The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 11, 1908, Page 1

THE SEATTLE STAR SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1908, LAST EDITION voL. NO. 145, THE WEATHER PARTLY CLOUDY TONIGHT; WEDNESDAY FAIR; LIGH T NORTHERLY WINDS. 10. GLES’ $4,000,000 _ _FOR NAVY YARD = i “: ‘WORKING TO BRING ™ | Extensive Improvements to Be Suggest- .| edto Congress in Commandant’s | CONVENTION HERE ve —_—_—_— ve <} Annual Report Will Make Yard tatorenation recitved trem Bestce a ts to the effect that the delegates s} One of the Best in Country. trom Gentihe, Tacoma, Spokane and “4 E Olympia to the loternational Typo . 4 graphical union convention are ed the yard om last Thursday, and of gosttie, KJ. Leavelle. of Ta Spoke so encouragingly of the con come and N. J. Laumer, of Spo ditions existing, that the navy yard jane have been appotnted to prom jofficials fee! confident the yard will inent committees In the national be treated generously In the matter (joy, ee of appropriations for the yr erhe! pleat ‘ bias 1| _friseo Coadjuter Question. e plant needs enlarging and) pRIgCO, Aug. 11.—-At a meeting ji handicapped for lack of the congregation of the propa balidings,” declared Rear Admiral | panda today it was decided to post | Barton in an interview We must pone action in éhe selection of a jmet along with some of the tem |coadjutor for the San Francisco porary structures until congress &P | diocese until the end of the month propriates money for permanent butidings | A copperemith shop ie an urgent necessity. A pattern shop Is also greatly needed and it is our inten tlon to consolidate the foundry Diacksihith and several other shops | funder om@ roof, as ix done in other rde There is considerable machinery this yard which has not yet coming of drydock Yard wall and gate. Grading building. Rigging and chain shes. Gunshed extension. Railroad and equipment. water fire protection. walks and sewer ex-! OPEN | for tions aggregating $4, @frived and I am looking into the Five Thousand Sian Cheer proposition of installing machinery WI be asked = ioe aif brains | bey Proceedings improvements to the Puget j re Begun. ! Davy yard, at Bremerton, in Reset Work Satictactory. §= =| uel estimates of the ée The recent work done on the battleships was exceedingly satis factory to the department. The whole yard i» looking splendid and with the addition of more shops will stand at the head of the tivt jt. annual report is now being the commandant of a will be forward lind of break into Perhaps some Jenny generation will this beautiful future song in place, per-| the navy department at Wash-| “1 will recommend to congress the |"*P* ‘he Prince of actors may tx Chty within the next two necessity of appropriating money | “FPret human speech and emo for the additional buildings tions on these boards Great men! report will ask, among other for an appropriation of for drydock No. 3 this there will be la for the erection of and additions to pres yard structures. the desire of the navy yard to have the Poget Sound equipped to accomodate afl demands that may be it by the navy depart = In regard to dock space | want to say with the exception of the League Island yard, thie yard can accomodate more vVesse at one time than any other in the country The contract for drydock No. 2 has recently been awarded to C.J Erickson, contractor, on his low bid come, twice leome, home of $1,625,000 and will be completed In these words Uslted States im about two and one-half years Senator Samuel H. Plies welcomed About 200 men will be employed in| the 6,000 Eagles who packed the the construction. This dock will be | Moore theatre this morning. to Se the largest in the United States, 863 | attle om bebalf of the federal gov may come here bringing great mes sages, but none will bring a greater meesage than yours, Liberty, Truth Justice and Equality, for these the gifts of our God and the foun dation of our beloved nation, Wel repair and mainten- and other goveroment feet in length, 135 feet wide at the ernment. Gov. Mead and Mayor as be assigned t top, 90 feet in width at the bottom | Miller had previously welcomed the ih the Pacific feet. jand 61 fost in depth Eagles on behalf of the pees jelty respectively Mother Aerie’s Welcome. Past Grand Worthy President 4 BE ge moe of Seattle, then a hearty welcome on behalf) Ieee ne Mother serie, and Grand Worthy President Theod A. Bell responded on behalf of the Grand aerte As Pre R TO BE WIFE AND MOTHER . ident Rell arose and step ped forward he was greeted with loud cheering and clapping of hands. A large eagle arose grad wally in front of the platform, be ing hoisted on a wire, and in ite grasp was an American flag and the Eagle serip bearing the motto, Liberty, Truth, Justice and Equality Some day | hope to see the Bagie holding in his grasp, like Atlas of old, the entire glob: — President Hell. He then reviews jthe history of the order and pi of tte wonderfal growth under ad verse conditions The quartet from Spokane Aerie| No, 2 scored a signal onceens, espe | clally tn its singing of “When the Eagle Takes to Wing.” The chorus of this song opens with an imita tion of the eagle's scream, and as the quartet finished voices flung back the echo and the Moc theatre rang with the shouts | The meeting adjourned shortly before 1 o'clock, the orchestra playing America while the audience departed Business Session Begins lock the actual seasion o | At? the Fraternal Order of Eagles opened at the Moo Little actual business was traneacte the time being spent in organization, The re port of the credentials committee showed that 680 delegates have reg iw ) MISS ANNA LOUISE AMENOT. Tomorrow the nomination of offi BMZABETH H. GREGORY. | business comes, for concentration |cers Will take place and the pines YORK, Aug The dis |is one of the keynotes to succe of next meeting will be decide Of being the highest sala Another thing Women are/Omaha, St. Paul and sLOmA in New the doubtful of their ability to accom- | Springs are the principal of Miss Anna sine | y esults, and It is owl. Whieh want the convention who draw thing near ble te a thing as long as a doubt ® year, does enwate in our mind EAGLETS. | started out to earn my! Bernard J. Monoghar began as a stenographer, Frank EK. Hering, vice w * wlary of $15 4 week. It was Conrad Hl. Mann, secre y ‘ Valuable t the great while until my Gartland, treasurer, and John A Teal entate heck was ine ed to $50. That Cline, chaplain, seem o be the tusbloned ch 1id @ satisfied the ase} The prin fights will come or Tey tbbointed oft man, My checks continued to | the teeships. Colwe of St Mbpose many w nerease wnti! they ran into the| Paul, and MeKinne f ‘Sagina b 1 my inind, to thousar Ot course my useful-|Mieh., loom up strong for t the gra f ' nereased, for 1 waa not | the four places Home “ fle th being a stenographe The Ladies A very W ‘ i J ned every phase the |ception and mu h Fim what dir k , . 4 hot mas Girec ne and could put a big ington ho i fee a ons . gh with as much ability as will hold a theatre pa the L AE that desire 1 man in the office. | pre |theatre tonight eras sometime of the literature. In fwet Tomorrow 1 Eagles’ day at the Ht M6 fowt this on ’ there is no part of the business with |races, but a number he bird Misia that preve e which | am not familiar have flown to the ponte ad of equal ane p a id | time The eae ein) " “ : ag “ virl t 4 Senator Grady, of New Ye W tome day 4 h ‘ . * . ey ‘ f the alo ausbar ‘ in my belief the girl speak at the reg meeting me and should he t ried is on the right | Commercial club tonight. His sub ergs tha definite » bard York of the West d | day BOY APPEARS TO BE HUMAN PINCUSHION An assistant health officer.went to Sduth Seattle yesterday to examine & supposed leprosy case and expertencéd a unique in troduction a pincushton, Harold Springer, aged 16, a schoolboy, has been entertaining his classmates and neighborhood acquaintances by sticking pins and darning needles through his cheeks, without encing any pain A neighbor woman feland pamphiete boy was suffering from leprosy The health office notified and a physician hurriedly din patched to make an examination. Me found the object of his in the center of a group of boys and girin, who watehed admiring he jammed bis face full of parently hug ying remarkable experience After the big show was over the boy was subjected to a rigid examination, but there were no signa of leprosy or other disease. The only conclusion the man of medietne could reach wan that the lad possessed an abne ability to withstand pain and had probably by long practice reached 4 condition where he could puncture hin face with plow witheet flinchin lad is fully equipped to Make the most of his peculiar and he always insists om getting a fairnized freewill of fering in the pennies @nd nickels from those who wateh him perform. to human apparently expert who had been reading some Hawatlian umped to the conclusion that the immediately wearch with awe ae pins, ap the mal The talent shape of stray SPEECHES OF WELCOME BIG CONVE VENTION ‘CAFE FREQUENTERS Women Continue to Boost Busi- ness for Up-Town Wigied into the buying of ren ly Hoth cafes were crowded through out the evening. There were no Resorts. | fights or riots, no exhibitions of dis order, but the ordinary visitor could nee, ) ot fali to recognize the character , “ ot the women or the fact that a While the Anheuser and Amert ey were acting merely n cafes were orderly last olght, ‘eeeers” for the sale of A made by the police! to keep out of them women of questionable reputation, who con | sequently went through thetr night y task of making business for the resorts by drinking with chance male acquaintances, Painted fe males with the story of thelr lives’ written on thetr hardened features came to the cafes unaccompanted | that, deapite ite Illegality and ite &s usual and sat at tadles where! ribintion of public morals, appears callow youths and _unsophiaticated | tasmane from molestation no atiempt w Visits from the police were more went than anual, officer jodramtounlly descending the stairs afd making @ cursory survey of the! throng. This may Have had some ting to do with the strict ma ance of order, but it did not deter the feminine “cappers” in the drink Sliing game from plying a vocation | TURKEY RECALLS HER MINISTERS aes So through with his program of re {form, There are no specific charg es of incompetency or maindmin ivteation against Dey or the others (By United Press.) CONSTANTINUPLE, Aug. Hh The report that Sultan Abdal Ham id Il. has recalled Moharcid AN Bey, bat the changes are to be made the Turktoh minister at Washing-| ici to give Turkey am entirely ton, was confirmed today by of of the new cabinet. It was) MW eerrice learned also that the French and] Jt is stated that members of the ambassadors will be fe! young Turk party, who are now in abseelute control of the government It te betleved b that the em | will be sent to represent the Tark orps of Turkey will | teh government at the capitols of the sultan sete the — tire diplomatte be changed b jen) PRICE ONE CENT i] | Nevada Mining Camp Is De- stroyed in the Night | Fire. (By United Press.) Nev., Aug. 11.—Riep |a mining camp located nine miles from Ely, with a population of jabout 300, was entirely destroyed by fire last night. The blaze was | started In the Mint saloon by the joverturning of a gasdiine lamp. The flames spread quickly and soon the whole row of shacks in which the saloon was located w n fire Yesterday was pay ¢ and most of the miners of the camp were in Ely, so there were but few people in town to fight fire who turned out to fight the had a hopeless task. Only buildings escaped. These were Ue dwellings Isolated from the ot ithe camp ‘he total lows will reach about | s100 000, with no Insurance. © SEATTLE MAY LOSE OUT | | St. Joseph After International | Typographical Union | Convention. ELY, town, The few men ames two lit t (By United Press.) BOSTON, Mase, Aug it | Joneph, Mo., “St. | up bas stolen a march on | ered by ue as a consideration of the ONVENTION OPENS TODAY OUR MILLION FOR BREMER TON NAVY YARD ALLEGE $10,000 EMBEZZLEMENT a GOES UP IN#. E. Weymouth heceied of Appro- priating Large Sum of Money From Insurance Company of Which He Was Manager. The appropriation t of about $10,000 which did not be long to him bas been disclosed by the arrest of H. BE. Weymouth, an ins agent of this city, who was taken into custody last evening by City Detectives Barbee and Ken nedy on & warrant charging him with larceny by embezzlement. Weymouth is acensed by 8. C Osborn of having embezzied money belonging to the Commonwealth Insurance agency, 627 First av with which firm he has been as sociated as manager. The agency handles several lines of fire tn. surance, and Weymouth is alleged to have used various sume of money paid in as premiums on policies Months of Peculation. The pecuiations are extended over a jod of months, All the evidence tr hands of Prosecuting Attorney Mackintosh, however, consists of “4 two checks on the Dexter Horton bank for $46.90 and $15.94. The checks, though made out to Wey mouth, were intended for the com pany, it is a ced 8. C. Osborn ident of the in surance agency, said this morning that only two checks had been named in the complaint, as there were all that necessary to | Sareoee but that it could be shown | positively that there was a shortage several thousand dollars. Ex suiaone the situation he said Make Shortage Up. Mr. Weymouth conducted the in surance business himself, under the firm name of the H. E. Weymouth company, unt!) the first of last May when I and my associates bought him out. At that time there was 4 heavy shortage, and we made it Part of the shortage was cov | all competitors for the honor of ep- | deal |tertaining the next convention of the international Typographical | Union, by enlisting the aid ef Gov ernor Johnson of Minnesota. Vice President Hayes today re cotved a telegram from Governor | Johnson asking that St. Joseph be) chosen as the next meeting place. | The boomers from Seattle, who, up until today, had a good chance lof obtaining the convention for j their city, are disconcerted at this move The feature of today’s seasion was the reading of a paper by Henry Russell Wray, of Colorado Springs, relative to tuberculosis, Wray outlined the work of the Printers’ Home at Colorado and spoke of the large number of | cases of tuberculosis treated there annually. He made a plea for the betterment of conditions which printers work as a preventa. | tive measure against the spread of le pneum ption FRISCO DYNAMITER IS CAPTURED IN CHICAGO * MAJOR OR CHITTENDEN 1S. Peter Claudianes is Taken After Long Chase---Letter Leads PROMOTED =| te Undoing. ng (By United Press.) Major Hiram M. Chittenden, tn} (8 . charge of the government engineer-| CHICAGO, Aug. 11.—"“John In ing work tn this district, has been | volved me in this case through re promoted to the rank of leutenant| yenge because 1 would not send golonel, On July 28, Lieut. Col. him money. when he demanded it spomes W. Oy of Washtug |) am not afraid to go back to San ton, D. C., was p i on th Ur Prancisco and face the charge ed list, and as he eng er in against me It ie a case of - charge of the local work was next venge and blackmail by my broth oe Dee, 32 ee poe or who wanted to get me in trouble xt month, Col, Chittenden will | Shq get even.” This 1s be sueceeded at the Beattie station ment of Peter Claudianes by Enh. C, W, ute Franciseo Greek under arrest here oh the charge of complicity In the Gallaghe dynamiting outrages tn SAYS WEST VIRGINIA ‘tui’ on He wa nim and the detectives wer able to get little from him by WILL GO FOR TAFT | Figcrcus apptteation ‘ot the “third degree He said he left Callfornia as goon as he heard he aa charged (By United Press.) with connection with canes be pl eer ag A Sa hen If be were os ti eeonted will p Original Tal he would not be able to pay “fine lawyer fay oT thisekoeae He repeated hat h th ‘ or r we - pod “1 ~ ' er John Claudia ' " n Weet Virs Hage The split in Caught by Decoy Letter the republican | n th ate In a statement today Claudlane ' not erious ne h, bh aid, to sald affect the ation It waa through a letter that John Gompers will f b an- | wrote ue after I left San Fran not deliver the r vote of West | claco that he was caught, Then the Virginia to Bryan,” 9a xtor | weéardh for me was begun, Repo Elking toda ers forced John to conte A delegation of ha met The reason he implieated me visited the republican candidate was beca e he o¢ i not me ar money out of me. 1 left San Fran ciaco just after the bomb exploded 1 beard that John was going to cook up @ story, so T went to Reno, Nev, and opened a restaurant While | was in Reno | gambled a good deal. John wrote me there mething of this sort You know a lot about this Gal lagher business. I am in desperate need of money. You had better pony up or you'll find your name mixed up in this affair Reporters Cause Arrest When the letter arrived 1 had jleft Reno for San Francisco. The letter was sent back to San Fran cisco and fell into the hands of newspaper reporters, who followed me up and caused my arrest Peter stated that when he read John's confession in the newspaper he determined to return to § Franct t got frightened on ac count difficulty of proving bis innocence I had to bum my way, but I ner the conatry prett " and landed in St. Loul ah From st. 1 i wn way t Chicago. In th antime — the wuthortthe ot f me and they t ed her an v bed That's all th John just w © aul I n't giv nm and he co \ Clandiar ted after detectives fror un Fra c had traced hi n th < nt, He wa apped by a etter and taken int custod at the postof He was using the assumed name of Har Lee G ‘ 1 f Detective Wil lam J sa Francise made tt it xpected that the will be started tomorrow ne ‘I have been compelled to make up other sums since, however, and | his own use, sald to have! the | took charge, Weymouth ha used about $8,000 belonging to the companies for which he wae doin’ business. Much of this defic’ covered by personal notes, We got & gold brick when we bought his business, for we have been compel ed to make good these notes, some of which we knew nothing about. Checks as Evidence. Since the name of the agency was changed, Weymouth has appro- priated to bis own use from $1,500 to $2,000 of the money he has col lected on insurance policies, This he has done by endorsing checks, which he had no power to do. I have a large bundle of these checks in the office, and can use them as evidence if necessary When the Commonwealth pany took charge, Weymouth made manager, but it ly agreed that he should have nothing to do with checks, either issued or received by the concern, Having protected him from pros ecution by making good his former |peculations and arranged matters so that he could not handle the funds, we thought that we had done him an act of kindness. Instead of showing his appreciation, he b stolen from us whenever the op portunity has presented itself. com- was as express Will Press Charge. charge against bim will be \ i to the Mmit, and I am sat- isfied that I have evidence which will land him in the penitentiary The Weymouth received $200 a month, but despite this he could not keep himself in funds. I attrib- ute bis downfall to heavy drinking. We discharged him June 9, and the warrant for his arrest was issued July orily after his arrest, Wey- mouth was released on bail, |his sureties being Leonard Hooper and W mm Beresford Kavanagh. The ec will be heard in Justice bee ¢ discovered that up to the time Gordon's court. under | |The officers of GIRLS OF AUCKLAND ARE COMPANIONS OF UNCLE SAM’S MARINES Springs Sailors and Officers of ial Being Royally Entertained in New Zealand. BY H. LEE CLOTWORTHY. (Staff Correspondent of the United Press, with the Atiantic Fleet.) AUCKLAND, N. 2, Aug. 12 the Atlantle fleet set out early today for Rotorua, the | Yellowstone park of New Zealand to view the wonders of this coun try of marvels, Entertainments have been planned at Rotorua and it is expected that the three days trip will be most enjoyable. The entertainment committee has ar ranged the intinerary so that the visitors will have a good por tunity to observe the customs and mannere of life the natives. The party expe to arrive in Auckland on Friday evening in time EMPEROR “BILL” AND KING “ED” KISS ‘ie y in European Monarchs Meet and Embrace, Then Go Into Con- ference and Ta k War. (By United Press.) CRONBERG, Aug. 11.—Emperor William kissed King Edward, of England, on both cheeks, and the king embraced the emperor, when they met here today at the station, hundreds of persons witnessing the greeting of the monarchs The emperor wore a gorgeous unl form, which wa trong contrast to the silk hat frock eoat the king. A he first exchange entere kaiser’s a i were whirled off 1 hschoff The ka te a ‘ lisplay of grand T n entourage wore silk hats and f like th wid nd « ! an ¢ dw i today which } the iw ( the king sit or the grand state ball at the gov- ernment house. | The sailors are taking in the the latres, races and athletic sports. The | bluejackets are infatuated with the | beautiful young girls of Auckland, |who are not satisfied unless they jare in company with Uncle Sam's boys. The enthusiasm for America {and Americans is evident every- where, and the feeling is that an |alllance of the white people to con- tro) the Pacific is certain to become a fact in the progress of affairs. The reception here could not be excelled and the sailors are as de lighted as they were with the man- ner in which they were made wel- come on the Pacific coast at home. Luncheon given by Admiral Sperry on board the flagship Con- necticut to the members of the leg- isiature was the occasion for fur ther expressions of good will and brotherhood between the people of New Zealand and America. ctically unanimous in decia x that the conference of the rulers Kurs for peace between the two nations, There has n so much talk of war and “jingoism” that the favorable comments of today are received with enthusiasm by the main body of the populace The king and the kaise held a private conference at the castle, after which there was another con fere e, attend by the king, the kaiser, dward Hardings, sec. etary of the British foret {fice iH Schoen, German see War Probably Discussed. € is no wbt that the con tr t he probabil w and and ¢ on at least I € e, if not « at 1 Aft he kit ud been the fe luncheon tn the kaiser's " circle the two monarchs went out for a motor trip to Hon Ding hon al vie erved evening at at midnight for here he will take the