The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 19, 1908, Page 1

LAST 9 NO vol 209. EDITION THE SEATTLE STAR Seer ae aoe CAR STRIKES SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, JOR CHITTENDEN IS CHARGED WITH F-. RAUD: Starts Civ Suit to Recover Coal Lands “jp Skagit County Alleged to Have Been Fraudulently —— 1908, TO LIGHT SUBURBS. Work was started yesterday b the city lighting department pod 4 line of 60-foot poles in der to serve Bouth Seattle, South Perk and West Seattle as noon as the new Cedar river power plant | ready, _ whieh wil we Bbout Juty 4 ‘to | (av. J. A. JOHNSON’S PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDACY—READ ABOUT IT IN TOMORROW'S ISSUE OF THE STAR ONE CENT WEATHER — FAIR ‘TONIGHT AND LIGHT WEST WINDS THE THURSDAY; WILL SEEK RELEASE OF CHESTER THOMPSON . ,and dragged some distance by the)... + 4 oe “y i AUR a Secured by Engineer and Brother. Three Women Are Badly frightened horses. The @river | Thomas Congrave, was severely in i imi i : as Injured-—-Mot Thomas Congrave, ‘was severely in-| | | Will H. Thompson Makes Preliminary Move in Effort M. Chittendes £)800 through the local lend offte yur orman j ta stopping “ horses. The la of porernment work in brother furntahed them with the them was bedly injured, Motorman ey ncucsed of and | money ter patent Was secured . F. Whitmore has bee ited Press. i i government of valuable coal| the land was transferred to the ect l 4 ie iedilion. ry 19. are thy at Walla Walla This Morning. ‘a civil Cavan for the recov: | Chittendens (By United Press.) | FRYE LOCATED, N, Fe —Beven thou = ae, filed ye ay in| The complaint asks that the gov SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 1%—-A! Through an {tem tn last evening's | %8* @MSineers employed by the he ernment annul the patents and for) C8F on the Polk st. line collided Star, Albert Frye, @ carpenter, who Type ship yards Geciared a strike 4 a p sult ie iri the ban f - acide AL. 800 paid through the} | lame — yng one in which | is wanted in Denver to t in| today fy sympathy with other em (BY STAFF CORRESPONDENT.) General Cho jonaparte | land office. | were Mra uasel, widow of winding up an estate, has been lo who rec a adi sates to Major Chitten-| The allegation is made that | the late John Russel, a former well-| cated at the county hospital vlnyes Walked out recently! = —_ WALLA WALLA, Wash., Feb. 19.—Steps leading to the brother, ( © | Shrauger, Fountaine, Derwent ang | known polttieian; Mrs F. A. Young. Georgetown. As soon as Fry Soles cu yg oe all ~ ; | release of Chester Thompson, acquitted of the murder of Judge Ag B Shrause rown have go tnterest tu the land,|@F @ud Mre. Dr ule, her daugh is eble to leave the hospital, he wil ints wi tied up by the | ” a 5 § J. L, Derwent, Wi) having deem used simpiy as tools | ters The carriage was overturned | return to Deriver. lend bf the present week. Eve Thaw “a Her Hus- | George Mead Emory, and ordered detained in the hospital at and the wives of the) by the Chittendens. | Seeteiitiemeniintiaieemmentinimeeentaaeeteesinds eS bar’ easton ES the state penitentiary until he regained his sanity, were begua Roth the Chittenden brothers | band Will this mornin, ; rideny that there was any fraud tn | : i ee gad bis brother con-| their motes of procuring title to Attorney Will H. Thompson, of Seattle, father of the pris- wit other defendants (o the coal lands. Major Chittenden i ition i with the Bees to oto ecren | Geclaved Chak the tepmenation Wan soe tanh-Ordies oner, this morning prepared a petition in behalf of Chester goa! lands now b lexitimate, proper and made in| Sn. J Thompson asking for a hearing and release on the ground of ite pay Creek C <usd Gan eo ae ee NEW YORK, Feb. 19,—According | | hi 4 hi ‘ fm Skagit county corned i to a story printed today in the N is son having recovered his sanity. ¢ y as com Clyde ©. Chittenden said that he | York World, Evelyn Thaw and her This petition must be recommended by T. L. Lane, the faad Was located ups could sot enderetend why etch @/ husband, now an Inmate of Mat-| prison physician, and approved by Warden Reed. These offi- suit as he and! had been brought, — Derwent and asylum, have positively | cers have assured Mr. Thompson of their support. | teawan |aereea to part, ‘aes a. v0 Mr. Thompson will then file the petition before Judge maine to be done before the sult) . : : : | Snell, of Pierce county, and will ask a jury trial,in behalf of bis brother did met bay the land or | contract to buy It until patents had | | AND KILLS HIMSELF states that the lo all gatents, paid $1 mass been secured | for annulment of their marriage in| Tomorrow. 000,000. Steen e Eunice. 9 years old. Mra. Asbury's wn tite. | ¢ ator man. begun is the completion of the| secure a divorce from his wife. “Harry refused to ieten to my his son, as provided by the Graves law. fl ‘| f * Al Asbury, Mining Man, Man, Shoots Wi isited bi SOON i* BANK CLEAQINGS. Al Wife Who Was Seek. i of the financial settlement The prisoner's father and his brother Oscar visited him to- z : . . One report is that Evelyn de-| dg 4 de Sanat telen | f 1 siahial ual * “ par Pe an eciare im im per! ect mental and physica ealth. © csewingn tty, avraasre 2} ig Divorce, and Turns Weapon on Himself—-Accus- 0%» wore 2» « seiiement than, ethedrescdr d soe cha. scar nen Ee Baleness 01.82089 & the Thaw family is willing to give,’ | \* Tacoma. * ing Note Found in Pocket, and that an agreement on this point | ® Clearings today ..8 603,992.00 ® seems hard to reach. Attorney @ Halances “ 60,393.00 & O'Rellly is said to be representing \* s ne’ * Mrs. Thaw in the matter and At | | ® Cleartngs teday 977,176.00 &! ura Minnie T. Asbury, 90 torney Peabody is acting for’ Thaw | ® Balances Le 189,111.00 | Og — te pled reise Pe We ae inatantly-| evelyn ix sald to be pleased with — * . and tastaatly Siew t lilo tempi, fired, ena rei} the progress that has been made | and Others care, vesciin end othel property| WSR AAR ARAN A Eee eH) 08 8 Bsirwey OF the Digay Beet floor beulde the body of his © fr In the arrangement looking cessary fo | ing last night by her husband. | to an annulment | neces r the off bustness would ' | for Sen- cost $18,000,000, but that the gov-| A. L. Asbury, who, after the fit) ‘he tragedy was witnessed by Mrs, Wm. Thaw, mother of Harry ernment wétld make an annual Scmtra = “Ss Feat alt | thakfour person: who were with the vee, ig ee et aes at | pret ol 2 oe + pec cleared 5 * im r en profit of from $10,000,000 to $12, prigpenat® cyare pros ner seater’ dead woman at the time, including | Will Not tonne the Brooklyn Need Is Kid- | ———— - } Wolff weld he did not see | — by « former husband, was | advice,” said Mra Thaw, “but Sete CRRA OSHA SS! eee to witness the entire | aati ae beeen be olga unless he does he must expect to| ) tragedy 4 vury ve annoyed. I'm very sorry for my naped Money Renrna. res. 19 # OREAD GEN wl Asbury and bis wife had been y, and had never seen Asbury Co boy. He's brave but #0 very on Pacific and ‘and the other mil-| * hon wir | estranged, although the courts had 1 deliberation fp the fooled ” | whose trial for | aot granted her the divores she had | eurion of the tragedy was sho clehaiilgaldbtennie ae | Trip. Wanted. Port Arthur during * (By United Press.) ed been seeking. The frenay into) the fact that before he fired the ****** eR RAHA RH HH, se war has just * CINCINNATH, Ohio, Feb. 19. # Keon which Asbury bad worked bims@lf | fata) shots Awbury had destroyed all | ® *) e ie tee woteg vy be | —A. P. Ciiftel, © haber she +) through brooding over this fact ws | jetters aud papers which he carried * NEW FLEET DOPE. *! to appear before # lives on Main st, disco (By United Press.) manifested in this penciled entry | his person that would lead * wore re (By United Press.) (By United Press:) dock tomorrow more. # & man iw his house at 2 tne Bod NORTH BAY, Oat. Feb. 19—Aa|!2,_% Docket memorandum book /ty'the discovery of the address of | * (Oy United ‘Preaed *| WASHINGTON, Feb. NEW YORK, Feb. 19—The po # (hie moreing. Instead of turn. @! “ ;: | found on him after the tragedy f Deputy Corener Fuller * WASHINGTON, Feb. 19— ® stated that in all yrobabl * Site * ing him over to the police, @|th¢ Canadian Pactfic railway ex-| “By her wonatural and jealous! feud on the dead man his spec-/* Attorney Joho B. Green, of #| Admiral Evans will not preside | "ice are searching the Bowery lodg- @ Cliffel cave him several loaves @| press from the weet was nearing (lies she sent my soul into eternity |egcty case $2.0 in money and a * New York, who is an authority ® over the destinies of the battleship ing houses today for Jas. A. Barry, mis rial @ of bread and sent him home. @ Chapeleau, Ont, last sight the/ nade y hag of the blight sbe put) paw ticket, showing that he had |* on diplomatic affairs, declares # squoteen ie its journey serene the|a Brooklyn jeweler, whom they thas aader com @ The intruder pleaded that his #/ upon mi Pe. his wateb \@ that the object of the Atlantic # cific after arriving an Fran. gupesition to have the ® little owes st home were cola #| Votes Of the mail cer Broke and! Byigentiy Asbury had been study iGeraee Bia ‘watch Puereary 16 Wen-|% test One ce ecdioe ip to comnpet | clooo,, Admiral Mivsos will. recire | ‘Risk '# being held somewhere for estabiish a # and starving. and that he had #/#¢¥eral coaches were ditched. The | ing his wife's habits, and learning eu Sak te bbery © \@ Japan to carry out its promise # | from the service on August 18, and | T2s0m. @ means of making up # not been Able to secure work. @| Japanese porter was killed and 16 | that she would leave her rooms tn / Ane Mew. Asbury were Tar’ to evacuate Chinese territory # as the warships will start for! Barry disappeared some time ago, te the revenues. It is @ @ or 17 persons were injured, some|the Vernon hotel, 216% Union at, | Sena pone od ie ite tives te tha * In Manchuria. He added that # Manila before that date, it is said) while his wife was visiting friends ‘Hat oll plants, tanks, # eee eeeeeee anes | seriously |to attend « spiritual meeting tn the | at Milla need a etnck tan tg the United States x bound to # he will turn over the command. | in yan, When tae tote | Denny building, secreted himeetf in) SOO" iarie, eee annie hie tan, ® bave trouble with the mikado's @| It Is reported in naval circles| rae, sapeene in jthe hallway tee ig thy Pine nis ini, & government. #/that the president bas practically | She recetved a letter demanding a H. A. Wolf, a real estate man, | lng wealth, not sepport Bis | 5 # decided to elevate Captain Richard | large sum of money for the release IE CHECK MYSTERY I { and Mise Louise Loose of Routh | Park, with little Eunice, entered | and left her a few weeks after thetr marriage Mra. Asbury started divorce pro- THAAHAARARNRRE ED) See to command of her. husband. Ww ade a, the buliding In company with the L E doomed woman | ceedings with E. J. Brown as coun The elevator did not respond *#l, bul for some Ume Asbury se quickly, and at the suggestion of | S@t be found. _—-----— “lone of the members of the party Mire ge! he & position } all started to walk upstairs, Just Waltress in the xor restaurant | Se eegnes thet Use Bam wet as thes reached ag street floor | to #apport herself and child A Mystery which te pure Of three cities Larie has not jeft Seat he is accused of bh iy passed forged checks ae by Photograph as Forger Who ~ Passed Checks in Distant Cities Has Not Left « _ Seale Wih Exception of One Tacoma Trip. Checks Were Stolen. The chief of police at Los An seles saya it had been reported by | t 1,000 of the Peerless fi m in his day resembled him, so purchase the American «hip Shen andoah, now at Frisco, She will te dismantled and will be used as storage barge for coal later (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.-—-The announcement was made today that | the elevator started to run, and M F. Harper, ite operator, brought ft to the floor level and waited for j hie passengers to enter SPERRY | Asbury rushed to the top of the ae and, pointing a revolver at his wife, fired The range was so clome that the victim's face and VASHON ROAD ‘Tig dead woman has relatives at Carney. where she spe = som@ time severa! months ago is Probable her orphaned sehen wiliybe sont there to make her fu tite home. At present she is in| the keeping of the landlady of the| Vernon hotel h stations and lights at all a ie and are to carry chil ‘The promotors say the scheme |, warrant against her husband ~ CHICAGO BLIZZARD Mrs. J. W. Starr, of Fir station on the Bellingham line of the Great Northern, this morning swore out a | ae represent an outiay of $350,000.| years old, on the charge of desert —— |The were powder stained | The bedios are at Bonney-Wat = " A TG in wre, tants nie tes Ooo The woman sank to the Noor ein _~ HUSBAND LEAVES Six Have Perished—Suffering Is Intense—New Yorke a’ | tavolves Louis RI © these checks, as there was a/ " - ae : ; “ ; : - . : ; . -« yeptela wT cteuth tint te eune rs FOR Ge ssw cre vos aus ce WITH MONEY | Is in Center of Howling Winter Gale—Train Traffic ve com tion of partnership. j pat kee be The grantees are to i Paralyzed. (By United Pre -) NEW. YORK, Feb. 19.—The bile age mpany checks had been | | They explain that they intend te m1 " ) weeishaaex’ ‘es at has be . “ Banat, Noh and “in| eM, SOmUeNY scare of aauvery | RASt Admiral Sperry, commanding | The board of county commission! matt fhe trip trom this city to.Tw|yon, "Ant elr WreereNrMt) CHICAGO, Feb, 18-—Six deathe sort ths ne Maen SeOmne te Me Made by photograph The forged checks were drawn on | the fourth division of Evans’ fleet, | ory yesterday granted a franchise | coma Inaide of 55 minutes. The| She says Starr took $93, their Dave, already occurred and others thew Tote" teens me is & member of the ‘%¢ Bankers’ National bank of Chi-| has been selected to command the/io F. X. Waldron & Co, of this | Company must grade and maintain | joint earnings as caretakers of the are expected, as the result of one of snow have fallen in that i Liating company. w ~— , nie oe has “~ jnew Philippine station. He will as | city, to build an electric Hne on Wied ne feet _ jo apa Reig Gun club house near Fir, of the most severe and destructive hours and all traffic has sarle says tha je ha been tire row mt sland R ol is clothing d fi a " " naays S80 on the ¢ ting to get out of the firm for| "me the new post upon arrival | Vashon island, which ft is planned _getmitten naan ocala + Ba Hing pon Reva Yt biizsards that has ever visited the | Rise af wars 4g ghee January 14. Th . time, but Gleason would | St the islands and will have under | to connect with Seattle and Tacoma! ‘The Jeanie is being repaired at | practically penniless in the club Middle west. The storm has raged 1, io yy ep ambars cags: | no informatic , | neither buy or sell until Lorie) him the warships Kentucky, Kear-| py two fast steamers lTadema. She will be off the| house and 2,000 miles from rela-|for two days, and street car and telegram from the Grang (breatened to foree the company | sarge, Minois and Alabama. | The line ts to be completed as' northern run for about two weeks. ' tives elevated road servi in Chicago Blizzard in lowa. M4 police authoriuin. pat into liquidation to aceomplish bis| * ned tie ‘mehr tetiied . we 8) object. Lorie says he did not like} as been greatly cripple DES MOINES, Ia. Feb. 18.—A taken to the count Gleason's business tactios. Lurie Mrs. Anna M. Lincoln, 72 years ard, which started last night tWo days pending | oy members having «iven Gleason | old, was found in a snow bank to- * still rages today, has delayed to do Ko photograph day frozen to death. Two men | ‘rains on all roads trom one to four Hit the sum of $s Coptes of this photoxraph have hours, stopped street cars and in- Bee Grand island police notified | UTend Island and Los Angeles po in the storm off Waukegan phone communications. Eight inch- department | the, | Hee, and the vietims say the photo Three other deaths are reported es of snow have fallen and drifted MS G8 With extradition of the man who passed the — 5 | from localities near Chicago. Snow badly. On Raccoon river an ice fetarn with the “ bogus checks on them. | the aoanle “ot. this “alty to restore Intelligencer has not endorse: d the | continues to fall today and in some gorge six miles long has formed rd y And yet rie was in Seatth |m eondition of harmony by the elec- attitude of the mayor, then I will, Places It has drifted to a depth of just above the city. City officials it he in th { t yet, Lari as in attle es ‘etention fon of bit didate f hd f the tick " 12 feet are using dynamite to blow th UE dive seteeane when the checks were floated Ma’ Moore tion of & republican candidate for | withdraw from the ticket and per. | 12 are using dynamite to blow up the i fight extradition oom yor mayor, The Post-Intelligencer was |mit Mr. Miller to have the election There {s intense suffering among gorge, but with poor ess. Peo. rr Mystery Uncanny. | Quite a staunch supporter of mine, | by unanimous vote. j the poor ple are moving from the lowlands, hes eft City The mystery fs positively un) Secured Only by His Re-Election to the Office and appeared to be very friendly For Political Effect — set ae = heen in Seattle t canny, for Mr. Lurie says that no| jto my adininistration until it was P since last J epting one one who was in the employ of the} | seized with this attack of partisan It is being charged in this cam he went to Tacoma ; Mayor. rabbies. I want to ask you whether paign that the recent raids of gam Any of Chicago in f Mr. Laurie I don’t know this ma Pincus, whose name appears on the | | of the issues of this campaign ts whether thie city shall retain in Ite as he continues to make good. And I defy the republican candida lor ministration Moral Questions the Issue. on the charge | ar arrests in this city If the pats of last! jof gambling | week were for political effect, then | Hgidly inve ‘ s he can remember there has ever been a scandal or a|bling joints by the police depart rgeant Tennant, of the I am positive that some person defaication in the city government ment have been made for saepar | department. decia in Chicago has told the police that lof this elty except at a time when jeffect. But during the year 1907| Ss T OCK MA RKET 1 was floating these checks,” said 1 wish to say to you that one, me in that position just so long| we had # harmonious partisan ad-|the police department made 122] a oF eles cher a ° ve mayor to say that he tw at lberty Pincus for § Loe Angelos check, and never even) services Mr. R. H. ‘Thomson, the |i¢ VNected. to retain either one of| “The matters over which there|the arrests of last year were for | (By United Press.) in financial straits. In this con “grees Neb ‘ So far from having be | most efficient and capable city en- them | has not been harmony between the political effect, And if the arrests} NEW YORK, Feb. 19.—A sensa tio it is rumored that work Check saan | ‘en ee Las * | prwoed city ever had, or wheth lexeentive and the counef! during |of gamblers last year were for Saal Slee ier tieeae © stopped on the construction Was passed in Les ge Rage a my | Sinoer this olty ever had: Cork of | . Wanted Thomson Removed. | my adusintatration have been moral | political effect, then the whole law jtlonal attack giade upon the Gould’ of ine Western Pacific railway, @ later ever was in either city in my| that office to a new man, inex When | first went into office | questions, and the council bucked | enf ment policy of the present | 8curities by bears created wild Gould enterprise. Another report Was undouht ‘ or an nove it to & positive | perienced in the work of the olty,” |two of the directors of the Post: | by policy on the moral question for |administration has been for politt-| scenes In the stock market this is that Jould failed to pay Police of | cortaint | said Mayor Moore at a ting last Intelligencer tried for ® year and|mére than @ year, until the public | cal effect, because it has been pur-| morning, The assault began at the certain amounts of interest on is the m Me Durie fa well connected in| night at the Presbyterian church, |a half to induce me to remove City | sentiment in favor of my course ‘sued in accordance with the laws opening and was made with such money he borrowed to promote his thin cing “te has lived since hie|at the corner of Eastlake av. and| Engineer Thomson. I know that | became overwhelming, after which /of the state and the oath of office jterrific foree that, declines in the vise four year fay | arrival here the Herald hotel,| Boston st Chief of Police Wappenstein cannot | the council climbed into the band taken by the mayor. j entire list followed in rapid succes Some of the sensational drops of as & member of the | and at 218 Broadway | “Another iasue is whether Chief remain for 24 hours under a Miller | wagon and undertook to steal some | | » going to the meeting at|sion, It was evident from the at- the day in ks were made in & Glea The police have positive informa. | of Wappensteln shall be jadministration, The retention or of the credit for the policy which | the ‘lake av, church, Mayor|titude of the bears that they had Western Union Telegraph Mis. Din Ade we | lon that he hae not left the elty| retained in that office. 1 say to |disminsal of either or both Mr./1 had inaugurated against thelr op-| Moore delivered an address at the | an ‘ace in the hole,” for they did! sourt Pacific. W. U. dropped close firm bad rex: ed the since his arrival here, save for one| you that if I am elected Mr. Thom-|Thomson and Mr, Wappenstein, | position Columbia College of Music. Both | not hesitate a moment in the merel- to 40 Missouri Pacific to of the Pee F m-| day at Tacoma ton will be retained until the end | therefore, depends upon the result 1 want to say that if there has | meetings were attended and ad-|less onslaught Phe 1 stories that several Wh on the | nite a mistaken identity?|of bis present term of office, and |of this election, and is one of the | been in the past two years a single /dressed by T. B. MacMahon, Wil-| Many reports have grown out brokerage houses are in serious And the Met ist] In some nemesi« pursuing Louls| will then be reappointed, Chief of |issues in this campaign controversy between myself and|liam Middleton, George R, Cooley | the raid, the most persist ne trouble bave not yet been con banks . es = The Post-Intelligencer is urging the elty council in which the Post-| and O. T, Erickson. belng that the Gould companies are | firmed | Lurie? | Police Wappenstein will be kept by