The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 7, 1908, Page 1

LAST EDITION VOL. NO, 142. vt tn idle Killed and Com. T**SA*ARAR AAR AHS D at Second |* CALAVERAS BIG TREES = * ee sce, * IN FOREST FIRE PATH. # ja * * | By, United Press) * ——$_ s sonoka Cal, Aug. 7A ® eriod of |/* Ble forest fire that has been #* | gecuring & fod after © | js raging for some time in the foreed idleness and. after workiM§ |) ® standing forests, today ts 10 alates, Jobo Demidis, &) @ threatening te destroy the Cal but 96 years old, was Saverne big tree grove, the Greek laborer, section of |® finest in the world, Hundreds rushed to death by * Fee! # of men are engaged in fight concrete wall, Which becs ing the flames 2S oe Seach *) +oerssessseres>| ‘SHOT. DEAD | Son of a State Senator of Okla- | homa Kills Man in Self-Defence. Persistently Sought Job. bad applied to the contractor who the foundation Ferry-Leary butiding. t for several morn: | This morning be came/ #8 usual and was put to) The spot where | shoveling away dirt was & concrete wall of the| that bad been razed to! for the present new! Ac is ex the f lor ned the men to be) they shoveled the! Sway from the base of the (By United Press.) wf, explaining that it might topple) Log bY LES, Aug. 7.—After . then: Demidis and Wass! sheeting and killing W. F. Beale, op removing the dirt, when |g wealthy rancher of Walnut Cen-| of the wall became dit ter, near Coving, Ollie O. Corley, | rolling over the men 4nd | gon of a state senator of Oklahoma, | the bank is in jail today awaiting an investi: Was Badly Crushed. tion. is’ legs and arms The shooting followed a sertes of were ICO NRADI wor. KMEN ARE CRUSHED BY FALLING CONCRET BOUILLON APOLOGIZES FOR POOR SERVICE LL GIVES WAY AND TW ~ LABORERS ARE BURIED "FIFTEEN THOUSAND PEOPLE WENT TO LUNA PARK YESTERDAY ON THE STAR’S SECOND FAMILY OUTING — THE SEATTLE | STAR SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, ‘NIGHTGOWN Is NOT (By United Press.) CHICAGO, Aug, 7.—Ruling thata | Nightgown js net @ necessity in het AGEO WOMAN DIES. | weather, Judge Marry 68. Tuthiit Mrs. Lucy M. Henly, 84 years old, )of the Laporte county superior died at her residence, T18 Minor |eourt has issued @ restreining or &Y., yesterday of heart failure. Mre Healy leaves one daughter, Mrs.|2°" ‘oreidding § iSyearcld Mary A. H. Anderson, with whom she | Polaski from induiging In that ex has lived for the past eight years. \ travagenes. Mary \e today = ee RAR ‘RAGING FOREST FIRES IN PEO. NEAR. PURSUED BY SHEETS OF FLAME, THE PANIC STRICKE PLE OF THE CROWS NEST COUNTRY FLED TO THE ‘and his chest crushed. ©. quarrels between the two men, In| ST RAILROADS, HOPING TO CATCH TRAINS THAT WOULD in fellow worker, rushed to| Which Beale Is sald to have been| take’ THEM TO SAFETY. and, with the assistance of the aggressor. According to Cor laborers, carried him to a ley’* statement he and several oth-| FERNIE, B.C. Aug. 7—The car-|iong and from 2 to 12 wide. In! sore. Others carried Wass ¢Ts became arrayed against Beale! penters here threaten to strike for some places the fire ts sti) burm/ Fumio the street and an ambu- last April when the latter exhibited | higher wages, and the town, which Ing. but all danger of it spreading | eas called. Demidis expired | «reat cruelty to @ horse. Since | ig now being rebuilt of temporary has passed. Hosmer, Michel and} the street was reached then Beale is alleged to have made | shacks, wil! suffer great disadvan. Coal Creek are now beyond reach , Dew has a brother, Stephen several threats against Corley's | tage if the men stop work. of the Names mide. e baker, in Seattle. Their life The two smalipox cases have! The losses that have been defin heme eat 1907 Virginia st Yesterday while Corley was at/been isolated and fears of an epi- itely fixed are: City of Fernie) ‘aedy was taken to Bonney.| Work tn @ field. Beale ran acrons| demic have passed. $2,006,000; Crows Nest Coal con 4 Sa tot al parlors. Funeral | the roadway with an open knife in pany, $1,000,000; lumber compa eit be held tomorrow, in- bis hand. and Corley, fearing he (By United Press.) ples, $1,000,000; coal mines at Coal) view cemetery meant violence, Nred, killing bim! TORONTO, Ont, Aug. %—Con-|Creek, Fernie and Michel, $200 ~—- — - Instantly servative figures obtained by men 000 Canadian Pacific Hiromd. ON 1S HOPEFUL. - on the scene fix the total value of $200,000; Great Northern rafiroad. — Orange Rates Reduced the property destroyed by the §250,000 (tions set In, Mrs} WASHINGTON, Ang. Rates nie fire at $4,650,000 J. L.| Reports are continually being re vietim of a gunshot! on orange shipments from Florida) Lindsay, president of the Crows ceived from the western sections by Jesse Fifer last! to the market centers of the cast! Nest Coal company, one of the| which prove that the fires im the! will recover. The | must be reduced before September reported this after| 26, according to orders issued to- §eneral condition is day by the Interstate commerce ~ ghe is not yet entirely out commission. The order affects 2 railroads. kun 7 . } If You Do You're a Coward, Says Cor- : respondent of The Star Who Would | _ Not Marry Her Husband Again. “Weuld | marry my husband again? Well, | should SAY NOT; ue writes “C. M. BR.” to the matri The Star. “I have found him te be a wife beat 42 man who will strike a woman when she doesn’t deserve it is Sceward. | thank you for thie opportunity of expressing my opinion ocx.” and to the point, fen't it? Bh “ this wife evidently believes that under proper for a man to strike & woman PR teat strange, is 1, that one with views tbe so great « man-hater? some circumstances of this sort should ichon. ane of many letters received this morning in answer to Knowing your husband as you do, would you marry re. if you were free 14 you? Tell it to the matrimon edit © Star in 200 words or less are some e answ s received today wrote the let; dresses I wore. He could not see Moted in Tuesde Star had how neat and tidy | kept the house Kick coming. for the man she In short he s¢ 1 to lowe all fm e¢ had some of terest in my welfi He did not Vices before marriage—but think I ever needed a doliar out WM Objectionable traits develop side of the actual expense of the Merward, it makes . t. | grocery bills “My husband —porsens« the “So, of course, I thought 1 had made teen Ordinary ma have. the mistake of my life in marrying Bet often unkind nate him, and told him so, I told him to sult the exacting, T could not take anything for fas ne pal habits general granted; that if he could not of the e,\me and tell me how dear to him fet smoke " wear | was every day I lived, that we He my tearing): ni t must separate and I would try to Without + get his find a man that would. That woke me rretetant if fe 7 » him up. He Is now the most de fon't want to ge ted of husbands. J never have to taking Siven me Ke er ask | for a dé@lar, He seen phos his ca t m-\to enjoy kissing, petting and car z= could ' onsing me more each day we live, Yet s man? and never gets tired of telling me Me ae ter 25 yea I am the dearest little wife a man - raining a fa f six er had; and-! believe every word oe We are ne w f it, and love him with all my soul fot one mutua It i# BOW @ ire to’ cook for ¥ cares ‘for one mm “ te hin, dress for h und look for Bsares for therefore id ward to the niee talks we have Wise mares gaily event FM iM Everett, Wash “Pikese a) ' low me tc ’ m one who would my rm a marry 1 stile hy? Reeause he € 1 " bee ! shown Awe 1 adve You, he m | position and congenial nature fully mpgneate for these, and we all ar a now fo huwan belng is perfect em marrie he man who cat and pet bi ere Ww fe when she te and fervous, 1 ed Me problem of matri me again " ies nie love in & niggere we or the nr | | e % : nei ks - @ ON’'T STRIKE A WOMAN WHEN SHE DOESN'T DESERVE IT Crows Nest and Kootenay districts have proven f worst tragedy in the bistory of Canada Every day brings reports ghastly finds that tell the story of | the fugitives that were overcome | by the flames and fell by the way wide CHILDREN BURNED TO | DEATH-MOTHER CRAZY |= (By United Press.) heavy losers, is one of the business men who4s authority for the state ment that the losses will not ex ered that figure. The fire burned an area 0 salen | there eee . * 8) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. Aug. i-~ Mrs. J. Lindberg beeame violently M4 A RHINE insane today when she reternet te her home to see i In aeher am : Clearings tonne "g1,246,748.84 be told that her three children had Selanne $1279 47 # beeD burned to death. The house Me helps % caught fire during her absence, and # Clearings today...$ 596,616,00 #|'¢ children were unable to escape *® Balances 53,762.00 & * aay. : PARIS IN DARKNESS & Clearings today 916,260.00 * # Halances 6,284.00 & a * * (By United Press.) SEER ER eee, PARIS, Ang 7.—-City officials are today adopting measures to WRIGHT AT OVOTER BAY. guard against od trouble sim OYSTER BAY, L. 1, Aug, 7 lar to that which occurred ast Secretary of War Wright and Col. night, when the city wae plunged High L. Scott, of the West Point into darkness for two bours by a academy, arrived here today to dis strike of electricians, The men cuss the West Point hazing cases struck as & protest against the ac with President Roosevelt Col. ton of the government in employ Seott refused to make any state ing troops during the recent dis IN HOT WEATHER, SAYS A JUDGE FRIDAY, AUGUSE,7, 1908. PRICE ONE CENT ee A NECESSITY ing her fate and wondering what will happen next. She was arrest od some time ago an incorrigible and put in charge of a probation officer. She got # place as a do meatic, and wanted to spend some of her first week y to pureh: @ nightgown, Her father sought an injunction, whieh was granted. The eourt said that a nightgown could only be @ necessity In cold weather. — CANADA MUST SPANK ‘ HONDURAS U. S. May Send Gunboat There to Take Fight Out of the Little President. (By United Prees.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.—Diplo. mats here today are of the opinion that the enly couree left for the United States to pursue is to send A.gunboat with a few companies of marin to Honduras remon |etrate with President Davila, who yesterday refused to show courtesy to this country by returning to United States Minister Drew Linard his exequatur. Instead of reopen ing Linard’s case, ae requested by the United Sta Davila refused to consider the matter, dismissing THEATRE TRUST Gigantic Merger Is Now in Process of Formation in New York. (By United Press.) | NEW YORK, Aug A gigantic | theatre trust, embracing every the jatre of importance in the nation {and extending from the Atlantic to jthe Pacific, is in the process of | formation here - Kiaw & Erlanger, the moving apirits in the new enterprise, have succeeded in bringing together nearly every theatre manager in the country, and it is likely that & central board of managers, con “trolling every house in the United States, will result At the meeting held here recent ly, in which every big theatre in the United States and all the vaude ville clreuits, both high-priced and cheap, were represented, a-commit tee, of which Erlanger is the head, whe appointed to draw wp a set of resolutions. SHADED AREA COUNTRY DEVASTATED BY SHOWS THE Ts 5 dale FATAL FOR owas eli vines, SECRET | IS OUT Hobson’s War cane PROVE WIFE MURDERER 4 (By United Press.) BISHOP, ¢ Aug Develop lave ¢ show that there to sensational the of Peter ed conspiracy to mur in Bishop canyon. Sny who is a wealthy man, and who | Lavas married to a rich Kansas City ments ts going teat over a arre Sny son for Splurge Is Given to the Woman, alleged that bis wife was w b shot down by holdup men last Sun orld by Japanese. day. The police think that his Pet story is weak in many details, United Press.) y WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.-Advices! received at the state department from Toklo state that the Japan press has finally awakened to th war splurge recently made fn this} ment whatever regarding the cases. ordets in Vigneur. DIRECTOIRE GOWNS ON ‘LIVING MODELS CAUSES BIG RIOT IN SPOKANE country by Representative Rich mond Pearson Hobson, The Nip |ponese journalists have made their criticieme in very artistic fashion wrding to the reports The panere Chronicle, fo lample, after calling attention to the fact that Hobson was once friendly to the Japanese dates the beginning of his present antipathy from the lime when he lectured be fore the members of the Kobe Young Men's Christian association on the duty of Joving one's enemtes land his auditors all went to sleep during the progress of his address ‘Can it be possible,” queries the AMERICAN MEAT TRUST RAISING THE MISCHIEF (By United Press.) (By United Proes.) SPOKANE, Aug. 7.—-Spokane is today recovering from the sensation the mob became eo big that some one twtned in @ riot call, and more | policemen arrived in a patrol wag created yesterday afternoon by the on. Pérsons perched themselves in| spectacie of two living models, the second story windows acros jauntily attired in new directoire the street, on hydrants, wagons an: growns, and pacing to and fro in a@ display winzow cr a down town store Perspiring policemen, automobiles in their armiety to get) a glimpse. At length the proprietor of the in squads store was compelied to withdraw of not less than a dozen, were kept| the models and put in their place busy preventing the excited crowds a placard announcing police inter from breaking the window. Finally | ference BROKER’S SUICIDE INVOLVES GIRLS Japanese scribe, “that the estim * able, honored gentleman should LONDON, Aug Agenta of the | nave become incensed to fury war-| Writish department of agriculture | tke at unthoughtless behavior! in a report made public today, an My! Mippon's sons nounced that they have unearthed a which Amert meat | trust has almost succeeded in cor e Smithfield market, the argent of the kind in the world | The report deciares that meat at | present is within a cent of the price charged during t ent famine jand declares that {t will no | cheaper ntil some me in (By United Press.) |found for dealing effectively with PEKIN, Aug. 7.—The viceroy ef| the the province of Chill has notifie |the home government that he Is in | po ion of positive evidence that the revolutioniats in southern trust EXPLORER DIES ON TRIP (By United Press.) fortune through the 6 cent rise in} @hina are receiving arms.and am-| COPENHAGEN, Aug Mylu Speculation in Wheat Market | the wheat market unition from the Philippine! Kricksen, the Dantsh explerer, ha : Alberta Logan and Liela Race, | islands. The government has been | met his death in far north, At Causes Ruin---Dishonesty the , involved, while stenogra- | asked to refer the matter to Wash: | cording to information contained ia Resorted to phers in Lund's office, are alleged | ington for immediate action a telegram to the committee of the to have been induced to sign bogus The communication states that! Denmark - Greenland expedition a |mortgages upon which their em |tH® Japanese and the natives af) Mrictsen and two of his compan ployer Was enabled to raise money. | the Mhilippines are in league to al@| tous who sailed with him from (By United Press.) Lund killed himself to escape pris: |the revolutionists, and ae fittiag Copenhagen Juge 24, 1906, to the MINNEAPOLIS, Min®, Ave d on ay his credito: He had been| out expeditions daily to the so@th u xplored reglon® o the north Iwo givin Me in serious trouble to- | having bad luck ifthe market for}geast of China carrying arms andy ow astern coast of Greenland, perish 4 everal months, and as a last re |ammunition for the revolutioniats. ow storm, The three men day ag the result of th MB Of) oot, it in alleged employed dis | There de a likelihood that the mat-| were on an expedite of exp Jom G. Land, who committed ul | honest methods (to save himself ® nity become the subjegt of ation over the lee When disaster cide Wednesday after lonigg his From ruin ® | plomatic controversy jovertook them | ° nd a ~ ~ & a 6 eo © a Benin oo SAYS S. E. HAS PROMISED MORE CAR THE WEATHER FAIR TONIGHT AND SATURDAY; GEN TLE NORTHWESTERLY BREEZE CO. PRESIDENT TELLS OF HIS VOYAGE rm eager os ‘Superintendent of Public Utilities Seems Satisfied With Present Conditions ---Gives Out Interview in De- fense of Seattle Electric Co. f SOME INFORMATION FOR MR. BOUILLON The Seattle F withdrew « eports, nd the ter people living thet on line ~ complat service has also been reduced, without the any apparent Elect the or right It im naid th Seattle rie compar franchise does rurban operater which it has never » granted a The ctlor ovided for the con of park. The com pany uses The are to handle The wooder Seattle Klect 1 to operate enough traffic. It has ne inte Seattle-Tacoma ban trains will not a Rent not perm carry for paswen Argo. This their Seattl Tacoma interurty This n trains cha tted 10 the cent fare to and from, Argo, is inder franchise | In the role of apologist for the|cars in service at the Hest pom nadequate service sup |*ible moment plied by the Electric Co.,} , ne have already inquired into : pumber volte that have sug- Mr. A. V. Bow superintendent | gested them eives 7 jof public utilities, this morning an I have a report om the Madison noun: that he had secured the | *t. line, which shows that under seemsiin o¢ BYGaAsGA Porth to place exieting conditio = the service cam i ‘ om ed bardiy be improve A cable line more cars in commission at SOE | bresents many difficult features ip time in the future regard to schedules, and my in- j spectors Following this announcement, Mr report that the company Rouilion gave out an interview in| is operating practically all the care which he makes an effort to ex-|!t can conveniently handie on this cuse the street car company for| tine now ite lack of transportation facilities An attempt to crowd the cable on several of its lines. None of| with any me ars, | am informed, the emphatic language used by Mr.| might lead to many dangers and It Bouillon in speaking of the tele-|is quite likely that such an action phone companies and the Seattie,| Would involve wrecks and possibly Renton & Southern interurban line | danger to lives. is to be found in his references te Queen Adne. Line. the Seattle Electric company We have also tavestignned the No Trouble at All. Queen Anne counterweight prob- a . \lem, and find that the counter- The Seattle Hlectric company | weight service is now operated at has so far manifested a willingness 4 “ about its maximum limit, To im to meet us half way,” sald MYr.! cist upon increasing the aervieb Boullion this morning, “and thoee ee eae there would also invite the danger matters that have been taken up| of accidents lugtween us to date have been dis Sty deveauetiineiiins . pikea ct eltistietortiy & investigations bave included all the bridges and trestiework over As the “satisfactory disposition” | Wien ' ae the tatters voltere to by Mr hich the ompany's lines operate, also all inclined approaches in its Joullion have not resulted in an js cos tot 4 bet sore ‘itlen wy tracks which are elevated, notably , / 4 along the route of the South Seat- Beattle’s street car system, the pub 7 Te atll ha anatie to fully apere.( We time. This has been satisfac Pree: » By torily adjusted, and the company is clate the value of the efforts of the | oy engaged in takin ; superintendent of public utilities. |" Cusase Men: oe i» However, Mr. Bouillon’s admission |‘"® POlnts SuBsestec that adequate street car service is Much More to Do. the, most important question to be There are many things yet to considered by bir, will find ready inquired into and it will take response among the thousands of weeks, possibly, befere we have people who are crowded into street completed our labors. But you can cars morning and night say that we are going carefully into all the franchises of this company, Most Inppetent: Guagtion and will require it to live up to This question is, of course, by every franchise requirement. So far the most important we have far, as 1 have already stated, the to consider,” says Mr, Bouillon to| Seattle Electric company officials The Star, “The company hae in-|have shown themselves willing to formed me of the purchase of 40) treat us fairly in the matter. This new cars from the east, and bas office will see to it that the fram promised to place these additional |chise provisions are lived up t = . Di TELLS lee and sh 12—Wind ous mood, opening and fc Extracts From Log Book Show ing Ice Conditions Defense ing ng the night a voice from A 7 out of fog hailed and requested for Slow Trip that we remain close by, as his Cas Oe teamer was on the ice We did as equested, and the anchor was used In response equests, Capt, C.|to hold the ship in position G. Conradt, of the Ohio, has giver Jun Freed from heavy ice. to The Star an outline of bis voy-/ 894 stopped in a pool to wait until pe , the ice pressure was ove Du uge to Nome which required 40 ing the morning visits were re Abstracts from hi private ceived f 1 the Northweste and « book give the attenda fea. Yucat The tter carried their ture the Bering sea ice ond! t one and a half mile t tions which justified hit ree of | ice eact delay. Fo owing a he extrac Py Unatiiie an Sailing from Seattle at 6:18 . il he were sigh he m, June 4, 1 ‘ . the - made ate pa i account ed W he he e ead cudded “ « Th the Thetis w the body uaded With one tha ffered he t 4 sized be f Aretic - ‘ . - '" . , saat extended. from off everal| and the i nqueesed ra miles. The hip wa navigated rng ar he arte through this well into the nigh \ tt ares de fair progress, bu water | i; a Shak Here we anchored fc B the westward ‘ © of t the ice and ost statiopa wsual ‘ \ hen last seer a to a cfreling le which made | The y atan were t) t complete circle during ‘the hourw, | , he pe tiny the pack night of June 9 we a f to « uw lo@ Breakerg Put to Shame b gear ny a “ Hyades Fast in Steamships Hyadex, Senator , Yucatan wad t came up te June 17, noon—gighted steamer the clowe 1 r and|Hyades, hard and Fast in a north Transit pe or, put) ¢ « pa © differ@mt than fur the bows of ¢ ansit in @ man-| lone W under water, ne hat would have put an ice o breaker to shame | (Continued on page 6. _ = & Pa riny Urey sees ee ORY OF TRIP in at