The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 3, 1908, Page 1

Le) LAST EDITION VOL, 10. NO. 138. x ee } ~ gee ‘T thouanls Without Food or Shelter ROBBERS KILL MOTORMAN and Many Cut Off Without Hope OF TACOMA of Aid—Canadian Cities Ea Morning | Holdp Sending Supplies. | and Murder—Shocking By United Press.) Crime at Tacoma. | WINNIPEG, Man, Aug. 3 railroad —_— om points nearest the great Crows Nest valley fire Poot Reports re elved ove: today (By United Press.) Meat the flames are still roaring over the country, and TACOMA, Aug Fe obbers Probably will be greater than was expected last night. it [held up a street car at the led here that the full amount of the loss in whole |the P st. lite, shortly after mid @rea will be about $25,000,000. The loss of I s varl |night thie morning, and with ‘estimated from 400 te 0. The suffering and destitution ts any provocation deliberately st Thousands are without food and shelter, and many are [40d killed Motorman Frar t Brown as he stepped tibule of th ar They his watch and be im money from © att have been cut off from hope of sid Atting Mayor Harvey ne of t Hmorning, aud already tions to the r im This city will send supplies and Mtan be transported to the sc: from all the cities in this se raised and that Pils probable that the called a meet beard of control twee and $ mductor Wind jankets and everything When the car arrived at the end of the line four young fellows dup and how lon They were inf | would go in subse lief fund are roll e for © ald of the sw lerers tion say that relief funds are would re od that half a minute. tions are coming tn rapidly full extent of the fire which swe will not be known for several days, and it ts proba tag ga then began clanging his bel Me correct number of dead never will be known Sin: <i Oi eats ask aes Whe country was thickly settied by TR vives and families. These 1 P wen ent off by the swift mov fe hope that they survived campers and living ia AK wall of ff lumbermen [front end of the car and, as he Stepped into the veetibule, one of th r men, who had juat the platform, flashed a xun. pressed it against Brown's chest and fired outlying sections reached and there ia practi [United Press.) tn the bot of al ug. 3.—Seventy the sidew of which are ountalns. The flames ring ashes mark Mm up to last Satur Me well-built, thriving hed along the wooded «ides, lit xing burning brands tnto| The heat wan so i nH tity of Fernie, with that all the window pases were papel: broken, and that the place was not hi oun seco completely wiped out, with great i bodies have eO¥" joss of life, was a miracle. et Wave fears are entertain) = Sparwood, Wardup and Olson, | te the safety of at least 200 small sawmill towns, are completely > WW Ge logging camps and destroyed, but, so far ss known Mitiements tn the burned with no loss of life. ; The heaviest losers in Fernie are [Mi residences and one busi-| .The Crows Nest Pass Coal com-| fate, isolated from the fire's | pany, 500,000 tons of coal and cok eta and buildings, estimated loss $2, fears itecif above the 000,000. ! | flames having razed; Canadian Pacific terminals and iaes and eaten their con-| office, 80 cars, including six Pull-| PtWo hours. Between 700 mans and diners, $1,100,000 | families are homeless and = Great Northern, 50 loaded cars, | ‘The property loss will | bridges and terminals, $1,000,000. | dost ce Sy eroner Memorable Railroad War : fa the burned and burn. In this Of 200 square miles will| memorable railroad war between [# staggering fleure |J. J. Hill and the Canadian Pactfic | 4 Men Hemmed tn. |for control of the Crows Nest pass) ao own a salt water park? many natural history of Old Ocean a section occurred the In spite of warnings, invading hos: which line | To see the beaches lined with | originally from Inland points where the tides, ebrrents and | | | peals to the public spirit of every citizen Private property cannot be kept back from the summer the edge of our beautiful Sound GE 3 FOR COUPONS FOR THE STAR FAMILY OUTING DAY NO. 2, AT LUNA 3, 1908. COUPONS On page 3 of The Star to day appear the coupons for The Star Family Outing Day at Luna Park next Thureday Each coupon explains itself There is one, whieh, with five cents, will provide transpor tation on the boat at the foot of Marion st. to and from one Se Daas one ee Oot T kuna Park, Thies will mean @ saving of five cents if you ne the conductor's wat ct four compelled him to | desire to go by water mn hi an fur as the N st Another coupon will gain we caped, following the 1 yey-entrance to the park. The terur ack ! Detect were nee j | Wawel admission fee is ten to it ¢ ed no cap wants. Go you will save a dime , here. eee eee ee hee The remainder of the cou * . pons are for the various at & WATER SHUT-OFF NOTICE. #/9 erections in the park. There ® * v f them altogether, * be whut off in the a | St@'tifteen of the og! * th of Green lake, # || Sa@ with one coupen you will * to Walling & be admitted to any one of the = Auguat 4. ©! avemetions for five cents . aie tees oa: saya ns ‘The coupons will be printed r norr 4 BOERNE EEE ERE EM BE I The Star tomorrow and Thursday, Cut out need Wednesday and addition to today at} of them them on Thursday, for Yelende will doen't use. Thursday at Luna Park will be The Star's: Second Family Obting Day, and it is going to & big success. You will DEATH IN STORM (o Unnee P ) RENO, v7 At lenst five persons Were killed and the sands of dollars’ worth of damage was done by an electric storm in Dog Valley and at Steam Springs. Thore killed lost th vee by drowning, unable to ¢ riaing torrents of water your want what you cape the VICE MUST HIDE ITS UGLY HEAD eC ~ | cious Element Will Be Kept Down. men, Women and children Mayor Miller announced jOne\of the most sweeping munici jpat reforms which has ever been! inaugurated on the Pacific coast in| |deating with vice Mayor Miller not only unknown, fs a sight that ap today Keep out!” ete, the residences proposes lent the Crows West eral fields! If some steps could t ken to acquire @ sea frontage, erect Eli giove the restricted distriet trom | E MeR were pemrat Five years ago 120 lives were lost|} 4 fishing and Innding dock, wading pool, clamarium, ete, the Se- [lite present location, but in the new Ties the “coatty, nae brides in a gas explosion at Coal Creek attle park board would gain undying fame and the city would J) ¢®vtrons the habitues will be with Northern across Elk |!™ April. 1893, at Frank, @ slice of |} 4g @ natural attraction possessed by no other city in the world, pi8t S@loone, or glaring lights, or| mountain a mile high toppled over | She kee rere they nat |and buried hundreds of people for-| ; . ever. With bitter strikes, black 4 eee stemt to “Pracin, 9 | 2&ad ‘outrages, murders, snow-| hy and an unknown |*i4es and mine disasters, she has| nila been kept in the public eye. 7 in the sawmill sec) "On the afternoon of the fire the| rine ey sy pag miners were busy rescuing 25 min after a hard strepaie, ere from a living tomb caused b dead, Jobn Cuptk, to ‘en. | * cavein at the mine several d a. 4 tunnel ond before. Twenty were brought out alive and three dead, while others , A man, unknown are still buried, and the work of burned and mangled) onus is aad Ge Umber, was found in a where he had crawl cabin a woman and/ Miffocated in each other's (dtgned) N. B—This is a good hint te Refugees at Nelson. NELSON, PR Aug. 3.—A thou} Granbrock arrived here tne wore [Former Chief of Police ‘Three Million Loss. Cranbrook, enema loss in city, inciuding|!ns. Most of them are destitute, | 666 and usual representa 40d although supplies are being} Spe ds Pl Sund. 1,000, . from every available route, there Se nf Ai horses and other animals |'% great difficulty in getting pro- Joh C Whi k snimals | Vigfone within the zone destroyea| @t JOMM Cort s “Whiskers by the fire. All large Canadian | cities have wired money, but pro-| F; Intensity of the force of the| es BP is hard to comprehend. Th Spokane Sends More Relief. Charles W. Wappenstein, former Wes 100 miles away on the SPOKANE Ang. 3--Quick re-|chief of police, spent Sunday at <pS of the Rockies. The/ lief in the form of bread, butter,| Whiskers Farm, John Cort's big Bh laden with heated air and|other provisions and clothing is be- | summer home across Lake Wash Feiched over the prairie ike |ing given the destitute people of | ington tert sinoom, darkening the Fernie. A special car of supplies| One of Cort's saddle horses Petting the peopte to shelter,| sent yesterday from Spokane was|looked good to Mr. Wappenstein fonection to the east of followed today by a shipment of|and he had it saddled and bridied si of blazing coke ovens | Pemained proof against the Ste cut off. From Frank | 3,000 loaves of bread. The mayor|and brought to him. He hadn't ere Was reached on a scout! and members of the Chamber of|been aboard anything but a rock that nowed ite way fc mil Commerce instantly responded to|ing horse for many years, but he burning count where atia als for assistance, The relief| was willing to take a chance the biasing embers, crashing |committee of Spokane is swamped| He succeeded in piloting the M04 scorching heat were ter-| with contributions, which 1s only | horse out of the Cort acres and onto another | » of the generoslty|the county road, It was a little Fert rude towns in the geod | of the American people in time of|rough—not the road—but the back . B Rockies in the Crow's | dixaster of the horse, and “Wappy” held the fountry have had 1 than eport says that ts and|horse to a walk, It jolted too much share of mist I Fernie | bedding are also badly needed in| when It trotted and the former po POD wiped out by fire four|the stricken district. The fire lice chief was afraid to let it gal swept an area of 100 square miles. | lop cee: "TWAS VERY ROUGH apy of the distinctive f have marked features that} EDWIN the district in the} some wealthy waterfront owner. LONDON { No liquor resorts, no musical de vioes, no generous display of lights or signs, no loitering, no open air! ainusement halls, no open windows! OF ors, no shooting galleries, no} penay arcade im fact, none of the| Amusement devices that have from the beginning marked that section | ‘W APPY” S AT Madre te peratie “| Mayor Made Promise | On July 3 Mayor Miller was call | #0 pon by a delegation of Second ward citizens, They urged that the mayor during his campaign had [promised to move the restricted \diatriet. During that conference Mayor Miller gave the members of ; the delegatic to understand that jone‘month from that date he would amnméunce the new locations Tr day that one month is up, and this| ie what Mayor Miller said ae. res: He was getting along without} trouble when @ gentleman cow in & neighboring field, scenting some gayly bedecked damsels in the act of picking cherries, roared a little The roar @id the business. It seared the horse, and off it went with “Wappy” on the hurrieane deck. My, but it was rough. | It ran two miles before it stopped, - jand them “Wappy” turned its head Mayor Miller's Statement. |homeward and whispered weakly “E never said | would change the Tenderloin district 1 said they would have to get out from where they are. They will have to go to some leae objectionable place I told the people generally, and I told the people of the Second ward particularly, that the in its ear that he would be satie fled with a walk But there was nothing doing jo the walking line, A rural citizen with whiskers, a team of horses and @ wagon was hurrying to the ; Tenderloin ferry He overtook “Wapp and his steed, and, as there wasn't an: premene wae nave te Move te way of passing unless “Wappy” | me othe er The crib houses are to went into the ditch, the horse again os Jevery man who has been deriving And it trotted all the wa back hia Income from that legal source to Whiskers Farm lmust cease such busines imme-| Kind hand moved the former] diately police chief ‘om the saddle and| The restricted district must go laid bim face downward on & Vel where street cars will not pass randa couch. He was brought tolthrough it and where our people te n thie m humillated by the hab ning and removed to] wily mot be Lou Cohen's cigar store, whe told about It. (Continued on page 6.) \Mayor Declares That . ANOPEN LETTERTO THE PARK BOARD ) Is ft not time that the people of Seattle should be able to THE WEATHER PAIR TONIGHT AND TUESDAY, LIGHT PRICE ONE CENT WESTERLY Bneeze. LOSS OF LIFE MAY REACH 750—MONETARY LOSS 25 MILLION MAYOR WILL REFORM RESTRICTED DISTRICT = = PARKHURST DENIES STORY OF DOUBLE LIFE FLAMES STILL ROARING Gout | IN CROWS NEST PASS BANK CASHIER’S BAIL IS FIXED AT $12,000 PARKHURST STEPS QUT BRISKLY Storey and Friends Now Making Effort to Secure Temporary Liberty for Confessed Embezzler. ——— | “t's a d—— He!” were the vigorous words | h R. F. Parkhurst, con fessed embezzling cashier of the |First National bank, today de | Rounced the charge that he had led & double life, squandering the stolen funds fn this manner | His ball had just been fixed at | $12,000, and he was standing near & window fn United States Com- | misstone A. P. Bowman's office in the r block, gazing out over | the S 1, where the sun glistened on the waters Is there any truth in the charge that n ever led double life he was asked by a reporter for The Star It's a damnable le of the worst } kind,” he said, turning suddenly, and his voice was husky with emo- thor } 1 ask fair play at the ha of the new re,” he con- ur & moment There te | abse no truth in that charge whateve 1 do not see why anybody should have said such a thing against me or any reason they could have had ing 80. I have always been | and kind to my wife. That € vuld be brought into this matter ie the thing that pains me most j Parkhurst Arraigned. | Parkhuret was brought |Commissioner Bowman tod. jeontinuance of the | hearto Attorney immediately before yona preliminary m last Friday Thomas F. Bevington waived an examina tion, and the proceedings became ja bitter struggle as to the amount jof the ball which should restore the jex-casbier to temporary liberty | “The bank and the bonding com- |pany took Mr. Parkhurst’s word for his appearance in court, and he | Was at liberty before his arrest for jtwo weeks,” said Attorney Beving- |ton, “and they had no doubt but that would appear when called upon To impose a large bond would <o—-+| result in confining this man in jail until next November or January Frasier and Clark in a hut in the! without bail. All I ask is such a wood near Escanaba, When they | bond as will assure his appearance. were captured Ross and Roach had He is not charged and cannot $10,000 worth of stamps and postal | be charged with the misappropria- jorders in their possession tion of $48,330, or any sum aggre- gating that amount. All that he is \** HHA AARA RAH H HH charged with is the embessioment CASHIER PARKHURST AND DEPUTY U. & MARSHAL “JACK” CRABTREE ON THEIR WAY TO U. & COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE. PARKHURST WEARS THE MOUSTACHE. |$ onter causes wan * | of $1,800, committed last June. M th W M A TO GO RAVING MAD. Pleads for Small Bond. vers ai * “T think that 95,000 would be an onths War Maneu (By United Press.) * {excessive amount. He is one of LOS ANGELES, Aug. % * our citizens, and therefore let him Heart broken over the death of * | be treated accordingly. Let him his little son, the desertion of * | not be judged guilty until the proof his wife and the discovery that *|!s presented, and let that proof be his mother is upon her death *|presented by others. His plea is bed, proved too much for the * one of innocence, not guilt mind of Joseph Winters, aca. *| “When the truth of the charge terer, and he is a raving ma- * {is forthcoming, let it be not from niac at the county hospital to */his own mouth, but from the American Lake Began | Today. * eee e tenes tee ( United Press.) CAMP IAVID M. STANLEY day * | mouths of others. American Lake, Aug This), gp RMR MRR RRRRE EEE He has the right to be in his morning month's play at war own home, and mingle with his began. All the military compante: are here, the night. Brig. Gen. Brash is in com mand. Hundreds visited the camp | yesterday, and each day during the| scores will be on the military | own people, and to be at until he shall be made to for w liberty nswer it Ie charged that he has jing company has anything to do jwith this case. declared United States District Attorney Elmer BE, Todd, pleading for the fixing of @ avy bond maneuvers ground, witnessing the movements (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—Twelve ited ates marines faci a a CONFESSES MURDER er danger than they could ever Bave |. man was let out under similar conditions on a bond of $5,000, and he Immediately left for London Todd Asks Large Amount. think that $5,000 or even $10,000 will be sufficient to |marched into the naval medical }echoo! hospital here today to take (By United Press.) the Pasteur treatment for hydro FRESNO, Cal, Aug After be-| phobia. Each man had been bit-| “I do not coming entangled in a mass of lies,/ten by a mad dog in Panama, Ma Charles H. Lop held for the mur-| jor G. H. Russell is one of the vic-| hold him ¢ of the well-known mir JO-l tims of the dog's bite | Nothing less than $15,000 wilt seph Vernett, broke down this do, and it ought to be more, It morning and confessed that he had committed the crime, dismember ing the old man's body and bury ought to be something that will guarantee his appearance.” Under the cireumstances I think WAR IS EXPECTED, ing the remains In barley sacks — 1 will fix the bond at $12,000," sald Commisstoner Bowman, secking to Steal $50,000 in Ten Years (By United Press.) conciliate both sides CHICAGO, Aug. 3.—'Terrortaing the postmasters of northern Michi | Ic gan for ten years and stealing more WILLEMSTADT, Aug. 3 Fol wing the arrival here of the Duteh Can't ye ) it and make cruiser ¢ erland from La Guyara a spilt ve _ it $10,000?" asked Bevington, on bis than $60,000 from the government, | Veneauela, it is feared that Presi-|foet in an instant George Ross and Frank Roach are | dent Castro is preparing to make 4 No, T-thitk not” eat Howmes, inder arrest today, ‘The bandits! show of armed force, and news of were captured by Postal Inspectors |an outbreak is hourly expected (Continued on page 6.) PARK, NEXT THURSDAY—CUT THEM OUT . THE SEATTLE STAR rs SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, MONDAY, AUGUST “Resch: