The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 22, 1908, Page 1

VOL. 9% NC AH Gqut Records Show That He Committed Perjury in Making False Affidavit Marriage to Mrs. Van de F Vanter Confirmed. ae he Ix > ally, who Is #t the the husband of (wo © fag ts court records, faces a crit prosecution om a chery ' ‘even should ti al pr on acharge 0° ' marriage to ad Yan de Var that he is a lese dudge Hanford to Act. has been Jude and it understood (ha’ ee court Will take evide ote weth - Lrescate ied Te any event, ic that the alleged =m fan cannot escape « { dilemma arises f fa whieh he appes Im the one t he ob Mivorce from Mary P Por woman whom be is seid n fm Ireland in 1555 B defanit case in (he loa! eeart, In hiv affidavit fied that he wae 8 beaal atate “cong Drought by the Lock Co. of this Steel Sate B Purcel!, then its $80,000 damages weal, in order to have the case im ted to the federal court. ay ped and made an affidayit to (he eet that be was & legal resident Mike state of Ilincts. This was order to prevent a jury N Prove Perjury. fe & fact that this condition ‘ald W. G. Norris, ommager Norris Safe & Lock Co.. this “The records are in the SE Go not care to discuss the the matter has been the attention of the fed Which, 1 underviand, ts to make an investi feet that Porce!) war actu to Mr. Van de Vanter 18 & telegram from Ore. The court records that on Janvary Patrick F Por bend Mrs. 4. T. Van de residence ts given Were married at botel, the ceremony by County Judge rt Mrs. Van de Venter» Dave clung to the belief of the marriage was that no ceremony Confirmation ors the columns of that I have not agreed te debate on Sunday afternoon an of & persona! letter pom thet gentiman. 1 replied tha Weary, 1 would try to but gave no in ‘Would take any part his announce Moore Makes Plain *The issue involved in r for feelection ix just Is to be run as 2» ate pre Of gamblers and po Breen-goodn whethe ts to continue eo We proved ip the interests the effi @8d the home H conceal evade ou will, ita e, and if the fraction of a you Wee that it is the issue. What ise may be involved in this ) Whatever else our op Way seek to inject into It @ the real issue, the fact the same that my reelec-| Would he construed to be and be an indorsement of the Bent policies I have in and enforced. Contase 8 FOU Will, my defeat would be Wied to be and would be a tion of those policies ‘ interests oppored to law en Wreement; ths ints ests which 3 by & wide-open town; the in Which are fighting me in LAST EDITIO has led to aniversal’ 8. Smith in| ) | expressions of sorrow for the wom. an whom Purcell has added to his at of vietine. No Bigamy Prosecution. Prosecuting Attorney Mackintosh says that under the law Purcell can not prosecuted for bigamy in this state, owing to the fact that criminal prosecution on that charge must be brought tn the state in} which the marriage was performed and Pur i's marriage to Mra, Van! de Vanter was solemnived in Ore goo. The friends of Mrs. Van de Van ter are loath to discuss the elreum stances surrounding the affair Henry MeCture, of the firm of Me Chive & MeChure, is attorney for) Mre. Van de Vanter and Jules Red. elsheimer, exeeutor of the Van de Vanter estate. He had nothing to say today, except that Mre. Van de Vanter had not informed him of any marriage and that he did not know her present address ing to Mr, MeClure, Mra. Van de Vanter tnbertte without any conditions. Whereabouts Unknown, Neither Purcell nor the woman whom he last took as Bis wife in Astoria be found. None of their friends appear to know where they are. Several reports reached the city today that the couple are stopping at Lake Crescent. An other report has them secluded in California, It in generally believed that Mrs. Van de Vanter t# «till in Ignerance of Pureell’'s supposed duplicity The deputy sheriffs are watehing every avenue which would give them a clew to Paurcell's where abouts, but up te a late heur today they had been still unable to serve him with the divorce papers in the sult inetiteted by Mary A. Moss, whom he is alleged to have map ried in Boston tn } under the name of Perce J. M Real Wife til, The woman who brought to light | Pureeil's supposed duplicity in to day completely prostrated and very iL She has been taken in charge by a life-long friend and has been completely secluded from posalble visits Gmttl she can be reatered to her sormal coudition. Even the newspapers are kept from ber and in conversations with those around her so mention whatever is made Of her trouble, Mrs Mose was re- moved from the Harker hotel yew terday end her address te only known to het attorney, Heary W Lung, and to a few inthmate friends The fact that Purcell lived with the woman who t# sow suing for divorce after he had obtained a divorce from the Trish wife, «} though he had married the second woman while the first wife was yet ing and undivoreed, makes Mre Moss, or Mre. Purcell, known here, his legal wife. ia said to be in line with & recent decision of the supreme court, and the plaintiff in the pending case has, according to local attorneys, legal rights in court proceedings - RIDDELL WILL NOT DEBATE WITH SMITH Permit ‘me to} ment of a joint debate is wholly un-|ehilly water of the sound. | Warranted, and it will | place | would giadly have met with the New Thought people in a heart-to heart talk on the relation of New Thought to vital Christianity, buat not take Accord: | the entire estate| ih | mont, narrowly excaped drowning. They were hauled to shore, wuf-| This! of THE SEATTLE STAR \ SSN SY | 1 | | | ) | —and first in SATU ATTL >, WASH RIMINAL PROSECUTION — FOR FRANK E. PURCELL “WELL, HERE WE ARE AGAIN!” the heart of the cherry tree. AUTO PLUNGES TRESTLE INTO BAY Failure of the Steering gear to | work when the car was turning @ corner precipitated an adtomobile into 12 feet of water beneath the ltrestie at Fourth av, 8. and Hol gate st. carly last night, and tte leceupants, Chauffeur W. P. Baker, F. Moses and Miss Edna Bet | Raker received a hurry call at the Germania Park saloon, at Georgetown, and his passengers were Moses and the woman. They left Georgetown at 7:20 p.m, and | Were bowling along at « high rate speed. Just as the car was | nearing the turn on the trestl® remained in « comatose condition knocked Mike Twin Sullivan out |work at Fourth and Holgate the steering gear, which before had given trouble, refused to work Plunges Into Water. Baker set the brake, but the mo- mentum of the car was so great that the speed was only imper ceptibly lessened, and it tore away [the railing, topped by « 4x6 beam, plunged through the alr for a dis tance of 25 feet, and fell Into the a good swimmer, al } badly injured, came to the \top first. He found that by stand Ing on the top of the seat he could keep his head above water, and, reaching for the gtr, | Baker, ‘Two Men and a Woman Narrowly Escape Drowning Before Being Rescued by Man in Row Boat— Woman Is Badly Injured. feet from the car, but managed to join the pair on the car They were in the cold water for fully 16 minutes before thetr ortes wore heard, and some man, who did not give bin name, threw down ® rope, to which they clang until he could get to them In a rowboat t fering keenly with the cold, and « passing automobile took them back to Georgetown ; Woman injured. | ‘The woman, overcome by cold and exposure, was wnoonsclous when she reached Georgetown, and for several hours. It '* feared whe jhas auffered «¢ er injuries than \ the first examination disciosed Baker's back was sprained, and itm bed at the Colonnade hotel, | First av. and Pine st. this morn) ing be wan scarcely able to talk because of pain. | The car, which was 6 | tonal, was nearly Wrecked. It was |a foot under water this morning i when Officers Peyser and Spler, detailed from headquarters, went jto Investigate. The tide had re jeeded and left part of its canopy exposed The front and rear wheels of the left side of the car red Ne ho WSS were submerged in mud. Some |the world Mr. Smith, by his unwarranted ad- foundering {n the water, held her person had preceded them and ted vertisement, has prohibited any such conference. Respectfully yours, NEWTON N. RIDDELL. EFEAT WOULD BE BLOW TO LAW ENFORCEMENT the Fact That Enforcement _ Of Law Is the Real Issue in the City Campaign, ia this campaign know that my defeat would mean a repudiation of the polleles of government to whieh they are opposed, policies of law. enforcement. They know that the election of another candidate would be paraded in Seattle and outside of Seattle as evidence that the peo. ple of this city are not in favor of law enforcement And for this reason my defeat in case I were to be defeate: would be greeted with glee by all the interests opposed to law en foreement, and would be used tn Seattle and in other elties for years to come as an argument to prove that the people do not believe in jaw enforcement, are not in favor of clean and decent city govern ment, and prefer a condition of greater laxity in the administration of the police affairs of a city.” Mayor Moore spoke but briefly last night and attended but one meeting, on account of the condi tion of his health, which renders it necessary for him to be cautious if he would avoid a breakdown | during the closing days of the cam After the meeting at Olt man's hall, he attended the police men's bell at Leseh! park. | fast. calling at the top of his voles 1" help Moses was thrown fully 100 | ee ee eel a * PLOT IS UNEARTHED. (By United Press.) LISBON, Feb. 22.—The po lice have selzed papers dir closing another regicide plot in process of incubation, The conspiracy t# attributed to the “Black Croas Society,” a revo Jutionary body tncluding mem \* bere of aristocracy and high ® officinis, Extermination of |® the dynasty in contemplated |@ by the society. Many arrests ® have been made quietly. eereeee * * * * * RRR TEAM IS MISSING } A team of horses belonging to the Montana Street Mill company | were either stolen or ran away | last night. The horses are tron gray, weigh about 1,500 pounds each The police have been asked to |assist In the search for them. and Grand Master Tendered Banquet. WALLA WALLA, Feb. 22.—Ralph C. McAllister, of Seattle, grand master of the Masons of the state, was given a banquet in this city last evening, following a joint meet ing of the two Blue lodges. . the car to @ strong pile with a« cable. It w raised by a pile | driver thie afternoon | Baker wae formerly employed jas chauffeur by O. N. Mar 2, viee president of the Joseph £& | Thon Real Eetute company, to showing prospective buyers about the city, He is 24 years of age, a Tennessecan, and. according to Mr. Mersolais, w and steady driver y became the property of the Naw tional Auto & Garage company, on deposit the close of business, February $60,000,000, These figures were forthcoming from a call by Comptrotier Ridge. ly and State Bank Examiner | Engle Against the deposits there is cash and exchange aggregating § $24, 000,000. STOLEN PIGEONS at m4 Homing inatinet of pet | led to the return of four pairs of |homing pigeons out of 24 pate stolen from the barn of George B Bennett, 102 First ay. N. B., recent: ly | ‘After being gone a day or #0, |four pairs and a young pigeon which could fly only a few yards | at a time, returned to their home. The barn has been robbed three | times in all, $50 worth of pigeons | being stolen, and Bennett believes ‘that a gang of boys did the thiev jing. Complaint was made to the police. pigeons RETURN 10 ROOST)” THE RDAY ‘LAND FRAUD IS | UNEARTHED (By United Pre ,RELLINGHAM, Feb. As’ a rexult of an investigation that has teen made by Commissioner R. A | Mallinger, of the general land of flee, at the request of a citizen of Whateom county, tt announced | that the individual who has n eollecting a fee of $76 for locating Personmon the Southern & Oregon ing persons, and that it will be im Ten Candidates for Sheriff. Already there are not less than ten candidates for sheriff who have announced their intention of run ning for that office, Just why P. J. Smith, a resident of Issaquah, should have been placed on the [Miller slate for sheriff has not been satisfactorily explained to jthe other candidates. Jim Agnew |who i# considered in some circles as a formidable candidate for sheriff. ix exerting every effort to have this slate broken so far as the sheriffs office is concerned, but so far no definite action has been taken to change the arrange railway land grants is simply im- possible for such person | bowing innocent and unsuspect- on the lands to secure ther « SRR ee em . 4 | ‘THIS IS THE SAME: \ * * oore. : JOHN F. MILLER : * ° * | --— b bi BRC seman ips 4 The count h « * “Then came the most astounding sight of all, the sight of | niraric nup the . | ® two little striplings, stripped in the costume of the ring and ® | aijney of John F a wearing six-ounce gloves. One was nine years old, the other ® j40 siroudy caused conslde eight. The father of the boys stood by the ringside and ® [gin in the rey “ ® smiled a boastful amile as the infantile fighters tripped lightly ® (Pre combination Me 12 ihe the ring * | which exposed ¥ » Star * “They pounded each other's little faces and tender bodies ® J iact night, has brows gee! ;& wt th reasts bore pots, till the face of one was ® | ioiost from Republicans all over ‘* attered with blood from a blow on the nose struck by hie * (),, tae comaanns of te *% baby brother. And the crowd cheered and the shameless wom ® | ariiig Koag om lhe tgs | }f@ en laughed and clapped their hands in admiration which suited WO tii, nat why Goddard \®@ their instincts —icxtract from the Seattle Telegraph, Febru: ® | shouig aan the aabstten” 40 iz OFF 83001 % | the Miller campaign * And this was while John F, Miller was prosecuting attor, ® __ Stirring Up Trouble. @ néy of King county and Seattle had a republican mayor and ® The fact that a slate has been le republican chief of police, It was the story of an almost * frame 4 for the county ticket next }@ wightly orcurrence in a theatre below Yesler way & | fall ix also stirring up considerable * And it wae after Mr. Miller had left his home in the east ® | trouble among various aspirants \e and had come west with the admonition to be hor and up ® |for cou offices, It is a well right, after he bad taken an oath to faithfully perform the # known fact that under the direct Gties of his office * (primary law the candidates for the * And in the campaign priorto his election to the office of # | Humerour office are multiplied @ prosecuting attorney, Mr. Miller had made the sanie promises ® and there are a number of Repab % to the people of King county that he is making today to the # /}lean aspirants for county offices i people of the city of Seattle. #& |tbat are asking the right of the = in there any a nee that he will keep the promises he @ Miller organization to enter into * is making pow—that he will not break these promises as he # combinations and pledge the sup ® did then’ # (port of Miller to any particular « # | faction in the fall election . Cee | =| KNOCK-OUT BLOW | MAY BE FATAL (By United Press.) LONG BEACH, Cal, Feb. Al. Cooper, « young machinist knocked out by “Jimmy” Davis in the fourth roand of a boxing con test at the San Pedro Athletic etub is to & serious condi OFF nl |& week ago | ton from concussion of the brain, | ment It was Cooper's firet fight. He wae Agnew Displays Coolness. |neVerely punished, but apparently| Since his action of several days | recovered from the knockout’ Two ago, in giving instructions to the days later, however, he went to bed |employes of the county auditor's and his condition has grown stead- | office to work for Miller failed to ily worse. bring the desired resulta, Mr. Ag new has displayed considerable coldness in regard to the municipal campaign The Agnew campaign allied with the candidacy of E. Brier for county anditor, and, as both men have always been ma- |chine politicians in the past, they jare naturally very anxious to se- cure @ place in an organization | ‘that is already framed for the fall j | Seaorer Brier has been given to | | WINS | ‘The Fight Lasted Only "One Minute and Eighteen Seconds. Roosevelt to Attend the National Convention to Work for Taft. (By United Press.) Cal. | WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—In #reMt | certain circumstances President tented arena, Stanley Ketchel 40d | Roosevelt will disregard all prece Mike (Twin) Sullivan, the dald-| sent and attend the Chicago con- headed kid from Boston, met thi* | vention The motives that may | afternoon to decide to whom shall |ewuse him to do this are a Jestre| While the prosent. political fight fall the honor of meeting the ¥I0 | 15 prevent any enthusiastic dele-| seems waged solely on the mayo~ |ner of the Kelly-Papke fight for | gates from starting a stampede In the middleweight championship of | his favor, and to see thet the na |alty candidate, tional committee treat the Taft con hot fights on in the various wards } egotion from a number " | The usual holiday crowd of fight pre Pong ro eng Roosevelt. fears | for councilmen. In the Eighth ward | nominee on the | fans turned out, and when the pre | that if the balance of power In the J. M. Sparkman. liminary started the arena was com | convention is tied up in states hay | democratic ticket, is putting up a | BULLETIN — Stanley Ketchel | after one minute and 18 seconds of / fighting thie afternoon. _ Contest for Councilman in the Eighth Ward Is Bitter Controversy. | RINGSIDE, Ocean View, | Feb. 22.—In Jim Coffroth’s there are several elegations the na | 1: riably filled ing contesting de hard contest for counc ~ si : etath the | onal committee might throw the ‘ stile nepali : 6 pug penegner yes |nomination to some other candi- | honors pp . Fee | morning odds on the outcome of | date jing that he fs a man of excclient \the main event remained unchanged when the gates opened, Ketchel be- | }ing # hot 1 to 2 favorite om the | yesult, and even money was wag: | vered that he would not win inside jof 20 rounds The betting, however, was rather iiight, and the majority of those |who risked their coin took the 20 <i proposition "tthe weights of the men at official weighing in thie } was 148 for MONOPOLISTIC ed TTT re errr ey morning |* * * * to Sulttvan, Ketchel * fBe astonishment of bis trainers|* SHOP SATTERLEE DEAD. and manager, sealing @ fraction | * over 160. * (By United Press.) In the dressing room, just before) # WASHINGTON, Feb. | being called into the ring, Ketchel|# The Rt. Henry Y. Satterlee received a telegram from his moth- | Protestant Episcopal bishop er, wishing him success, The mes-|# of Washington died early this | sage brought tears to the husky | # morning from grippe. | fighter's eyes. \* The preliminary between York|&e# ee eee eee eee eee Truscott, of Australia, and “Young Choyn * of San Francisco, was) started at 1:50, The was called a draw in the tenth round Ketchel and Sullivan entered the | ting a few minutes after the pre (By United Press.) CHICAGO, Feb, 22.—Gov. Chas. W Hughes, of New York, delivering a Washington's birthday address fore the Union League club today urged a settled governmental policy as the only means of restoring co the commercial worl’ He said the federal and state law | should be as definite as it ts px * * * * . * * i * * * * * YELL FOR BRYAN (By United Pres liminary was over The betting SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 22 j sible to make them. uncha: i Give us Bryan” was the cry of The enforcement of just laws Behiud Sullivan were his brother, | nearly all out of town members at 2®8 No terrors for those engaged Jack, Terry Mustain, Doc Jeffries |the democratic state contral com- |! legitimate business,” continued and Billy Burke mittee which met here this after.|@overnor Hughes, He declared that it has found Inadvisable to attempt to get @ precise definition of fraud, but Ketchel's seconds were Maurice | Thompson, Joe Leroy, Kid Lafay ette and Tommy O'Conner noon to fix the place of the next state convention. Opposed to them Was MoNab's faction, not so Jack Twin Sullivan challenges | ctrong on its avowed intention of | be added that it is possible and ad Young Ketchel, providing Ketchel | Supporting the Nebraskan, Repre-|Visable to be more explicit beats Mike Twin. for the middle-|Sentatives of the “Iroquois” club| “The way to get rid of abuses is g.| to attack them directly,” he said welght championship of the world “I believe that the most efficac | were on hand to make vigorous e and a side bet of any amount up forts to control the apportionment) to $5,000. It in understood that | of delegates means is definition, proseription Jack would want to weigh 158 and adequate punishment of the of pounds. ORGAN RECITAL. |fenders. Fines imposed upon cor Round one—Mike never landed a porations, ticularly upon those blow. Ketchel planted a’ series of | Dr. Frank Wilbur Chace will give | with monopolistic powers, are just Blows on the jaw and dropped Mike | an organ recital at the First Pres-| from no point of view. Punishment finally with a vicious right rip to) byt an chureh tomorrow after-|{s most salutary when visited upon the body. The rownd lasted one | noon at 4 o'clock, Alvin Gillett, the | guilty Individuals, Few men can minute and 18 seconds. ‘popular baritone, will assist ibe hired to go to jail, and if the WEATHER SUNDAY FAIR; SOUTHEAST BREEZE GODDARD'S FRIE BECOME INDIGNANT understand that the attitude of tbe | SPARKMAN WINNING FIGHT ©\ been most conservative. been | FAIR TONIGHT; WARM NDS ’ © Tacensed at Action of Miller Supporters in Combining With Heifner in Return for Attacks Upon Mayor final action that is taken on the heriff's office Original Miller Man P. J. Smith elaims to have listinetion of being the origh ter of the candidacy of John 1 lier for mayor, and it is @ we wo fact that Mr. Smith kept up @ ousy line of march be- ween Issaquah and Seattle for sev eral months. He was in Sea’ almost continuously during the pri- mary ¢lection campaign, but fol- Jowing the action of the Miller or ganization in placing bis name on the Mackintosh-Vanderveer-Conover slate, he has been taking a rest until the last few da when the rumor that Agnew was after the Mi endorsement reached Ini quah. When Smith ceived wor that his fences were in danger he was not long in reaching Seattle, and has been keeping a close guard on the slate since. Goddard's Friends Sore. The friends of A. J. Goddard, who is slat@ ax the victim of the combination between the Miller organization and Heifner, very nat- urally do not fee) friendly to the Miller slate, and are causing eon- siderable trouble. This part of the deal was framed as the under- ground section of the municipal campaign, and Heifher was given to understand that the work in bis behalf would be done by the “inner circle” of the Miller organization, headed by Prosecnting Attorney Mackintosh. So successful was this work handled that numerous republicans, having no open com- nection with the Miller campaign, are industriously soliciting sup- port for Mr, Heifner for council man-at-large. Heifner Does His Share. That Heifner is fulfilling bis. part of the compact is shown by the democratic campaign speeches, filled with abuse of Mayor Moore and with hardly a mention of James B. Metcalfe, who heads the democratic ticket The Metealfe candidacy during the past few days has become so lapparent as merely a sideshow to |the Miller campaign that it ts pitt | ful. With even the brewery inter- ests, which induced him to enter the race, working for the election of Miller, Metealfe is beginning to realize that be is being used as a club to hammer Moore, and the politicians who framed the scheme are having a hard time keeping {him in line to carry out the farce. MAKING A ability and possessi knowledge of the of the ward, yesterday started a great hue and cry that he was op) | to a sewerage system for the Eighth ward, which is Queen Anne hill. | Mr. Sparkman denied today that jhe was opposing anything that | would improve the Eighth ward. | He branded the sewer question re- | port. as a falsehood. | Mr. Sparkman has been honored by being summoned to Olympia to |testify before the state railroad | commission regarding values of rail- terminals in Seattle, Mr. thorouga | road | Sparkman is one of the best posted men in Seattle on real estate, hay- |ing for years been actively engaged in this line, and at all times has His opin- \ fons were eagerly sought for by he | raliroad commission. HUGHES URGES PROBE OF POWERS Makes Address Appealing for a Settled Government Policy as the Only Means of Restoring Confidence. [offenses which the public recog- nixes to be of a grave character are punished by Imprisonment the law will most likely be obeyed.” Hughes declared that, while the sists on a pure administra- tion, deserved contempt must be visited upon those who profit by indiscriminate detraction of men in public life. He said that the pub- service is far more wholesome than many people think Special interests must keep thetr hands off of the city, state jand federal governments,” he de- clared “The common welfare must be the supreme law of the }land. The lobbies that have been maintained in legislative halls have | been the causes of mistrust of gov- Jernment and furnish the most serl- Jous pretext for assaults on our tn- |stitutions. There is a slowing | down of the wheels of industry and jenterprise waits impatiently amid jthe uncertainty of hesitation: It ts absolutely essential that we should |have a tonie of wholesc confi- Idence, inspired by the visions of the forces of right and just appre- ciation of our material and moral strength.” hie