbia again began to rine, making the bridges unsafe and the movement of traine dangerous, Any attempt to get any more trating through, at least for the present, has been abandoned. Both the Great Northern and Nor- therm Pacific are supplying paseen~ were on the stalled trains with meal tickets, so that though there ie great dea! of inconvenience there is he actual suffering. The office of the Union Pacific re- pesribie, with a! porte a clear track all the way but after being | through The two small blockades were glial to get ion the main line of the 0. R @ N, have been lifted and trains are run- Te Coast line the conditions | ning. Worse, the “Owl” from A Northern Pacifte local from ie nine hours late, a8 the | Prosser is expected at 5 o'clock this around = Chuckanut ¢ | afternoon. ‘by reason of 4 washout. The) The C. P. Ro manages to keep it has loosened the snow on | tine open all the way through, bug Ha and i blockading the /traine are from two to three days Traffic with all pointe! pehind time, There ts little Improvement im the Need situation, aad there will be ag traffic over any of the roads tor some days, Hundreds of trav elere are marooned here, the road paying their expenses. e floods continue, and washouts on the tracks camse slides. MeCLOUD'S TRIAL SET, Kinney McCloud, charged with manslaughter In the alleged club bing to death of Peter Eimer at the Seattle Brewing Company's plant, at Georgetown three weeks ago, will be tried March 4 before Superior Judge Morris, ul Mra. Roth Jackson was taken be i ing & gang le ont fore Bupertor Judge Morris * e * In Urges His Client to Take This Step and It FE incenoeo at press, : Probable That Such Will be Done--Mrs. Thaw . (Scripps Telegraph Service.) ® ij TOKIO, Feb, Sow'The under: ® Her Husband in the Tombs Today. * current of sentiment of the ” ® Japanose people is one of cone ® 4g Desi ® tompt for the American press ® + ® that le printing sensational ® Teleyraph Service.) treatment of Evelyn on his mind.”| * Vell, The itkelihood of a pop- © Feb. 9.—Delmas ts Evelyn Visite Prisoner, ® ple undoubtedly trust Roose: # is ® veit The Ukithood of oy & to have today tnaisted that} evelyn Thaw visited her husband] @ ular demand Sand nas Spon * take the stand in his own de-| this morning for two hours, Attor-|# the Mikado for open war le ® Ht ie practically decided that }"eys Gleason and Peabody also ® not apparent. + 4 t will tell bis own|ctlied for a * short ference, | * * @ defenisn i Charles Owens, und by | SAAR RRR Constantine to Face Jury date of the hearing on the charge of lination of his son Chester on the| | charge of insanity recently brought }againet him by the prisoger's brotly or Maurier, thie SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, FEB, 9, 1907. " SEATTLES’ ONLY HOPE , If Father's Efforts Are in Vain Son Will be a Con- vict Without Having Been Convicted of Any Crime ~No Provision in State Penitentiary for Care Insane. Prosecuting Attorney Mackintosh ; the court would have been twonty | ° years Efforts May Be Wasted, In this way all the efforts of | Judge TBompeon, bis sacrifices and lnkor, May be set gt naught end prove to be just so much time wae ‘On the other hand, if the commis slom t Investigate young Thomp sald.) som'e mental condition finds bim the boy will walk out of priv on « tree man and no act of Judge well. or Prosecuting Attorney Muckistosh can stop him. The lat ter pamalbility seems remote, how ever, for hie father and brothers, and, Mf necessary, all the witnesses who appeared in the recent trial, wil testify againet him. There is will oppose the application for writ of mandamus said to be con templated by Attorney Will H Thompson for an immediate ¢xany Attorney Thompson, it te will petition the supreme court for a writ In order to hasten, If poe sible, the Gisposition of his son’ case Prosecuting Attorney Mackintosh will object to the issuance of the | writ on the ground that the legal actions already pending should first be disposed of cus cme, TAL SHOWSLIDE (Star Specie) Servier.) VANCOUVER, B.C, Feb 9--A snowslide this morning on Coal creek, in the Crow's Nest pase, de moralized part of the Crow com peny’s shops. Charles Douglas was killed, and a tompanion narrowly escaped. George Pri?l was ran over this morning at Coal creek by an engine Dack levees letting water Yolo basin, this relieving on the levees. Gov wit Invake state ald to gap in the levee. People ihe tows of Washington are ue fSeate-to cet from house to morning to plead to the charge of The pri ° ceent predica- murder in the second degree for the} fe . PE ee ee Bat 4 he ar an death of her husband a week 860] his future ie concerned, he ts com reaterday, filed againet her yoster | frontad with @ far graver possibll day Asked if she wished to plead, she replied: “I have been kept in that dirty old cell In the city jail ever since my busband committed sul cide. “T have not been allowed to se cure the services of an attorney, nor have I been allowed to talk with jof manslaughter | beld that he ts beth dangerous and | hopelessly inaane, and ts sent to penitentiary, he will have to remain there for life; whereas, under a ver dict of mansiaughter, the most se- vere penalty within the power of still Another possibility, however and that ta that the father will again prove victorious and succeed tn bis effort to have bis son taken ity than tf be had been found guilty |to some asylum, where he will re For, if it up cetve proper medical attention. In any event, the boy's father ts confronted with may drag its weary way on for years. The legal questions under way are not such as can be solved litigation which! a ¢ ral 4 4 Ow °. GN. TRAIN with 4 ENGINES WITH TRAINS BURIED UNDER BANKS OF ENOW AND ROADS WASHED AWAY, SEATTLE AWAITS ANXIOUGLY THE ADVENT OF A PRACTICAL AIRSHIP. ’ CURIOUS PREDICAMENT OFFICIALS CALL OF CHESTER TH a OMPSON quarrel are bitterly determined to fight it out to the end. Under the present law there ie very little probability that the mat- ter of Young T! paou's sanity or insanity will make any in bis treatment in the event he ts sent to the penitentiary Will Be a Convict. Regardiess of bis mental condl- tion he will, to all practical pur oes, be a convict, although he may not be given a number, Young Sloane, who was recently sent to the penite ry from Spokane, has dad bie had Ipped he other prisoner and has been given of stripQa «He in to ali totents and purposes 4 convict just as much as if he had been found guilty of mer der in che second degree. There ts | no reason, as far as those interested lean ace, why young Thompson will not feevive the same treatment ff he is sont to the same institution Walla Walla has no accoommoda tions for the care of insane prisqp jere at the present time, although some euch provision may be made | in the event legislation for the care lof the criminally insane ts enacted | There is no paychopathic ward and no physicians to care for such wo | fortunates as may be sent there. | Regardiess of what may be the jfate of Chester Thompson, there | fore, thone in Beattie interested in the problem of the disposition of the criminal (nsane are of the belief that the curious predicament aris ing from the present legal tan, will tend to hasten corrective legis tatlon for the care of the dangerous (Star Special Service.) INGHAM, Wash, Feb. 9.— and erushed in a terrible ‘manner, any of my relatives. 1 do not wish to plead until I employ ap attor Brown as her attorney aad gave her seven days tn which to plead. She wes then locked in the woman's recelving ward at the county jail ine Worse. Bridges are out | Great Northern and North fle, the tracks blocked and (Star Sosciat Service.) | EVERETT, Wash, Fob. §—A re-| nd | port from Stanwood says the water ong ng FTE eet Fo is higher than at the flood won io « ariier in the winter. The streets From Arlington comes the report AUTO TRUCK IN WILD RACE A grand relay race occurred thie morning on First av. @, in which freight motor car No. 413, two auto mobiles, a Northwestern dairy wag on and two horses took part | tit the Stilinguamish bas begun |to subside. A washout caused by high water near Stanwood is delay 9.—~/ing the const line trains. motor car, with J. A. Rees as motorman, and C. flagman, collided with the automo- biles, which were racing between Atlantic and Wasbington*sta. One of the autos was No. 285, and the other is unknown. Neither were damaged much. Victorious in the first lap, the ‘Mite. John G. Hoopes, the wife my hushand suddenly changed his wealthy mining man, who, | Mind and disappeared Gates, cluded him for 10 years,| , nome, “ime later | read in one of the San Franciseo papers that this morning at her home./ne was dead, and I did not hear th av,, by a Star reporter, | from him for a long while.” i a ‘atory of alleged | Her sister, who lives with her, desert " | corroborates every statement, and Hem, persecution 908 ne woman's general appearance on the part of ber) cna ms appear to indicate that| motor car took up the second with she spoke the truth, It is only|@ good lead and succeeded in put since Hoopes came into property | ting the dairy wagon out of the run Worth $6,090 under bis fathor’s will,|ming @ Httle further down the aecoriing to her, that he has ahown| street. Driver M. Cameron, of 1614 any interest in her and his boys,| Bast Fir st., was slightly bruised by his alleged desire being to obtain] the collision @ Clear title to the property up the race, his two horses carried ‘ast to her sisters, but, as they| Mrs, Hoopes, who comes from a| the wagon her husband should take weil known and respected family | the driver. y were captured by Of her, she was compelled tolin fowa, hus lived in thia city for| Officers Donlan and Vollandingham ig to the coast again, To #44/ eight years, and her many frienda| after they had won the race. troubles the mother be | speak very highly of her. Her hus a tlaims Hoopes deserted her al a, leaving her penniless ind Unable to care for her two bos ®, She turned over to the char- Wie institution at San Jose. At ‘Time she and her sone were awe iil and the boys were taken | band knew of her whereabouts, she by the Salvation army, ! rays, through her sisters, and ¢ providing for her. | have found her at any time. ‘Was one of misery and) “All I want is my husband to pay Mrs. Hoopes said. “At one! for the care and education of my M7 husband proposed to take | boys,” she said. “I can work and the boys if 1 would obtain don’t want any of his wesith.” » he paying al! the covts.| Hoopes is a man about 60 years ¥e started for the Salva | old, and married his wife when she aimy to get one of the boys! was 16 years old I ; JURY Si Seeee ot gg et GOMPLETED gre ah Service.) Sidi ani ISteamship Company, and recently . . . m1 ived in (Gestgne Toloeraph Services.) purchased in New York, ari OSSINING, NY Feb 0 Of the |Port this morning shortly after 9 two trainmen killed yesterday in| 0’clock, 68 days out from Hoboken the wreck of the Adirondacks ex-|Captain H. P. Weaver brought ‘he clfgrives press, near here, it in learned to-|steamer around. He wae formerly After a! day that one was Alfred Armitage, |0 the Victoria. Fred Tracy, who Eersiaation 6f talesmen, the| son of the Albany miluonaire, who| Went east last November, mate the Po P. She president of! was working as n fireman to pro-| trip around een ee Tternations! Teamsters’ unton,| pare himself thoroughly as n prac. |ament on vame i others on the charge of con’|{ical railroad man’ he having re cag we. easy to ruin the trade of Mont-| fused a position of importance taj very similar fn appearance to the s Ward & Co. during the} the New York Central offices | Northwesteru Strike in 1905, was se |from the Ward Steamship Line and today, The second trial te | will be placed on one of the north of & disagreement of the ern runs. the first. 7 n The Yucatan brought 600 tons of emtimeny Monday. coal for the Parific Const Company. Steamer Farallon sails for Skag way tonight with 500 tons of gen-) will | eral mercbandive and many passen-| gers immediately and both sides in the! demented : PAY ONLY ONE CENT DEMAND YOUR CHANGE a5 CENTS PER MONTH, oUt I laa |Former Superior Judge E. D. Benson Charged With Fraud in Land Deal. Proceedings for the disbarment of former Superior Court Judge B D. Benson, on the charge of impll- leation in a fraudulent land deal jand illegal procurement of money \from the Dexter Horton bank, were begun in the superior court this |morning by Prosecuting Attorney ' Mackintosh, | Judge Benson, who has been | prominent in the city both judietule ly and politically, served on the perlor bench from 1896 to 1900, hav» ing been elected on the same ticket with Mayor Moore. Charges Sensational. The charges against him are sen- sational and allege a startling dis regard of the law. The property involved in the alleged fraudulent transattion, and which later served as a basis for a | eecalled flegal loan from the Dex- formerly own and Ktta Metzger, Denny bill, Third , pear Virginia. Conspired to Gefraud. An alleged contract had been en- tered into for the sale of the prop + jerty to Willie H. White for $10,000, The property rose in value @ Judge Benson entered into a con #piracy, it ts said, to avoid the fub fillment of the agreement and even- tually acquired the property bim- relf, Later, it is alleged, Judge Benson used the deeds to procure |money from the DexterHortom | bank, knowing he had no legal tile to the property and that the ac a age of the land was fraudu- ent. (Scripps Telegraph Bervice.) The case will come up before Su- WASHINGTON, Feb, 9.—There |petlor Judge Morris on Wednesday, was a conference on the Japanese | February 13. om with the persident and the \rAr Ualine o'clock this afternoon. It was pre- coded by « call upon the president this morning by Mayor Sebhmits, tn company with Representatives Kaha and Hayes Leaving the white |, Following out the anneal custom hovse they went to the state depart- | S000 Suse Cathe ee ment. Secretary Metealt was pres- | Modera vy = ent at this eGantwenen school celebrated the twelfth anni- se ama versary of that Institution last night. The large assembly ball wag WANTS TO BE EXECUTOR. |very prettily decorated with 250 blue and red tneandescent lights, James Moran this morning pet!-|the college colors. tioned the superior court to be] Tonight the anniversary ball will named as one of the executors of be given. Music will be furnished the estate of (he late Melody Choir.’ by Wagner's orchestra, VOL, 6 NO, goo, REGRADE PLANS ARE SUBMITTED NOW UP TO BOARD OF WORKS danger that structure, which is to TO ACT—AGREEMENT HAS be lowered as the work proceeds, BEEN REACHED WITH PROP-| The arrangements for arcading the “P14.” building and others along ee ee Te ALONG THE i4e route are fully set forth. The P.4. building ts to remain in ite y | present condition until November, The pane and specifications for | 1908. t recrading of Fourth avenue,| The Presbyterian church, which Fourth avenue South and the cross abuts over into the avenue about street’ which is soon to begin, one foot from where the new street were oted for action to the line is to be, is to remain for the board of public works today | present in its present position, ‘The first lap was run when the! R. Fletcher as} Determined to keep} ARRIVES The Yucatan is a splendid craft,| She waa purchased | GROCERS SA PESTERED TO DEATH Oren Want win punLic TO Knew ae with the pure food show. Sontiouing Mr. Higgins said THEY HAVEN'T AN UNLIMIT-| “When the pure food show start £0 NUMBER OF TICKETS FOR pte me ee had a supply of t , whic! y had received at hase Sach aainaaeciadl ja pons figure than at which they ane eee } were Sid to the public. These soon potten rid of, as well distributed among the advertisers The ftotices of the pure food show have all the words ‘Ask your grocer for tekets” “The consequence has been that every grocer in town has been pes “The Seattle Retail Dealers asso- ciation has no connection whatever with the pure food show now being held in Egan's hall, in the Arcade building. The latter is a private enterprise of Messrs. O'Neill and Trumbull, and has no official con Star by me simply to let the public know the true condition of affairs All the tickets we have had we paid Retall Grocers’ woolation, on be ing asked the meaning of a notice from him which appeared in Fri day evening's Star, in which the|for apd distributed, and many of association disclaimed all tdentifi-| the grocers will buy no more.” arses ERS BRET sasmete = sees aa _ ON YESLER WAY * en&t corner of Maynard and Yesler stiste in| from A, C. Abram for a « given up practice | om of $70.00 and has become entabiished in the) Mir. Mogir is very well known real eetate and tnsurance business. | 'n Beattie. Mr. MeGregor’s advent into the ranks of real estate dealers hae been marked by two big sales made by him of Yesier Way double corners. Both of these anles were « 1 yor- terday, PURSES ARE PICKED UP. Mra. Hi. Lahey, 1211 Bast Olive The northwest orner of VYerler and Sixth avenue was sold to clients | yegtenlay morning containing of George Hedin & Co. for W. H./§1G38, Officer Melvin reports the Marks, The consideration was $76,. | fitting of a purse containing $26.15 000. F. W. Baker, Frank D, Black befnging to a Mra. Tinkham, It ts and W. H. Marks bought the south- lat police headquarters THE LID IS ON IN | TACOMA | TACOMA, Feb. 9.—Mayor Wright, Boxes, screens 1 has declared wart on vice, and after | other devices t to-morrow the lid wil perewed ne fre ant. be on tight, and the chief utive of | removed drink | the city will «it on It. permemally:| tng resorts will be able Sunde m1 her vices will be exterr Five additional patrolmen have | in been added to the force, and tf it} but is necessary to vate de-| with the ¥ attorney for | tectives witl be ¢ avsiat the | apeedy convictions, it being thought police department in coping with the [thet @any of the # may have ] evil conditions which are now exist-'to be “shown be the evil is wt ine THEY ARE TOvTs are nection with us.” tefed to death from morning til | ‘This is the statement made by | night @ith requests for tickets. The) Secretary Higgine, of the Seattle | nOtlee Was inserted in yesterday's . | eral ats reported today that she found a} purse-in front of the Bon Marche | TO BE TOLD TO SKIDOO | The Dexter Horton bank yester In the vification the agree-| The steam shovels are not to be mente te with the owners of the allowed in the alley alongside the large balliingy now erected along Hotel Lincoln nor in Madison street the aven are clearly set farth in front of that structure. It is required of the contractor, Yesier way and Terrace street who get» the job that he begin the are to be crossed with stéel frame work on Cherry street and at the and girder constructed bridges with day refused payment on one of the | Seattle Athletic Club building, and reinforced concrete floors, abut certificates of deposit which was|he must proceed so as not to en- ments and retaining walls | presented to ft and which wa oe eee ae a Gee stolen from Charles Olson by Georgetown poolroom touts. The bank in Juneau, on which Olson bad the other deposit certificate, h also been notified to stop pay ment The marshal of Georgetown has signified his intention of driving poolroom touts away from that lo cality, and Chief Wappenstein will cooperate with him by promising to arrest any who are found in Be afte. C. E.'S WILL HOLD BIG | RALLY SHORTLY The Christian Endeavorers of Se attle will hold a rousing rally within | ni next four weeks, and at last night'@ meeting of the executive committee held in the First Preaby | terian chureh, the following three were id to make arrange ments s W. Brinker, James A | Duncan and Roy Fisher At the ing eighteen of the societies were represented and gen monthly reports were made | For the support of the New Feder ated Unions, $10 was subscribed. George A. Virtue, press and pub Helty manager of the convention committee, will send next week a large number of Seattle photo graphs and local articles relating to the city to Amos R. Wella, manag ing editor of the Christian Mndeay or World, Mr. Wella intends to ad vertise the convention through the columns of the World. HOLDS COURT AT EIGHT O'CLOCK Telegraph Service.) (Seripp: CHICA Feb. 6 Judge Merwet ,catied court at the uniquely early |hour of eight o'clock thie m ing. | Twelve minutes tater he signed a ai | vorce decree, separating I | tte from Charles Curtis the leged that her ho and used ver head for a fy ' bag. The judge say# there wi no more ten lock court W. J. Inglis, formerly purser of mer Watson and who for year has been city freight agent of the Alaska Co, will return as purser on the Watson, L. 8. Rates has been appointed city freight and } passenger agent. ‘|CHINKS GET READ FOR THEIR NEW YEAR T RESOLVE NOT ‘To HITTER PIPE ANN MLorEe To CuTTEe ouT LATE CHLOP _ SUEY SLUPPERS -~e= = NO mOoRE Sco SHIRTER, ‘, “Chalucka mong buk, ya ho!” York, ‘Frisco and Chicago, where “Lum gackachee gluck wah!” there are large Chinese colonies. Melodious greetings like this will | The ewearoff consists in not amok- pass between the Chinese In Seattle ing on the holiday, and the abstin- next Sunday, which is their awienee is strictly observed The l¥ear. It also corresponds to the|Chinaman frankly does not pretend Christmas of the Christians, and | to swear off for a whole year or for- the Chinese all over the country are |ever. Printed } Year greetings preparing for the event, Their year|are passed about from friend to }dates from the beginning of the | friend; paper prayers are burned }Chinese emperor's reign. He got| for the dead in the joss houses; ev> |the Job an lth of Febraary, ery household has Hchee nuts, pre- | which act saved the Chi New | served ginger, chop sue nd other Year from falling on St. Patrick’s|dainties on the board for callers, lday by the healthy margin of 34}and fireworks are exploded out | days. doors On hia new year the Chinaman A Chinaman who has not settled not only “swears off” and pays all) all his debts by this day can’t get debts, but makes p: ents ang sets | trusted for anything by his country+ feasts. The feasting last men. This Is a good custom. Had times two weeks, and th Cassie Chadwick been Chinese, for much festivities that the event be-|instance, she would have been Mell Jean people in such cities as New shown up at the end of the first ear comes quite noticeable to the «