The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 8, 1908, Page 1

LAST EDITIO VOL. 9 NO, 200. HALL IS GUILTY OF LAND FRAUDS od nd oa ve Ot ed sal | ° 1908. FOUR WOMEN AND THEN HIMSELF } seneeeettesessiannashtoeosineeientenens e yy | (By United Press.) | Henley, ‘The women had been shot Former United States Attorney of Oregon Caught in) LONDON, Fob. &—Prederisk [through the head, spperently : | Holmes, a millionaire, with his} they slept j » H | wife and »y and two wome nve ‘ : 5 Mesh---Sentence Will Be Passed Next | wife and daughter and two women| A full investigation has eonvine 0 Heney | ervants, wore found today dewd)ed Scotland “Yard tonight that 1} W Motion for New Trial Made. | from bullet wounds gy Hole #* killed the women and then "yi Holmen’ corpse was found first) euletded. It ts believed he was in —— in & wood near the mansion, near) sane from an attack of the grippe (By United Press) the sof the Jurors, all of whom | “4 : Oe TT ee never 4s ep. Ore, Fed. &-—John | appeared unmoved | BUTCAERED, yg y United States dis While the verdict was read by H Torney for Oregon, & the clerk of the court, Hall sat (By United Press.) triet hr traude and © motionless and the crowd of specta- | TOMSK, Siberia, F f— A of age tee, was found § , tors we hushed with suppressed band of outlaws recently waylaid delay jus! we the jury, which re excitement. After the motion was two ser nts of the rural police morning fee o'ckock. The made for a new trial, the defend near the village of Cheromkhovo Panbgre fm at 1:30 this m ant arose from his seat and was and murdered them, chopping off we ae bout four hours’ delibere surrounded by scores of hie friends the hands and feet and heads of ing who pressed forWard to ke | their vietima. his hand and speak a word of aym- | tiga , federal statutes « Under the pathy. He received each with a such charged nts puntabable by a fine t gore than $10,000 or by tmprison of not more than (wo yea was present in the cou smile Judge Hunt received Hall's notice mod granted the defen 0 days to fect thelr appeal. Sentence will | be pawed next week And at the Same Time Three Cheers for mp probably t ro metio The jury took eight ballots before | 0 . time before the jary entered El Ramer, of Crabtree, Ore, ‘and sat chatting witb his atte « the last man to change bis voi chuss-cm eames al friends at the same from aequittal to guilty (By United Press.) that he had occupied through Heyond stating that the verdict} WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. & eevee of the ear pBoe gant gy ins Sn Rae mn flan John HB. Simmering, an aged me fa the best of spirits and fuses tO make any statement. chanic, te the hero of the Washing more unconcerne Hall sald: “t have nothing on ton navy yard, He has accom aor ce poe tal pies ts vow oe. yi evidence. GOV. JOHN A, JOHNSON, men, the 9 sretery ! ane lasers wok thelr seats Those of my friends whe still be aheee ‘ cea” amas - ne ag the court room Heve in me, | shall be glad to greet WE 4 — ee | ae ben is re is f advantageous jositions Hall as of old. Thase who do not, may | ° 4 eb. ye oan A.) went out Tuesday that Jeaned forward and vage:ly » 1, pass on the other sf johnson of Minnesota will issue a 800 men ‘must be laldveff in the eww ee SS o—__ | formal statement Monday or Tues | ya, others would be dis day, in which he will declare his! missed Simmering called up ; | views on national questions, and| the White House and talked to i which will be of such a nature as to) Secretary Loeb about the matte 2 lmake him an available candidate! The latter told Simmering that he |for the democratic presidential Would tel! the president that nomination before*the Denver con.| called. The next morning the tele vention. Direct information to thia| phone bell in the yard rang, and effect waa brought to Chicago today | Simmering was invited to the nase a! beg from one of the closest personal, White House, wh he had a quiet talk with Mr. Roosevelt. friends of Governor Johnson and a result of this conversation the 600 “That's my wile Ort} ster, and denied that he hed Gay |. ver of the Minnesota state ad. you've knowledge that she was the wife! of John Hamilton, the man who} Ministration, in a letter to one of | men were put back to work and no D An@ those to the crowd at James seared the fight | the leading democrats of Chicago, | more will be dismissed. Sy Mi aed Second ay. at 4:20 o'clock Gass lives at TIM Seventh ay heat sight, turning 10 “see who had north, but gave his name as T. O remark, saw Wilson at police headquarters. Both - tilered the strange An the; RETURNS Fallen Financier Will Come Back to Face Charges. (By United Press.) LIVERPOOL, - Charles hW. Morse, the fallen financier, will leat for New York on the steamer | mereria this af m. In Queens )tewn it was announced that he Pwould remain in ngland & week Hout he suddenly cha 4 his mind jafter recelving a message from | torney After reading t he de }elared that important busin: ¢aiting him back home and ¢ éould not remain in England a day Morse was recognized on board the steamer Campania by # corre @pondent just before he received }the message from America FAILED TO PROSECUTE THE WEA SUNDAY a | KING MANUEL I!, OF PORTUGAL. he | Rew York, presumably from his at-| | The Lad te 19 Years Old, Well Educated, J.P | ROBBED OF $20,000 Handsome, and @ Kindly ; fit shoot against a masculine pet up ball for their appear . fog bie and a pretty/ance in court and were released (By United Press.) gan and her friends, Mrs. J, N. Nap- taking to her heels Gass recently brought euit GALVESTON, Tex, Feb. & of Providence, and Mra. J men were arrested 6 the|against Manager Dounelly of the Jewelry and other Valuables re th, of New York, stopped at of fighting. but woman Donnelly hotel for $50,000 damages, | ‘ ported to be worth oo have raumont, Houston and El Paso. fe the crowd charging allenation of his wife's af-| [been astolem from the private car Mrs. Morgan has reported that at * one of the contestants feetions. Mra. Gase is well known / - | Independence, in which Mrs. J. P. the latter place burglars entered [Mie Bed been the woman's escort to fashionable society im Seattle | Morgan, wife of the New York the car and carried off much val mt the time the fight bean, said|and Tacoma. She is now tn Call : 5 financier, and two women friends | yable property 7 Me believed her to be Miss Wed | fornia are traveling Mrs. Mc an will not estimate eee The party left New Orleans Wed- the value of the articles. The po- : # be } ' nesday night, the private car being lice think it was the work of a fi ae a eee we ares i , « |attached to the regular west-bound | professional thie who was riding it Sav, an have wet oot boon ana g 8 ******°*" 5) Joby P Miller Allowed Gamblers, and Other Privi-|Sevvern Yocine ‘ruin _ wre Mor on the ‘rin They are balloved to have perished | WATER SHUT OFF. . - e 2 eran ts in a snow drift. * come * Without Int 4 BLIZZARD ,|& Water will be shot off Sun- @} leged Offenders, to Operate, erruption, | | NOW WILL THEY BE GOODT|§ gay Pobrunry 9, from 8 &. m. ® | DN to 56 p.m, on Piret av. be # * T * Att (By United Press. Swen” gencea ne and bot +! During His Term as jorney. Press.) SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. §.—The! @ * Feb. &— Southern Pacific, ander orders of w@ ae te tee et eee ee thie city loet thetr ‘lives in the feartel piiezard tha: has vorthern Michiaan for ge Maithot out or the ice fisblag’ and bas not been heard from since. Two boys, named Lant, E. HL Harriman, i disposing of the | five eodly automobiles purchased since the big fire for the use of wiasilam leading local representatives of the| The vesper services at the Y. W./of stern and oven panies jestek road. Wereafter the luxury of the A. tomorrow at 4 p. m. will be| He familiar “4 — — motor car will be superseded by the | ducted by President Riley of | with the laws of the city @ f delight of traction travel MeMinnville college, Oregon. |sdminister b sae gt yn gubiie teas i “Mr. Miller is a man of clean, wholesome life, of kind heart, but PACIFIC COAST STATES 22.2 = Intelligencer, Feb. The John F. Miller above the John F. Te Miller who epublican nominee for may- SEEM TO BE FOR TAFT ... : and Oregon Inclined in Different Localities } jl the F or of Seattle, is the same John PARRA ERRERAR EH Niier who was prosecuting attor *iney of King county from 1891 1895 DEFENSE FOR During these years Seattle ran |“wide open” under a reign of law Jessness for a while; was partly closed for a while under the ad |ministration of J.T. Ronald, and PUGET SOUND y United Press.) eee eee United Press.) Raker counties, and finds it WASHINGTON, Feb. & was thrown open again in 1894 Ore, Feb. §—Re-|souree in the same spring-—hatred The forufieation plans of the #|under the administration of Mayor sentiment on the Pacific for Harriman. Somewhat pecu coast artillery now hang in *| Byron Phelps. But during the «1 is almost overwhelmincly in| Harty, LaFollette has been settled|® the balance of congressional &|tire four years no interest of the nomination of William wpon in these strongly anti-rallroad deliberation. General Murray, *| manifested by the prosecuting at ee ee eee ee ee ee dd trial, and the sixth, rather than |bother with the defense, pleaded | [auilty and was fined $i¢ This is case No. 265, recorded in volume 1 of the criminal appearance docket ot the superior court of King county, the defendant being J. J i MeCarthy Wide Open Gambling. During this entire year, gambling was running wide open, and then some, under the admin fetration of Chief of Police Bolton | “Baldy” Rodgers, there was but one | prosecution brought (o the superior jeourt for gambling. and toat was linstituted by the city authorities. | The defendant in this case was “Chet” Edwards, a character weil jknown to the Seattle gambling fra whi ternity of the earlier dave. The |Sclousness to stupidity. At inter- | ease 4 Ni 202, recorded in| Y#l8 he was able to talk, but re volume 2 of the criminal ap-|#ed to do so z < pearance docket, The transcript | stohans WMAGn. Rekacindn. }from Justice Von Toble's court was |fiied April 22, 1891, It wae al Hlowed to drift along until October &, When it was set for trial Octo. iber 18. On October 18 It was put jover to the foot of the trial calen- for the presidency. A canvass | centers as the republican who can! chiet of the corps, will soon ®|torney’s office in the prosecution|dar, where it was lost sight of by ast, under |carry the fight against the roads go before the committees of *|of privileged offenders, or in put /the. prosecuting attorney's offic ae by the Portland Evening |to its most successful conclusion,|® the house and senate to ex- ®/ting a stop to privileged lawnes#)ynti! two years later. On October ) Maral, demonstrates this fact in land this, despite the fact that neith-|@ plain the plans. He will have * | ness. | 7, 1893, an order to dismins it was convineing manner ler Hughes nor Taft have ever been |® the support of the const dele- #| These facts are all well known/entered on the docket and the case lamp of result of the investl- | accused of particular fondness | # gations in an effort to se- #|to old residents of Seattie, but cloned Would assay about in this|for the traction magnates or their| ® cure sufficient appropriations ® | addition to this they are amply @ Of the ten prosecutions brought Taft, 80 per cent; | methods. Apparently the LaFol to carry out the proposed ® |tablished by the records of the su-fagainet privileged law-breakers in % per cent; LaPollet jette boom is local in each case, al scheme of defense for Puget #|perior court. In fact, the failure/i8@1, six were for prize fighting; hough there were rumors of the sound and San Francisco. * of the Ronald administration in it#fone, the Chet Mdwards case, was ,SPetker Cannon, Vice President | organization of a LaFollette bureau *®lefforts to enforce the law against}fer gambling; two were for run a Fairbanks, Senator Foraker and/|in Seattle some time ago. oR eee eee eee SS al rivileged offenders was due in a&ining opium joints, and one was Mereiary Cortelyou are not men-| George M, Trowbridge, managing aoe ————— large measure to the indifference of [for selling liquor without a Heense. _ toned. It is recorded that there | editor of the Journal, sams up the the prosecuting attorney's office,}In this whole record there is not a ose man in Idaho, Senator Hey- | Oregon situation as follows: “While NGINEERS T0 60 and the failure of that office tofsingle successful conviction record Who would be glad to vee the | Taft is still the choice of a major prosecute such offenders ax werejed with the exception of the one é . conducted under the lity of the republicans of Oregon, arrested by the city authorities, [defendant, J. J. McCarthy, who en pMaEagement of Philander Knox, | there is a marked growth of senti ON FIRST BOAT Gntcnded Ouies tered a plea of guilty, Come under the wire with a triuim-|ment in favor of Hughes or LaFol- lie laa ea < e a tiga concours aaecanead 5 lead, but even he will not|lette. ts didacy has never @ efforts o jayor maid, 4 Taft in the , eet. Tetes suaciaeny short, were crippled throughout. hi a state conven: |aroused enthuslasm fn this state and ‘The first boat out for the Aretic|Saministration by the same. kin his visit to Oregon a few months eo oe . iministratio: ie California's 20 delegates and the|ago evoked only passing tnterest,|this summer will carry a staff of jof indifference in the prosecuting delegates from idaho will be | but the loyalty of Oregon voters to| kovernment officials and engineers |mtiorey's office that Prosecuting THIRTEEN DAYS Taft, barring always the pro-|Roosevelt’ is exceedingly strong| for the work that will be done in| attorney Kenneth Mackintosh and | Tetbisi political hoodoo, “the un-jand in this les all of Taft's| dredging out the St. Michael canal | Deputy Prosecuting Attorney John ‘'¥ strength.” to give the port of St. Michael bet-|— Miller have shown during the}, (By United Press.) oy battleground, if there is go enaninpieaneenisiapiiastie ter water communications with the|prosent administration of Mayor}! guoKANe, Feb. s— For. thir q to be any battleground, wil’ be interior Of Alaska. Moore. ; eas 4 z ” T ‘ Mteen days Dr. W. A, Egbert, a prac : within the boundaries of The records of the superior court Pe Sistes of Washington and Or . NO REGRET FOR KILLING DAD. |. inat during the entire year |iticing physician of Spokane, was ‘ton, s urs ge 1891 there were ten prosecutions fasleep. Ten physicians exam of Washington the storm center HERE sacks ones ER) neach | brought in that court by John F. lined their brother practitioner and Hagh. om | at Bell nn a. i {Miller and his deputies under f oral of them said the ease is a 1 is about F Hargis, who killed his father, - a ’ , le j Soham At Tacoma the governor | 5 es judge James Hargis, stated that |Charges commonly classed as privi- jeomplete pusz} Be New York is picked us the his fath ttempted to assault him | !es law violation. Of those ten While in the sleep, his body was el second choice, At W ai| Capt. Roald Amundsen, the Are: | Nis lather store the store before {there was not a single conviction, |limp, and he seemed like « man dy Et he ocenpies the same place.| tic explorer, will be in Seattle and| the shooting. His hearing has been |@24 only one penalty inflicted, and jing. Dr. Egbert says tho sleep was Seattle picks with La ; he M theat avoid anti) Monday, He ex-|that in the case of a defendant not the result of any Mquor or nar ®8 SeCOnd choice, Spoka give a lecture at the Moore theatre | postpon ton i way. | Who pleaded guilty jeotic, that the whole period is a re Washing | March 20, The arrangements hie [reeees Be sopra’ S7ee the tragedy. |" ‘six of these cases, Nos 266,} blank to him. He became uncon strength arises | completed today by the local Sons | VICTORIA, B.C. Feb. &.—The | 266 267, 269 and 270, were for | selous Jan, 20. He was found lyin fatarai result of the ex Capt. Amundsen will| natal bill will become the natal | prize fighting; one defendant was|on the floor the next day, and it Witing war betwee n the lambermen the northern regions.|act and the law of British Co-|not apprehen: three cases were | was not until Feb. 1 that he awoke O80 the Hill and Harrin rail: \Gov. Mead, the mayor and various |lumbia on Monday afternoon, when | dismissed, one defendant was re-| During this time he was taken from Weds. The Lavolictte sentiment in| commercial bodies will be asked to|{it will receive the assent of his leased on his own recognizance and | hif room in a block down town and Ween is confined to Union and lattend honor, skipped out before date set for the | carried to the hospital. The unknown man found uncon The police telleve he fell down scious ip an alley at First av. 8. | stairs while under the influence of and Washington st. early yesterday | Uquor. morning and taken to the city jail It Is believed be will recover. and charged with intoxication, has | — been unable to give any account of how his skull was fractured and! his arm broken The man was in jai) all day yes-| jterday as a plain drunk, Dr. John | Hunt, the city physician, late yes-| terday afternoon made an exam jination of the man,. whose condi tion had remained practically the same all day, and said the skull |had been fractured. He was re moved to the Wayside hospital He railied during the night, and his condition changed from uncon. NEW YORK, Feb. &—The en- lgagement is announced of Mrs. A. \W. Walker, of Philadelphia, to Frederick C. Penfield, diplomat, | author and clubman. Mrs. Walker) ia reported worth $40,600,000. i ONE CENT ERPONT MORGAN'S WIFE NECESSIDADES PALACE. ] THE STAR ON MONDAY-WILL TELL OF SECRETARY WILLIAM Y. TAFT’S THREE FAMOUS LABOR INJUNCTIONS _ THE SEATTLE STAR SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, THER—RAIN TONIGHT SOUTHEAST WINDS. AND MILLIONAIRE KILLS PORTUGAL WEEPS AT THE BIER OF HER DEAD KING Queen and New King Did | Not Attend the Last Services. (By United Press.) Feb. 8 Fun held “ er the King Carlos and crown prince in St. Vincent's dral, with all the imposing mony of the Catholic church ing throngs lined the stree | Isso foew were mains of nerve the cer We ing to the cathedral, and double rows of guards were duty to suppress any disturbance that might be started while the cortege Was passing The widow of the dead king, and Manuel, the youthfal King of Portw gal, re ed away, in accordance with the Portuguese custom. It is unusual for widows and the chil dren of the dead to attend funerals jin this country The bodies will He in te three days be burtal. The ceremonies began at 10 o'clock this morning. In the prew jence of ag gathering of am- | bassado: officer Jand state and er dl men, the caskets were ca the chapel at th ssidades pal- where the posed since February 1, rvants of the house of Braganza to carriages. The high dignitaries of the church marched in front of the cof- fins, carrying crosses, nd they were followed by the ro civil and military households of the min- isters, 1 and deputies. As the funeral in the direction of the Church of St. Vincente de Fora it was t rded by troops. A military 1 dirges at |the head of the | carriages of the civil governor and the ministers followed the band, each carriage being drawn by eight horses Then came other car- riages, containing suites of the ambassadors, officers of the regi- ments of the late king and the crown prince, the majordomo of the lace, and other officials. In one jof the carriages was the imperial crown of the dead king. draped | with crepe and surrpunded by flow. ers, and in the following vehicle was the sword and helmet of King Carlos. Well back in the proces- nm Was the carriage bearing the remains of the king. The bodies were received at the @hurch by the Brotherhood of Mis- ericordia, and by ail the bishops and the archbishop of Portugal. In front of the altar was the cata falque, draped in gold and biack, and upon it rested the caskets of the king and crown prince during the services. On either side of the catafalque sat the members of the royal house hold, to the left was the throne of the Cardinal Patriarch, who solemnly conducted the ceremony. A short allocution in praise of King | Carlos and Crown Prince Lolz was |delivered before absolution was granted After lying in state for three days in the Church of Saint Vincente, | the are to be carried through the cloisters to ihe royal pantheon, where the remains of |the princes of the house of Bragy lanza rest Afterward the majordomo will Swear that the remains these jof the king and prince of Portugal, jthen the caskets are to be placed jin the niches prepared for them, Later the infantry outside the pan |theon will fire volleys. A salute of 101 guns from the forts will also be fired MAY PROSECUTE DEALERS FOR VIOLATING LAW jmurrer and in an unguarded mo one of the attorneys men | tioned the words ducks and illegal, it was explained as a hypothetical but the cat was out of the bag, and Judge Tallman imme- diately dismissed the demurrer, ex- made no dif. ference between a buyer and seller in any filegal transaction ee es : + Suit i ior Court Puts Game Warden Rief on Track \* BANK CLEARINGS. *) in Superior me Warden on Ir. \* ew * er \* Seattle. * ucks, \F ciearinen tan"® gosucrs.oe 2} Of Mlegal Transaction in Wild D ® Balances ... 124,238.24 & * Tacom * ® Clearings today * | An ordinary suit to recover in the # Balances ... Pe tees : a anap (taont m4 panbune, % | Superior court for goods sold may > Chainns eae... 4 % | bring two firms into the clutch % Balances ..... ie % [of Game Warden Rief. vitro * %| ‘The transaction, which had every ee ee eee ¢ indication of being entire! = 35 regular, is believed by Mr. Rief to | pluining that the law cover up an Mlegal sale of game SALVATION ARMY Jand an investigation which has y for some time may nts of arrest within ys been under w |result in warri CAMP MEETING ©" Some time ago C. A. Pauley and a F. Schneider, as the LaConner Meat company, of LaConner A camp meeting started last} brought suit against the National night at the Salvation Army bar- |Meat company, of this city, to re racks, 1524 Fifth av. It will last |Cover $131.90 on an account du The complaint does not specif 10 days and the ministers of the | what the account was contracted }ecity will lend their support and/for. Mr. Rief has every reason | help in the preaching. believe that it is money owir Services are to be held each | for wild ducks which the local co evening at & « ck. Sunday addi-|pany is alleged to have purchased tional special services will be held| The case came up before Ju at lla m. and 3p. m }Talman this morning on 4 “I have been on the track of this case for some time,” said Mr, Rief today. “I have been informed that LaConner people were engaged in furnishing game in illegal quan- tities to the National Meat com- pa and I may take steps in @ few days to ds arrest and prose- m on a criminal charge. The law permits the sale of not to exce ducks in a season, The ducks sell at about cents each. If the bill sued for by the LaConr Meat company is correct, the transaction covers the sale of ducks, which ows a violation of the clearly law