The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 19, 1909, Page 1

¥S MORE EXPO TEN PAG UNTIL THE A.-Y.-P. SITION OPENS VOL, 1 FINANCIAL KING ROGERS 3 OF 1S Partune Ww hich Is Eatimated at Fifty _—- ell Palted Prove) May 19 om of the financie ler grOW " id wot known fh na be was at Dis and bis death bis business 4» was announ< death, He we Pelock this morning for some tine and Useless. was stricken, the Mra SUDDENLY STRIC | servants, | + Edmund Fowler, the | to the Rogers feaponded to the jos, but when eae that there was the aged finan poor health bi suf ich re \ 3 rumor that he had bere th * He retired star meget: ® 7 to bie 1 to be In a eer peteral years fow weeks had be medical treatment been taking con * bie Record. withdrew from | With the Standard he war vieo ae well as wiest atock his attention of the Virginia ie con) fields to tide the road, which | remarkable lines returned to New and a month | mummer home at He rested there and thes came business affairs. With O11. of age, hav ven, Maws., amp he sold Masa. and career as Beneral store, Wealth came! ed in Pen ed rapidly to Worth many mil rs at the «i time of bis Offices. vice “gel it Oi Com ‘ a Tiiipecostes, e te ‘Transit com- jond Light and Tatlway Fuel Gas com- Transit company. trustees of the Mining company, nd director of the ‘Gas company. vice United Metal Setl- f tfustee of the Mutual [eolipany and director COmpanien, including 4 Bteel corporation, | Topeka & Santa Fe The Union Pacitic & Member of the Fine the New England eo- Miseum of Art, ree Museum of Natu-| Gabe were the Latos, Engineers. | fad the Metropolt- town, which he pre bullding, town Church, He spent Mere gifte He be on, Page “Weven, BANDITS arTURED = Phe police, and the big ye here by M confess that to the | 8 fever rth un Pidigeredity thc te at Deer he has 1 tn¥eatigate. 7 tion betw and the Apparently the Fewards haw ox bay riv tlyairies IP GOING SISSIPPI Hed Prews) eee la, May 19 early hour at which pp! steamed Rouge, the With enthae bad turned out luek to thone ik the battle ind hegan th ‘ary up the hot leten Park here is 1 the ad aad fae mag: | HENRY H. ROGERS, Famous Financier Who 0! #. Apoplexy 17 This Morning THE BIG SHOW IS HERE; - EVERY BOY ON THE JOB: It's Norris & Rowe's cireua, too you know, the good one, and NORRIS & ROWE CIRCUS AR. / RIVES IN THE CITY TODAY. afternoon. The big cirows is here. More stunts, more extra good turns, mo animals, more trapese, more pe nuts, and more pink lemonade than ever before. And jast you wateh | | It's arrove, you beteher life! If you didn’t know it any other way, | you could tell it by the kids in the | vietnity of Repubtieas «t. Why, not & single school within a mile of the block but bad Ite long Mat of tre ants this mofuing There were jmore applications to tote water for the elephant than ever was koown tm the bistary bet Seattle. == KIRBY WILL BE THE NEW N. M. A. PRESIDENT (ty Unived Brews or, which are sald to be an nevere NEW YORK, May 19.—John Kir- we thowe expressed by Van Cleave by, Jr. president of the Dayton Man- jufheturing company, waa reported as/ committee was the eholce of the nominating com’ choice. } mittee for presklent cf the National) In presenting the report of the Manufacturers’ association, which is) committee Chairman Parry paid # in sexkion here. Kirby will sueceed | bigh tribute to Van Cleave. da « W. Van Cleave, who refused; The retiring president was pre- tc pt re-election. sented with a bronze tablet, a ruby y wan selected by the com-/atekpin and a check for $10,000 by wont of his views on| the association. is the biggest yot, and the ponies and the dogs and the band are all the best ever. Going? Well, what dyou think? Three times If pos sible. Sea seme | unanimous im ite - FREE SPEECH IS DENIED ON FREE Speeca Is BER tinued to speak and paid little at- tention to the police. He refused to give his name The police took no summary action, but the speakers will be eunmoned to police court. Several days ago Magietrate Will (ily United Press.) VANCOUVER, B, €., May 19—A clash occurred last night between atreet sponkers and a squad of po- lice, Several hundred people gather- ed on the corner of Hastings and | Carroll streets, following an an- | nouncement that a free speech meet- ing would be held in defiance of the police. Police ordered the crowd to disperse, ond Jeers and hoots re- jeulted. L. T. Engliah, who was de- hbo an addreme at t ime, LEGAL FIGHT IS ON = OVER SPRECKELS’ WILL will cig ee RE exactly the causes of the 19, former estrangement between him and Rudolph and Claus A, That fe a matter that never has been made publie. The move of the executors in anking for a distribution of th tate waa unexpected to us,” he tinned, “So waa the filing of the will only eight hours after my father's death.” In reply to a question concerning his present relations with his pett tioning brothers, Spreckels said I ha spoken to F Claus A, for fourteen y I think Adolph has. we pb Nica to.” street speaking, and the meeting last night 1# a consequence Discrimination In favor of the Salvation Army is alleged. The speakers all sharply criticined Mactenrete Won Williams. a } (By Cnlted Pree) |} SAN FRANCISCO, May That John D. Spreckels and Adolph | Spreckels will fight to the bitter lend the petition of thelr brothers, for a partial { the late is be Rudolph and Claus A distribution of the esta sogar king, Claas Spre Heved here today John D. Spreckel | cesday for San Diego. Beto departure sald This proceed ing has m started with no idea of a compromise, It is a macter oft principle, and there can be no set thoment. If the question of undue | eens Nee rand my father arises, we TAFT AT DEDICATION OF MEMORIAL MONUMENT half hi Neither are cents Ree to Fort Mahone a mile away In hin address President dwelt upon the better understand ing between the North and South brought about by the lesson thei confilet The president's party then return in the etvil war, od to Petersburg, where they attend erected by Ponnaylvenia and Pre) oq @ reception this afternoon and leonted today by Gov. Stewart, of} will be guests at @ banquet tonight | that state, 40 Virginia. Gov. Bwan-} Late tonight they willgse to Char- son formally accepted it on be f | lottoavilie to celebrate The anniver- jot this states sary of the Mecklenburg declaration Upon hie arrival here the preei-jof independence. The president ts (By United Press) PETERSBURG, Va, May Taft today avsieted in of dedication of the Fort 19. Taft | Proaident the ceremony | 440,000 monument erected at taught Mohone to the Pennsylvania soldiers) in The monument was dent dedicated a tablot to the locay accompanied by Mra, Taft, Capt, army corpm hy ceremony fook | Putty, hie milltary aldo, French Arm plnce at Fort Steadman. At the con-|basnador Juaserand hia wife} cluaton of the: dedication he and Assiatant Becretary Mischler, started putting up the big tent this! the parade tomorrow. The big tent) in his annual address yesterday. The | jame fined T. M. Beamish $100 for! SEATTLE, WASHING ONE DEAD TWO HURT BY CAVE-IN |WORKMAN’S HEAD IS CRUSHED BY CLAY Were at Work Beneath Residence at Fourth and Spring One man was killed and two #6 |riously injured when several tons }of hard pan clay caved in at Fourth hav. and Spring shortly after 10 j Mt the head that death waa al j#everely crushed foot, and Steve serious, Both injured ta € k thie morning Hartedt was so badly crusted | | most Instantaneous. Peter Kostoronbee sustained a | Miki wos crushed about the abdo men, His condition is regarded as taken to the Beattle General hos pital Had No Warning. The men were working beneath |a raised residence when, without | warning, several tons of hard clay} | crushed t to the ground. | Hartedt was k on the head by | 4 masse of the hard pan, Hite skull) was crushed into an unrecogntz able mass, P. H. Ammidown Is the contractor in charge of the work A dirt wagon at the foot of the | 8. tile morning and were preparing | eee clay bank prevented the escape of | the laborers, The elay hard pan was) of such a solid that it was not thought there was much danger and no shoring had been ected now had other means of Y provided, At 10.8 tomorrow morning Coto nn ner Bnyder will gation Inte the death of Ole Hart- edt, killed tn the cave-tn at Fourth and Spring this ning. The hear- ing will be held in the Butterworth jpart oe. TICE IS METED OUT y Ualtes Prem.) AREBRI Wash, May 19— Damon Halferty was held up shortly) before midnight ae he was in the set of entering his home on East Eighth «f. Halferty at once notified the poliee and Chief Dean put all hie avatiable meg on the chase, Within 20 minutes after the crime wax com- mitted one of the highwaymen had} been locked up in the city Jall. The prisoner gave his name as Prank Ow- trander taken to Montesano, Where Judge Irwin, of the superior court, sen- teneed him to a five-year term in the penintentiary “ASK ME” PINS WILL BE WORN For the better directing of strangers In the city, all Beattleites will be asked to wear “Ask me” pins, providing the plan of the Seattle Commercial club do not go astray. “Ask moe” ping are rather large affairs, with the two words printed tn Jargeained type, and with @ large red question mark (7) fn the center, Strangers seeing this pin on the lapel of one’s coat will know | that the wearer of the badge ls ao | hotels. Reo the pins made, and intends making | Rood use of them. LORD ROBERTS (Hr United Pre LONDON, May 18. riation of the politicians of Great Britain who have regarded the Hritish army an # party puppet, and denuncta {ae of the people for apathy to- |ward the nation’s defense, falling| from the lips of Lord Roberts in debate before the houre of lords, is the subject today of amaged and | indignant discussion in army circles and public prints, Our army {# a sham no army,” exclaimed the fleld mar shal, commenting upon the Duke of Bedford's motion for an inquiry into the condition of the reserve, We have} RTH THE WEATHER, Fair Tonight; Thursday Fair ®| * and Warmer; Light West *| * Winds, * PeTeeeeeeeeeeeen) JEANIE AT KETCHIKAN, * * * * A dispatch by wireless trom | Ketchikan states that the tug Tyee! arrived with 8. 8. Jeanie In tow at 5 p. m. last night, and that she left jatS p.m NEW HARVARD PRESIDENT, CAMBRIDGE, Mass, May 19. Charles W. Eliot laid aside his du ties as president of Harvard uni-| versity yesterday, after holding that position for forty years, Abbott Lawrence Lowell ame president today. TODAY'S TREASURY REPORT. (fy United Pres) VASHINGTON, May 19.—The treasury report today shows: Recetpte, $2,227,611; diaburee- orn were | conduct an inyeatts | He pleaded quilty and wan) HE BARELY ESCAPES A LYNCHING ANGRY WORKMEN AT- TACK AN EMPLOY- MENT AGENT Claim That He Beat Them on a Mean Swindle | | } Had it not been for the timely! arrival of Patrolman Jennings, Joe | Martinikavich, who says he t# an employment agent, might have been beaten to death by a crowd of angry Russians this morning at First av 8, and Washington ot When Jennings put in an appear anee, the crowd was growing more {ugly, and Martinkavich Was being |puehed and“ shoved about very} | roughly | Jennings whisked Martinkavich | away to jall while the angry Rus slana followed with tales of woe. A Mean Swindle. According to the Russians Martinkavich secured $2 from each of them in exchange for jobs Buedda, thie state, Twenty-five | the foreigners went to Rucoda, on! to find thelr jobs to be myths | They returned to Beattie determin ed @ punish the alleged swindler They enepuntered him on First av | ) | fo d6 things when Patrolman von 'ning# appeared. Martinkavich being held at the city jall Mey Be an investigation of the ch: A Waneh of receipts for $2 each | were offered as evidence by the | Kuswfana Bach receipt ts signed j witha the name of BE. W. Barring ton, “This name, the Russians say, was bigned by Martinkavtoh. smut BOY IS LED BY A TRAIN While playing along the tracks ‘ot the Northern Pacifie Railway | company at Lester, Wash. little Theofiore Raymond, the Dyearold son of Lg Raymond, was strack and fataily injured by train No. 3) at noon yesterday. | ‘The child was taken to the Green | River Hot Springs hospital, where | }it died several hours afterward, The ais Pv ores | | | | Will doubtless | that | pleted arrangements LAST EDITION tw races THE SEATTLE STAR GTON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1909 9. PRICE ¢ ONE CENT ARE YOU GOI NG TO MOVE? Don't forget to give the carrier your new address or tele phone The Star, Main 1050 or livered to you no matter where Ind, 441, The Star will be de you go VERITABLE EPIDEMIC OF SUICIDES RAGES IN CITY AN EVEN SCORE OF SUICIDES ARE a RE- CORDED IN SEATTLE SINCE APRIL 1 - - - - With the death of Smith this morning, the cide since April 1 was recor Volumes have re warding the probat it elde epidemics, and volumes more be written in the but in the end wil just what atmos or mental average years to come, wo ever know pherle condition tion increases the of suleides the year? One of the wausual feature thin lint of deaths by sutelde | in almost every f the 20 casos the age of the between 40 and condi numb at certain seasor Carbolic acid was the most por ee | ular md of pai and the vogue the ng be leaden bul next This 4 ght Uist of th by their ov r 1; Jame Harvie April April Jacob Moore oath w A. ¥ Harrison Apri 2 4 Harry Mra, Mir Zehnder April Paul Ballard Gill, May 4 &; Fred Foy Smith, May 1 Ollie Hughes May 19 Mra 4 Goodman Mre Kate May Shanghat” Smith PLAN WELCOME FOR JAPANESE FLEET Secretary Yandel! has just com for the wel coming of the Japanese officers and men upon thelr arrival to attend the opening of the A-Y-P. BE. Six ships of the Pacific feet which are coming to Seattle for the same pur pose Will steam to Tacoma and ow cort the Japanese vessels to Se attle op Sunday, May 30, The new steamer Hyak and the Kitsap have from the Transportation Co, to take visitors towards the straite when the Pacific fleet arrives, and the chamber has t arrangements to have their representatives on board the flagshap The harbormaster has agreed to patrol the sound so that small craft will not interfere with the operation of the larg boats, been chartered County Kitsap ee | AOKI’S BROTHER HAS DISAPPEARED (Hy United Prev.) BAN FRANCIBCO, May 19. The Rev. H. Aoki, former pastor of the Eptecopal Japanese mission in this city, and brother of Gunjiro Aoki, husband of Giadys Emery Aoki, has disappeared from this city and hie whereabouts are un known to ble congregation. It in wald today that the mem bers of the mission demanded his —, as their Pema asa IS SUSPECTED OF TRYING jrewult of the part he played in the romance of his brother and the daughter of Archdeacon Emery. A delegation ts said to have called upon the preacher after the mar- riage of hie brother In Seattle and scored him for not informing the Emery family of Gunjiro’s past ree ord. The Rev, Aoki, {t ls reported, ap- | pealed to Bishop Nichols, but his chemi 2 soon followed. EEE TO POISON HIS WIFE PLACED STRYCHNINE IN HEAD. ACHE POWDERS—WIFE HAS MONEY IN BANK, ‘Only witness of the accident was Firemin A. York, who stated that) the Aid was “paddling along the) track#, and was seen too late to) stop the train.” / fireman says the child was) throws high in the air by the loco motive and fell in a heap beside the | (Dy United Press.) BAN FRANCIBCO, May 19.—Ac. leused of attempting to murder his aged and wealthy wife because she wonld not give him her fortune, G Love, & plasterer, was arrested here today. Love, who Is 33 years of age, and 20 years his wife's junior, lmet Mra Love, then Mra. Victoria | quainted with the streets and the) ry Roos is having 2,000 of} STIRS ENGLAND | office, and Haldane _Jcompany has shipped to Seattle Loring, last Jane, through the me | dium of a matrimonial agency. This | was & year and 4 half after his en- Provision for the temporary care of efty and county consumptive patients ocenpled the attention of the board of county commissioners this morning. Counciiman Wardall and W. J. Barnard, of the tubereu- loals committee, appeared before the board today to attend a discus sion of whys and means for taking charge of the sufferers. The re wult will probably be that @ joint elty and county tuberenlar camp will be igstatied at the county hos pital Two proposals were submitted to the city's representatives providing for the eare of city consumptives. One was that the city would be al- lowed space on the county hospital grounds where municipal cases could be treated. Another was the the county would set aside seven acres of ground in the southern portion of the county, which, ac cording to County Commissioner | Carrigan, is especially sulted for | the purpose. ENGLAND TO HAVE AN AIR OFFICE” (Dy Lnlted Press.) LONDON, Pngland, May plans favored by War Minister} Haldane and other high officials) carry, Bngland soon will boast of} unique inetitution in the nature n “alr office.” The recent liritish awakening to the advisability of aeronautic ex poriaiente is reaching into the war and his aaso-} a deputy to investigate the care. leged #he had given Love. The case |and Mrs. Loring were married | were called into the case after an track. Coroner Snyder today dispatched T CARE FOR } Young Woman, who started sult for INSITE recovery of property she al- was finally settled out of court, and a few months later the plasterer | Love's arrest followed a careful investigation by the police, who lalleged attempt to poison Mrs. Love —_ Amend —— _ Headache pow TABLES | RESERVED IN| RESTAURANTS AND CAFES Several Proprietors Plan Special Decorations for Event and the k ones, next Sunday wil If nature does her part remaining days of this week are warm, sunny tho first of the their 19.—If| to be unfolding Just ready for the following evening Monday evening je the evening when almost everybody who Is any 1 town cafe, and thus help the fund that is being collec ald thore in Seattle who are # Ing from tuberculosls. ted to] ffer every mrace the table are The which T wendrons, roe clates are determined that England| The thododendron f t : | shall be brought from her present {that l# open, and plenty of the waxen y see to It that they dvancement In other Hnes, | Sehimtte will we apvan | place 1 to the best advantag BIG STICK com will present a very attractive picture hed Its anowy linen, glittering sliver Castle Rock Lumber & Logging| tiveness of the scene to| All the restaurants which have Jatlok of timber 166 feet long and 19|making special plans for Monday inches square, dressed on all sides, |ight, and the percentage which the turned out to see the timber, whieh | Will certainly be a goodly one. is only an ordinary apecimen of what] “Our dining room ia small,” sala of #0 good a cause and will do what we can.” lobscure position in the world of | buds, will be used t laeronauties to ® plane worthy of |In the Rathakeller big dining roo of thie cafe one of the best known in Seatt! CABTLE ROCK, May 19,—Tho | state's flower adding to the attrac }be placed ®n exhibition at the joined in the project of Have Your | Alaska-Yukon-Pagcitic exposition, a| Dinner Down Town Night," are I'he #tick was sawed at Ostrander, | Anti-Tuberculosis soclety will re Noarly overy one In Castle Rock|celve a# their share of the benefit Cowlits eounty can produc Manager Perry, of the Rainier —— - Grand, "but we are glad to be back Lowman Returns. J.D, Lowman returned from New With a chef that has made the dining room of the Rainter-Grand York jast might, where he has been » Uusiness for a few days, rhododendrons | body will dine tn their favgrite caved EROS to awell| and Manager Carl) gagement to Miss Grace Loveland, | * of Onkiand, was broken off by the | | | ders that Love was alleged to have given his wife were analyzed, and are said to contain enough strych. nine to cause certain death, A book describing poisons and their effect was found in the man's pocket at the time of his arrest. Mre. Love has a bank account of $10,000, besides considerable prop- erty, including her residence of Army st. and a sion, between 29th and 30th sts The prisoner is being held in| ‘ow of flats on Mis- | eed “SHANGHAI” SMITH IS LAST ON LONG LIST Loses Home, Child and Property, So Ends Troubles (Photo by James & Bushnell) Cc. P. SMITH, Three suicides are reported today. “Shangh. Smith took poison, Samuel E. Hughes shot and killed himself, and Ollie Corbin ended his troubles in the sound. Despondent because he had lost his home, his child and worldly goods through divorce proceedings which culminated yesterday, C. B. Smith, widely known to Seattle residents as “Shanghai” Smith, jend his Ife by swallowing a | quantity of cyanide of potassiam tn a room at the Brunswick hotel, | First ay. and Columbia st, last | __ | night The body was found this morn- ing by a chambermald. The re maine are at the undertaking es tablishment of Butterworth & Sons. |No arrangements have yet been made for the funeral. Lived in Beautiful Home. Smith lived in a beautiful home jat 115 20th av, with his wife and Syearold daughter Ruth until @ short time ago, when his wife start- ed yroceedings for a divorce, The papers were signed yesterday and | Smith was left practically penul- less. It is believed this act of¢ the ‘court preyed upon Smith's mind, until he determined to end it all. Known as a Crimp. Smith formerly was proprietor of a table at the Rainier-Grand unless jand that if everyone to close confinement, pending further the Labor Exchange saloon in the Investigation by the police. |lower end of the elty. This saloon |in the early days was the scene of KRRRRRRERRR KE many a mysterious occurrence, and * | many an involuntary deep-sea sailor BANK CLEARINGS, * /had reason, it ie said, to harbor Seattle, * | bitter thoughts againat Smith and Clearings today. ,.$1,507,835.26 % | his cronies. Balances . 4 131,172.69 *| Smith was known as one of the Tacoma. % | most notorious “erimps” of the Clearings today...$ 825,075.00 ®| early days, and he amassed a for- Balances . 77,627.00 *| tune, When he first came to Se- Portiand, *lattle he was a fine specimen of Clearings today.,.$ 990,761.00 % | manhood, but of late years a con> Balances 146,628.00 * | tinual use of whiskey undermined */a constitution that was once of BORK Ee x # xl ton. MANY WILL EAT TO AID TUBERCULAR PATIENTS known from one end of the Coast to| when they are made public the the other, putting forth hie best / trouble will be in deciding where to efforts to make Monday's dinner a! dine, for the cafes will all be equally success, there Isn't the ghost of a attractive. show of one's being able to secure The following have reserved tables tat the Butler cafe for “Take Your | Dinner Down Town Night": James jc lyde Gillespy and party of four, W. |D. Hofius and family, W. J. Grams and party of General Electric repre- sentatives, the reservation {s made at once. The plan to be taking,” raid Ma of the Butler, this morn ly I have had calls for tables for Monday evening. i¢ first reservation was made last | night by a friend of mine from New| York, Mr spy, he thought the idea an excellent one, ok to tt the lke the opening} seoms The f at the sowing have reserved tables Rathskeller:; Mr, and) Mra Louls Hemrich, Mr, and Mrs, HL Westerfelt, Mr, E. EB. Brehm, Mr, and Mrs, J. Goldie, Col, Cotton and nights of the grand opera season.” |Party, Mr. BE. B. Elis, Mr. W. B, Manager Sweeney, of the Savoy,|Dean and party, Mr, J. H. Owens that he will have his plans do- | at party veloped by tomorrow and a st of | The cafos that have joined in the his reservations by that time. Butler Hotel cafe, The Hotel Washington ts in Hne}Rainier-Grand hotel, Rathskeller, with ace for a dSavoy hotel, Washington hotel. HUTCHINS IS OUT ON A SMALL BOND MAYOR MUELLER IS REPORTED) Pr ae al TO BE SLIGHTLY SETTER len TODAY. Mueller aasanited A. H who sald cafes would look aye | movement are orations, ar ——==3 man re= 1 $100 ball here. ‘This waa and Hutehins was taken to jat Hutchins was in the county Prosecuting Attorney ed John Roberts, chief that Hutchine was wanted at refused | the Wh Mayor John a who morning by Mf Goorge Monday itehins, pro-| jal! Dey prietor of the Country Inn, was an-} Perry in being a trifle better to- | jatle town, wa E. nounced as day Ave min phor platnt tely day, News of his recovery 1s await-| Georgetown on a complaint filed ed with conalderable anxiety by the} with Justice Corey authorities, for Hutchins is now out} Jailer Roberts called up Justice on $100 ball rey and was amazed to hear the Yesterday habeas corpus proceed li jus state that Hutehins was not ings were Inetituted for his release i there and that no complaint from confinement, which was grant: | had been filed with him. ed by Superior Judge Gillam. [* Later in the when Sheriff Attorne® Rummins, counsel for} Hodge nailed Rummins down as to Hutchins, worked a clever scheme! who swore to the complaint, Rum- yesterday to Hutchins released he had tele- on a small bond, Hutchins was held AV Justice hat a com- under $5,000 bond by Justice! would be sworn to immedl- Brown, of this city, yesterday morn ing. Hence it wae that Hutchins wae Rummina, aided by the prosecut+ | taken to Georgetown and released on ing attorney's representative, John i $100 pail,