The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 1, 1908, Page 1

LAGUE : a a were ae et 2 cares? ORE WOMAN TORTURE WO MEN BURIED IN SE SAYS FIREMAN STOLE OFFICERS HIS WIFE FROM HIM Ut tt a Against Mem- aptain iy ean engine house ae, No, 15, The result is, my home has the foregoing, and corroborate the | same by numerous witnesses uses Ben Thomas of (sieca) “Xb “witttans Companions. | Main 4326. 1808% Terry av | - . | “Signed and sworn to before A --—- | | . or ees. le ee 'Savage Demonstration Oc-| 5 * *| ptucueamnaiss } |* BANK CLEARINGS, *| . | ’ ape is > Beautitul W. Is Most, °urs Near Londoe's i* Seattle. * rl oman OST, ° Hieging that Ben Thomas, &/ » Clearings today... $1,534,971.39 # her of the fire department, had \* Balances .@ 5104.30 & ted his wife's affections, and | * Tacoma. bd * Clearings today...$ 624,844.00 © he had been aided and abetted |) a 251.00 & course by superior officers |» Portiand. * he department, A. D. Williams, |» Ciearings today...$ 924,830.00 ® | LONDON, Juty 1—Bleeding from 908% Terry av., yesterday filed |, Balances: . : 75.944,00 *| oe! ign charge reciting the fects | *! the civil service commission. | ed commission immediately rej * ¥ * 9 ¥ ¥¥ ¥ ¥ 4 ¥ 4 ## | , who will hold a hearing in twisted Into the flesh of her neck @ettes made a desperate attempt to! + r future, rescue 28 of their members, who aggrieved husband edhe! and a sheet tied about her mouth | ore arrested last night and were while Thomas was in engine a9 & Gag, the naked body of a wor: | being taken from the court to jail.) No. 15 be carried on his ' an, believed to be Mra E. Themp.| The prisoners were placed In a ing” with Mrs. Williams, | fon, waa found in @ pool of blood BIG Police van in the court yard. Nick Ga the consent and approval of ’ The women outside were waiting ptain in charge. The depart Poday in a room in w local lodg for it to appear, and ae soon es the) #48 crush books show this to have been ang house. Hor feat and arma were| ooo. were flung esen they (@nFth in an William Winningham tightly bound with a rope, hor skull = re oe © 7 about r char fy inwendo the officers in ania! erushed, and bruises on her body o Sette - = aie SBTTION THE SEATTLE STAR VOL. 10 NO. 110 SEATTLE, ASH., WEDNESDAY, JULY 1 THE WEATHER FAIR TONIGHT; THURSDAY FAIR AND » 1908, PRICE ONE CENT COOLER; LIGHT WEST WINDS. INFECTED RAT IS CAUGH THEN MURDERED rr © 1D UNCOUTH ma eX FVERPECT BL = SSSNY TC ee eee PO Mf (“costs heroism oF Fonavian | borer, Crushed to | and there may be & lot of trouble d the charges to Chief Bring card. which’ strangled her tightly |tion, mere then a thousang euttce | « Excavation Thirty | “i ‘ | ikeop his word " gashes cut by the clubs of police Mi W Worki gr ale 5, SRE (By United Press.) men, with disheveled hair and torn en ere ng m an | vice, and the only wey we can ¢ CHICAGO, July 1.-—With the dressers, after a night of demonstra . * jit is ) t ‘ erat eee ee] SUFFRAGETTES IN FIERCE RIOT WITH THE POLICE CAVE-IN; ONE DEAD THE REAL JOYS OF SUMMER > 1, < SAVES THREE LIVES mise that euch would be done y immedia in determining upon a 1 place, and we looked to him ing the ‘dike district remains where tt Beacon Hill People to Make tet shor be moe Second Effort to See .% i be moved excavatt Hi mprovement showed th Women Grow Furious. on ~ ® our the Ma or. in the Beacon bill the fire houses at 33rd av. and| owed that she had been bru: 4p Rod Fifth ave yor. : te an issue of the Dnion st. and Seventh av. and} tally kicked ang beaten by the mur-| The army of furious women, Balt! Through the herotem ay remova restricted district nbla st. are also said to have Serer before Re committed the| insane and wild trom the effects! Meiaman, tunnel foreman, the lives ee during ast municipal cams cognizant of Thomas’ infatu-| fiendish crime. J. H. Raymond,|of the sus enthusiasm if / of three other laborers were and r ‘ed in the prominc for Mrs. Williams. Officials | who rented the room for his “wife,” their ¢ fire headquarters say that / iv being sought by the authorities. demonstration® apd Helnr ined the horses and surrounded) pow cace Detectives this afternoon seen the van Son t . who had / t % Tek siseo ‘ot ‘sara and | Snail ome. » the woman's | upon the wheele and tried to wet os st, was away on his! t od are now positive that| up to the driver's seat, bu ey Gat 7 during the time ed the stranger's victim is of prom-| wore me on beaten back a, © a their clubs ¢ force them above. he ffered reatet against the of their num « dave ber had yagh i rented the room last) they tay he ¥ directly across the street where the murder was committed thei engine house No. 15, During Turned the Office Over £0 discovered the body. it was evident back first of the month of May one the woman had been dead for three | ance Thomas, a relief man in the . . or four departmedt, was stationed at Luke Wright This "asd house No. 16, and began at i» Sa eatment, of the wa the men ne appeared and Bloody Encounter the stax ing my wife's attention by has not been see He ts ; wight of his hand, speaking and Noon. desert as being 1 35 year areat, encounter man ing her at ali times possible rh Of age, tall, good looking, and ay ave Fer beet an of th was on duty at these times : parently prosperous cb yag ABM Galush wit @ 14th of May he met my wife j " oasee - tank Heinmar oye on Bn ay ede tp traded Meelis | Gives Get-Away Excuse 4 today the nman burle sine house No. 15 and were) WASHINGTON, July 1—Wiltiam| When he departed Raym ex-|@iven the opt of signing bond«| 04 on ai for an hour. H. Taft, at noon today, formally Plained to Mra. Berbrogge that he to keep the pe « anging from febene < the 15th of May he met her transferred the office of secretary WOUld return in a few d $20 to $260, of going to prison fori t back of engine house No. | of war to Luke E. Wright. An in-|!andlady had occas visit | terms of from one to three months, | but wh le Was on duty both of these formal reception was held and Taft, the room, for which rent had been |All but one chose the p: ven-| one On the 16th of May he met | acting as master of ceremonies, in 4 in advance until today. Until | tence eferring to pla pgs baal it the corner of Denny way | troduced Secretary Wright to the discovered the tragedy she had | of the " inor av., and together they |officiais and clerks of the depart fed that s wife bad| Five thousand extra © have peared around the corner ment acoompanied been ordered t remen Enjoyed Joke. Secretary Wright raceived many The dead wo about a6) t " n Thomas went around the ™essages of congratulation and a with my wife one of the fire. Umber of bouquets in honor of the murder was committed two ¢ pushed the button in the occasion. ad rings and yma house and the captain, Taft finds himself off the pay) mond rings n and informed the firemen |f0!! for the first time in 22 yeare.| Wore found. The purchase gave Thomas extra time Ouring that period he has held for $360 worth of Jewelry and ty over and mect my wife, 1 tight different appointive offices addresaed | home earlier that day than “@ wae never elected to any ae Chicago,” were «| and found my wife and a office. lother articles discovered } je nan im the flat. I demand His first work was that of court Sensation Promised. | } the | plays. " | For the [forest fire miles north Bame and an explanation, |reporter on the eld Cincinnati) The was Commercial Gazette. Then he be der » authorities be time last lormed me that his n develop homax, and he aiso admitted Came reporter on the Cincinnati volving the nam t when | of them climbed) All the men were working an himeelf had | . of the ¢ that he. would Will Insist Upon Some ‘ve? YF arias ba tact office. it ix expected that th will be Ke attendance o he s| Action Regarding Re- | Xeeuing ‘uext"'Tucetas night, and 30 fe ont hin th was ¢ ® earth he braced iders report back to the club on next eaguing staging and Tuesday’ night thet their efforts | lied to the men below to get ont to ot yth ike a clear dec Hi ng the warning, laratio e met with fatly ar » wafety while t com = Titnot dig staging about #ix feet from the sur a tn view of the report Which it 4 . inence in Hitnots he force of the female mob was face when the cave-in occurred . + tet thought the committee will make primes comviint is = 1 Alter Twenty-Two Years)" iererai ot tas tarsest jofoicy|wo rest that i was sweeping Tee] Shr meee caret teeurtsl | gtrtoted District | tbnast, ine commie wil mane, rms here stated that Mrs, E.| van and horses out of the rondwWay lef the excavation crushing Galvek | Will develop some heated orato ooops gat Maeda i the Service He Dr Thompson of Oak Park, Ilinols,|and probably would have turned|upou the staging abd cntrsine it i aeniiioat «3! ak i= wee Bata desire to call your attention| I OPS nas been a frequent customer andthe wagon over, If the reserves down into the excavation . 1 ad conduct of certain employes | Levy Brothers repor: that the wom- had not arrived m was an « staging be The spec comm! ttee «ey olb fire department of the city} Out of I Sm recently exchanged a diamond One hundred police had been eta on which bh wae by the Beacon Hill Improvement ttle. On April 26, 1908, 1,; ring for a larger stone and p tioned within the t yard in an the oth ¢ work-|club to interview Mayor Miller or my wife and child. | |the difference. ticipation of the attack, The blue Pow deg euenvh-| the Genation of whathor bariien| at d to aceupy a flat at j noe When Mra. Mary Rerbrugge,|coats rushed out and fell upon the| tion, When Helnman deard the ed to carry out bis promise to re 4 Minor av., in the city of Se} landiady of the boarding house | crowd of women, us 2 falling « move the ree ected district, will The members of the mitt ‘ down by the have be it f at th the earth, parted over mayor does not intend te ake any body to the bot-| change in the present location of h it i loses, in the eport 4 in ac rview past 72 hours a flerce h executive have ~" on stonday' he Towns im North of Persia Are in a State of A Second Attempt er Sap ae aed AP emg By United Press the mayor during the last of theo 8T. PETERSBURG, July 1 present week, and unless they are News of the firet decisive battie successful on this occasion in se- of the revolution in Persia reached curing a definite statement from thie city early teday. The city of ; h to his intentions, thelr te-| Tabriz in the north of Persia ins been raging three | oom in the language of the where the rebels had concentrated of Bellevue, on the east) wii’ most likely state that the |thelr fercee for the fight in the ev Fa of Lake Washington. For a that the camp ¢ wiished > |neorth, is in a state of siege and nat there heavy fighting is going on. Over ; mayor has “er ening it was thought |" the Hewitt-Lea Loading their pl why b , . fe a good deal to be considered in 200 have already been killed by had never been introduced | Times, which is now the Times |\inence that th bold thieves car ack#l the beening Po Mae pinger {TOM | thie restricted distriet removal,” |the shah’s troops and the city is He told me the r, owned by his brother. entire country of cement, valued OM Rha Rirod of fre fichtarn pean | eaid @: encer, chairman of the | expected to fall. It is feared that im 30 minutes extra His first appointment to public and the womar acant lot « th beBaaibruction by men pa ar Rgacor mmittee, “but| when the troops of the ruler get m my wife. I orde office came when he was made a® ance of aristocr tween Selby and Herman sts., some vo i wee oh means of backfiring hat the mayor into the city, a general massacre e the flat and have nothing sistant prosecuting attorney of From the appearance of the time Jast night, according to a rel @ number ‘ot houses about tw emove it, and he | will take place. D say to my wife Hamilton county, Ohio, Bimce then the police belleve Raymond made to tt olice by Mra} satiee from the lumte ae # od promise The fichting at Tabriz started the 18th 4: of May, Ben | he has been continually in service jxhiy tortured we oki t Federal av. | thepatened av a wre a great & prom: | last nigh The soldiers of the s Was transferred to en- until today, when he finds himaelf ating her, before he fina acked for wel watch was th : probat ast nises, made | constitutional party had concen pune at 33 Union, temporarily out of a job. ife It is believed he of a building . Pr ne c sign, and we | trated for their big Pi have at t bu iteelf hat * at en «ed nd gagged her, then tor Clark aroset : were a believe that this | tle a Ops. ‘* atfoyed th mbe na tre v ! the b e been col wife where he Poa. eee eee eee ee ee ured he for hour efore « itar ACK TO! tree s lone ae ae « for € uld be | seve a d. On or abe he|* * life out with the d found were at! sate The = -thall 1 low rash | lecti sbriz in preparation my wite ¢ a d\* PINCHOT EN ROUTE HERE. « about her beautif neck ¢ cade, and It! burned tract was sp the p were. the were | for the ng t Reinfor Union engine houre * * of the adjoinir apart eves will not «i € 1 emphatically ad been from the jomas. 1 am informed that! ® (By United Press.) o ay they heard no unasual cumber: | FAIL TO UPHOLD LAW nd she wed out to the © disaffected province im charge and on duty * WASHINGTON a} * in the room ome 1 t of building ma etter Persian, and Russian pne. * nchot, chief of the @ mond must ha terial without detection W. C. Gibbon wh ested After the Exposition are reported to be a a Met at Engine House. *f fee, in today cod & gagged the woman be az ¢ f 2909 Aurora Pat n French " One membe f the comn ittee maleon ents 1 * #® make an oute ay 1 to the © iast nigh » Ma harge elling ceded in gett 4 talk with} The sk oops came tid Hen Thoman me | h r the t ' ht and imr lengine house at nth * * Discove the th fa exidence was én-| liquor on Sunday, was acquitted by « esterday and © re a al ete °° bea ong) OY # | cludes the possibilit t i . About $7 in cash}a jury before Police Judge John B me la ight that it/ly cut munication bia, on different occa th ’ 5 be ounded by field + & | der was committed for th urpose ake Gorde erd af ‘ A e mayor not in-| he lig Raat wt ha * , and the tragedy | : “7 : ; | ; ‘ : PP egg the w he # | shroude n the deepest myater } 1 4 tn € wore the dwt ; © expe r n now | dowr , : : c i met dakoemes ana ve * * | The pall are at a lows to aawign - oben od mi ary mored thelr te atimor ‘ : Mo Oe were Gat tae ee Ee that the ed the tele | * | % motive ae and are)" f th eal t Fe inne Sane . ad Khar anding — the ab while Thomas w ; groping 0 ome ‘ ah » 4 t 6, N 1 brent eng h cal No. 300, Painter union, | which will lead to the disec Or old cide certa ooy _ ord : Pe informed and verily be | night D. Stevensor was the onl w recruit add-| The Transit wa 6 to lew " want the restricted | could not he pat Hen Thomas told the © pre mith; record The Norwegian steamer ‘I th oday, and wa t\ Nome yesterday f 1 he tr emain whe rhe t is pract wh at engine house Nc f\ing sec Doyle; finan-|did not come out unscathed bit more modest than the! she w harge a ¢ existence of the d t ts pres |the Pe an Ce t in Poe wom oe n “ Tinto; treas-|her passage to Nome hree. From Kodiak the Transit. w ent Ie ad handicap to|the « er moe made & le é er, R. EB. Orchard; conduetor, | with esulting in having or n't lidate|coed to Valdez, from ns. Eve Beacon hill | wili be t 1 and the se by speaking of it to parti ‘ Baum; warden, P. Johnsen; |her bowplates broken and ¢ but! hope} will t the 1,146-ton foe hat 1 € b f the mw t are making @ » Informed that these i A. K. Orehard {nv injuries done |C. Potter to Vancouver moved, We were given a de desperate figh RODENT IS BUBONIC VICTIM Caught in Residence Sec- tion and Found to Have Disease. Health Authorities Say Hot Weather Brings Fresh Danger. A rat bearing all the symptome of having been afflicted with bu bonic plague germs, is now in the possession of the health authert- ties. The rat wae caught In the residence section of the city. This ia the first plague rat lo- cated in this city since April 80, and the fact that it is the first te come from the residence distriet, has caused considerable uneasiness among the officials who have hed charge of the campaign against the plague. The officials decline to state at this time where the rat was caught, in order not to unnecessarily a people of that neighborhood, also because they have not a final diagnosts Genuine Plague Rat. There ts no question but what he specinien is « genuine plague at, however. The rat was turned yver°to Dr. C. W. Chapin, assist ant surgeon in the United States arine hospital service, three days ago, and @ tentative examination developed the presence of the dead- ly germs The final tests and details of the examination for the plague ms will not be completed for another 4 or two and at thet time Dr. 8, F. Bourns, chief medi al officer in the health depart. nt, states that he will issue @ bulletin containing all the data regarding the specimen © Danger of Plague. “The people who are deluding themselves with the belief that there Is no plague here, are on the wrong track,” said Dr. Bourns to day. .“If we were to allow this ratcatching to stop for 30 days, } believe the rodents would spread the germs of the plague over the entire city.” With dhe warm weather, the of- fictals in charge of the plague work are redoubling their mpaign to do away with the rats. The dis ease generally makes an appear ance during hot weather and every ecaution is being taken to keep situation well in hand GIVEN TEN " YEARS ~ By United Press.) SAN FRANCISCO, July 1.—« Walter J. Bartnett, attorney vd vice president of the defunct Cali- fornia Safe Deposit and Trust com- pany and former vice president of the Western Pacific Railway com- pany, was sentenced to 10 years in San Quentin prison today upen conviction for embezzlement of the Colton securities. Bartnett nearly oliapsed and°entered his cell in the county jail with blanched face, A petition of his attorneys for his release on bail pending an ap- peal, will be heard tomorrow. On pronouncing sentegce on Bartnett, Judge Cor aid that t y had no right to recom i leniency for the pri In f review of the case, he de- ared that he co no reason the court sh¢ t nient In e matter, as the evidence showed questionable guilt he de fondant Bartnett was convicted on the ic charge of embexzling se curities belonging to the estate of the late Mrs, Ella M. Colton, of Washington, D. ¢ The will left by Mrs. Colton gave securities in Gnount of $205 to her gate Catherine C. Dahigreen, herine Agnew, Theodosia Montgomery Martin and M. B. Sacher ow ARTIST. time tn e Fourth Jaily dine fson and art at 2] den, $1.00; and cold Was bh. 3531 Be a up per day,