The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 5, 1908, Page 1

i VoL. NO Promptly at fact accomplished, the crop in the history of in the fie’ (By United Press.) Man., Aug. 5.—The of the C. P. R. in this promptly at 10 o'clock te the announced bere, however, say ‘Strike is general, and at estimate 8,000 men are Out at Vancouver. UVER, B. C.. Aug. 5. — on scheduled time, 10 his forencon, the men em the shops of the Cana ific laid down their quit. No spectacular in ed the inauguration of prove to be the bitterest mi fight in the history of the . if persisted in even must do incalculable important interest t of the Canadian secretary treasurer union, who is in rike, with head ipeg, simply stated the mén were out Press. Ta, Aug. 5.—This Tecovered from the Wased by the sudden death Known that the sen- & safferer for years, | the end would ly. The funeral held on Friday r FOREST, tl, Aug. 5.— AB. “scanand of lowa has MA Placard Bearer of Baliar the mascot of the Ha pal Clerks’ union, sc PE I be good a { the i" Who are ank trade Three ing the after union « storek rope [ Wb remain ops Welock ¢ ecasior Clerks’ union postdes 4% showr peotogray, and kept b ag tn toni Of the Mite a theevers have Welles wevera) ume EDITION 140 ALLEG IRNIE fA CHINISTS’ STRIKE B. C., Aug. 5—As to the economic influence of Set the ©. P. R. machinists, that of course dependa on . People here cannet even now believe the strike is i good conditions. This strike promises to paralyze the ‘movement, to tie up the transportation system and leave the ~neve 10 o’Clock This Morning. Prospect being too staggering. the Canadian west is just ready Stripped of all technical potnts Invotved, the strike resolves tteeif into a battle between the company and the men as the unfons on the Canadian system The men ciatm that that is what they are fighting for. They potnt out the recent course of negotia tions under the Lemieux concilia tion act as proving their point that the efforts of the company have been concentrated on breaking up the unions by setting one against the other, and by curtailing oppor tunities for joint action So far the company has sald nothing and fs resting on ite position assumed when both the eastern and western managements accepted the majority award of the conciifation board Men Are Confident. The men, though quiet, express themselves confident of the issue They have behind them the inter national organizations Within ten days not a wheel wil! be turning on the companies’ west ern Hines,” said one of their leaders, Just after quitting work. “The pwh- Ne are with us and will see to it that seab labor is not brought tn i from the states or Burope.” SS announced himself a candidate | tw succeed Senator Allison, Senator Perkins Advanced. WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.--As the Dag result of the death of Senator A} lison of lowa, Sena Perkins of California will be advanced to the | COMMITS OB) Wig Passed Through the Terrible chairmanship of the naval afiaire A big mass meoting will be held this evening at Phalen’s hall, Co/ lumbia, under the auspices of the Tweifth Ward Republican club. Ali; candidates on the republican ticket | have been invited to attend and address the _ meeting. § PLACARD BEARER OF RD CLERKS’ UNION AK, d Retail Clerk's Union as neither the clerks nor the dog Interf with any one, the police have not taken a hand. ral years ago, all the stores ard sained open until 10 it about two and one-half ome of the prominent hants investigated conditions nd noticed that they did not gain hing by remaining open Lid couraged thelr employes to nize a union, and have since od at 6:30, except Saturdays The Ballard union ix @ thriving or Kanization and numbe 40 mem | if PAGE 3 FOR COUPONS FOR THE STAR FAMILY OUTING DAY THE SEATTLE STAR. ED SEATTLE MU ALKOUT OCCURS ON WOULD SCHEDULE TIME . PR. Machinists Quit Work GODMAN FILES (By United Prees.) ih AUGUST 5, a WASH,, WEDNESDAY, 1908. sAIN? a on “Knowing your husband ae yeu de, would you marry him again if you were free?” The Star auked this question yesterday, and today a number of | answers to the question have been received. | And every answer has been io the affirmative! | They would all marry their respective husbands again Not one who wrote today would decline a propopal, if they were | free, from the man who proposed and was accepted months or } years ago. | Isn't that @ splendid tribute to the loyalty and love and thoughtfulness of Beattie’s husbande? What would you do? How would you answer the questios? to the status of | 980,000, THE PRICE ONE CENT IS ANXIOUS TO SLAYER OF SOLDIER 1S ~ CAPTURED IN. CANADA . And why? re men OLYMPIA, Aug. 5.—M, M. God-| Tell it in 200 words or lens mail it to the matrimonial }tnan, of Beattie, democratic mem-| editor of The Star 5 ents John Ollis Oppidisano Arrest- Ina, Som tr aie bet ber of the Inst legistacure from Co- | Here are two of the answers received this morning ed at Grand Forks | McKnight, who was a sergeant in }lumbfa county, prominently men , the " ntry tlone toned as a candidate for the dem-|, ““Wouwld You Marry Your Hus) “Ves, | would remarry my hus | B. C. Fort ‘Laviees oan tabbed a Geet jocratic nomination for governor, |0#"¢ Againt anpeale to me in euch | band, after going through life disano during a running fight in has filed hie declaration for the|*® way | must anewer you and say | journey for 16 years, as we are front of John Wachter's home, 1908 democratic nomination tor Unitea | ¥® His devotion and kindness | chume our children with us We m ths, | Atlantic st., shortly before 4 o'clock States senator. He is the second | te me through long years of serious|un@erstand each other better now! After a chase lasting ten months, | (AN morning. McKnight died fiv aspirant, George F. Cottertl!, of Be | |!inese proves to me he is just what|than years ago. He ie polite and John Ollis Oppidisano, wanted for heats Inter attle, having previously filed for|# Musbend should be to a wife. || coupteous, unselfish, ever looking tne murder of William McKnight in the democratic nomination nly wish the world knew him asiformmy comfort, and does the tit inie city, has been arrested Murderer Disappears i do. | dare say there are not many | the things necessary to retain my Chief of Police Ward received a After the stabbing Oppidisano, Treasury Statement like him. All that troubles us is | love; and, while we have mot too teiegram this morning which hatless and coatiess, ran down At WASHINGTON, Aug Today's | that we may be separated too soon. | mush of the world’s goods, we are proughi the information that the lantic st. to Rainier boulevard and treasury statement shows receipts | @ut as everything happens for the righ im the greatest of biessing®— wurderer had been taken into cus disappeared as completely as $1,899,290, and expenditures $1 | beet, we won't complain. Love. mn tody at and Forks, B. ©. and though be had been swallowed by “MRS. 5.8.6." | “mM. F. WwW would be held the ending {n- (the earth. A full force of detect structions from Seattle, The mes |ives was immediately put to work | j yesterday after-| REPUBLICAN _ MASS ‘MEETING.| jis believed thas been filled with BOX CARS CARRY MAN JACOB LEVFKENS, JR Fire at Fernie and Whose Littte | Bare Feet Were Burned. CLOSING IN ON BANDITS vt. ¥y United Prees.) LEWISTON Idaho, Aug. 5. Reid, Sloane and Rice, the Orofino outlaws who on Monday shot Rancher Dan Carr five thes in making their escape from Orofino officers, are surrounded by posses within six miles of Orofino, and it their effected during toda ry where the outlaws are hiding officers and several times the men wanted were seen on the trails endeavoring to} break through the guards. It is believed that Sloan is the | least wounded of the trio and that demands for medical treatment | within the next 48 hours will com ; } der or wo pel the men to surr make @ dash for liberty WILL CONFER ON FREIGHT | RATES, CHICAGO, road presidents having agr meet the shippers of the « ) lin a conference for the purpose of discussing the proposed increase in freight rates between the Mivsis ippl and the aboard, manufac lturers here today are trying to agree upon & date for the meeting LOOT AND ENDANGER HOMES F. F. Evans, A. J. Specklemoyer land other owners of summer homes have appeale Sheriff Lou le ampers on Me r island wh are jeopardizing ir property the carelessness shown In building camp fires Evans’ home wa broken mtly and his ah into utensila taken ing Fernie Woman Tells of Her Es- | cape From Fearful Flames. Unaware of the terrible danger through which he had passed, ting: Jacob Leufkens, whose father sun tm devastated § Pernte, sleeping in the home of him mother, Mra. W. A. Pratt, whem vistted by a Star reporter yester: day, This tiny tot, with his mother, grandmother, sunt, sister sed brother, were the first refugees }from Feruie, B. C reach Se atthe Fanned by a wind that approact: ed @ tornade, the fire pt down on thelr home fm Fernie with such | rapidity that the women had he; time to take any clothes, but were compelled to flee for their lives, scantily clad, and little Jacob's} ) MAS. JACOB LEUFKENS. ro Raw yy Fone to he AW | Wine Was Slightly Burned in Exca Mre. Leufkens telis a dramatie) ing From Fernie, |etory of the flight Mra. Leufkens’ Story. When we fled from the house eri side of one to in on the ot Had with a grave! mount creek Y TO SAFETY the \treee on either side been thick the nage Was sent by the Grand Forks on the case, and a diligent search chief of police No details of the for the man has been conducted capture were given ever since The murder for which Oppidi-| Oppidisano ie an Italian and 30 sano must answer was committed years of age He was employed on October § last year, and was as 4 motorman by the Seattle Elec the outgrowth of « drunken sp trie company. Chief Ward said at the Oppidixano home, 1514 17th | this afternoon that an officer avy 8 Three women, Mra. Pvelyn would be sent after him and he | Hagadorn, the murderer's house-| would be brought here as soon as her mother, Mra. Lézate| possible keeper ATTEMPT MADE TO KILL THE SULTAN OF TURKEY jth t there were “plete againet th the Knife Is Plunged Into Ruler’s ‘ife of the sultan, and the greatest care has been taken to prevent any Breast but Coat of Mail person of whose toyalty there was Saves Life. the slightest doubt from entering | the ruler’s service at the palace. | Constant thr are believed to have led to the original break in (By United Pree: the sultan’s iron rule, and it is | GENEVA, Aug. 5.—(Bulletin.)—| expected that summary punish. Sultan Abdul Hamid, of Turkey,|ment will be meted out to those responsible for the aseassin's pres ence, if they have not was stabbed in the breast by a minor official of the palace in the apartments of the ruler Mond: been punished or put to a according to a delayed dispatch re | rectly. |celved here today from Constanti-| nopie. (By United Press.) | The message states that the on-| LONDON, Aug. 5.—The attempt ly thing that saved the sultan was /on the life of Sultan Abdul Hamid, a heavy coat of mail which he wore of Turkey, was confirmed today in next to his skin. The knife was di- dispatches received here from Con- ected at rt of the sultan, etantinople. He wa tacked Mon- and undoubtedly would have killed day night, and since that time has him if it had not been deflected by mot appeared in public. He Is re- the stee! coat. The blow was so ported to be in abject terror, and > h we did not know which way powerful that the point of the knife even in hie own apartments in the |turn,” sald the brave lttie mat ~ oad Bees oc the train could not was broken off when it came in |palace he now goes heavily armed. hurrying by. We hailed it, but the | B@ in the valicy the train made on was ri acl by . bag |tripied guard has been multiplied driver would not stop. so, running | Dumerous ITtpe tee the Tanl®. lof gold which he carried. He wan | by three again. alongside, 1 tossed little Jacob into atmecceay Bs gdh * nama’ | captured and thrown into a dun-| The attack on the sultan was the the man had | tebe the wagon, and, as not the heart to run off with my child, he slowed up long enough for | me to grab the horses’ heads and |hold them wntil the rest of the seemed that we Must perish Lived Beneath Flam: ina flerce conflict overhead an result of the belief of the young Turks that he is insincere and that the reforms he is making will not be permanent. They allege that he is trying to deceive the Turkish geon. | The Constantinople advices say |that thie attempt on his life has "The flames from the sides met|frightened the aged sultan so that Great excitement prevails. ud he is willing to surrender to al | family got up. the awful heat made even strong most any demands of the young |peopie, and plans to force them | “Once in the wagon we started! men groan, while women and chil- Turks for better government | into heavier bondage than ever) loff towards the it, but did not| dren fainted on all sides Men it hae been known for months|when quiet is restored. | get very far before the flames | brought Water In thelr hate to le — — == drove us back into Fernie. We! parched lips of the children. Won then went to the west, but the fire,/en ran wildly about searching to with almost human cunning, head |joved ones from whom they had | ed us off there and drove us back | become separated. How we ever again into Fernie |got through the night I will r Refuge in Boxcar. koow The next day we pe Seeing « freight train on the|tbrough to Crambrook, and — the | track, we went into one of the | Worse of our troubles were over | poxcars. There were 12 cars on|, MP® Leufkens’ husband is the |the train, but each one was packed hes 4 py A by . ee ee | ets Ws jso tightly as to make breathing ie reese, 2G areser, Berm | | Mord andar ordinary conditions ena | Ad Pratt and Olive Pratt, bad been (By United P |wind Increased and the ropes hold: | with the fierce heat pressing upon |/PAPia® her a visit. All suffered) BERLIN, Aug. 5 Zep-|'ng the balloon were redoubled, but is we were almost. suffocated. \PYFO® about the face and hands.| reins great dirigible balioon was |%2" the storm, which had been Chinamen who attempted to take |i#ttle Jacob's feet were badly violent, and accompanied by light their baggage with them had to be |"erehed torn from ite moorings on @ Plateau ‘ning and thunder, swept over the fo a » | unload thelr goods at|, 'he Women went from Cram-|five miles south of Echterdingon | plateau with such terrific force that ie ait a wen. brook to Spokane, and thence to| this afternoon in an electrical | the great gas bag was flopped about “When all. was ready in the cars |S@*tve which is Mrs, Pratt's home. | storm, caught fire and sailed away |like a toy balloon | in a cloud of smoke. It is supposed that the trappings the engineer refused to otart, the [train, an passenger wan due from | It is thought that Count Zeppelin became ignited from a camp fire Ith Rg ona an tae war one HREATENED WIFE escaped injury, though the detalis| The balloon was seen to rise in ) ae: Sas, Sa Ld m - are meager so far, Nobody is the gale and move rapidly away ed certain catastropby. He finatly lcation out. bar ast” taaee ae known to have been in the ship atlinto the clouds, the flames ap ee ee Se a ee Aha! WITH RAZOR the time it disappeared, parently increasing as they were and ee peeses 8 5 pee The great ship, which was the/fanned by the wind and the move under his nose | wonder of the world yesterday, is ment of the craft Here the little woman's face ‘ | practically certain to be destroyed, blanched she thought of the , | “A rasor will make no noise,” is! if it is not already burned up, or) Later.—Count Zeppelin is b awful nee she and her little 1 aie hed Be | he | - children might have suffered the greeting which Mra. Hattie L, | hopelessly wrecked Cored A tae of his gr “ a . The count was forced to bring/ship. The accident was caused by Stopped by Burned Bridge Uniphiette received as she returned | in, patioon down on the plateau at|the explosion of a motor. Four The train started out towards | home on Sunday night, as her hus- |g o'clock this morning, on account | workmen were iously hurt, but the east, but had not gone many | band met her at the door with the | of a defective motor, which was In| the count was uninjured, Zeppelin, mil be to © It was forced ‘9 stOp. jaxtrument open tn his hand such bad condition he could not re-| who has worked on his balloon for ne bridge which would have . » | pair it years, wept like @ child as he saw meant safety, if crossed, had burs. Whe complained to the | i Realizing that he had failed in |it disappearing, a hopeless wrec ed down, but though this waa un. | ine attorney's office yesterday and) pig effort to reach Friedrichafen He at nee announced that fortunate, it might have been a|had a warrant made out charging| within the 24 hours set for his he would begin the construc life saver if it kept the passenger | him with abusive treatment flight, he moored the balloon and tion of a new ship and was greatly from getting acrows and perhaps| Mrs. Umphlette says she scream: | dispatched men to Friedrichafen to | cheered upon receiving a telegran wrecking wu od for help when she saw the razor | get expert mechanics. He then pre- from Emperor William promising We retreated a short distance to|@nd that her husband threw it| pared to wait, net hoping to get|to contribute funds to be used in| ttle alley where there were away when he saw an officer ap. | started again before 6 o'clock this | replacing the lost balloor Search no heavy woods on either side. We | pronching. They were married last | evening. ing parties have been sent out to| |were between two tiny creeks, | Pebruary | This afternoon the velocity of the| seek the remains FAIR TONIGHT AND THURBDAY, WESTERLY BREEZE. NO. 2, AT LUNA PARK, TOMORROW—CUT THEM OUT WEATHER LIGHT RDERER CAPTURED F AWFUL EXPERIENCE Y PARALYZE C. P. R. HELP IN FREEING CRAEMER | youn Quincy Hackett Prepared to Aid in Establishing Truth of Alibi. John Quincy Hackett sought-for witness whom the long it is sald, alibi tor Henry now serving a life sen tence in the Walla Walla peniter tary for the murder of Mrs. Phil- lipine Mueller and baby, arrived at Fairbanks, Alaska, yesterday and hin statements would indicate that Craemer's story, about being in Te coma when the murder was commit- ted, is true. Hackett Fairbanks acquainted an prove an Craemer when interviewed in remembers having been with Craemer and of having met the man in Tacome about the time of the murder. He was somewhat cloudy on dates and specific instances, but other ofr cumstances prove conclusively that he is the Hackett, or John Quincy, as he was known then, whom Craemer claimed he was with at the time Mrs. Mueller and ber baby were beaten to death in their Grant st. home in thia city Hackett had no sooner Fairbanks than he was identified by “Waterfront Brown, formerly of Tac same Hackett the Ger reached positively Richard na, as the whom Craemer and societies had endeav- jocate ored to Identity Is Established. The names of this Hackett's par ents are the same names which had been obtained early in the search as the names of the father and mother of the man upon whom the corroboration of Craemer's alibl story depended Yes, | was in Tacoma in 1894,” said Hackett, “and I was acquatnt- ed with a man named Craemer, who lived in Seattle. 1 am some what cloudy on specific dates and instances, but as I never had my at- tention called particularly to the matter, | paid no attention to it until I learned of the search which has been made. I left Tacoma in 1894, evident- ly immediately after the murder, and went east. I was married back there and went to the Klondike. I have drifted around the north for years, and it is very remarkable that I never heard of this search before. Anxious to Hel Hackett is anxious to do anything in his power to clear Craemer's name, but he says he is unable to give an absolute corroboration of the alibi story until his memory ts refreshed by some one who knows the details of the Craemer story Hackett will stay in Palrbanks until he can hear from some one in authority, as he is financially un- able to do anything himeelf. William Craemer and Louis Spits, the former well known in Seattle German circies, are now in Fair banks and have every faith that Hackett can prove the absolute truth of Craemer's alibi August Toeliner, who has recent- ly returned from Fairbanks, largely instrumental in lo Hackett. While in Fairbanks Toell- ner visited the postoffice and saw “Waterfront” Brown reading one of the circulars inquiring about Hack- | ett Brown explained to Toellner that he knew the Hackett deseribed in the cireular, and it was upon Toell- ner's assurance that Hackett was |not wanted for any crime or for any trouble, that Brown finally Hackett’s address missing man was notified and reached Fairbanks after Toell- |ner left for the outside. Toellner, }who is entirely familiar with the Craemer case, says there can be no question about the Alaska man actually being the long-sought wit- ness ed * * * SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING & * * * © A-special meeting of the city ® * counct] has been called by ® * May Ner for 8 o'clock to. ® * night the purpose of con @ ® sidering and passing the bills ® * carrying salaries for municipal * * employes for the month of ® * July . Owing to a delay of the ® * andit committee, the bills ® ® did not reach the council at lis ®& * regular meeting last Monday * * nik * * o Se i i i ie ie ie ee ee i ee BERBER! BREAKS OUT United Press.) SAN B, ¢ Aug Hert beri, the dreaded and fatal Asiatic colony of Jay ef ih in the victr fA near here and the hea fficer will ean t It is re hat | : | :