The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 23, 1908, Page 1

LAST EDITION Vol NO. 182 ai= 10. COWARDS LEFT ee came ome. THE SEATTLE STAR SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1908. PRICE ONE CENT US ee 2 enone a a BRYAN HEARS THE HASKELL CHARGES THE WEATHER SHOWERS OR THURSDAY; LIGHT VARIABLE BREEZE. TO SINK! TONIGHT $0 SAYS CAPT. WAGNER, OF THE STAR OF BENGAL. HOBOES ON WEDDING JOURNEY STEWART CONF RONTS CHARGES CAMPAIGN FUNDS FROM EMPLOYES? i a —-——4| ee if } f | mi oe vond » ch o! re: | a ee SURVIVING MASTER TELLS nm HARROWING | fend bevond the reach of the surf. | but arrived there after the Kayak| Former Attorney General! !nnocence, and insisted if ne = ale was unconscious on had steamed away with the sur j could prove that he had Affidavits © been filed wet postoffice, but who resigned a TALE OF HORRORS ON BOARD THE rey = ay 3 Soap = a gd hg ge Stamford reports Holds a Conference tion with the bribery fe the United 8 # civil service com ago as the result of differ- for others reache © vessel a total wreck, tne tops * “I insist that the courts t hare. | (neces with Postmaster Stewart. Mr. DOOMED BARK. the beach allve, but the remainder of two masts alone being visible With Commoner. and that # grand jury inv ‘ Washington City, hark! Wald, it 1s explained, is endeavor- hs 2 on dead. Muir and| The beach is strewn with salmon _— | would readily show just what was |!" Postinaster George M. Stewart | ing to get reinstated and the sup- 4 eadiat ae >| = dus * § “ge Mee ar _ cases and gasoline drama. (By United Press.) done and who was guilty. Squire| With having solicited money from | posed infraction of the rules witl } © mon burial, but allowed the} Captain Stamford sent the fo! KOLUMBY. spt. 23.~Thie | 8Y Haskell’ name January | ¢mployes of the local postoffice fo barges Stewart | ERRATA RARER RRR RR Chinese fo lay where they landed ing report to Seattle ner | ode to thee ote fa chanan ot e cat Ts, <0hs, on oad ie ne eke eae 14 catspaign fund. oaperven whine | og Fi : & | a8 It was physically impossible to} “On arrival off the } “ = a eee. | cated, C An investigation of on oy the @ i : THE KNOWN DRAD. oS doe wreck, teana! Off the scone of the)-demtial campaign today. In re-| “Aled : © investigation of the charg mployed in the office here. ae * ek, found tug boat that had re-| spgnse to a telephone message from he declaration that I went to| Was completed two weeks ago b: Donations Voluntary. 4 } Tolle Story of Disaster, mained in the vieinity, has rescued | Bryan at Detroit at midnight ank| Oklahoma and exe ted Gov.| United States Civil Service Com . t BURNS, CHARLES. . ee cabs ‘ . the survivors, 27 in all; 110 drowm rk fo orney gener at the last state election | missioner C. H. Snyder of Portland By one man who is in a position a BORE, CARL * Capt. Farrer of the Hattle Gage onett, former attorney general to know inside facts of the § GRIFFIN, JOSEPH « the following story of the die |, “Meh included nine white men |of Ohio, who made charges against '* wntru Haskell asked me | Ore. wae is ot the Read of the! a it fs claimed that tne 4 ’ De ; © t ialeet “Ak 3 celee Beds and the remainder, 1 {# understood, | Gov, Haskell, of Oklahoma, is here OV€r the long distance phone to | 13th district, and state of it Is claimed that tne dona * HANLON, ANOREW, * |% At 3 8u MOFD- | were all Chinese. The veasel te @| tod fore the | Come and tell the facts in the case.” | postoffice employes examined were r polities! purposes whieh ce HEALY, FRANK & |'ng the gale was raging flercely, | ioral } Se Se My NOs My Deters thee onett t fotinee ; rng mame hy atr4 id probably alleges that Stewart : coer Siggy cn © | Od we were dnttiing Wownrd Geax |= |demoeratic nominee. Bryan and ,, Monett boarded Bryan's train at] taken tn the shape of affidavits and pitied hima to aie, wan tami re HENDRICKSON, GEORGE # {nation island. The Kayak, which Wit! Devour Bodies. the democratic leaders were in con a pet an d held a conference with gg re to the ational capital — led by him voluntarily and without * JOHNSON, BENJAMIN. #@ | Was towing the bark with me, was Coronation island ia not inhabited | {renee all afternoon bee y — idate in Bryan's stateroom 4 Lagtsnomp hoped eoae ged lett severa!) any dictation or suggestion from : NELSON, SIGURO. % |useless. She was very light aft except by wild malamute dogs, and! Monet, in a ntatemont made pub = ho war here. They Id an- | days ago to atte id the national con-| 16 postmaste: PERSON. ERICK % jand her wheel was out of the water | bears, according to M. Christian, of | 1 {hls afternoon, refused to exon-| Other extended conference this aft | vention of postinasters at Chatta-| rie investigation was carried on * . na 4 . < exate Gov, Haskell from blame in ¢THoon, and the whole case is being | nooga, Tenn., and will visit Wash : * PERISCHKE, WILLIAM, # | most of the tim The Hattic Gage Seattle, who owns a lead mine on od carefully considered fr v ington City bef b Reoee > secretly and none but those who is PETERSON, PETER # |could not bandle the Bengal alone, island and is familiar with the|h® matter, and he also refused to C8 considered from every ington City before his return, to ap-| Sore called as witnesses knew that * PETERSON. JOHN. @ [and at do ¢ backed into | ground. charge him directly. He suggested pare < view before @ course of | pear before the members of the| iOS" under way until after the 4 PETERSON. OLOF. @ | Narrow Bight was land on Wild dogs run about on the, tat the matter be brought before | *eton I* adopted i lesion with regard to the) testimony had been condensed and * SWENSON, EINON. % | cither side and abreast of the Hat-\t#land,” «ald Mr. Christian this) @® courts and Haskell’s gutlt or i apa orwarded to Washington. Various le & (tle Gage, Soundings showed eight| morning. “They wore abandoned | @OPCence proved legally Investigation ts Quiet. employes of the postoffice were 4 fathoms and the phosphorus! many years ago by Indians and A Bribery Fund The that an Inve ion ealled before Inspector Snyder, ex- BREE EERE SER E ES n fon ore Inspector Snyder, ex 1S A edededednaeandnd * * ¥** | snowed rock# all around us, I cut have since returned to thetr wild) "Lcannot exonerate Gov. Haskell was bet made was known to| amined at length, and dismissed my tow line and steamed to open | Mate. They will devour all bodles|of the charge that he was impli but very few people in this city. with the strictest injunction to keep (BY UNITED PRESS) water. In the drifting rain | could that come ashore in short order 0 600,000 brib The filing of the charges came 1 WRANGEL, AL hundred and ¢ hi 4 n oated in collecting the § eft € as) 4 L, Alaska, Sept. 23.—One hundred and ten, whites and | see nothing of the Star of Bengal,|The course of the Star of Bengal|ery fund raised by the Standard surprise to many of the, The United States civil service "Ghinese, were awept to death when the cannery bark Star of Ben | except a blue light dimly burning. would take her between Corona-| OH to bribe me to stop proceedings 6 friends, who insist that mission's rules prohibit any em- ql broke to pieces on Coronation Istand. Twenty-seven, includ |The storm inc ream a and It became tion istand and Warren island, ” t the company,” said Monett here be som spltework back ploye of the postoffice department ) rough that the tugs steamed to ing her tnto the strong tide| dileafterncon. “Netther can I con of the affidavits, alleging a viola-| from taking part {n any political agner, ad a now in Wrangel, . ie Captain W sa. ath siege oe A ine ipley Bay, 26 miles away runs Westerly towards the! @emm him. All I know is hearsay jon of selena suhee. campuigh, Genie ey tine phyeical and mental wrecks from the terrible exposure an - Talles survivors Miienié f Coronation island. South-/ evidence. | have the statement of It is said that the charges against r than to exercise their fran- ips which they underwent. winds also continually | Ghartes B. Squire that Haskell was octal Mr. Stewart were filed with the! chise rights of casting their ballots The seafaring annals of the Pacific const have no more hor | The Kayak took the survivors w toward the teland. Helm potat/ ese of the three men who raised H Pl I R 1 Oo « a Washington by at the polls. Infraction of these a ek dian the decivdethde of tas Witahed bark, abd the desthe | ott the beech and bro is on th sth side, The shore te} Be fand to bribe m ¢ Plays important Role ald, of 1108 Broadway s is punishable by dismissal = ‘ | here he cable rocky with ledges over a mile long! ~"Mor Gov. Haskell's benefit. 1 may : former perintendent of the from the service = eo ttn ere mgr areca away sap an sive Sue. ined by e | went to the scene stting out into the sea tate that he always deciared his In tie amen a to sen: ose tug boat captains to San Quentin for cowar i van ate n risco. he ‘ | . e in the compiaint r We,” geeped Captain Wagner, as he was brought ashore. Unable | ere ee =m fe at up and with voice sunk to a hoarse whisper, the captain of (By ‘United Pre s.) fam I. Jar the actor's @i ie the wrecked bark cursed the masters of the Hattie Gage and Pt pl oases t showed a copy of eres ; Kayak for cowards, who stood by and saw human beings perish by | & as : ees Praca Ocektin une the score, when they could have saved every one of them the Mi ° wife has ased ve with Bobbing like a baby, the burly captain pe the Bengal told the | qa one . the part sone: oe ee atery of his desertion by the two tugs, which allowed his vessel to ‘ nal infured. | he laws 6f Hove § Ruef with his aufte Mr 1 : che, whi ' “ go- | f , not in love wi | @rift on the rocks, where she stayed until she broke into three a8 “et ati ‘ ; edly a when | ‘ Be gyrnton Boo A aeaoes pieces. | on by U Which Jarrott today, “and is not seeking RAN LIKE COWARDS. Young Couple Make Odd xx down Complaint Upon ic free himphelf © 60 that he may 4 * marry agath. cannot say whet “They cut loose from us and ran like the cowards they are, b° Trip From Nebraska Actor Bases Suit r Mra. Goodwin will contest | ee wat _ Bhd let us go to certain death. E We were in 10 fathoms of water. The wind was not blowing so and they could have held on to us well aa not. We were plenty of water for four hours while they were standing by, and hoped that every minute they would come alongside.. For four despairing hours we burned bive lights, hoping against hope, these cowards hung off in f ard saw good men swept » We biew up on the rocks and pounded to pieces. Some hit me, and when | came to | was on the beach.” f, “In all my days on the seas,” continued Capt. Wagner, “I never or went through the agonizing horrors that I did as I watched Waited for help to come to save my men and the Chinese. The men who sank went to their deaths like men, fixhting to the but the poor devils of Chinese, penned up, horrorstricken, | stark, raving mad, others waiting the end with Ortental eter sented a plet that went hot through the eyes and b bra t will be many and many a day before that is forgotten by th men who were saved. WAS BEYOND BELIEF. | “At firat we aid not believe that both tugs had cut loose Bus. We th t the lines had broken and that w would be up in a minutes, for there was nothing to prevent it. | when half an hour had passed and we did not see them the dawned upon ua We realized that we had been thrown to merey of the stor and the waves. The cain was coming down we could not see a cable length away from the torrents 1 tugboats, as the seas began to drift towards the rocks. a hand to save hail of the tug "God, how we watched for up higher we rted to and and higher 2 unable g to were tossed Hke to move a Ives hear the and eve second ex pec STRIKE WITH CRASH that knocked ked like the salmon ek of despair that went ap I die. It rang high and shrill ere came wild unlash b M rocks with a crash every man on a we sa The sh scramble With clubbed efforts te ats t some orde so that impossible howling fn parc ams sping and pounding i hearing in 1 we would an instant 1 owd was hanging OF MINUTES. | 4 QUESTION all minute I | as I | at I the remember, was f the Mu and than I do that aht « How ianess n't know oft FARRER DENIES IT e Hattie G Jonies the statement by it | wrecked | m made was running high the that near ¢ te ough that ¢ le Gage say ay placed « and mental con sen ' got|They remained on shore helping the bodte f the MR. AND MRS. J. L. BARKER THEY “HOBOED IT” ON THE KER 16 THE SHORTER “MA THAW’S FORMER ATTORNEY DEAD By United Press.) BW YORK t. 2 Ha Kenda Thaw ’ h for the kill of tanford “wi te. died sudden! diay at his home at Babylon, L. 1, Peabody took a prominent part in both the trials and was particularly active in the first trial as an associate of Delma eed * * - BANK CLEARINGS. - - . ® Cleartr today $1,808 620 *& # Balances 244,952.84 # * Tacoma * ® Clearing toda Si *® * Balances be * Portland. . ® Clearings today $1,190,607 # ® Balances 137 2* * SORE to Seattle. © wedding wae com 1 last Sunday Mr, and Mre J. 1, Barker reached Se attle from Lincoln, Nebraska, after having traveled a la hobe the en tire distance of 1,600 miles. The young couple were married in Lin ooln on Auguet 6 and commenced ther unusual honeymoon on Aug ust 17, completing the trip on Sept 20. They were on the road thirty | four days Mra, Barker was appropriately warbed for her boxcar voyage in regulation man's clothing and her luxuriant halr war gathered at the top of her head and hidden beneath jan old bat. So far as she knows. |not one of the many peo they encountered on their « trip to the coast suapected her req A remarka journey whon ne and rushed the “HUMP nex. | “It wae lota of fun,” said Mrs Barker this morning when inter viewed, “but 1 would not go through the expertence again, We traveled just exactly as hoboes do and had some pretty rough spots to get ove Did Much Walking ‘We had to walk about AND FIREWORKS T 250 miles all told and some of these bikes jwere pretty hard going. Often w (By United Press:) here without any chance to eat,| WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—"The and we we thirety to boot We card index system for a govern slept in box cars, barns, railroad! ment department, but in heaven's Yards, hobo camps, sidings, be-| name let's get to work and pump neath water tanks and anywhere | some red hot blood into this cam we could find an opportunity to! paign | lay down | “Never mind card indexing the | “f do not belleve there was any | people to find out how we think part of © train that we did not ride they ought to vote—let’s get out jon. We clung to the brakebeams,| with red fire and stump, talk and | rade Inside the box card, on the bands of music and expense money | biiud baggage of passenger trains, and stir ‘em up so that they do ow the top of cars, on the bump: | vote. In heaven's name, November ers, and took on chance on the almost here.” pilot of a | This wa These words were used by Presi AS THEY APPEARED WHEN | @togother | comf dent Roosevelt in criticism of the IR WEDDING TRIP) MRS. BAR. |and we abar thod work of Frank H. Hitchcock, re nN” |mecuring free 2 publican national chairman, accord ad a | Kicked Off of Traine. ing to a cabinet officer, who Is talk ite: btliidinae coms sat us out | iM@ today of the president's attitude LABORER DROPS DEAD a age — ~~ ag ol og saeax |i Ane Tat campaign. The cabinet aboard on the other side, Wo! officer does not like Hitchcock. He ty ‘ tropped Would get kicked off from the top| says that the president's word led OF oe See Se eee of! of the train and then hide on a to the appointment of Senator Crane afternoon on the pipe line be-|Brakebeam wnderneath. It was a| ** pilot of the Taft campaign “ ar lake and the mping on pat. experience, but no more for The cabinet officer explained that ar He had relatl . Hitchcock is the youngest man that ie newly wedded pair are tem.| ae ever been trusted with the *: BALLIN porarily in A camp at 8111 Green.| Tesponsibilities of a big campaign groom, 0. Darker, is now i harsh in their criticiem of the card WITH ROOSEVELT They tt ‘obably make their pe ndex sient hese te thin city. Th The president put an end to the bride's parents live in Linco} immense card Index that Hitchcock Nebraska, afd Parker's pare was planning by pulling the wires AY United Prees:) are residents of Humeston, lowa,| #4 starting things in a lively way WA {GTON pt, 28—Prea| The firat the parents will know Y ident Bo ovevelt held a conference|the marriage will be when the Gail en: Recsevelt today with Judge Richard A. Raj-| learn of the strange trip which the WA SHINGTON apt Vhat linger, of Seattle, Wash They | young people have just completed.) may » , arth - An ve ere pe See See ew ie oe RACING CONFERENCE the Hearst charges age de knov N. Haskell, goverr f mode knows (By United Press.) and asurer of | - NEW ORLEAN La., Sept national comm G wih | FIRE IN HOME Arrangements were made today for da when W. ¢ H RnR ER ary neg | ®_ conference to be held at Ctncin-| weight the ws ee er bowes nat! next week, when the policy| bia, formerly United i i wt, shortly before noon toc} t2, be pursued by the racing inte hal in Ohio, called on ‘Ga aueed a nominal loss, The | este at New Orleans this winter | dent flames started in a pile of refuse. — Will be finally decided } Haskell was the first caller at the PRESIDENT TAKES HAND IN THE POLITICAL <.:, SITUATION AND WANTS LOTS OF NOISE for Divorce. MOTHER GETS CHILD. The mother of Frances Calvert, year-old child who was lost Leseht park yesterday. and who thought to have been deserted, a 1 at the police station aht and her daughter was ~ tored to her. YOURSELVES AND STIR ’EM UP” _ ROOSEVELT TO CAMPAIGN MANAGERS Archbold went over it and ected it and ft was all right, Roosevelt May Tour. nd that O AWAKEN PEOPLE. CHICAGO, it Frank H, Hite iblican national ch intimated that oda 1 he talked | Pre it may make a for a half hour. | brief tour, delivering sev- mentioned by Gov, C. | ¢ sses, and making rear M robal Y eches from his train. ; with) that there h ha at a ha the presi- ’ fe t to a know what stop th 31 ard OF osecution Roosevelt would decide to do in by bribe t atter, The in n was Hi te ‘ 1owever, that there is @ hat he had ‘ospect th Roosevelt wijl , cata wit Standard heard on the stump before elee ot ‘ a and that t re is a feeling of con- knew 1 Mont ie re among the Taft tate te. H 1 that H at this prospect as they be ell mit 4 Y t lat € the appearance of Roosevelt Governor ( f Mex e field will be the biggest pos- aa ; t calle ble advantage to the Taft cam- the presider ay. R algt first n } es " one Se Will Reply to Bryan ASH ON Secre W Houne t i t " t to him W Bryan, Owir ' oie tt © The Canadian Pacific railway hae uid tha ably w be met the cut in the Vancouver rates eve announced yesterday by the Puget basis ek in a Sound Navigation company, and BPE pa . ; will tonight send out the Princess j ye : see Royal at the reduced fare of $1.26 me , 6 with @ a round trip. The rate on the one agree Semen cn way-trip ile not changed. The new 2 ees ‘yh triangular service of the Canadian : , rigs arte Pe Pacific wae inaugurated this morn : : Salta ng. The change affords a round A = aylight trip to Victoria and return, he lawmake tO Re liate * f hi * SHUT-OFF NOTICE * inted ” * rh ted F * w at Hillman Cit om * th * 8 o'clock a. m, until lock ® a a hat } . * r Areh 1 i