The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 17, 1908, Page 1

UTTLE TOWN Powder Magazine Explodes While Car Is Being loaded Therein and Workmen Are Blown to Pieces—Eight Are Killed and Homes in Vicinity Are Wrecked. THE DEAD. ‘ AND OSEPH H BARTEN, miner. DEMICHLES, miner. EPH ROSSI, miner. SCENE OF GREAT DISASTER ‘GRorGE MEADE, manager of Northwestern Improve- 's Cle Elum general store. ALFORD M'DONALD, clerk of Northwestern Improve- ny. ‘agg L, delivery clerk of Northwestern Improve-| THE SEATTLE STAR SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1908. IBLOWN TO ATOM OF CLE ELUM » STRUVE DIVORCE IS "LEGALIZED ‘Decree Filed Many Years Miter It Was | PAY ’PHONES ate rn romeran cr nte THE WEATHER FAIR TONIGHT AND SATURDAY; WARM, ER; LIGHT GASTERLY BREEZE g PRICR’ ONE CENT IN POWDER EXPLOSION | WELL-KNOWN INVENTOR DIES VERY SUDDENLY | RIVALS FOR ROYALTY’ 6 FAVOR. ““NO GOOD EXCUSE FOR ie) ORDINANCE REPEAL FINDS HER MISSING Combine Has Misstated Facts— City Well Able to Finance | Municipal System. Murphy and Mullen Show Finance Committee That Council Private Garbage Contract DUCHESS OF ROXBURGHE. (By United Press.) LONDON, July 17 Watching with «reat ape of two duchesser—Knglish and Atberican—for the social triumph of entertaining the king and queen The rivala for th mene pres fice that will fall te winner are ithe duchess of Ku Ongland ts | interest the ™ th biand and the } duchess of Roxburghe, who was] Granted, UPHELD frmerty Ma Guster ot Now Yor Using official figures, which had been compiled at thels — | Of the king and queen te nd ep bevn creque un n Morphy len and Revelle ap: . Mriaindients on enc po Bu | pe ared before the finance c¢ mmittee of the city cou his aft- | After the pamage of & donen| J Griffin Ru Rules j Favor! Sti”, ¥e!l knows Quen Atexan Mrs. Bhea Bullard Reward. emnoon, and showed cor ely that there are ample funds vears, Henry K. Struve, retired tH in AVOR, oa never goen out two days In sue in the f the city tre irer t efray the cc f sea captain, and reputed to be ot T lephone The question is; Which duchess ed After Long one i . val garbag Y ~ aman of wealth, got busy to e Will she disappoint? } | ¢ ! aftce repealing the original $65,000 ap- | propria | ad been intended to start the garbage fHOMAS TOGLIATTI, miner. day and saw to it that the di Com / system, was up before the ttee for leration and al- PETER MOFFITT, wife of brickmaker, Wordewhich Ms wile obtained! pany. | shout every iember of the Council wii pissent GF thi Gaaanae i FATALLY INJURED. ee ee a } week t embers of the © committee who are a matter of recor sak Free public telephones received a) Big ° . the pro of the city ope own garbage » GEORGE EVANS, electrician, struck by flying rock, and a free man first | death blow today when Judge Ar sked « ment from C. A assistant ac- fractured. % thur E. Griffin in the superior countant iw the city treg f ent, in an evident at- vex] Court handed down a decision oe | . From tempt ¢ that th t Aes ° faver of the nickle-intheslot ma- | Heid $B y- bs t as too depleted to per- ae : (By United Press.) ae ania } i mit the use of $65,000 as proposed vy nut vitally injuring other CLE ELUM, Wash., Joly 17.—Bight were killed outright, three ule!” The case ietthat brought by-L. F, | municipal enterprises . these being blown to atoms, one was perhaps fatally injured lays | Swift, pharmae at Second and Alaska. Egan many received minor injuries when the magazine of the rt Pike, against the Independent Tele STATEMENT BECOMES BOOMERANG. 8 8 . ae blew % lat aan . | Phone company, in an attempt to} ame hmestern Improvement company bi me yee prevent the telephone comy any | ¢ Phi 2 tatement be erang when examined sy. Fixing stones, iron and other debris shattered windows and |cree which was a tol from removing his public ° hoard th y Murphy and t low “The figures pede that in the much damage to property ¢ lewal separa phone oo t * 1968 lev ov as f > nie A ae “a 2 The telephone company’ aiphuned j morning w D ¥, provisron was made for a fund ef $80,005 for the im. mn ¥ in mourning, and hundred © seare y whee “ z sue a a se _ —e _ am a 8 tox foe Goes Into Court. l¢han the gheae was only kshaned arte wer oe Stallation of an addit ional ref mee destructor and site There i is «of tim tw ners who were killed were ‘ ervegg , e public to wu a ay 0 Gteene Of 160: yards s weld becritly. matt- | 5 : means of advertising hie busted nthe " se teams lor garbage collection, appropriated under ordinance Me. wee new in the morgue. Three men in the mame [200 —_ The company kept a record of ‘of Coeur d’ Alene al top steahiahng, eines besides something like $13,000 remaiming from the fuad a , Niche : pa fore Judge A.| the ¢ en the ghdie, uae anial anat ity Gane of Jog taeneens Oe " originally created for the installation of thre imemmerator now im P withe time of Ot comieston were evidently blown to sbomm WI the. tac that the average number wee 17916 ner face, ax she rushed to embrace | operation aly small 12, ot tel . , sente ig Of the | SMe, pee Saye eporated_ ek & em xpires .in stoke bold, covered with dirt and This gives a total of $156,005 mot only directly available Uk OMDING A CAR ecree ch J ce J. W-lues 68 o month, so thet the leant grime. Her then overeame amd in the crty (remsurer’s posseeskon, but apecifsealiy impeded ‘Te erations epeirred late yesterday afternoon. Oeone Mew, | | ey 1 united € to the company was $18.60. Seatite. jher and she t fainted. for the very pacpose of imetabhing a garbmuge collection and die manage 8) 0" SorMivesoom Improtement company, Gitlenl Mw | ay if the free telephone wae allowed a bode na poly 0 aise ae iin | Posal system. —. owt Antiiy Orkid, delivery clerk, with the sesisaw: of Josephine L. Struve,| i" — be =e pom. ey sa opie ae = a4 emotions before irfous crowd Poi ity has more than wow veileantinns pewder froma car into the magguohy ight e d c our tn rr a Ate ee engers and urged his mother he expenditure of the $65,000 pete tte weeFSele of Me town Were startled by a tomate «> |now living in San would result Jn driving them out °) Valuables Missing and.” err. fi : xe Ouncil wienibareseiuaen bNeithe arty has again mar- | business. a + ey ‘ ‘ has on hand ; ale Judge Griffin ruled that the tel but don't take on so. y $ 1 F > The fireutst wige wxge nd scores hastened to the seene od Ow ied j Pr seer Psp age. pi os pee A t Wit Be | the mother had suffictently 1,301,128.04, not a penny of AIF thigh atntgluied at the site of the magazine wit a Oa {r (| NOM! its franchise to furnish -free pi yecovered to ask ber son to go home " portion of which coukd fot bole in tite wectingh wettew It once stood support, and the di-| phen and holds that the rule that with her, the young man flatly re ut discommoding any of Stones, deem wart casen se sails of the tracks were hue a Ml | vorce was grante stocly | the phone ia not subject to use by Held. = all right here,” he sald, ‘“1 \ th the objects for which they of their three-ye fy). | the general public ie a reasonabie | lei oath way own Hvins ere created 5 Te Was cif fiwttge cepeis whtuh kited Mrau. Peter Miottht, willw [ter Jose ne He w | i tn His mother gave wa er : y® that the telephone com-| ‘ MISSTATED FACT L i Ota brickniaktr. tie wath bur two ails, lived In a tent 100 yun New in Seattle. | pany is justified in installing nickel D. of Spokane, | boret of tears—tears of this S OR BLUNDERED. her and she died tn he inthe-slot machin ‘ wblic|ane-of the best known mining shen |" ! ic t A © Mitant. AN yl MRT er stemek and she 1 sags or | was & feu captain pea pail pny ah all publie ne of he best known mining mh Wit Rerura’ Home ee a sed the beliel | Bead Being Kiaeay teonr her shoulder, The two little mii wrens a year and a half|the injunction recently moked by of the Pacific northwest, and in Capt. 8. 8. Brunn of the North. |! e:« the city colbec- one: helt eden 100 feet into the air, but ne santos sole was compelled to| Swift. It Ie expected that this will |" of Potter's Safety fender for} inud and weveral of the t yetanders | ti n system, ing the facts dr wen week HITS MAN. 4 reanit of allead. to the installation of pay | #iteet cars, was found dead in his Jed young Bullard for *his un uk 1 e prominent by the fact by 2 th phories in all public places in the/room at the Prince Rupert hotel teful conduct, and at length that us 6 A Dytig, DR stduele Geonge Evans, an electric ord tie 99s alysis cor ne m1 oity. (gh age Bons Morena 4 to anempeny bie ; : c s : i * af first .thows i? th dyin Deen fatally Injured, but is ted aires in Seattle, his | o'clock this morning The young man changed bis 4 veg ast week acknowl! S) gaslly wi bigchiitg. Kits sla is fractured now being at 320 , Har- Ie ie thought that death resulted sand washed the dust of the that me, were sibly im: : Beapbye reeQettn we riddled with flying rocke, bebelay eye He a brother « hell heart. faflure, although ar hold fre of his face pe : his comncil friends F 0) ve eld to deter «| Went up town togethe ad |g t : . ‘ he residdties ot HY Simpson, which {* situated feet form rick H. Struve saldpey will be held to determine) Tee rast. ‘They will leave Sunday | vittce we that the finance com Bhere the maQaxtii wredocated, was siddied, and one lame nega is claimed that Capt.) | Potter was to have kept a bist | for Milwaukee ‘ , rdinance be indefinitely thihomyRs Me Simpson. who was In the houm ae th | Struve's present action was} ness engagement this mornieg at| Arthur Bullard is the son of Dr epestponed ‘time, Miratloy lis: ewanad sestour tryory | mereby to have the court rec 10 o'clock with D. A. Doyle and c. | A. W pores ee nt Lage ot . ! that he ha | WB. Vandervort, of the Seattle Elec: cian ¢ fiwae @ years BALK GedyeS AESTROVED. | rds complete ra Po at h ed | trie Co. Doyle telephoned to the | Bullard was a student at the Uni Ss TA R? Thedai! ghtiiai. mar thm scene of the explosion, ave a SUE to | oO inte ntion of becommg a} Prince Rupert and Proprietor Mar rie hd A a. Ra ee i ; : | benedict | tin went to call Potter. No re-| College life. but his father would Wy. Largedeyetitass cast other debris cover the ground, ama ye | sponse was made to hip knocks and Rot permit him te drop his xtudic P Pandstandikko. are of wetted Luaber. | the deor was opened. Pottor wan) The boy. thea 21 years ot ras OUTIN DA Y e i other pa ( tw lying on the bed, dead, Martin tn-| Way from home { of Stic yyerts of fingers and 3 arte of tha Songun | | f= ” 7 oo Page See neat ta” Wimmeapetlt Stien _hpedy pte a < ng ~ br ‘aan we | | the body was te the un A706 at and te a time | iS: je ome | spagins sedi egaaa® > ago a | . dertnking ostabHetmomt of Uke mother regelarty Ab inqutay wit he hed, but It will perhaps rte fvown | Entire Family Is Betiewaah) core Wancen cm ts lette: Hi Phat couseiitg couse. Tir majority belleve powatter ait | | Frie Of Potter's whe arrived mothe x reve. {9 apolis, but -@@ trom i ‘ ferred and trisetiagy } . at the Prince’ Rupert hotel soem | °e ain no news of her x @ the teeoor m Guy were being tran 1 and | Killed by Hypnotic |Atver a Prince” Rupert hotel | S008 exe thee felt for Minneapolis a iagtt 1 to wonsonte | | | press considerable indignation that After, painstaking Ingelry, learned } ea ume ad né money was found in the man’s | (Mt her o. went... See + GBARCHERS GIVE UP. | Murderer. lolothing. It is known that Potter | followed clee after clue, with no Sy CLP what, Wem, indy 17—Atter searching votil ree ap | | poe cee RE jalways carried considerable cami. |#NCCOM | fer the bee at Awwieew Grill and Gilford MeDonald, clerk | Fitesn Persoss Not @ cent was found when the ar Mais Soaren. dep corone searchee Potter's ed he came to Seattle Ployed in tle © Wo I Co. store, and of George BE. Meade pant | | (By United Press.) leputy roner arched Potter . nA | ‘ ’ | CINCINNATI, Ohio, July 17,-—| clothing A peculiarsh 4 gola He tory was published in The Star} Tetovering any poiton of the remaine of t men included by hypnotic power, Lewis Woli. (Potter 1 the gold in the Bullard lant wigter called on fm the ely? Geuuinitas € lay evening's ox . weber, ton of a Ban Francisco pa w famous ¢ ¢ won le Bullard ead told ber that eee of trol oy) diatetet A had v a) wg ‘ P rolman, is in prison here today. | distric Ise r had been working ¢ Rahn of 2 weed watch | a found near | | The authorities believe the man| Potter war dock | Wy & block fey Oxo forme sate the powd magazine this | —__ | used his power through the medium | All bis relative kage Taklag a plctare of ber boy, Mrs | mornihe of hie alleged accomplice, Gtace | Wash, The dead a rela-| Bullard ek (o dock, | a 9 p j f Gedrge Eiiww, seqreawtendent of the power plant at the mines, (By United Press.) Billingeby, a girl of 20. tive of Patric inston, basking met they ree | Et AOt exppoed w hw, an the result of Injuries re 1 from the TACOMA, J , charg none were erio injured this of murdering Robert I ingletoe, | state, and wa iT] kno wn throu | and W. S. Johason, employes of tbe Saplogich. Be vow mem t the door of 100 ning when two street oman aged justice of the peace, It|/aut Alaska, Washington, and | Chosle Towboat Co., recagniaed | fo ty gowew mamasine when thé explosion occu A > burtar r line! te alleged they enticed the old man| Montana Pott wa life mens | the ture as that of a young mae} a ad Puyal 1 fs 1 who had worked a . iient ob wens atemek bi the fract t severel crashed he a, while roundiag bate 4 room & year ago for th her, of Spokane lodge, No. 226 t calle bat worked PLAYING ON THE SHORE AT WHITE CITY 4 it hoon, Ry ao nevi eemerrkage greatly lessened his chance |ctrve at full speed, nea are irpose of working a “badge ' angements . 4 © for weaveny. = e ; ae Tae weber was arrested at Hos.|celved from relatives at Spokang teamer Nortalund on Jw H. « That's wt The Star's Family O Day, Th ay, J F The mptertaws cuenpe of the two Moffitt girls, aged 9 and set i ton and the girl was caught at Chi Potter resi¢ in Seattle about | Bradford, local agent of the lise 4, will be observed a d tent. 70 feet . » exvlosios 00 cago a hort time ago. While} two month ‘or to his death. He | verified this report if you ha ot been to the " ‘ Smt ‘ire trom thetr tent, 70 feet from th ape had not ngleton te va signing an in-| was in Seattle arranging with of Lae Northlar me ina ) h ear, allow rt vn be (ol Sm a “a ‘ed BOR He id, to full ie a baseball park 200 yards awa ” formation charging them with the fidials of the Seattle Blectric Co,| o'clock this mo aad Mrs. iw prettiest spots in Seatt piebt Bos We Rectal + 5 Mont wien awe of ie knees. | murdes, he dropped dead, a suteide,| to install street car fenders whick| lard met the el at the wharf ee the micends Shure oa ae . ody ‘ ; Mig PAGE: craw win knocks her shoulde a fly loeded | twas raid he designed Hoarding the boat he showed the | cam take the hunch, ba and have dinner with i po _ bon ‘ ee » the*afr, w , ewonm hile handing a bible to the ac-4 pieture ne 0 Captast u hade. On the ¢ side of the grov Y aw 1 ad down the 4 ae te aire waiais at doe Puyellup, |cused girl, airs. B. F. Jones, dangh ee SEs ee ee That boy oe of vur Grenieo hore. “are. the © t Lake Wast “thy Bg . ter of the murdered fratice, dro; aid the ca tots cas @ede and paddie around, dnd pl in th ane Manaow Crees, of I. Co, mine, says the explosion ed dead Thursda Mra. Single? * BANK CLEARINGS. *) Huljerd wenet onoe called to the You, mathe nd you, fathe don’t. miss. thi nine ; ‘i : i * a nd ls motber flong berwlt . a he Probably resutw t ' wrecked jton, widow of the murdered man lt ‘eaattion ; bag - i ~ . Riving you fami ya trea Don't 1 n I 4eit e sble that @ ® son, is at the point of death today) * |, ngatodny ti aeeeeonn 2] tee A y how May with fimmie ad ju " “~ Cle ¥) i nthe dorthern Pacific not willed outright. and one of the dete ihe hea peer ae : ee % tee earien aon fain, Sab ev ‘. the Whe Cit m Thug Iu your we jadeberataa shee 5 aesiot t Brought, Wollweber here fam Nos@ ‘ ? : ae gay minds right naw to eo I the children avout They'll be the io the othe ta Those me - 4 qm is NOriously 11 wn Tacoma Pi iudes He hee dome el aorts of Hog: edildyeo you ever saw-efroIn MW Lil) afler the O Day tndeewe fe einaciis Mos. Jones went to the county] * Clearings to@ay, ..§ 659,489.0 4 aa| jator eaa beee “fowe co bis anyway . ~ {whem Be ° ipon Phe ac. RAMBalance 44,794.00 ce more thao voce, His father \ a t ty 1 5 * " jell Thursday to gall upon Wh : Talk two 1 White City has ef them a ri dories to tend their lin&® and when The dare: wre be wep. | eaggd girl and offer Ber spiritual Portland. so ja MB Iws Saared Dim of Dia forgiveness — are good, hwei: Waal tne tate os hae @ they ey @tem~ed to return to {hA| John Wet Geo. Bayenk, | ce@nfart he carried 4 emall bible Cloarings Coday,. $1.011,295.00 @ aud for Diy cuother's sake the boy Ya the avewtie@ the renl fin will begin tere hip found they had bea Wo , , fey she intended to present tail * Balances @ * 1 ADO @1i| go back heme, 1 of aper We efoind bak € ' W \ va ia ‘ @ prieongy, Aheepiliing girl Ua te the happiest day of my Wageer'e band 81} be on band proof that either of the condactore "ye aoe ig mina Jiitvegnd. hud | ****¥¥ HF ~#O SOBs,” said Mere. Hutlerd today, “od! quusie io the Wen wll be. furetehod ed | not returned to the prison Whd Mr Wal RIDE Faeg UC have thavied God a deseo Umen Theat exes the coupongwhicthaty te em CITY CONDEMNS PROPERTH Jone tgmted hom On the wa - for eewying me gon to me You © week Weitch for them. Ca them ou will tell . he met Me girl in the company of City firemen will @pon be given) (@a't deoegine what 6 burden hat! what dey ace mood for ay cast | tenera were filed in the supe-|two officer Stepping up to the] vost badges hich will engktle them | be@ Teocomeeae a Beart Rome... awa a4 . p 4 . ' ones field the bible out o ‘ ; - time@ I @ Ly teceeeaal worry jj we orid’ ‘ottin - court today by the g @e-| girl, Mrs. Jon id th lito transportation on gy Street v tine From, New World's Trotting Recongp oe a ee er her and fell dead at her feet amas. at tisha ‘ © oleiit Cle Would Cnee ee ineene GOATS MUG CARRY LIGHTS WOMEN WANT DIVORCES, ~y WRRE HAUTH, Ind, July 17 © in the condemna Dro} hi ‘ {© Waimaie nae Mg toting voookhe: wave tar the @ldeningHnd extend-| Wollweber declares the sus gicion | Artie, fo King tees Roane with we _ for ti ' aot Pat teak Lovie ’ Woatlake av. Ne from Mer-| that he has caused the trail of death Call tor Bank Stateme py Tid Ceoryt ithe le er wet, Three Inspectors ght t V. Downle tod ed th Sewn on th ‘ Phage ee gh abn SY bee see he woutk iine of the|through some strange power is}. WASHINGTON, July FP —~The Thave telegi@pihd (0 tan Ge@ | Lake Washington in w days to| sup@itr court. fo: > fron Hight 1) i” 4 ne was miade when ime cor si. to the Hou nal, and of|ridiculous, but Mis# Dillingshy us| comptroller af the currency today | to Agi fagye@and @s WM lentorce tha laws rega@fius tight bowig ; nde non Qe Wiis Sous lding ran @ third heat in 2:04%,| Luke Washing ln ne nosth Mne|serte that aver since she ‘net ‘th ued # call for reports of the con-|1 kite they Mig) just ag fpdo. 1/on canoefiind rowbok, — 0 Ni hoyle i for, = an nd and the o wan the three fa reba on ogg | ie Washington Ba to |gnan he ha exercise gone evil ine] ditiqh®@f all national hams at the| want to thang ie ny for the@eay | crowding CT the excur a wt a © from J h HH. Deyle o eo ern ft ih heats « trotted a horse In bis o ere | fluence over her close of business, July 16 GA it has hejggd “ie will also begmmo vented 4 = a F @ # 060d UGE > wes cecsumamace | | | |