The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 12, 1907, Page 1

wT EITION| THE SEATTLE STAR [esiicsc Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, FEB. 14, 1907. VOL, 8 NO, 302, a5 CENTS PER MONTH, REAT MINING SWINDLES IN SEATTLE CO ND CHAPTER OF THE STAR'S EXPOSE —EPOCHS OF WILDCATTING IN WESTERN WASHINGTON ARIBLE LOSS OF LIFE IN WRECK ON ATLANTIC COAST HUNDRED AND NINETY PEOPLE DROWNED OR FROZEN TO DEATH IN OPEN BOATS )W THE MINING STOCK |VESSELS COLLIDE ANDGO OTTERY IS OPERATED | UNDER INSTANTLY OFF CROOKED PROMOTERS SHORES OF BLOCK ISLAND — a tions That Have Cost the People of This City Many Millions The Story of the “Hard Times” in Seattle Which Developed LYONS AND COTTERILL! Frightful Sea Tragedy Off Block Island—Steamer Larchmont With More Than 200 Aboard, and Schooner Knowlton Driven Together in a Gale-Both Visionary Mining Companies and Caused Wide-Spread Loss and BEFORE SENATE Sink Almost Immediately--Life Boats eg Terrible Seas and (Star Special Service.) Cotterit! ip his answer alleges Scores At Are Progen, to. to Death. ‘ ‘eb. 12-~The | that 8 cont of the Bixth ward) bag pecbagd ip weA wae fraudulent and" ~ ~ mining companies, mentioned in the city di- CO ASKS EW Whole mass of election frauds com: | Temi me conteenes nice eae ie Weacia: sepisone fsngbe $. E | mitted in the Thirty-sixth senatorial aia Techinery and tam: (Scripps Telegraph Service.) : Pid istrict In Boattle, in the Leone the ballot boxes. ‘ 1,100 companies organized in King County. FRANCHISE beeen ellos or last fall, will be} fn ae last night ‘Cntr Mh saps Mass., Feb. 12.—One hundrtd and ninety are fodified sense only can their existence be termed a a laid bare before the state senate. | mat . £ = oom — gd ieved to have perished in a collision between the Joy line ‘the fittest, for a large number of these 86 com- Tepliy » arent be This was agreed — lawt —_ ie pene nd. hs pubite before | IN SLLSION rea Larchmont and the schooner Knowlton, off Block ws . & petit t y the senate committee on pt "i they had been submitted, and Mar j *, selling stock to the public are mo more fit t0 Jcity counelt for » franchise up| logos and clections, when it deter-|ald’ Preston, attorney for Cotterill island, ato o'clock lee nigh. ; were the thousand acknowledged failures. ‘Twenty-third av, from the Intersee-| mined to hear the contest on ite|caused EC. Hughes, attorney for | The ships were blown together in a terrific gale and entire list contained in the directory but five are | tion of B Jefferson st. to the state| merits. This decision was reached oa pee arene reat! steamer Ne i of the Puget| Of those scant few who made the lifeboats more than half ay local brokers as dividend payers. They are: watverety ronda efter considering the rem 1 | paver \o the ttect” that | Hughes Sound Navigation company, calli) were ffozen to death in the awful cold. moves to putithe case and Hetening to inte U case bY | od with the tug Resolute last it lated Mines, Ellamar Mining company, Had- |.) .. 0:5 of the city into chose com <nolle. sotiy gprmaters ; aa i ante ab peneion Feet Ra Boay eer a cd pr Ae Both the Larchmont and the Knowlton sunk within a d Copper company, Kugrock Mining & Ditch | munication with the site of the] ‘The committee will report to the Bing. Tarowgoat om | iit. Bourdiie peek, sak ited few minutes of each other. and the Pioneer Mining company. Alaske-Yukou-Pacific — exppsition.| senate tomorrow asking power to). ‘age ot his patrow, Heory|in the steamer Dode, which was All of those lost were on the Larchmont, which carried to relate the stock of these dividend payers selis | The route will follow Twenty-third | subpoena witnesses and have —_ Heck, Pike st man and bound for Port Townsend at the) @ passenger list of between 150 and 200 and a crew of 30. ay. to what ie Known ae Turner|boxes brought to Olympia candidate for the legisla time, putting back to this port with So swiftly did the vessel sink that few of those in the way. from where it will fotiow north | sides in the contest allege gross ny ture; whe secured Lyons the nom her passengers. , ti of the remaining thirteen dividend payers = obey ory to East st. and] regularities Lyons’ complain tx oh te here represent: | Aceneging to ~ se ot Root cabins and staterooms had time to reach the deck. f Y mee t tufted interests 4 ij James Burns, whd was in el © The Gear's list of yenterday do not appear in the | south ine tthe Catvernty grounds Fa snd allots trnuduien Uy touated SEs ption bill | of the Dode, the Resolute attempt | LIFEBOATS SMASHED. re which confined itself largely to listing mining Ser es en 9 oe Rae aR igen emer es ramen oom | ea te erase bis how, and « eouiston | Those that did were almost all drowned in the effort to which are maintaining offices in Seattle for the rent the bow of the Dude was tora} Make, the lifeboats, The mountainous seas shattered the selling stock to the ublic. jaway. | lifeboats against the sides of the ship and either killed the y Capt. Burns says that be was . 7 af the remaining dividend-payers are handled by | atetie his whietle at short in occupants outright or left therm to struggle a few minutes in i Js and {s unable to account for i , mining brokers, when there is any of it for sale. bled nt oe Roget been | the smashing waves. ; companies doing business in Seattle today atten- placed on the Moram dock. The ex-| Late last night eight persons succeeded in reaching been called to the Washington Meteor Mining ew oe damage is estimated at! Block Island and in the boat they brought with them 14 ~ a | abou! Ahrough a civil suit filed by an investor to recover eal daa ile: SO corpses of passengers frozen to death. ° to have been invested on the representation The Knowlton sunk with equal swiftness and was not ‘had previously produced $2,000,000 in gold. Jerome Does Not Meat to Let White’s Slayer far from the steamer when she went down. The Knowlton RS ABOUT WASHINGTON METEOR. Even If He Has to Prove Him Insane Now--— ‘| was in anaes ot tratele ord who, we acai of seven, were able to launch the lifeboats and rea ore. men say that the entire district in which the Thaw Laughs at Own Witness. The Knowlton carried no passengers as far as is known at Meteor mine is located has not produced over the present time. th of gold in its history. {Beripoe Telearesh Service.) was Intage when he shot White. | LARCHMONT’S CAPTAIN ESCAPES ; ; 2—The mil lerome’s efforts to foree the wit - tamposition of the Washington Meteor company ee oie Harte K.|nces to admit ‘Thaw insane bow, The Larchmont was in command of Captain Mc Vey, the fact that the public is asked eo eg in min- Thaw ts rapidly being broken up Ets chiki Wah Sebaein to eb . who was one of the few on that ill-fated craft who escaped. ‘seg ae tana 7 —_ the npeabenity "aad “amaet tee ing plans to fi Thaw's ineareers | WOMAN ALLEGES IN PLEA FOR) 0005 declares that she fan to a| The weather was below zero when the two ships came dge. t . of this company, W8S | J skened under the vigorous at-| tion in an « » OIVORCE THAT GALLOWS | petabher'e house and has since) together. The night was clear, but a raging gale was blow- directo: - cke of the state's prosecutor,| ted on the plea of insanity Fee = ly ¢ . ra a ging ¢ faces of all the principals of ° Evans delivered a number lee i, feels that her life | te in danger ship in the strong Wind, which was so benumbingly piercing Thaw defense, and Delmas and bis] tures on “exaggerated ego” and * KILLING HER. © hat her husband ba The Washington Meteor Mining company was promoted + ol agg vr Shige ad ghar bao gg cet ag ~ oie sams aabisde [claiming that her husband bas 88) 54 cold that the crew were all but unable to be em:deck be Rogers-Hasseitine company, which is said among [ ihc) have been under « Lerrible) observed in Thaw. He announced, ne TPere, st not for the hangman's got his fear of the hangman's knot, Captain McVey, of the Larchmont, was on deck when . domit - train in devising some plan to ¢ cust hat Thaw had refased A 1 kno id be yi it bh he i . |brokers to be boa a wares pd featsthe. aggressive Jerome : eau areng By be soomant and had | bot ine whteh r. + gar aot ot i} Fas couse were panel at Laat the vessel was struck and immediately ordered the launching Mining association a! jepends 4 e dre not a clue of bit) stuck be inion he had het (would kill you right “ ville, Colo, in 1890. Mra. yers) ; for the promotion of its mining ventures. eters pme, Yaad every effort 1o| the doctor cxamiaed tim “The wit-| Clara Myere made the above ashe to be given the $3,000 farm, | of the lifebost. It was realized instantly thee the otemer w. P M Mini pany's property discover bin future mode of attsck| neas declared that Thaw was so in-|*tatement In a compiaint filed in| $700 worth of personal pores must go down. The Knowlton tore a yawning hole in the ‘ashington eteor im com ys fa apparenth ithout Ml. Jet!) sane that he 4 to tell the & the Gouhty clerk's office late yee | $500 cash now in the bank and $36 “ty. 5 is : belonged to County Aine tate Parish, who was ome conmelts Bo one and Seems t0|{cn how to conauet bis cdiiea:ltentiy’ Giecenane, asking for & 4 |per wonth alimony. Judge Albert-| “*7chmont’s hull and the water poured in through the % a be pre a th ore of the! vore® from Daniel Myers, whom she igned an order prohibiting the) gaping rent. glad to sell it to the present owners. Stock in lao ain baa Thaw. Laughe. debian Gite eutremne arecilios and |vuchand from énawing the money | _ SUFFER TERRIBLY IN COLD eve ” 4 ith ahying the above warut from the bank or selling any of the 7m bi o ‘! any once sold from 75 cents to @ dollar a share, but re i ye FE eet a Thaw couldn't restrain hie Inugh-| * ay the threat aed mae hrs enema woul! bo tlgernos, by =the Goch of the pedemannaiiie wind tile ta reich tated oda ter at the testimony. He grabbed | . . 6 ee Carat vapne pon & Somer: ecmek ut shee anclaimeet ot are a law book and buried his face in tt suffered terribly in the awful cold. Many of the passengers FEW INSIDE FACTS WORTH NOTING. Iya Thaw, bat Jerome argues that| at, (nie point Wie Os bow. into | OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE | had retired for the night and they came upon the deck in McVey and the crew labored ee a Page e Seven ) their night clothes. Cap: Continued does not deal with!” Time hung heavy on the hands tal condition, and On! of court officials and spectator @ Will attempt to shat-| Wate Evans read Thaw's “crasy ter whatever impression may have) jortors ie Rogers-Hasseltine company is putting out a new the Comstock Golden Gate, at jo cents per share. ctus claims a rich vein in the east ledge of the |, created in the minds of the] "pcr, was then asked to discovery. ation on | Jarymen. jhis observations made Im hir vie » A Gagram of the mine loc Dr. Evans, the allenist whom Jer-| i. rnaw tn Auguet and he aiid TACOMA ID TO ; ome openly charged with being 89) noticed a peculiar facial expression, | « Continued m _Page Seven.) antruthful person yesterday after) gisre of eyes and an unnatural | = CT TT noon, was the first witness to take! suspicion of everyone about. The BE ON SUNDAY ) ory Stengel has heard that Se | the stand this morning witness said that Thaw hed ome a] [attic has been shipping Japanese! vans this afternoon stated in bis| gerated an idea of his own import i servants to eastern cities and I*/ opinion, based on his first three| ance and believed himeeclf a vtetim a8 | willing to take two %f they arrive | visits to ‘Thaw, that the ¢ de fendant! of persecution | lfully credentialed. She ts also will exer | (Star Special Servi perhaps arrest. The mayor lar atte ation is being paid pects to have the saloons of the ey and other next Sunday te he slot ma city close ing to advance the money for the TACOMA, Wash, Feb. Mayor | * not wish to be harsh with the vf pasaage, providing the servants are T ' T “4 7 es Wright, with the assistance of the ,on men, and may give them all + it rettable, CHA O TC S "A county prosecuting attorney and | & chance after the first offense, but bi the city prosecutor, is mapping out) he is nevert as determined to i his plan for a cleaner city, and ex-| Stamp out the evil Lees CUT OFF) = QF RAILROADS caialassi | wil! be served upon the saloon 1 will take vigorous steps to elimin- i The resumption of traffic on j trains through fatled. The Oriental during ¢ vil ben all| ate these devices, and the men be- i | ited from Seatt hed I saloons fal » will be eub-| hind them, ag he desires to rid the With both lower limbs hanging ¢ thern fai Am fromm Beattie rendhio uter i to a police call and war y of this element j ith bo owe no s . of | DAY. and returned on telegraphic or tos x cal a b threads of flesh, Mike Crilley today There is 8 p mise lere Another train went as far as Pi « lowaer, was brought to Seattle | preaking the blockade today, and/ ayy ah 3 idence hospital, where amp | oot this morning. ot its trains | through from "y asce 4 bassenger®|tation was performed by Dr. these “age 000) tedae. Mo. 4 Ovemand, tal Sac ie s re| Wharton, During the night Critley eft Spokene Sun-| Paul this morning, and No. 6 will “~~ had both lece nearly severad from day niaht on the urance of the | leave tonight &, ete ematareemnnesetaneaneseimesrmanete tmcannmntientncninncmammattions Se his body by being ran over by 4| Jericinia that the be boy | lomzing engine near Edmonds Ithrough to the eget in their stater R. &@ N. ts experiencing ty on its line between Spo-j and Walla Wa 4 ‘number ies “aseatl( .0 _ Do WOT NEED THE 4 people told them that ges aro down and traffic gen » city council last evening, ‘The park board met with the iy was clear, Among them | erally is demoralized ed the recommendation of {ts| finance committee in the afternoon, fj “ prominent eastern and of the Unton Pa and assisted In considering the ee] finance committee to accept the ; m ha GOVERNMENT COAL ne people. j : bids. The members of the park ¥f | Five men and two rrived lian Pacific lines are | | Harris bid for the sate of the park) hoard ly well pleased Ph lay, after the way from Van-| the bonds, One of eI soft snow real. The local af-| au-| th will do will be Bre to situation being the Cas od by wire today} nd, | te opening of the rt y of coal now In us dis oad has begun moving| yor| I extnsion from : he navy yard - etween 2 a state uni- i ) tons, will pot | ep, at Iman car e trains on the coast th rtage pi supply Seattle Great Northern between the | he ay from ! Burw in attempts made late iver are running on sched ty b hington park to r sarge at the Puget Sound navy to send Great Northern | n} the n Green lk : | nt to the city, re the Alaska- xposition opens. made, the Harrie bk than the Re yard, this supply of coal was offer-| . — jents of Seattle, who, Infernal machines, which were set 0, were suffertn 9 ago w suffering with a time clock, caused their dis of fuel. Throws er The one in the sleeping mi mo Peng . room was timed to explodé at 4:30 gton, gr Thi the fourth attempt te | CORNER SOLD FOR $13,500. | This will be | Yukon-Pactf ed to the FORTY KILLED IN Sos oe | AUSIA | FUNERAL CORTEGE | SCHOOLS NOT CELEBRATING. | SEATTLE To sHiP * (Scripps Telearanh Service.) Sta a | rh te schools of the city ar ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 12-—~ Pants TO THE EAST resets te ae 1“ y are) wo attempts have been made to| Through tho office of Jobn Davie NEW YORK 12.—Four peo. 4 ’ gene Count Witte, former| @ Co. M. R. James todhy ‘sold the : ple w i 1 and many injured “i ° ecial exerotses, as has t Russia. A bomb WAS! oheast corner of Twelfth and ST. PETERSBURG, Ff 1 ger train on the Long not In several | fc iis room. last night and : Forty ma wore kill ne cone oh ‘one was found at 4 o'clock | Roy to Bert Farrar, for $14,600. The scores were injured in an ex , lp » enter py tesco tsa | horning. ‘The ticking of the | lot is 119x104 feet, and untmproved. | im the mines at Bakhut this " ary come ‘ . ™ aie a RS — aha cities a : z ‘3 J By r Cee x pee TS s