The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 10, 1908, Page 1

ORDERED Uokitowo Man Stabs. Woman to Death and Escapes. es Search All Night for Murderous | Fiend. | | {By United Press.) HAM, wash, June 10.) Rufus Wilson has gone Haynie near Blaine, in seareh 2 man said to anewer the de given of the assailant of | W. Morrison, murdered at! B.C. Residents of telephoned this morning gan thought to be the mur- | grt had been seen going through ,and that it was thought had been located. | both on the American! sides are wildly ex the crime. Armed posses ing every foot of the woods | around Mazeimere, and it that a lynching will re) tthe murderer is caught. (By United Presa.) Wash, June 10-—- wearched all night for the man who late yesterday) stabbed Mra. T. Morrison Several men are under ing to be identified, but men is still believed to mo was walking with Mit daughtes to Hanet C.. yesterdaf afternoon was accosted by & man red if a team had passed Morrison replied ¢ knowledge there had team passing, and before id sey anything further, the bis coat over her head, huge dirk knife, jag the woman @iri ran down the road and finally reached a . She told what had the plant was closed yo men started to search | wer. where the crime was was a pool of blood. The ‘the dead woman was found in the brush. went south and Grose the old Mag- slong the line of an ditch. The woods Magwridge farm and | aod Blaine is very teace of the man was) deny is out in the vicinity of wed all the roads and tracks | age. The dauxhter waa) exoept that be was! Pwore dark clothing. betog | feet § inches tn height. Mra. | leaves a family of seven and a busband. OTECT areas i Ee. Humphrey, some Sbmarine torpedo boats au-| Medoby the last congress for ‘ system of Puget WI in ail probability be Seattle to authorizing eight! torpedo bonts of the lat-| congress ap | for the! if of the coast artillery | 98 the sound and for more t % We protection Pi Me forts will receive new | BME ia addition to having the pres- femounted. The new guns We larger than those at the at present 3S be thoroughly planter boat, the sound that it will en the cond there ‘Making a - Pia - I an expendi Puget sound etl: was a women of 5¢) give any description of! | | member of a family of millionaires, LAST ~~. T* EDITION WASHINGTON BUD iS MARRIED TODAY IN A DIRECTOIRE GOWN 1908 by Harris oe a ght and Ewing « MISS JULIETTE WILLIAMS, Who Today Married Jos. Leiter in Washington, D. C. (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, June 16.—The @irectoire gown made ite first ap pearance at the altar today Miss Juliette Williams, daughter of Col. and Mra. John R. Wiitians, was married to Jos. Letter, the Chi cago ulilionaire, at one of the mont fashionable wedding remonles ever held in the national ¢ The bride's gown, which att so much attention and soon came the topte of conversation in society circles all over the city war made of heavy white satin In a modified directotre mode, and te the creation of a Washington modiste Colonet Williams ts one of the wealthiest men in the United States army and his daughter ts one of the moet popular members of Washington's younger social set Mrs. Leiter presented her son with the Letter mansion ta Dapont circle, ail ite works of art and other furnishings together with the Letter silver, china and jewels, and he transferred them all today after the wedding ae a gift to bia bride. Miss Wilitames t# a tall, blond bed of the last debutante season, 20 years old. graduate of a George town convent and one of the moat popular young society women in Washington. The engagement follows closely on @ laughable bowear romance. With several friends the couple when _ TS DEAD | Milli P, * Balances 50,906 00 } Away * Portland. as Result of an Operation. (By United Press.) HEMPSTEAD, L. L, June 10-—) Oliver H. P. Belmont died of ap pendicitis and peritonitis at his country home here at 6:40 o'clock this morning. Hope for his recov ery was abandoned last night and the family remained ot the bedside) until} the end. ] 0. H. P. Belmont was & prominent | | had wide financial interests and was one of the leading financiers of New | York. He gave much time to sport, was the owner of fine horses and the patron of clubs and parks, both in this country and abroad, where | outdoor games are played. He was stricken suddenly with an acute de- | velopment of the disense, which is} supposed to have been of long stand. | ing, and was operated on a week ago. The funeral service will be heia| Saturday at the Church of the In-| carnation at Garden City. Bishop faps have al-| Burgish will officiate Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont was the youngest son of the late August Belmont, the famous banker, He was born in 1868. His first wife, who was Sarah Swan Whiting, dt vorced him and then married George L. Rives. Ov January 11, 1896, Helmont married Mra, Alva Smith Vanderbilt, who in 1895 had obtained a divorce from William K. | Vanderbilt, sr. Mr. Belmont was n of 1901-3 and was a dele gate-at-large to the democratic na | | started recently, Tele on an auto trip, They wot stuck in the avud. granis for a special train brought an evgine and a boxcar, The party piled tuto the latter and arrived at & o'clock the next morning at Richmond Va. The unusual sight of fashionable dressed people alighting from a bexear at that early hour caused great merriment in Richmond and made the report ers get besy Leiter bas spent the winter with his mother, Mra, Levi Z Leiter, at her home on Dupont cirete. Mine Williams has been a social SEATTLE, WASH,, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1908. THE SEATTLE STA PRICE ONE CENT THE WEATHER FAIR TONIGHT AND THURSDAY; LIGHT End WEBT WINDS FLEE FROMG. N. LINEELOPEMENT GRANT MAY JUMPED TO RISIN WATE Forced to Fly to High Ground. Thousands Are Homeless Today—Dykes Break, i | | | river has (By United Press.) KANSAS CITY, Mo, June 10~ The worst flood conditions «nce the memorable inundation of 1963 prevail here today The Kaw flooded weat bot the | tauns and people living in that por- } tion of the city were compelled to for their Hives. | The et excitement Yails and the waters are atili rie ling. All night long « patrol guard ed the temporary dykes that had | been thrown up to meet the hich } water. It was thought that if the | levees could be madé to hold back the water until today the threaten | ed part of the city would be saved. | Just at daybreak, however, the iw iter gained the upper hand and Degan pouring in through a great |gap tm the dykes that the patrok [men were unable to repair, The | Sore wax «iven and people fed ith all the goods that ¢ could | Ret together to the higher portions fof the city. Thousands are home lous today and there ie little prow peet of the waters The bog ya: of the An goteg down, ar plant are under water, and hundreds of animals were drowned The Missouri river also ie etttl rising and a great foree of men f at work on the dykes to prevent a flood from that source. ayecesa from the time of her Intro | duction into society clear complexion and distinctive Her beautiful, | manner of dress have caused much | comment. Mrs Leiter ts said to be very well pleased with the wedding of her son to an American girl. hters have married Rnatieh } Lord Carson. the earl and Capt the English army. hk le bell of said that the mother was so anxious | that her son marry an Ameriean | airl that she offered at the time of his supposed Katherine Elkins to give her fa- mous rubles and her home here as an inducement to the project The couple will spend the honey moon at Mra. Leiter's home at Man- chester-by-thefiea and later abroad, where th wit be guests of Leiter's married sisters. ES EER 1900. His tional convention In brothers, August and Perry Bel- mont, are in Europe. William K. Vanderbilt, jr, his stepson, was at hin bedaide when he died Tere Tere r ee ees * BANK CLEARINGS. tle. $1,244,262 69 345,420.59 Clearings today Balances Tacoma. Clearings today .4 seeeeee 676,901.00 & Clearings today 984,582.00 ® Balances 129,116.00 CO ead TRYING TO SAVE BILLEK, . * * . * * . * . * ° s * * . (By United Press.) CHICAGO, June 10.—Counsel for Herman Hillek, the condemned murderer of the Vraal family who ig sentenced to be hanged Friday today applied to Judge K. M. Landis of the United. States district court for a writ of habeas corpus, The application for the writ is an ef fort to take the case away from ; the county authorities, It is based on the alleged fact that the sen tencing of the murderer was to forma], because the judge neglected to ask Billek if he had anything to say BURGLAR MAKES A BIG HAUL (By United Press.) SAN DINGO, Cal, June 10.—The police and dethetive force are con ducting a vain search today for a clue to the daring daylight robber who broke into the home of R Fenton, eity recorder of Coronado, late yesterday, and secured jewelry valued at $5,000, besides a sum of money sald to be $2,000. There were 14 pleces in the list of gems taken, including a necklace of rare pearla and another of topaz. They were heirlooms of great age brought from England by the Fentons, the head of the family b London merchant Her three | Cotte Camp-| infatuation for) dl | the | g 4 rettred | mond tiara, an import | New Zealand Parliament to Adjourn to Welcome Warships. (By United Press.) AUCKLAND, N. Z, June 10— Official announcement has been made that the New Zealand pariia- ment will adjourn during the fea tivities here when the American battleship fleet arrives. The fee tivities will oecupy the time be tween Auguat 10 and August 14. Parliament has voted $40,000 for the entertainment that will be given the officers and men. The program for the festivities inciudes a dinner to the officers, a review of the volunteers and the presentation of souvenire to the en | Hated men. The mayors of the dif- ferent cities will give a reception to the officers on August 11 Two days are to be spent at Ro terua, where a carnival will be held. Travel op all the railroads will be free. A state ball on August 14 will conclude the festivities The British warships will be here ships to Sydney. LOVE IN A FLAT FOR RUBY GILMAN (By United Press.) SAN FRANCISCO, June 10— “Love in a fat” ta good enough for pretty little Raby Gilman, sister of Mabelle, the wife of multimuillin aire Wm. Elite Corey, president of the ateel trust 1 not marrying for marble palaces In France or mansions on Fifth av.,” she said today, as she started for San Rafael to become the bride of Charles Hagerdon, a spleler at the Chutes, an amuse- ment park, Ruby has been em- ployed as a cashier at the Chutes, and It is said that her wedding to day is the result of a true love match Invitations were distributed this morning among all the employes of the Chutes, inviting them to a re ception which will be held this vening at a little flat where the py Hagerdons,” as they are called by their friends, will reside. Ruby sald she did not expect to receive a wedding present from her sister Mabel when it was sug gested that she might send a dia i touring car or some other little trifle. | Kansas City People Are. IS OPEN TODAY Through Trains Running Once More Between Seattle and East. pre! and will escort the American war | i4¢ Northern Pacific Tied Up and Time of Resump- tion Doubtful. | ‘The first Great Northern train | from 8t Paul to arrive in Beattle mace Inst Thursday will be in to morreW morning. Claude Meldrum, efty passenger Agent, reeetved 4 wire from Asniat tent Ganeral Bapt, Brown, at 11 e'cloek this morning, saying that the Ine was clear J all trains were ing. 1 belated Great pa left Helton, Mont., rl the break ocourred, at 11 YeloeR, they will arrive in Seattle just about 24 hours later Great Northern passenger, No. ot, WH leave tonight at 9:30 for the east and for the first time dur tag the Week through Uckets are being: bold. There was a rush to am this moroing and it is that several additional will be put on. © Equipment te Short. ie is a shortage of Tweet of the brenk In the and the officials fear the Bot be enough tourist sleepe Northern : equip. ' * ‘ to equal the demand. There Blenty of Pullmans available are stalled enst of lon and a great quantity of bound mail i being held tudre.. Many people in Seattle, who ‘afe wondering why they do not get mall from friends tn the east, may have letters tn the blockaded Most of the mail should be Seattic by tomorrow night ws O MeMullen, city passen oor t of the Northern Pacific. rte today that he expected no through trains until next Monday “According to advices received this morning.” said Mr. MoMatlen, “the N. P line is not likely to be oe before that time. Our news the Moods ts only fragmentary, and pope of the officials at this <n4 know the extent of the dam it f* known that the Northern Pacific tracks are flooded for a Jong distance and that no trains can come through anti! the water wubsides, it will then be neces sary © repair the damage done by the ‘water. Just how long it will take for the water to go down and give the repair crews a chance to get to work, nobody knows. The worst floods in the Great Northern lino were at Belton, Mout The waters of the Flathead river overran the tracks and washed away the ballast and gravel in fote places. No bridges were de strayed, however. As soon as the water receded, the Great Northern IN HIGH ei “CREATE BREACH Daughter of Governor of Building Commissioner Ig- Utah Skips Out and Weds. | nores Request of Civil Service Board. Irate Papa Catches Up Body May Hold Trial in But “Nothing Doing,” Spite of Autocratic Says Girl. Official. (By United Press.) brewing between! SALT LAKE, June 10,—An exeit-|! ant ine yesh ogen ing scene was enacted this morn- |; agg ing when Gov. John C. Cutler, of oard is nettied by the fail Utah, after an all-night search with | "re of Grant to file a report re his son, came upon his daughter usted on the charge made by 4 armad « hat Ase ant ath Mabel and her delivery wagon driv-|jng Inspector J. C. Carroll refused er husband at @ mountain resort | to admit invited guests to the roof eight miles up the canyon from of the New Washington hotel to llewtta view the naval parade, May 25. . |. The commissioners have asked Gov. Cutler demanded that bi8 Corporation Counsel Calhoun if daughter leave her busband at once have the legal right to go and return with him to Balt Lake, with the tovestigation irre but the girl refused. The ehie : ve of ap action taken by ecutive and T. E. Butler, the hus heheheh band of his daughter, almost came! The commissioners are not on to blows In the argument record as insisting upon a trial, b Mabel eloped from Salt Lake with they ask in specific terme if t Butler and the pair were married by | city ants the board pe prearrangement at Ogden, Gov. Cut! misgio 1 nd ler had refused to give his consent | detern: : ti to his daughter's marriage to But ue ler, and the girl stole from the ex | oo hearing ecutive mansion At Onsen, the Following the charges by Mar couple met George D. Fol &| maduke, Carroll was released by Janitor at the county court house,| yr Grant, who later explained that who ts aleo a Mormon elder a it was only fc jaye. Mr. Grant authorized to perform the marriage | exhibited # to go ahead with Ceremony, He went with him into regular hearing #o the board the court house and they were mar-| of ctyil service commissioners un ried in a few minutes: Ogden people who k salen Cue | Sree den people who knew Miss Cut ler spread the news and the gover Asked Grant to Report. nor was in pursuit of his daughter| In the meantime the board had within a few hours. Together with| Mr. Marmaduke's official charges his son he took the midnight train oD f d they asked Supt. Grant from Salt Lake and learned at Og-| to investigate and report. This bas den that his daughter and her hus 80t been done, so far as official hand had left for the mountains correspondence shows. Instead, Mr After searching ai! night through Grant has the board that the various resorts pear Ogden,|there was a mistake He says be Gov. Cutler came upon Mabel and ! m the firet simply to her husband at daybreak near Idie- |! Carroll off without pay for ten wild, Mabel ia 26 years old and says 48y*, and demand an apolory. This that she loves Butler and will not he considers ample punishment leave him. She would rather lve Judging from the tenor of this jin a humble cottage with ber de-| letter that Supt. Grant bad no fur ther report to make on the matter, the board wrote the corporation counee! asking definite information livery wagon driver husband than in the executive mansion as the first young iady of the state, si! ways. as to how far they were empowered / to go ahead with the hearing 1 None of the members of the board expressed any desire today | to discuss the case, Their letter, ho , is now @ part of the offi | jclal files in the ca | between the board and Supt leeems to be growing wider each | hour. | Board Has Power. While his reply had not been received by Secretary Grout up to ja late hour today, Corporation Counsel Calhoun said he bad an swered the letter of inquiry, assur ling the board that it had ample power to go ahead with the trial ‘Heroic Work of a Mine : . } Rag hunireds of men and veverni| Boss im Putting Out 55" Galiomtst that a the pecene. }board can do under the circum hei eme Gamnme was repaired \stances is to hold a bearing and lwith tmeredible swiftness. Closed Seven Days. The mst Great Northern train t St Paul got through Inst The first one to come through will be tomorrow. The main ne was blocked for just Northern Pacific tracks are flooded in a comparatively fat eooutry, and for that reason it will take Jonger for the water to sub wide. Wt is rumored that several beidied were washed away As Boon as the water goes down the Northern Pacific engineers will crews of men to work to repair the damage. The exact date that the line will open depends uped when the waters go down andthe extent of the damage Efeh the engineers on the scene wot know yet the full extent of the ravages of the foods. Frank Steensma, a teamster, was sentenced to serve 30 days on the chain gang this morning by Police Jodge John B. Gordon for beating hie wife while he was drunk Steenema’s wife told the court that her husband beat her every time he became drunk and that she was tired of it FIRE FINALLY EXTINGUISHED Fire, starting about 8:30 o'clock damage to the cloak, sult and mill! Second av | ‘The Iron ignited the wooden table lon which it was left standing in the alteration department Mr. Gerber estimates the damage from smoke, water and fire at about $5,000, although no adjust | ment has yet been made | The stock conalsta entirely of | very inflammable material, and that the damage was not greater ls due to the quick fon of the fire de } partment, last evening from an electric tron frofa which the current had not) been turned off, did considerable nery stock of B. Gerber's store, 1206) Bad Fire. (By United Press.) BUTTE, Mo June 10.—Brave ly entering a blazing powder mag. azine 300 feet below the surface of file a report with the head of the | butiding department, suggesting or lrecommending whatever action the board deemed most suitable. Theo it would be up to Supt. Grant to either carry out the saggestion or |ignore it, if he so desired. the earth, Michael Dunn, foreman @ & ea tt ea eR RR Re of the Lexington copper and silver) & * mine, extinguished the Names just) @ EMPRESS VICTORIA IS * in time to prevent an explosion of @ THROWN FROM HORSE. * 11,250 pounds of dynamite, saved| - * the ves of 200 men and the mine| ® (By United Press.) * |from total destruction. Dunn is|@ POTSDAM, Pruss' June * the here of the camp today * 10.—Her royal highness, the * Dunn was making bis regular! @ Empress Augusta Victoria, fell * round of the workings shortly after @ from her horse while riding in ® midpight today when he smelled|@ the park today, and is report. * emoke. Investigation showed the!) # ed to have been badly injured. * fire to be on the 300-foot level, @ She was taken to her apart. * where the powder magazine Is lo-| @ ts and is confined to her * cated. He rushed to the magazine | @ bed. Her physicians were sum- * and, unaided, fought the flames|@ moned hurriedly. It is not * | which were already gnawing at the|* thought her tife is in danger, * wooden cases In which the dyna | ® * mite was packed Tee eee eee eee eee) There were 25 cases, containing 50 pounds of dynamite each in the} magazine at the time, and an ex-| plosion would have resulted in the | }complete destruction of the entire | nine, Dann broke a water pipe and within a few moments had NMooded the magazine and ali danger was past. Then he continued his round of inspection. The miners did not discover their narraw es cape from death and the herot ~ IN NORTH changed, later ‘}LAKE ATLIN CLAIMS MEN | The fire originated by the cross-| geaRCHING FOR LOST MAIL ing of two electric wires connected | | BAGS. with heaters on the 300-foot level The Lexington is F, Augustus Heinze’s rich property LOSE LIVES Roe tO Re! (By United Pres: * #) SKAGWAY, Alaska, Ju 10. * SWINBURNE WILL # | While searching for mail bags con * SUCCEED DAYTON. # | taining money and valuable paper \* * lost in Atlin lake in the spring of * (By United Press.) # | 1907, John Kirkland, a leading citt * WASHINGTON, June 10.— #| zen of Atlin, and Thomas Fox lost |® Although Admiral Dayton will #]| their lives in the tcy waters of the * not retire as commanding of- *| lake Sunday morning *® ficer of the Pacific fleet until * Kirkland has been searching the * Oct he will give place to #|shore of the lake for a week to ® Admi Swinburne, who has # | find certain papers urgently needed * bee ted to succeed him #/in the courts, Saturday night he * 1, Admiral Swine #/ met Fox prevailed on hin * burne will retire in two years. #|cross the lake from Taku. Th * * j upturned canoe a LOR RR The men are DEATH IN SOUND Teddy Bear Mascot of the Kansas Committed Suicide. Disconsolate Sailors Appeal | to Mayor Miller for | Another Pet. grieving over the ab- Pvidently herce his mates and the new en- vironment which he possibly only partia mderstood, the Teddy Aberdeen citizens pre- sente he battleship Kansas on May sought death by jumping into sea when the ship was in the straits of San Juan de Fuca co May 28, according to advices re ved by Mayor Miller today. That the Ue cub deliberately omm ed sulc all the sailors on ship firmly believe, The tnel- Jent as related by the members of the ew shows that the animal walked slowly to the after deck and ‘ 4d a point from where he eaped Into the ocean Horrified, and hardly appreciat- ng the significance of the act, the allors ga figure of the baby bear w d in the waves, withe to offer help, if such bad been desired. The next ship in line quickly ran down © eab and it was seen ho more, Immediately aner peing taken © ship the bear began to sboard t t qu according to a letter re- reived toda: Mayor Miller from der Peters, chief gunnei on the Kansas, On May 28 sael sailed from Tacoma for San Francisco, When abreast of a oint where the battleship headed p straite the bear lifted its ed for several minutes fast receding shore line. at the Several of the sailors were pet the cub. favorit which had become a and called attention fact that he was taking a siimpse of his native ting to the farewell woods As if having fully determined upon bis course, the young bear bled along the deck to the after t of the ship, planging into the 4 hand could be raised am water before to prevent it Jumps to His Death. | “We were steammog pretty fast and the next ship struck the bear, which was the last we saw of him,” writes Peters. “If 1 had seen him at the time I would have jumped in after him. I have tried to find @ teddy in Frisco, but there does hot seem to be y, and I ask you ip us by sending us another , &8 we are very lonesome without our little bear. We would like. very much to have one, 8 please help us !f you can, | Aboard the Kansas there has been little talked of except the dramatic jend of their cub bear since that time. The sailors cannot be per suaded to believe anything else but that the little cub sought death tn the ocean rather than endure the thoughts of being torn from his cub mates and the woods in which he had played with the other little bears. Mayor Miller was so impressed with the remarkable story of the bear's untimely end that he has communicated with the officials at both Aberdeen and Bellingham, and if another cub can be secured it will be shipped to the crew of the Kansas before the vessel leaves San Francisco. ACTOR'S VALET TESTIFIES Denies That Hitchcock Wronged the Two (By United Press.) | YORK, June 10.—Herman | H. Reupke, a valet employed by | Raymond Hitchcock, the actor who }is on trial for the alleged wrong- ing of two little girls, was on the stand today. He dented that the actor bad attacked Helen or te at the tir that they alle the crime was committed. This testi- mony controverts the story told by NEW the girls on the stand the other day } Reupke Chanier did not visit Neck home 1 the girls were there testified to renting a room n “The house with the. green blinds,” and said that the actor re- mained in the room with the girls min Reupke s behind creen and saw nothing improper he interview A. night clerk at the Flanders entified the register bear ame of the actor on the that he ts allege » have uken the girls to the theatre. Jus tice “Olmet estified that he had known the actor for years and hed for his morality