The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 24, 1908, Page 1

LAST EDITIO N | voL NO 10. Dunning, of Maryville, Assaulted and Robbed on Front by Young Man; Suspect Arrested by Corbett. streaming abeok, inflicted og sharp instrun of a holdup mar The young men stuck to Dunn ing, who treated them to supper, and accompanied him to the dock. Shortly before time for his beat to eave, Dunning says the young men jett, but in doing so, signaled ® third man, who got Into conversa tion with Danning Your boat wan't leave from thie dock tonight,” said the young man. it will leave from a dock down the street a little way Donning accompanied his in formant toward the next dock and , while passing a dark place in the street, the young man struck Dunn. ing, knocking him senseless. When Denning came to, bis money was gone Dunning’s glasses and ticket Port Angeles were found on apot where, he said, oceurred, proving the of his story C. Pfodenhaver, a plasterer, 22 years old, Was arrested at 11 @ m./ today by Detective Corbett as a suspect and will be held to await first, and, deing cus further information as to the iden During kept tah hold tity of the feotpade who conmmit- containing $32. | ted the Gene. hy to| the | the holdup | correctness | he sight were jolned in the sight feother young wan, a to ae ng Campuign Caneel by Conaes of a Pi o Bing Aba Sale to Gy at price, until a few months ago they were asking $250,000. This adver Using campaign has saeceeded in interesting a sumber of clubs, com- mercial and etvie organizations and other bedies in the project to pur-/ chase the park, and resdiutions| passed and committees appointed by these bodies are now boing used to impress pen the park board the necessity of purchasing the prop erty at the valuation placed upon it by ite owners While Ravenna park would be an attractive addition to the city's) parking system, ft Is of compare tively little value for any other purpose. It Hes In the bottom and | extends up the precipitous sides of & deep and narrow canyon, there being Mtthe or se portion of it) which would be eultable for plat | ting. If platted 1t would have to be sold at comparatively low prices and would attract a cheap class of houses which would render the district a detriment to adjacent up land property The chief value of the property even for parking purposes, ties in its vegetation. This is not differ | ent from the wiki vegetation for-| the whole of the +eity, but It is one of the very few! pieces of natural forest near the eity which has been partially pre served. A number of big trees are atill Intact, and these are the chief slory of the rrperty pablic sentiment, am advertising § cam Dan been carried on f tem or fifteen years. is to impress upon the very press om mee purchasing for public park and j board yesterday took fm tte determina more than $100,000 ly for which the own are asking $299,000 feetiag throughout the park should be fa Well established. of the ad in owners of the prop “Rare been hy adver of the Importance of ite ity. Mach of t Been done at space and pertemt in special and bat much of it Well arranged fhe subject in cc And social organiza ons have been the newspapers as merly covering Ising camp: Owners asked iy. but as it has Mipon the popular ased that an | i 0, happiness, our being’s end and alm, > Mond, pleasure, ease, content, whate’er thy name a" stil} which prompts the eternal sigh, We bear to and dare to die! ~POPE, ESSAY ON MAN. {MAN IN THE WORLD? 15 MONEY HAPPINESS? IS IDLE NESS HAPPINESS? CAN A MAN BE HAPPY IF HE HAS NE | MARRIED? IF HE NEVER EX |PERIENCED PAIN. OR DISCOM | FORT? What is happiness? Who do you suppose ts the hap- - | pleat man in this city? | Are you the one? LIVES THE HAP. | MAN ON EARTH believe that's tru OF HOLD-UP MAN CIAL PRESSURE IS ‘PLACED ON PARK BOARD | partnership SEATTLE, WASH., | TAKES HER LIFE ° THE SEATTLE STAR TUESDAY, MARCH 24, NCHER VICTIM SEATTLE WOMAN CITY TREASURER’S OFFICE 1908, RARAH RRR ee eee) MO® HH. Wilke Roberts, wife of) About a week ago, upon receipt * the Seattle agent of the American: /éf word from California t« Hing of WHERE IS THE PRINCE? 7 BANK CLEARINGS. # Hawaltan line, attempted sul in| Her unimproved conditio * « 4 drug stdre in Santa Cros, Cal.) Nleholson advised her husband shes . Beattie. yesterday afternoon by drinking |ehe had better be sent to the home err ® Cloarings today... .$1,067,124.7¢ » | Dlebloride of mercury and carbolic jofher parents in Montreal, Canada, | (By United Press.) ® Halances 86,156.44 @ | 80ld, and died at 9 o'clock last Ih the idea of removing her from NEW YORK, Mareh 24.—The * Tacoma. wight, Word of the suickle was) rounding» whieh seen to && | most authentic report bas tt that ® Clearings today...$ 6 *? ived in Seattle last night o's her trouble, To this end) prince de Sagan in today at anh ® Halances * some time past Mr, Hob | MB Roberts wrote to her a few ington, w e he will run over to * Portiand, # ets had been troubled mentally, |@aye ago, telling her of the doctor's the Virginga Hot Springs for @ con @ Clearings ay...% 780,061.00 w Sed It was upon the advice of her; ice and siggerting that she Visit! ference with Anna Gould, her al ® Balances 62,187.00 @ Phyetelans, Dre. L. BR. Dawson and |heP old home. ter Helen and brother Georse * w Donald A. Nicholson, the latter a) s in aihetioten Not only New York, but Wash TRAN Eee eee eee ee HOrVe spectalist, that whe was vent 2 apaere oof conde re ington is mixing in the game of by her husband from this elty toni oe but it was evi | "Sagan, who's de Sagar None State Labor Commissioner HMub-| California, Her ailment partook of nibteligg: whey ine ad agrees as to the latest score in bard has sont out a formal protest an inclination to accuse herself of aoe scam ater receiving it thet | io semi-finals of Anna Gould's se against agencies advertising for | improper conduct, accusations hav puede the attempt ond “international” love mateh, All men In the east to come to Wash-|ing no foundation in fact and born Mr Roberts left this morning for | agree that Madam Anna is leading ington only of @ disordered mind + me ee, but opinions differ as to where the . Agreed stands in the race He been mitively identified ym in half a dozen different cite |from Paris and Montreal to New | fers and Washington _ FOR EMBEZZLEMENT Mrs. Rhoda L. Smith, Formerly Trusted Bookkeeper, Confesses That She Secured Money From (. ML’: Of the $56 convicts at Walla! Walla, 108 are unable to work ow ing 10 diseases of some sort Robert Miller, of Tecoma, a re eret service veteran, is dead, aged &. / a Pettit & Co. on Raised Charged with having embeanied ; between 0 and $1,000 from her employers, Mrs. Khoda L. Smith, | for two years the trusted book + keeper and cashier for C. M. Pettit & Co., real estate dealers, waa ar RATS CAUSE $8,000 FIRE. (By United Press) VICTORIA, March 24.—Ae a re. salt of the ignition of a stock of matches by rats chewing them, fire last night caused damage amousting to $4,000 to a srocery } store ane stock pore TRAINS IN COLLISION rested by Detective Clack today on ® complaint filed against the we / man by Deputy Prosecuting Atter ney Perry The exact amount of the short-) agecannot be known until the! lhook# are experted, but the offf/ cert of the company do not believe) that it wilt fall abort of $3,000, Mrs. Smith, who lives at the) | Goldie apartment house, bas con | fesned to taking the firm's money, in @ letter written to Cassius Pettit jon February 9 of this year, She! jtella how she took ay the tell | tale evidence In the shape of raised cheeks and threw them down the rhage chate. The letter tells ip} detail her temptation and fall and the repentance which she pro- | fomwem, Mra. Smith had charge of the! Twche Passengers Said © © IL BRITTAIN | IS FOUND Be Fatally Injured. (By United Press.) BURGIN, Ky. March 24 passengers are reported have been fatally injured today when a) freight and passenger train on the! Twelve | i ‘Was Kidnaped From Par-| ents Two Years Ago. od with passeugers and freight cars with them. Many of the persons in! the cars were fortunate in escaping years ago from the Bine mountain injury home of his parents, and for whom \the entire country was ransacked re old, kidnapped two Brittain To Exploit Korea. TOKIO, Mareh 24.—The ment bill, establishing an Orte colonization company for the ploitation of Korea, with a capital of 10,000,000 yen, today passed the | houne of representatives govern tad by detectives and police. was re covered by his parents today aa @ result of the information sent them} ‘by J. A. Kippart, a farmer frat Woman Claims That B. R. Van Deusen, With Whom She Lived, Forced Her to Sacrifice Community + Interest in Property, and Married Another Woman. coerced threatened to expose the fact that she was not his legal wife, explain-} ing further that she might be seat to the penitentiary for the offemse Charging that she into signing quit-claim deeds to co was property valued it this way: “I defy! ‘The Star wants to find out. It] $100,000 on the representation that against the laws = yt puts = statement in rane it was worth only $10,000, Lauretta The plaintiff claims to have dis ever been) Sehmid’s up to you, for you to covered that Van Detsen had be n c t fe years , woxious | think about. a. Reed, who says that for come infatuated with a woman who well. drink|" ‘The Star knows that you feel|she has been known as Laurette si ames an Mary McKenale, a What more sure that no Johann Schmid, over}G. Van Deusen, the wife of B. R. tenant, and in support of this she } in Switzerland, with $5 a week, ®| Van Deusen, a wealthy contractor,| explains that Van Deusen and Miss! of land led @ cottage and & home, plenty to eat, plenty to} today filed a complaint in the eu-| McKenzie were married on March Spd $5 « week. The! drink, no work, no wife, no chil pertor court against Van Deusen,| 1%, of this year ide te him }dren, and no object, can be any-| asking that the deeds be set aside. | | Star eee nar ~ where near as happy as ® good| The complaint recites that the Terms of Settlement. id like to know | many thousand people right here in| pyaintiff and defendant met In San! , YOU thin — * an; plain and ¢ neant The terms of settlement are ex p Snont th Seattle Francisco and in 1897 entered Into 4 HAPPIEST What do you think about it? Seip THe have been @ cash pay 1) and promissory notes: Of this amount} plained ment of aggregating $4,500. resulting in their man and wife. ja copartnership, living together as mene Se |In 1898 they are sald to have goue/ tne plaintiff says she was a jto Alaska, returning In &@ f6W) otied to spend almost all the | months to Seattle, where the plain-| |) Cptaining her divorce. {tiff says they lived at 1617 Belle | The Van Deusen family residence | we ee }is at 1617 Bellevue av., but Van Urged Divorce 'Deused is How Bald to be residing Recently, the complaint contiones,| at the Volney hotel, at Eighth ay Van Deuse urged the woman to|and Pike st, Today Mr. Van Dew secure a divorce from her husband mm explained that he bad not yet in California, explaining that th been served with the papers in the comman! interest in the rea case and had nothing to say about held under the alleged partnership | the matter until after he had con amounted to only $10,000, The | sulte itorney property was really worth ten times 7 plaintiff insiets that Van that amount, the woman claims De » promised to marry her after In order to obtain her quit claim) she obtatned a divor and used deeds to this community property, | that promise as a means of gettin the pl {{ says Van Deusen! her to hasten the legal separation. RESTED FRAZIER JURY DISAGREED The j which heard the ev! dence in the case against Jobr jer, charged with assault with mpt to commit murder, as a result of taking several shots at his purtuer, Gus Niquist, was t jday disc d by Judge Yakey in Checks. |the superior court because of their failure to reach an agreement The jury deliberated for 24 hours, and through ite foremar announced that there was no pos begs and commenced the check | sibility of settling upon a verdict rising in Mareb, 19 She would The prosecuting attorney says that take a check for 9 raise it (0 the case will be tried a second 7.50, and tm like manner raired Ume & check for $647 to $255.47. Bhe - \ted charge of the firm's cash and SOLDIER ESCAPES Yank books and found it easy to! Manipulate the stubs and receipts J. B. Claxton escaped from 86 that the shortage was not din | cuard house at Fort Lawton yes C@vered until some Ume after she terday and efforta are being made beet teft the employ of the com. to arrest him, The Ballard potice pany Were notified to look for him, a» it in Bupponed that he went toward Rallard From about the middie of last Tecomber to the middie of January | ob thie year, Mrs, Smith operated the Pern restaurant at 815 Third #% and ty eaid to have abandoned | thie place, leaving several hundred doliars in bills unpaid. A person claims to have knowledge of tiie venture says the woman spent ableart $600 in operating the ree taupent and when she had collected ev@ra) thousand dollars from the Tecetpts, failed to return, leaving jthe salaries sad ‘many open ac }oduats unpaid. The woman's hue beryl te 0 a+ neclote ll in this city Guards Thrown Around (By United Press.) SAN FRANCISCO, March 24 Aronsed by the revelations follow ling the attempted assassination of 1D. W. Stevens, adviser to the Ko rean council of state, the Japanese Mpreball Junction, Wash, who be-| of this city are greatly excited and lieved she saw the lad several days are taking every precaution te pre vent further attempts on the part }aifo in the company of a man and | Sf ine Korean patriots to carry out Clneianat! Southern ratire met a head-on collision “ae per he ar i Bnd jeder sean get lle gh» iy SNe Acme "rhe: police searched and found ble for the virtual bondage of their terrific force and both w | (By United Press.) he bey, but the kidnappers ew sative laud and the death of their ished. They rolled down « mae = ped» Kippart will claim the) Throughout the night the Jap embankment, carrying coache SPOKANE, March 24~-Ceslll ids stewed for the child's re sul's residence was closely and when his office was this morning a guard wes at the door. Leading Japan merchants are taking similar wre. The boy 4eils a confused story place ese Of his travels during the last two | steps to insure thelr safety oars. In the Korean quarter the shoot ba ing of St * has started a wave ‘Argentina exported last year! of inte eateries and the lead 198,222 tons of frozen beet ‘The Simpion tunnel Ad we for length neiepeite le ie * | STORM WARNING GIVEN. * | SARAH RRR i* Bonthwent. storm warnings displayed by the weather * A storm of decided ‘ character was raging over ® Vancouver island this morn {* ing, moving east, causing high | ® southwest winds over Seattle ee ee ed hadi dhnchndiasdan dada VICTIM OF FALL IDENTIFIED | The body of the man who Sun day night fell through the high Mdewalk in the restricted district ; } and was killed was yesterday iden tified as Joseph Keldrow, a cigar employed factory at the Hillman Mike City | maker, in = POSTOFFICE IS ROBBED | | (By United Press.) }. ABBRDEEN, Wash, March 24 Rurgiars broke into the postoffice last might and obtained $300 in cash and $300 in stamps, and took ja number of registered | They were frightened they were able to br into the jstromg box containing $1,000 in gold. Prevent Assassination by Koreans. mu BRYA HEY, JOHN, WHO'S FURNISHING THE GASOLIN CONTRACTOR IS CHARGED WITH BETRAYING TRUST ONE CENT THE WEATHER—RAIN TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY; FREGH SOUTH GALE BADLY DEMORALIZED Experienced Employes, Uncertain as to the Retention ' of Their Jobs, Lose Interest in Their Work---New Men Are Inexperienced. On account of the combination of {filled by new men, some P ih’ -meneatiors © of /entirely inexperienced in 2 tbecgertee sags office, | ne of the office © 4 were either indiffere the discipline he office appe and some of them have ret Prosser, th in office le ¢ in their efforts to master the tt ‘ ac to his | routine of the office pe cha collection department a new beequent experiences charac also reported. These 4 shorteomi on the part of new men have become the subject for , ome criticism on the part of the older men, eritielam which is nat ura sented, much to the detrt ment of the efflelency of the force. Walkout Threatened When word was passed around last arday that nine men would be let owt on April 1, there was am inciple alkout threaten y all ome he most/the old members of the force, and embers of the force,| peace was restored among them . remain under a con-| with diffieulty by Councilman Saw- ' ing uncertainty, hand-|yer. Ye day Mr. Prosser poured ignations at once.|more ofl on the troubled flames of * ¢ indifferent, m discontent by announcing that the pained at their desks, pe had been let out for ing such routine work as came to or becauke they were them stherwise letting matters | political hangereon mere and drift then he proceeded to fill the vacant Mr. Prosser assumed the office! places with politieal hangers-on of ane the members the force | his own selection. hat they would all be ded an! Naturally the men who are nott- portunit at their fled that they will be let out are ¥o whe were | not exerting themselves to get ald mad He followed this a day orlof the work of the office dove thie two later by maki eral | week; those who do not know when “a ‘ force, a in on|their turn will come are similarly Saturday by informing s« oth- | Indifferent, and the new appointees er member the force they are in some cases inexpertenced, would be dropped at the er { the and in others feel too confident of month their 5 for political reasons to in the main these places were jexert them neeives. === FRISCO JAPANESE IN | FEAR OF THEIR LIVES tions Insofar as the safety of his Prominent Merchants fo countrymen in this city and the putting down of the conspiracy ip this city are concerned It was stated at the St. Francis hotel this morning that Stevens is doing as well as could be expected. | The wounded accomplice, Chun, is not doing so well and little bope is held out for his recovery ers of the antiJapanese mover while indulging in mo intemperate talk, do not hesitate to e thelr Valuable Papers Wanted. unqualified approval to the crime) 1% developed today that the as of Monday sassins sought more than the life of Stevens when they shot him down. The possession of certain important papers Stevens was sup- posed to have had with him, is now said to have been as great a Revolution Apparent. That further arrests will be made practically a foregone conclusion, but the police are giving out no in formation on this point. It 48) motive as the desire for revenge. known, however, that the agents When Stevens fell in front of the of the Japanese consul have gath. Ferry building, after Chang had i a great mass of data con fired two bullets into him, av at- ing the revolut tempt was made by a cc anion and much of it is at lisposal of the assassins, during the excite: of the police. How far the ramifi-| ment following the shooting, to se cations of the plot to exterminate cure possession of Stevens’ port- the Japanese go ix not known, but nteau, but Japanese Consal that they sufficient to cause | Koike, who was with Stevens, frus- the greate t apprehension is not trated this part of the plot denied Japanese Coneul Koike sent ad LONDON, March 24.—The Duke ditional reports to Ambassador of Devonshire died today of heart He was in Cannes, time he was stricken failure. at the Takahira today and expects in re ply instructions as to bis futuré ac