The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 8, 1909, Page 1

THE STAR FOLLOW YOU #f you change you addroes, tell the carrier or telephine The gran. If you leave the city, let The Star follow you; » advance. Tel, Main 1060; Ind. 441, TH VOL. 11. NO. 38 R TURNS EVIDENCE OVER TO INVESTIGATOR toss” ( AN OBJECT LESSON igano a year if pale Bob Hodge Shows What Good Business Methods Mean But ore Kick JHE HOSPITAL PROBE. Commiasion. Demands a Thor- | i In spite of the fact that the new that the job could be done cheaper Jnvestigation of | nake oven now being installed in|than that, Hodge obtained prices | ty Institution. 1 tn lea 1 by Sheritt Hodge himooit and found that he could} Coun vs have the oven installed for $400. a will cost $200 leas than the price) “Accordingly, for the last. thre : : ; jsecured by County Purchasing days wagon loads of brick have public demand #6 StrONE | Agent Gus Jones, the county com of arriving at the jail and masons force the A of county | missioners will apply to the prose. have been at 7 The commis os we to adr that there | CuUBE attorney's office to have sioners were taformed of the mat for a general inquiry | Hodge restrained from continuing ter and the same old trouble arose i. oe anagement, | the work. This ts beeause Hodge The commissioners say. that the * care and cruelty on | tired of the delay Incident to the purchasing agent should do the buy those harge, the | methods of buytug by Jones tug in order that the county might a of tions at the Sixty days ago Hodge asked that save money by competitive bids “eal was taken up| 4 NeW bake oven be installed. Jones! Jn this c r, the method taxation ittee of the | Was notified In accordance with the of buying t ch the purchasing | ", ce thie after | regular method. Jones finally se agent seems to & matter of ex cured a price on the bake oven, pense, instead of a saving for the ver to the com-| Which was $400. Feeling assured county. otters and other mismanagement t of those tn ution, and the the com avita and other that the tn phe as thorough as the ane} a LT IN WHEAT PARENTS OF KIDNAPED BOY WHO WAS DROWNED ASKED TO PAY $3,000 OR DIE. le (ty Unltd Pree) ots noet axienaen FLINT, Mich, April @—It te stat- 4 ‘with the expectation of re | ed today that after the funeral EE TE RECEIVE: THREAT eit All Charge hed at the com is afternoon was tee to go to charge made, to give value received to whe are putting up| for « hospital where the B sadcor ym of every Probe the Poor Farm. B members of the committee the poor farm, Jocated about half a mile (By Cnlted Pree.) CHICAGO, April &.—Not satis cit y AT MERCY OF fied with his enormous profits made THE FLAMES — during the spectacular rise of the | the Beogital, tt at, [price of May wheat yesterday, | ae at the farm are among James A. Patten, the stock broker Dave complained at the who bas been quietly amassing | getorded them, and the thousands of bushels of grain re ‘of these county charges | Cestly. continued today to unload im the committee's is holdings. Patten made approx! | mately $1,600,000 in May wheat yes | 1 | terday. Ee the tax commaly | Wild econes attended the opening chair. Of the exchange today. Every neck} MANCHESTER, oar 1, Aprit B—This city is aimost certain Yo be destroyed by « conflagra- tion sweeping over an area in the southern portion, ten blocks jong by four biecke wide. The fire being driven forward with arming rapidity by « J. @| Was cramed for the opening quota | gale. J. Col ton on May wheat, $1.25%. and as) Fire departrnente from Polson, C. S. Miller, S00u as it was posted Patien be-| Naehus, Lowell and Concord are assisting the local compa- Ww . came the center of attraction. W. 8 Forrest nies, Moffatt, secretary of the) At nooo there was a great sen ca . |sation when it dipped to $1.24%.| — ———— fake falling off was only temporary land it climbed back to $1.25. The © | Patten interests sales during the }morning were so large that a0 esti: | 4 D | mate could be made of their totai E 1 Aner After setting another bigh- on | H.24%. (won UNCONSCIOUS a MORNING AND BARELY ES. record of $1.28% shortly after noou, wheat dropped under the heave | Overcome by imineting «as, . BUMS Fe he inadvertently turned on, selfing of the Patten interests and / lelosed near the low figures of | POLISH ACTRES AWAY AFTER SUF- SIX DAyYs. Calted Pree > Se a Apri 6 habe days © ore Bright's pm eahiehion, Madeahe Samuel Hail, a machinist, nearly the great Polish- leame to hin death this morning tn T \ passed away & room at 110 Seventh av home on Newport) Twenty-seven women, charged) When discovered by C. M. Hayes, ‘@elock thie morning. [with betng @isorderty persons and|the proprietor, Hall w still tious woman ai ber | loitering around saloons, were « | breathing The unconscious man | . yo husband, the Count | rested between 7 o'clock Inst night| WS taken to the city hospital where attendants state recover. Halli came to Seattle a few days ego from Salem. Obio. It ts said he was drinting last night and in the confusion turned on the gas tin of the electric owitel SNATCHES A PURSE and 4 o'clock this morning In a raid engineered by Police Bergeant Clar ence Carr and Patroimen George Humphrey and Pete Christensen. The women were taken from lode ing houses and saloons in th end of the city, Ball in t 25 was furnished by the w |nearly every cane. TO GRAVES ‘SHOT DOWN IN THE E SEA | COLD BLOOD (By United Pree) and her ee Ratph Mm Who have been in alrnost Mitendance at the sick bed it Dr. J. R. Boyd, Murty, @ trained nurse. Sttendant who has been for “Apri * “Kecording to Riga, the stoamers| GOONSTANTINOPLE, April 8.— SOA Ie ray chasing the fee Hasean Fehmi Effendi, editor ot | After bumping into Miss Minnie Grified to sea with hum the Liberal newspaper Serbesti,| Richardson, at Fifth av. 8 and that be will| |GIVES FARMERS AND LAST EDITION SEATTLE STAR LE, WASH,, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, PRICE ONE CENT 1909. FORGER LAUGHS OFFICERS AND LAW | HEIRESS, AFTER A DIVORCE, HAS TWO CITIES “ALL WORKED UP” YOUNG BOY COMES A BANDIT DEPUTIES LONG CHASE. | THis! DECISION ) | | men on it, have re-| was shot and killed by an unknown | Main st, early last evening, a brought back forty dead man as he was entering his of-|roughly dressed stranger backed up in the water. tice, jaway and started to run. Miss Out to sea the berx, A government officer accom-| Richardson thought the stranger's and hundreds of the) panying the editor, was wounded. |actions rather queer, and then she Sank immediately to!the crime Is believed to be po-| discovered that her purse, contain being too numbed jjtical, The Berbest! has been car-| ing $22.50, war m eins. to make @ struggle rying on a campaign against the hinte the water. Riga rere of union and progress. | ity of mourning TIMBER DEAL “MILLIONAIRE’S WIFE IS L ARREST ALL | United Press.) TACOMA, April §—One of the — | been closed by which 13,000 acres. ment of public utilities ¢ Med Frese.) Jlocated In six townships lying iP iotations rot the ortbannene), 8 om " Aprit #.—"My|@long the Tacoma Eastern rail @verhead bridges and the husband has been cruel to me, and road's tracks, between Tacoma and i ilerectina & by {for that J ¢ filed my suit for|Batonville, has been purchased along the th water-| divorce. There is no other man in|from the Sitkum Timber & De the case. I fully expect large ali-| Yelopment company by Marvin future no more warnings mony Hughitt, Jr. D. K. and R. M, Jet imenetia after) This statement was made today | fries, of Chicago, and Robert H t & violation | bY Mrs. Martha Summers Myers,| Roys, of Saginaw, Mich. the price| the intention of | the beautiful wife of A. D. Myere,| paid being about $760,000, Boullion to swear millionaire and pioneer mining man | . te and have the offend- of Goldfield | AY HAL CHASE and ; cuted in the Before her marriage to the § |wealthy miner, Mrs. Myers was! tial Nominations Ban Diego | SHINGO» Ay &.—Prest today mate the following |TORPEDO BOAT SUNK (By United Press.) bile offices in NEW YORK, April §.—Officials KE. Sloan, gov- (By U 1d Frees.) of the New York American league ne, secretary of} LONDON, April &-—-The British | ciub stated today that they had r H. Campbell, associate | torpedo boat destroyed Blackwater | ceived no confirmation of the re BM the supreme court; A. I.| wi sunk off Dungeness, as the! port that Hal Chase, the crack first ih, United States attorney| result of a collision with the | sacker of the Highlanders, is ill of Bouthern district of Call |steamer Hero. The crew of the | smallpox and confined to the pest | Blackwater was saved ‘house at Augusta, Ga. to the 1 ates Petes of the proceedings of the|WISL#AM PAGE VICTIM.OF AC. | came to the United stat grand) jury. investigating © the CIDENT IN THE NW, P. side In the United ox. The body charges against former Judge M. J YARDS. ie at the Undertaking establishment Gordon. — of Butterworth @ Sona The supreme court aplit, five to : t three. New judges wrote both de-|_ Willlam Page, « marine fireman! Deputy< er Borthwick learned cisions, Judge Parker of Pierce de- {9 Feats old, was run down os that Page accompanied by an nies the writ, and Judges Mount, | Stir eh one by a aes eet 2 a h man when struck by the Crow, Chadwick and Gose vote with |e gwitch engine on Raliroad av. switch engine. GG. Biding, whc bis Bear Washington «t. late last nigt was In charge the switch engine m reman we aken © ’ € at Page's np Judge Morris of King said the Fo a per ; » an phe rs ee s pan writ, should issue, that Jndge| ars eh sees tx also struck at the same Hueneke ie interfering with the le theory Pity, Steg antares the | tienes” The etranaye _tisappeared al duties of the prosecutor, and) ™ mpers found in his pockets, | and not been see a i Dunbar and Fullerton ap-|..P rom par nd it pocket A hae t been seen since, It | Judges Dun Deputy Coroner William = Borth- | thought that Page and bis com prove this dectston | Wiek fearned th Page was a na- panion w r the influence of Chief Justice Rudkin is out o i ot County Kid Ireland. He! tiquor when run dowr lthe elty, but it is understood that seca a he stands with the minority - alisha Aabclialbelioh cos ~ CA nt iS TODAY A * * * BANK CLEARINGS, + * 8 . * Clearings toe ind & Balances od ee ee * Tacoma */FRENCH GOVERNMENT HAS aay bets ony ganda * Clearings today, ..% tre ORDERED HIM TO LEAVE Bs te rumabed ‘bees thet: < # Balances PORT DE FRANCE has succeeded in chartering a steam * Portiand ind | er at ar ican port * Clearings today. . $2 307,00 #| = he will way tt * Balances 301,768.00 # | (By United Press.) al cretieatien Tésesy * #! PARIS, April &—The government | pathizers in Vencauela, Rae REEMA) codiy received an official report | ually start a revolution from the governor of Martinique erthrowing Unknown Man Dead stating that former President Castr It is generally An unknown man, apparently}of Veneguela, was at Port de Ca will dey about 64 years old, was found dead| France, and the foreign office tr reaching Ve ae in his cabin at Black Diamond this| mediately cabled a decree that he ements of the 5 re t morning, according to advices re-|be expelled fron (wand, pure | Is landing at any of the ceived by Coroner J. C. Snyder, Aj quant to an agreement reached t * hich I t out | deputy cor r 1 investigate this = afternoon, ‘ Abera » weheol oa SCHOOL CHILDREN ':..'s\ <0 82's Boss Barbers Freed y before re and hun Two juries in the police goure ARE INJURED dreds of pupils were partly buried lrefused to find Charles Heady and in the debris which crashed through J, B, Shrewsbury, barber shop pro eee the roof. Only one Ittle girl was prietors, guilty of allowing patrons (iy United Press.) fatally injured | to be shaved in their shops on Sun- LONDON, Ont., April &—Dur The 200-foot chimney of the Free | day. ing & torrific windstorm the chim-! Pres# building was also demolished. | loision was filed this morning ine | famous cas Wallace Oldts, of Seattle, s Short But Excit- @ Bandit Career. Fired by an ambition to aee'the country, Waliace Oldts, 14 ‘yeare id, ran away from his home at 126 19th av, N. Inst Friday morn. ing and started on a cross-country tour whieb had all the elements of boyish nerve and speed while It lasted Embarking on the King cousty| MRS, LENA SEFTON WAKEFIELD AND ONE OF HER SONS. every care and attention | Harold Moon, the bey whe hid- | ferry from Madison park, the boy} eondition may demand HIGH PRICE RECORD "0 from thie city Feb. and| landed at Kirkland, on the enat BAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April § | courts, which have been abundant by several mem: | whose body was found Im the lake| shore of Lake Washington, and |—The exclusive social sete of two Of late to the meeting this aft REACHED TODAY = [at Deiavan, Wis, the parents re-| promptly hired a horse and busey | Gatitornia cities aro all abuse © Mrs. Wakefield is now in San Di . that the committee simply 1 ICA! ceived @ letter purporting te come} from W. H. Starke. Wallece told | 5, * exo with her family, She ban been the matter from a stand IN CH! GO. from the kidnapers stating that the| Starke that he waa going to Helle |'* Bws that Wm. A. Wakefield. there for six months, having left @xpense and management | wee boy wae drowned because the ran-| vue to see his father and would re } Millionaire clubman of San Fran- her husband here, Her suit was t of county hos fom of $500 was not placed tn the/ turn in time to catch the 6 o'clock /@ist>, has been sued for divorce filed in that city only after Wake but thie idea was com) Wheat Soared to $1.2844, hiding place at Delevan, aeoording | ferry | by hia wife, Lena Sefton Wakefield, [eld bad made determined efforts SS eS el Then Closed at Low aie wotier aie tenn: toe fath Tries to Goll ene H Callfornia hetress who has.tre Coume. ‘Mrs, Waketiela, hes enn mane treatment of pa ne id that the father . i coup id op much, if not more, tn Fi was responsible for the death of his| . lpetead. the youth drove to Palle laugutiy been re t as “Ban the children with her, and they are taxpayers than is & igure. son, and threatened the family um-| THY, & distance of 17 myn aad ls most beautifal woman. carefully guarded at all times. of dollars and cents j tone $3,000 was poid. there attempted to dispose wan so] The Wakefields were married six outfit to a farmer for $10. Palting) 5 m Sivoren complaint 4 © oCe being one in this, Wallace turned the horse | a ty Med tm San Diego and the the occasion betng on years ago, tale of the charges inet of the Coast's big society events to pasture and waiked te North Wareneid have been carefully and! Miss Sefton brought to the union # Rend, where he hired Beige to'this time successfully guard. large fortune which had been given horse and busgy a The report, published by a local her by her father, who bad iarge Petving south to Issaquah, » die | Sbayaper that Mrs. Wakefield banking and property interests in tance of about eleven miles, the Giises several prominent San Fran. San Diego, Chieago and this city youthful runaway attempted to ell | ceo women as corcepondents, and nds of the family have the second outfit, but no farmer 19 | § gent) by ihe millionaire clubman known for some Ume that Mrs j that region desired to buy | @f-all his wife's charges, has k Sefion had taken the children and Wallace then unhitched the horse br society gossips of Ban Diego had wo her former home in and left the antmal to roam at will San Francisco on thelr Uptoes, San but the news that she Fetering a barn near leeaquah, the 2 the belief that the case bide fair had # walt there set the gos boy picked out 4 good road Borse ty rival Gan Franctéco’s most sep sips to busting and they bave been land baggy, bitched up and was soon | Setlonal events of the divorce buseing ever since on hie way to Tolt “etn manent snatipersecueananis pounetiin = An Exciting Chase. In the meantime Deputy ad Pd Hamlin was notified of Wal lace’s conduct and he gave chase.) Afver following the youth 12 miles; ; | fording streame and making hie} | way through thick forests, Deputy | Sheriff Hemiin found Wallace dry | ing his clothing in the boiler roe | ot a ewy mill. He was brought to; Seattle today and will be taken be WASHINGTON.—Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, appeared on the fore Superior Judge Frater for pan )floor of the senate for the first time since the operation ‘ ixhment, The boy's father I J. lwent in Baltimore several weeks age W. Oldts, an employe of the Mo — Dougall & Southwick Oo, of this LYONS, N. Y—Little progress was m today in the trial of j city ia Gampeon, accused of the murder of her husband. Members at her family testified but ssid nothing damaging. Mre. Sampson ap- pears confident of her acquittal, WASHINGTON.—The senate today in executive session confirmed @ appointment of Harvey P. Sullivan toe the the ind district of Alaska. AURORA, lit.—After terroriz! the neighborhood, John Ander. son, @ recluse, shot and killed Mre. John MeVicker and wounded Mrs. donn Béiford. He then committed suicide. CASE SUPREME COURT SPLITS IN ALBANY, N. Y.-The assembly today killed the famous Hugh direct primary bill, which the governor had designed to put an end to - vane in state wre Mant E MAN MANGLED HELD AT SPOKANE, (My Calted Press) OLYMPIA, Apri! &.—A formal dé wherein Proséoul Attorney Pugh of Spokane coun asked the supreme court to Superior Court Judge Hueveke permit Pugh to take stenographic ARE YOU GOING TO MOVE? Don't forget phone The Btar to give the carrier your new address or tele Main 1050 or The Star be de you no matter Ind. 441 will livered to where you go. AT BOASTS THAT HE HAS PAID THOUSANDS OF | DOLLARS FOR PROTECTION AND THAT HE WILL ESCAPE, | scdotilicnecsbpini Judge Gordon Rushes Hearing Through on Short Notice and Liberates Man Known to Be a Clever Criminal. After stating when he was arrested that he had paid thousands of doliars for police protection nal, but @ high-class man who never touched anything but big game, and that he never would be convicted, Joe Gladney, self-confessed forger, was yesterday hurriedly arraigned in Judge Gordon's court, and after a brief hearing was dismissed from custody that he was no petty larceny crimi- Sheriff Hodge Deputies Zimmerman and Freeman, who worked lon the case, are w convinced that there was more truth than brag jin Gladney's co jon and claim } 6 ne of gang of forge who broke into the office of |the Maple Valley Lumber spany, stole blank checks and afterwards filled them out in varik sums and passed them at Kenton. There were four in the Renton operation, Gladne Jim Clifton, alias F, G, Gilman, Mrs. Clifton, and one Hart Culprits Are Arrested in Everett. The theft of the checks and the forgery were reported to the sheriff's office in Seattle, and to the police department. Deputy Zim- While he was still working Clifton rgery charge. Zimmerman againet whom there was not much to Seattle and locked him up in the Mrs. Clifton was arrested in Seattle. t in the King aunty jall, Sheriff Hodge and Deputy eded in securing a confession from Hart. Hart told of meeting Gladney and Mr. and Mrs. Clifton in a saloon in Seattie. He was asked by Clifton to go to Renton with Mra. Clifton, and at a certain hour of the night to meet Gladney and Clifton im the Third This Hart did merman was detatle land Hart went to Everett upon the case were arrested Ip Everett on a fo) Hart back and brought evidence in the I King county jaf! After aw verett case Later k's Imprisonm Limmerman succ Rall saloon. Hart Tells In Detail of the Crime, they company's checks, Clifton arrived brought with them the which they said they lumber company's office. In a beck One of them The checks were then cashed in Renton when the third check was passed, This confession, dictated to a stenographer, and attested by wit- , nesses, is in the prosecuting attorney's office, Hart ie still in the county jail, and the sheriff's office is in possession of sufficient evi- dence to send Giadney to the penitentiary. When Giadney and blank Maple had secured by Vailey Lumber breaking into the Mrs. Clifton filled out these checks. indorsed room of the saloon himeelf Hart accompanying Gladney Hart says he 4 at Olympia, where he lives. Deputy Zimmer- mpla and brought him to Seattle. When he appeared Sheriff Hodge he smiled happen to him. j Gladney was a man got him in Oly in the shertff« blandly and boaste and was accosted by that nothing would ever He declared that he had spent thousands of dollars tor police protection, had the Olympia police department fixed, and would never go to jail for his crimes, He also declared that there was nothing cheap about him and that his work was of a high order. When Gladney was arrested In Olympia by Deputy Zimmerman he much surprised and asked Zimmerman if the police de a knew that he had come after him. Zimmerman and asked why appeared very | partment in Olym replied in the negative, ecause,” replied Gladney, “if the police of Olympia had known that you were coming after me you never would have got me. it would have been tipped off and | would have given you the slip.” That Gladney was possessed of friends and influence became appar- ent the following day, when H. ©. Gil! appeared in the superior court im an effort to have him released on habeas corpus proceedings. This | effort failed, however, and an hour or two later Attorney Gill appeared in the sheriff's office with a $1,000 bond bearing Justice Carroll's 0. K. When asked by Sheriff Hodge why Judge Gordon, who had issued the warrant for Glad had not approved the bond, Mr. Gill said Gordon could not be found, and as they were in a hurry they had gone | to Justice Carroll ® arrest, Rush Jobs Rushed in This Court. Yesterday, during the noon hour, at a time when it is unusual to hold court, the sheriff's office ified at 12:15 o'clock that Gladney was about to be arraigned before Judge Gordon, and that they had better get right down with their witnesses Deputies Zimmerman and Fi was 0p reeman, accompanied by Hart, went at once to Judge Gordon's court. The judge upbraided them for keeping him waiting and asked them to notify Sheriff Hodge that he would not stand for delays of that sort. The judge was told that the first notice of Gladney's arraignment had been that received over the telephone just a short time before Deptity Prosecuting Attorney Lundin appeared for the state. He knew nothing whatever about the case, never having talked with anyone in the sheriff's office about it, and was totally ignorant of any of the details or any of evidence in the possession of the sheriff. Because of the lack of time it was impossible for the sheriff's office to secure {ts witnesses from Renton, or to, In any way, p are its case for presenta tion, and after a brief hearing Gladney was discharged Gladney’s boast, made when he was taken to the sheriff's office three weeks ago, that nothing would happen to him, had come true, and the self-confessed forger and bunco man, who boasts of having operated all over this part of the country for many years without molestation, smiled as he smiled at the county jail, and walked out of the court room to freedom WOMAN ENDS A LOSING FIGHT FOR EXISTENCE SHE FAILED TO GET WORK AND night by : bam ee te HAD BUT FIFTEEN woman had ended her life several CENTS LEFT hours before, No person in the hotel heard the report o: the gun, due, no doubt, to the fact that she Covering her t had wrapped bedclothes about her ing, Mrs. Minnt head before pulling the trigger Moore, pressed the muzzle of a Among the woman's effects was caliber revolve » her right temple found a letter addressed to her and pulled the trigger In a room| brother, John Aaronson, at Lima at the Paxton hotel, Third ay. and| Montana, The gist of the letter Chorry st, last night |was to the effect that her brother That the young woman came to! would probably bear the expense of Seattle under the {mpression that | the funeral she would fall into @ lucrative po-| From an investigation by Coro sition 18 the theory advanced by|ner J. C. Snyder It was learned Deputy Coroner Wiliam Borthwick, | today that the woman came here who took charge of the body. The | from Nampo, Idaho. The hotel reg small sum of 16 cents was found | ister at the Paxton bears the name among her effects of “Mrs. Minnie Anderson, Chica. The body was discovered late last | gc ——