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

° EDITION you. 10 NO. 150. oe mee te OF CRIME ‘UE _ SWEEPING GITY | ecu John G. Land, Minneapolis, | © millionaire land dealer, last ath received reports from his sions" MORE POLLING BOOTHS] 2 ne Period of Three Days. Lund sold wheat When his dargiars and holdups RE They found little rust over the QUIRED IF ALL agente dented growing stories of fing that this city Size of Primary Ballot May If the booths are not full, additional But the truth didn’t count. Chi entire grain belt; they spent thetr time among farmers mee Knowlng those reports to be true and attempt feces} | ARE TO VOTE during the past 4 and ht he sold more ‘faye. Bearly every in| wheat, He knew they were tell the thieves have escaped | — ———— ann ing the truth aboot the crops wre time is allowed. With the present || 88° traders and pit leaders had Beeete operations, | Lead to Trouble at | tactiitios for voting in Heatthe overs |[ thelr way, with fletitions stories Saget ni Polls | Voter could be allowed five minutes |) °! crap damage. And when wheat Say or alee. | ‘ in which to mark bis ballot, if the |[ tok ® Scent jump y Lund. Voters came in a afeady string all|} the man who had followed the ig at an alarm-| day long, but with the bulk of the || truth, blew out his brains five minutes be’ the market clos 4 puined. | Many voters are ikely to be dis | voting taking place after 5 o'clock t took place early at ath Main st.,| franchised in Seattle In the primary | '® the afternoon, as tt often does pr that allowance Ume is impoesible Teasadl, & Japancee, and | election on September §, unions ad- | oven with present tacilitien If it thief who had entered his ditional booths are provided in all stolen a small amount of ended by the Jap get-|_ ThE multiplicity of candidates | of Seattle would be disfranchised, | - od - usual and it is estimated that (¢ will | voting ext ae eae managed |{28@ from 10 to 15 minutes to mark Keep Polls Open Late & ballot properly. If this ts true, | oA egy Samy getaway jnot over half the voters of Seattle |, 7%° tlection laws provide that the polls shall be kept open a rea of $10. }could cast their votes during the an employe of Jobn-|houre from ll eclock In the morn, |Sonable length of time after the| Answer for Awful closing hour to allow all to vote , tne nee ps | a ga gage At night, prescribed | wo are present at the polls at the Consequences. to a negro woman,| Foreseeing that many voters may permet hour and ae feo ed Ue him on the street | be disfranchised, !f proper provision ae to cast heir ballots. won| an address. The/|ts not made, Attorney General At. | Sr “Ol* Provision many more voter (By United Press.) iahen may be cast, but the attorney gen-| gpRinGri WW, Aug. 17.—Th from Me MP\Misiug that additional booths ‘bo |fe! Weees the necessity of provid| Hotere who hve Ned thie sity um pattempted to break into | placed in the polling places through. |{"& Many more booths, that every | Gere reign of terror since Friday voter may be given an opportunity Out the state as conditions require night In @ bloody rece war and we to mark his ballot properly with an | o.4 nivelied’ on th a4 Would Disfranchise Half. a Bromsdh i opposite the name of every can more than 3,000 soldiers, e thor | ‘The limit of time allowed by Inw | didate for whom he wishes to vote | ™O"*, eM ope y Peg Pn del a paar for marking the ballots is five min required by the primary election bap Mana riga pode | Le hate m4 in hie place, saw them. | U*. Provided the booths are full the jeadéra, The realization that d and they escaped. hea rans canna aa nema someone must pay for the lawless jer attempted to enter the nese and crime etruck home with residence, 2615 Queen Anne sudden jolt, and some of the most jay night by means of a @ vicious in their attacks upon the , but WAS scared away W blacks today are slipping out of am Zwangenberger, of Woot STEAMER BLO 5 UP: paprdhantnoyaRnp diaries 8 home while soing Negroes, who are convinced thay jean never ed street car Saturday night. | re of two $5 gold pieces Pn = a Bye ae House zed. | eharge of the city and no disorder deny at |was reported thie morning except eee, pag le ah jin outlying districts, and thie was 5 7 | not of importance. ‘who thorougbly ransacked | ph ge . ¥ Aseaiskin sacque and| a: | Act ing under the direction of Gow ae cee ae ! ernor Deneen, Judge James A. One of the bodies was identified Creighton of the clrouit court today Blasi ara Passengers Hurled Through |.,.,"Snerncen as that of Mra. lee-|ordered s opech grand jury to con who resid Air Into Lake---Terrible bel A. Laberta of Traverse City,|vene tomorrow ake up at once 8 sshibbesemsaneteiasaticemniagininenai feporte that he | Mich. mm, the) et the steamship | Scene Follows | The scene on board the steamer with assaulting Mra, Victoria and Se iw terrible beyond description Earl Hallam. | when the explosion oceurred. Many It was the Hallam case that start iy United Press.) Passengers were in their state-\ed the rioting and the grand jury EY, Mich., A’ 17.—The Tome and were caught without any will begin with it. As soon as the steamer Lesiana was Chance of secape. | Richardson case ie disposed of an em frm ockar tthe locker st the eum theatre. morning. Several were killed out- hurled into the water by the force |leaders of the mob were will be NT right, others seriously injured and of the explosion. | started. j blown into the ti T The cavee of the disaster le not. | have Sabo sont Grom nie oe ‘ue ig The explosion is thought to | Grand Jury investigates. BROKEN of the steamer. @ occurred in the firercom ef| Governor Deneen has ordered that eone. Later reporte state that there the sf {By United Press.) from the wreck so far and many —It is reported here that the boller | CRG, Aug 17.—Pittsbure passengers are missing. Over a of the lake steamer Lesiana explod-| is AG0g over the news gozen are ent te have perished. ed The catise in nme. OE reel Detween Miss! Brocklebank, an Enalish Pa 5 _— Miss Brocklebank | Failure. telegraph operators of the Pacific woman ing million coast, was found dead in his room bes he wore overal iu Ti i pold Melagien was fighting & a: the Wilma hotel, 218 James st a i ne Champion APPCArS | yroadsword contest at Tacoma at 9:35 o'clock this morning, Hib Simultaneously in | The opinions of Capt. McLaglen’s| death is attributed to heart fall ability as a broadswordaman were | ure, superinduced by heavy drink F T0 CRITICISES Two Cities. the same in both places, however, | ing land his work at White City was Martin was the son of an Oregon GOVERNMENT thought very poor. The Tacoma pioneer. He was 61 years of | : | Has Capt. Leopold MeLaglen,’ Capt. McLaglen is alleged to have|and had spent all of hiv life been a former groundkeeper for the| Washington and Oregon, He was | whose broadsword contest on horse a Whasp trendowee jig agg kp Vancouver baseball club, and is sald | the first operator at Kalama, Wash (By United Press.) back was so poor that his week’® t6 have gone down to Caltfornia MO, Aug. 17—That the in-| engagement at the White City was whence he returned claiming to be Of the military and naval | canceled after the first p mance the jit jitsu champion of the world TA FT WIL L noon, a double Capt. MeLaglen now claims the of Japan is inc nsable |} yesterday a broadaword championship of the| ince of peace in Asia| is the captain twins? In any 3 is the gist) a Capt. Leopold MeLagien was at world, but was easily defeated in| Metview given oui by Prince | White City yesterday afternoon, Tacoma by an Oregon national t Beneral of Korea, to-| and at the same time a Capt. Leo guardsman Prince criticises th —_— Of the new Kat fe deciding to ~ = aot Will Address Big Gathering of Go a Fishing. ICAN TEACHERS MOVE POLICE TOTEARS FOR JAPAN | lst 10T SPRINGS, Va, Aue — Judge Taft is b ny preparing . loner he was convinced that he/|his speech to | ed before Succulent Onion Serves to jaa « strong case. He caught|the republicans Virginia, who i 7 8 ather ere in a rand ally s Purloiner Babich in an alleyway, where he| will gather here ir «re Caroline Ober . 4 Bring Its E was communing with the onion, and|on Friday to greet the candidate Japan, where she had to Jail. promptly took him to the station,| In a letter recetved by Judge Tatt 7 M the Work of interesting where his plunder was produced, | today, Charles D. MeGuffey of Chat Withe matter of edu seerreaae abaed bringing tears to the eyes of the|tanooga, Tenn., states that Admiral Wane thelr tona at the ers John Babich stole an onion, He | officers: Cervera has written him that he Ie mingION. High Japanene ot HOGER her to wer There was merely a whiff, faint| praying for the election of Taft, The helped himself to tt out of @ DIM |b. incriminating, about the onton | adn is at Puerto Real, Spain ay aut American tract at the free market. Whether he thief when he appeared for trial| and he greatest ad MM, ahd she wilj swicce then, | Was inaplred by the divine idea this morning, but he was in bad odor| tion fc ublican candidate Sm0Me University of bien | that this particular onion was his| with the court, and was sent back| When Taft leaves here on Frida Mraduates * att r whether he just natur- to jail for a short term August 28, he and Mre, Taft will go eo is wanted an onion is a problem to Middle Bass island in Lake Eric ing WNAMITE i§ FOUND that the detectives of the police de 'Frieco Clubman Dead as the guests of the Middle fe y tment have passed up to greate JAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17.—W.| club, of which Hayes, Garfield af bourd box f dyna paar woth gy ga a ae G. Stafford, a prominent busineas| McKinley were members. He will py in na f “Gotnach was told of {and club man of this city, and al spend a week fishing and probat Brant ftovar . t and he wan not long in former member of the board of| will arrive In Cincinnati on Septem BW ponen2®., The f the nt © he supervisors under the Good Gov-|ber 6, to remain during the cam Headquarte he veaslable pe nent league regine, is 4 | patgn a j { mer. A EE bas cove cr Berean 7 | Assistant Chief of Postal Co. W” Dame gousip here declares | Succumbs to Heart Wedding has been declared - THE SEATTLE STAR PRICE ONE CENT SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1908, EA TTLE OVERRUN WITH CRIMINALS WHEN THE LIE WAS. TRUE TRUTH WAS A LIE WHAT THE LIE LED TO. Jas. A. Patten, Chicago wheat wambler—though he says every business man gambles in all bis dealings—thought the price of wheat was too high early in July Bighty-five cents, he allowed his friewds to think, was, in bis opin fon, too much to pay. But sud dently Patten, the “corn king,” became “wheat king.” He began to bily wheat, He shouted calanm ity, He traded every Ingubrious report. The price of wheat 5 lle holding grew more valuable and he had ad 4 million to bis peteonal fortus One day he threw a scare that caused wheat to jump 65 cents a bushel. One kreat mulling firm failed because the price of wheat went so high takes ten minutes to properly mark the polling places a primary balot bait orike wes RETRIBUTION TO BE . seeking nomination will make the ut we the number of booths ts Gale SE eh ee | | SWIFT AND SURE ' nvestigation be made! Leaders of Springfie'd Riots to te se ‘* ond’ tees pernrs With the jurisdiction and swiftness Of & military court, He ts deter-) Mined that those who are responst | bie #hail be brought to justice Now that the law has regained the upper hand and the fear of the eoufts has spread through the ranks of the rioters, it is doubtful if aay further trouble will result, un lebe through some sudden outbreak Demonstration Feared. Special p ions will be taken ow at the time of the funeral Yoh Colwell, the coal miner who od ballet wounds received dur Attend the funeral and a demonstra ton fs feared. ‘The funeral of Frank Delmore, another miner, who died ot Injuries yesterday, also probably will be the occasion for the gather ing of the min Probably one of the first cases to be taken up by the grand jury wit! be Uiat of Abraham Raymon, « Rus sian Jew, who has confessed that he Was a member of the mob that out the throat of William Doulgan a0 aged negro, and bound bim to a telegraph pole. He also took part in the lynching of Burton Saturday morning Negro Leaving City ‘The negroes are sti! making their way from the city and it ls believed that, within @ week the exodus will va depopulated the negro quarter the city. The jority of the Negroes seem to have accepted the blewn up on Carp lake early this Others who were on deck were | investigation to determine who the| decrer that they cannot live here The racial hatred has become so Intense that it probably will not be eafe for an unprotected biack man to appear in this city for months to sO board the L: \ a FOUND DEAD when the Northern Pacific reached that town For the past 10 years he had been in the employ of the Seattle office of the Postal Telegraph company and recently he had held the post tion of assistant chief operator 8. Powell, proprietor of the Wi) ma, who found the body, notified the police department and Coronor Carroll, and an investigation of the Ciroumstances of the case was made. There is no evidence of sul cide, The remains were removed to the undertaking parlors of the Bonney Watson company Martin is survived by a broth who resi at Kalama, and rela tives in Martin's Bluff, Wash Which town was named for his father SPEAK IN BASEBALL PARK WANT MARATHON RACE RE-RUN By United Press.) LONDON Aug. 17.1 , cover from the shock tained when the Doglish loug-distance run ners failed to fir the front in the Marathon race of anywhere near the recent Olympic games, the Lon dor ws this afternoon offers prix $500 for the repetition of the race, The News wants run | from every country in the worl compete for the prize. It is not charged that the M on was not won fairly, but the aye that it believes that the on why Eng lish runners fatled istain the reputation of thi ‘ount has heyer been explained Tomorrow evening the Kleventh Ward Taft and Shern club will meet at Kidd's hall, Green Lake | official (ation. JOHN G. LUND. ALL BOSH 1 rioting. It ts believed that je Sd 4,000 miners in thi» district will Bryan Denies That He Sold Out to Guffey for the Sum of $200,000. (By United Press.) Bryan today denied in the case of 000 and failed to receive the! said the story was ab surd and made of whole cloth from Pittsburg promised for that amount of money hie Influence to have Guffey ousted from Bryan's friends that the story for Bryan's op mn to the Pennsylvania boss dur will base the: The committee was appointed by the association meeting to draft proposed laws to and unnecessary cost Its report will be pre next annual meeting from August ATLANTIC FLEET FIREMEN FIGHT (By United Press.) AUCKLAND, 4 7 rican battleship fleet ed for Sydney in Htigation sented at the |to be held in Seattle the northwest extrem at 4:46 yesterday weather was clear a United States | WANT PROSECUTION OF BANK OFFICIALS (By United Press.) FRANCISCO calling upon prosecution of faa WEATHER FAIR TONIGHT AND TUESDAY) LIGHT WE STERLY BAREZES. o MILLION DOLLAR LIE AND WHAT IT DID Patten’s Cry of Ruined Wheat Brings Suicide and Failure in Its Wake. EXCITING SCENE IN THE WHEAT PIT AT CHICAGO DUR- ING A BIG “MOVEMENT” SUCH AS 1S NOW IN PROGRESS. BE LOW 18 A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE FAMOUS PIT. BY W. G. SHEPERD. 1 (Copyright, 1908, by Newspaper Enterprise Aes’n.) CHICAGO, Aug. 17.—James A. Patten, once “corn king,” sow wheat king,” has proved to the country, in the past two weeks, how wheat gambling might ruin business and threaten panic Petten's office is across the street from the board of trade in Chi He has had a terrible two weeks of nervous gum-chewing, argue ment, ticker-reading and calamity howling. All alone, he has bucked the market. Repeatedly, the big, gray-haired “fellow bas dashed across the street, coatiess, up the one flight of stairs to the pit and into the middie of the fra His pre ce was always electrifying He was a bull indeed He had millions staked. He was foot free, with no associates to id him back. The traders knew it, and one by one, as he roared = Be prices, waving his arms in the bedlam, they came over ta (By United Press.) NEW YORK, Aug al will no longer decide civil or criminal tigations brought before sly technical points, b rulings on the merits the recommendations special committee rican Har assoctation shall be The y knew the stories of the biight and rust, on which Patten laid so much stress, were net true. They knew that Patten told them te raise the price of his own wheat stopped following the trath about the wheat crop. an to gamble on how successful Patten would be in raise ing the pri of wheat by mak the public believe that the crop might be a failure. They joined with Patten and yelled calamity. men who followed Patten's lead made fortunes The men who follow » truth were ruined. One of them, ignoring 4 following reports which came to him directly from the wheat s, shot himself to escape facing the loss of hie entire fortune The farmers, though, knowing that the stories of rust and blight (Continue 4 on Page Six.) - SNAPSHOT OF “WHEAT KIN G" JAS, A, PATTEN ON ONE OF HIS DRAMATIC RUSHES FROM HIS OFFICE TO THE WHEAT | PIT, ACROSS THE STREET ‘ :