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HE SEATTLE SslA HIS WIFE’S VACATION. HOORAY! SS Now Doubts if| in Who Took Waif the Mother of the Lit- trange “i me at her pitiful story that be infant's mol! In the pre her state Re Wentity. | yu 1 can learn abe is not the child's “will inatituie legal pro regain possession of the ©. Short and Newell, made it today, after t er mind considerable | identity of the wom pw has the pretty 9 month was found last No beck porch of the who lives ed to Love the Babe. | took the infant tn, care, and regarded tt of her family until a when @ yc woman Bhort residence with a] fy that she was the moth iL The girl told of tn fie the abandonment of the the Short residence that parent's te fo think for the the gir! really was the if. jaa strengthened by 1 paid $125, the Mrs. Short for the ‘Paring the last eight % Asa result Mre/ it over to the care of Visitor. ut I placed myself thinking that ff 1/ for the return of my | want my prayer grant. d Mrs Short. “I did he woman's story then, | am Inclined to ected ht have learned the In- abandonment fn some | n being the mother of That} | child's mother? that troubles me, for the baby that I will feturn with all my) Dean only learn that it) ‘me by a woman oth. | ft. |Astonished. peertain—that I lov. | Barve it the best of | “ Was greatly aston-| woman returned) jay to ha talk did not look like the i. for its dresses were Were other. evt-) i it hadn't been given the| & I hardly know what the whole matter. ity fair. but I shall not the truth concern- , of the law firm » who represents of the child, when 8 statement to- at there could be no id’é parentage. ; btedly the ‘ebtid, and this fact “proved,” said he. Grandmother. of the girl to father, he said, he mother of the here from Call-| few days, when he to arrange for the) re care of the however, Mra. fo make a thorough | And is going to the has learned *to| as her own fleah Ban, cpportun ity her} ‘ ve, even If she} Mato court to bring It! for the Who is one of the 23 the ©. ©. Conningham lands in the Katalla mm, today reiterated deeply interested in Secretary Ballinger ration a plan to Comningham Alaska 60,000,000 tona of He declares that Weitries were made in| asks for an investt ge that they were ERS JUST KIDS. | 16.—| the Santa | Friday neither » Cal, Aug nd Fred Carr P Rho robbed lant With thelr Were 5 eee eee ATTENDANCE adi» - ‘ * * * * * * * ss 28 + A087 176 PER e ne | the jshould be put to death by ehloro- jrecogniced by the chair. | thing. | tire morning session followed the }reading of @ paper written by Dr. jing that confirmed : | wtage SEATTLE ee ee ee. "MY WIFE HAS Gone To Tag COUNTRY HURRAY! HURRAY! © Poet We RECOMMENDS THAT FEEBLE MINDED This Woman Makes Sensa-| tional Talk at Meeting of Prison Association} Here Today. ‘That every Inmate of instituttons in the United States matntained for | care of the feeble minded form waa the recommendation made at this morning's session of| the American Prison Congress by | Mrs. L. R. Kastwood, a delegate from South Dakota. “Chioroform all those persone of feeble minds and put them out of the way,” she declared, after being Her first remark was greeted by laughter from a number of dele gates, but when the speaker con-| vineed her listeners that she was deeply interested in her subject and was not indulging In any idle talk they sat back and listened in- tently to what she had to say, “I have actually seen children tm those institutions who were un- able to ask for what they wanted,” she continued. “I have in mind a partioular case of a young man 21 years old. He was absolutely belp- less. The only sign of intelligence he could give was an occasional |twist of the head or some similar motion whenever he wanted any- I think it would be just and proper to end the existence of such }persona. I am heartily in favor of weh a plan. I further suggest that a board be pinted In the regular way to administer the chloroform.” Discussion that consumed the en | H. C. Sharp, former surgeon of the Indiana reformatory, recommend- criminals be subjected to an operation depriving | [them of their power to extend jthetr infirmities. The discussion continued In spite of the protest of FP. H, Milla, of the prison de | partment of New York state, FEARED OPERATION DONT NEED IT NOW (iy Coed iy Caned Prem) WASHING: JN, Aug. 14.—Fear- ing she was to be “carved up,” Grace McDonald, negress, 19, leap ed through a window at Emergency hospital yesterday and escaped. The girl was captured and returned to the hospital. ‘The negress thought she was suf- fering from internal injaries, She) was placed on an operating table, and when a physician entered with an instrument in his hand the girl ed, attired only in a night gown. After she had been returned to the hospital the physicians said she | was well enough to go home, and abe was discharged, no ill effects having developed THAAS-MISSISSFP CONGRESS MEETING (My United Pree.) BR, Colo, Aug. 16 | later of the delegates to the! | trans Missiasipp! Commercial con | gress, which convened here today, | leenters in the various movements “conservation of the publie domain.” Many of the delegates) will go from here to Seattle next week to attend the conservation CONBTERR. It is understood that a strong etiort will be made to prevent the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy from entering the debates at the con- gress, but it appears that there Is little chance of excluding It, SHOOTS HUBBY WHO DOSEN'T LIKE THEATRE (ny United Brew.) ATLANTA, Ga, Aug. 16.—De cause he refused to take her to} the theatre, Mre. C. C, Downs fired two shots at her husband, she told} the police. Neither took effect Mra. Downs was formerly on the She said she repeatedly avked her husband to take her to} a performance, and that his nu} merous refusals caused her to take drastic action, | DE Chiet | Concrete Block Collapses, WINNIPEG, Aug, 16.--A concrete apartment block known a8 tho Bredalben” being erected here col- lapsed Saturday evening. Heavy rains had moistened the concrete wo that the steel girders gaye way. }and there's no getting married over jagain some few years late BE PUT TO DEAT. ROCHESTER GIRL WHO WAS MURDERED IN A CEMETERY . ANNA SCHUMACHER, MURDERED ROCHESTER GIRL. Anna Schumacher, aged 17, went to th metery at Rochester, N. Y., to pat flowers on her father’s grave, Then she went to a nearby aitar of the Virgin Mary to offer prayers, when whe was at tacked by a fiend, and murdered. The slayer buried her body in a clump of weeds near the cemetery. = NO TRIF. LING WITH D. CUPID, ESQUIRE LITTLE ONE HAD SOMETHING | UP HIS SLEEVE AND CRIME WAVE and you get stung, for love finds/ IN CHICAGO & way. SPRUNG IT, Since the prolonged discussion gix PERSONS ARE MUROERED over the legality of marriages per formed In oouver or other | AND EVEN TOOK THEIR points outside the United State OWN LIVES. borders, the wily matchmaker has been hard at work and, trust him, (hy Uoited Press) he's found a way. CHICAGO, Aug. 16.—8ix person: Marriages performed In forelgn| have beon murdered, seven ha: countries are legal, without que*| committed suicide, and the hoapit tion, provided they are witnessed | ais are crowded with heat vietima, by the American consulate, and, | ay — result of the hot wave that has bless your soul, he has to be there | enveloped Chicago for the Inst 36 on the job, and it doesn't cost you | pours anything either, The law provides! ‘The extreme heat, the police eny for it. Then a certificate of th¢ lig directly reapousible for the erlme marriage is sent by the consulate! wave from which Chicago ts now to Washington, D, ©. and filed I | putporing the United States registry office, | ering near 98 degroos, heat prostrations, in humerous cases of murders, have been Police and hospital am have been kept busy anawering jcalle. The suffering has } tense in the tenement district, where most of the suicides have occurred Although the thermometer ts closely pressing the 90 mark, the humidity ts less, and the heat not so Intense, Within 36 hours an expert Chicago accountant, after murdering his wife and son, blew out his brains, and a mother driven | Insane by the extreme Put your ‘Seas on the hot store| and It gets burned, Attempt to trifle with Dan Cupid | cores addition suleides reported to when you suddenly find, as is sometimes the case, that although you thought you were properly hitghed all the time, you wore sadly mistaken under the law. WOMAN AWAKENS 10 FIND SNAKE ON FACE: (By United Pres.) READING, Pa Aug. 16.- | the Awakened by something on her face last night, Mrs. John Me Knight, of Shartieaville, seized the object and was horrified to feel it aquirm in her hand. She hurled tt aside and ft fell upon the neck of her sleeping husband, who sprang out of bed with a yell of terror Then he jumped back In bed again. and for several minutes man and wife waited in pitehy darkness while they could hear something | gliding about on the floor, When} the nolse ceased McKnight got up| and Ht alamp, After a long search he found a blacksnake colled under sewing machine it was promptly 4 dispatched, WHITE MAN; HUNG. MONROE, La, Avg, 16.—John Stoner, & negro, sued a white man who killed his cow, and was lynch ed because of hin daring, The resi dents of Doss, near here, became angered because of the negro's action. The mob threatened him Thursday night and the hanging followed, heat killed | ther three youngest children, after she had attempted to wipe out the entire family, She then committed suleide by asphyxiation. These casen, according to the police, we caused by insanity, superindue j by the excessive heat DREAM CALLS. MAN TO DOUBLE. TRAGEDY FINDLAY, 0., Aug Ritter of MeComb, morning believing he had dreamed he heard his wife calling him. He got up and went into the back yard, |where he found the woman, with] her one-yearold child, dead at the bottom of the well 16.—Jas, H awoke this WEATHER FORECAST. Showers tonight or ® day; light east winds, * * * \ \4 WASHINGTON, MONDAY, AUGUST BEAUTIFUL SLAVE GIRL STABBED TO | TRAGIC END | | | | j | | | }Chin is teditng the [the worn be | fr | With the meroury hov | hereafter, and) fete given at th bulances | exposition after 6 p. m | ment | | ministrations HOME EDITION 4. VA 16, 1909. 5 1! DAY “COLOF” RAT AON, a DEA! TH BY CHINESE | COMES TO THE QUEEN OF CHINATOWN OF NEW YORK (My Uolied Pres.) NEW YORK murdering bis i" Bow Kum,” Chin Len joanized © thine ye from fun “Franels 1 imprisoned here toda deules that he the Chinese woman, and Long Dong from he western city, of the grewsome murder at 17 Mott et, yesterday The p< do not that truth, and he ts uspleton of having deed way leading to the woman Was stabbed to death fs the bloody imprint of a man's hand. The finger marks coin elde with Chin's tntense Tragic Life, Chin declare Aug renuously another Chinese er believe under strong committed th Noor t room where i i ang return ¥aluable jewels he gave her jwhen be first imported her from ee ———————_===: SENDS ONE MORE LETTER TD COUNCIL Bouillon Asks People’s Representatives to Force Street Car Company to Come to Time. Another commaunteat! addressed. to the council today A. ¥. Bouttion, superintendent publie utilities, ask that counell refrain from granting of the franchtves asked for by sot Heattlo Electric company withe first {nwerting clauses In the faa! chiees calling for a continaous ride the terminus to the heart of the efty for @ 4-cant ticket. If thie Pause ta inserted it will do away with any plane of the street car interests to dispense with the 4-cont ticket by placing transfer points In asctton the elty #o that & cash fare will haye to bo paid to ride from the residence section of the elty to the Alatrict. This plan of the Beattie Kiectric | company wae exposed by Mr lon In & letter addressed council and left with the clerk Maturday morning. SPECIAL STUNTS FOR THE EVENING CROWDS “Seattle n hee hese of down town to council jople «hould spend thelr evenings at the A-Y.P, expo | sition, and we are going to make the fair attractive for them by spe celal features during the evenings said Director General | A. Nadeau, when he learned that “A Night tn Venice,” the muesteal fair last Friday night, attracted 7,759 people to the This was the largest evening attendance of een 10-| the season “It im evident,” says Mr, Nadeau. that the Beattle ylo enjoy the special evening events, and will come in numbers to the falr of an evening If we provide the entertain The adminsion charge ts only 25 conta after 6 o'clock and we feel that we can get large crowds jit we pation attractive events ‘NURSE 1S MARRIED TO BLIND PATIENT : (By United Pres.) RION, O,, Aug. 16.—Three uatke ago Archie Hickman lforeman for the Tidewater Pipe Co., was brought to a local hos pital, blinded from the effects of an explosion Miss Flora Wolse became his nurse and her caused him to fall in Jove with her, They were ried late yesterday BUNDAY EVENING PAPER. NEW YORK, Aug. 16-A four page pink sheet, devoted to sports and theatricals, appeared in New York for the first time last evening bidding for place as “The only Sun NEE KH Hl day evening paper In New York wit Tuee- * bears at the * | column the Se ee ¥| pres! lent of the company, iw the Fivening Ubronicle and head of Its editorial name of M. 8. Post as we the | any | Boull- | the | Four Local Women Among Chiaa for t necording with he traff Land Reservation Today. for ) with Chin Until her t ow, whose name war death, the life of axl means d Bh paped from near Canton and held a ¢ jan Fra i purne. ¢ (By United Press.) CORUR D'ALENE, Ida Alien Newton, 2 ; r Helena toda “ tr g of age Mont., d f 1 th in 16 of rescued Mins Dor erintendent of fr drawing years before Pr for pokane tion The re from ry the Presbyterian r There for six mor slave girl remained sheltered Chin Len arrived and it Miss Cameron's protest the purse of gold” as hia wife | In February he left for New York with the girl and Long Dong, her previous owne followed, He nought out Chin Len and demanded $3,000 as the price of Bow Kum. Stabbed to Death. According to the Oriental now ac cused, he refused to pay the price and Long Dong ts alleged to have threatened serious harm to Chin Len, Bow Kum, or both. Yesterday | morning the assassin, armed with a/ jdagger, crept into the r | the woman lay sleep! bed her to death. Th | plerced her heart twice covered the girl was f floor by the side of a couch, and lying near b | bloody dagger which had |to take her life On the wall near the door was |imprinted a man's hand in blood | The hand print and the dagger are | the only clews the police have with |which to run down the meetin, and solve a mystery of the Anlatic colony which promises to prove as baffling as the Id of the mur dorer of Elsie 8) t white girl who was killed in the Chinese quar ter recently, the oplum der a Cameron, wut lucky ones from Seattle alon tty Fred W. 0 N. Gilbert. A. Mackey Dorothy Wilxon M. Shelbon. L. Pebling nn Rowsing. G. Behiack No. on unth of aimed | No. No Lottie No. 114 No, 118 Nw, 125 Cha Eu Bb RIDE FAINTS WHEN (By Volied Press) PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 16.—-Ar raigned with her husband, charge with When dis und on the stealing clothing, jewelry and ly draped the on used money from her employer to be able a honeymoon trip to At Grace Jacobs, 18, col her father intaw bail was to go on lantic City Inpaed w to prison alone. Harry Jacobs, 21 and Louls Linder er, who charges bis former domes tie with the larceny of a wedding dress, a diamond ring, three gold bracelets, gold ring and $20. According to Lindenberg, the theft was made in order to enable Grace to take a honeymoon trip j with her husband ANOTHER STEEL KG | TO SUE FOR DIVORCE (By Unlied Press.) BRATTLEBORO, Vt. Aug. James Gayley, former first president of the United States Steel | Corporation, and « of the famous jgroup of “Carnegie Boys,” is sald today to have confirmed the report that his separation from his wife, which occurred In New York a year ago, will probably result in divorce edings ley said that the action will not be contested | Mrs, Gayley was, prior to her marriage in 1884, Miss Julia Thurs: ton Gardner. She is a descendant of Miles Standish Gayley refused to discuss the tn: | fa the husband, rg, the employ > WOMAN STRANGLED WITH HER. ROSARY. (My United Press.) |, NEW YORK, Aug. 16.—The po-| lice of this city are confronted with & new murder mystery today which |promises to develop many tnterest- ing facts, following the discovery of Mad@olla Vacco, formerly a fam ous beauty of the tenderioin. strangled to death with a rosary, the last semblance of the religion to which she once was devoted |The body was found in a room on the fourth floor of a tenement building which the woman owned 16.— i i i ee i le i GIRL IS PREACHER. BERKEL Cal,, Aug. 16. Miss Ines Hower, aged 15, o¢ cupled the pulpit at the Friends’ church here ye day, She took as her subj “Power” and delivered a dis course that lasted 45 minutes She was trained at the Schoo! of Christian Workers in Hunt ington Park, near Los Angeles She declared in her address that ‘sermons were preached more forcibly by right Hving than by spoken words ings would be begun soon, and probably in Nev TRACK. TORN UP BY AIL FORGE t (Hy United Press) TACOMA, Aug. 16.—The bitter! feeling that has been engendered between the Rockefeller and Hill |Iines here in their fight for bust ee 7 +. * a * * eal * * * * * * * * * * * *| eee eee eee ETS A ASS FROM FATHER, ASKS BORD (By United Press) CLEVELAND, 0., Aug. 16 Arthur Relaman, son of Releman, pleaded guilty to ste worth of of Ww laborers, under Diviston C, Albee of the Northern tore up 80 feet of track water front line of Milwaukee & Puget Sound tracks with the Tacoma mill itracks, A stream of water was Whon | turned on the workmen by the mill Nathan {Company and after they had been Nathan! driven away, workmen for the Mil A me waukee road relaid the track that | gang Supt | Pacifi connecting the the Chieago, jewelry UCKY ONES | Those Who Draw Prizes in Spokane SENT TO JAIL ALONE ed ber husband out and left her go} vice | cidents leading to the separation, | but intimated that the divorcee pro: | nesa, culminated yesterday when a} SHALL TAFT PLAY OR MEET THE HO! POLLOI? ‘| Big Row ‘Pbetied Over Entertainment Program for President's Visit ta | | | the Exposition. Bha wi How president of these Unit and also some golf pla gle with @ few ultra elect in « nice quiet game of cow pasture at the Geat Golf and untry club gro or shall he go out to the fair and fore- gath while in c ir with Beattie? the common people That is the question dent Wilk Alaska on Bep- 1, prepared ne of the onles and ac. nter for at entirely ent J. EB, Nadeag and Director of Exploitation James The 1 nH by Ch am called for appearance of the dent at exposition, on the noon of September 20, In the evening he is scheduled to attend yar exclusive banquet at the New } York ullding, and on Friday, | Octobe Collins planned to have the dent spend the entire day at the tle Golf and Country club, to play golf and take luncheon with a few selected guests It Doesn't Suit. program doesn't sult the ex. m ls a bit. They de that President Taft ts not ming to Seattle to pay an exclu- sive visit to a few soclety folks, but that he Is coming to see the expo- sition.and to meet the people of the tate of Washington and the Pa- cific Northwest. He is not coming here to play golf, or to attend ex- clustve banquets. Altogether, they that Mr. Collins’ program will not do at all Mr, Collins is out of the elty, and whether he will maintain his) pre- rogative of fixing the program, as he wae authorized to do by the committee of ceremonies, is not known, The exposition officials have a plan to let Mr. Taft make his home at the New York State building whlle he is here Commissioner Wilcox has offered the bullding for that purpose. They also want the | president to make @ speech in the Amphitheatre on Thursday, ae Mr, Coliing planned, but also to review or take part in a parade on the fair grounds on Friday, and to take part in various affairs which will give all of the people of the northwest a chance to at least see the president, jand as many as possible a chance to meet him and hear bim speak. Too Exclusive. Mr. Collins’ program, they de- clare, {8 altogether too exclusive, Under the Collins plan the presi- dent will stop at the Washington hotel. Exposition officials are ‘to- day drawing up plans for a new program, and declare that they will inalat on Mr. Collins’ plan being changed, despite the fact that ft has already been agreed to by Mr. | Taft's secretary, who wired his ac- ceptance of the program prepared by Mr. Collin: KILLS TWO—SUICIDES, (iy ed Press. CHICAGO, Aug. 16.—Driven in- sane because of his Inability to se cure employment, Gustave Herring, jaged 54 years, an expert account- ant, early today murdered his wife, fatally shot his son Gustave, and | blew out his brains, after making ineffectual attempts to kill his daughters, Marguerit and Clara. ‘WORKMEN WANT BEER; | WILL HAVE IT OR QUIT (By United Press.) Ind, Aug, 16.—Unless they can obtain beer, which they use both as a food and stimulant, hundreds of men, who work about the sweltering blast furnaces at the monster steel plant here, say they will obtain employment elsewhere. A petition has been signed by hun- dreds, Who ask Mayor Knotts to per mit the delivery of beer to private houses. prog | bre the | afte nies posit clare ¢ GARY, D.! mar: | $1,000 father, he begged the latter to fur | nigh bond so he would not have to }linger In jail until he ts tried. The father refused to go on his son's bond, but Kissed him fervently and} \then left the jail, his eyes filled with | tour TEAM, WITH BLAZIN WAGON SPREADS FIRE (By United Press.) | GALION, 0. Aug. 16 Jonded with oat straw while threshing was the farm of Howard Green frightened toam ran into a large barn, getting It ablaze, The building and one were destroyed, ~'Two horses, waved once from the fire, back into the flames and were burned to death. Sixteen other (horses were rescued A wagon caught fire in progress at an adjoining dashed | had been torn up. SEAMON PREACHED WN A BEER GAROEN ‘STONE-FISHER CO. OBJECTS TO AUTOS The automobile drivers are again of trouble. Driven from street to street, and corner to corner, a few finally set- tled at Second ay. and University Because | et, as a good place for a public burning | stand, but now the Fisher services | company comes to the council In a holler asking that the boys be moved to some other corner, They have a stand right In front of our University st. show windows, and {t obstructs the view of the win- Jdows from the street,” writes the (By United Press.) ST, LOUIS, Aug. 16 the trustees decided that lights for Sunday ening during the summer was a useless expense, Rey, Jacob Meeker of the Compton Heights Congregational church last night went to a sum mer garden and preached a 15-min. ute sermon to the pleasure seekers. Paton AO ade od on an. tme| Manager In his communteation provised platform, facing numerous beer tables, a theatre and a dancing Earthquake In Japan. pavilion © declared a week ago TOKIO, Aug. 16.—A revised list that If people would not come to oaay covering the fatalities Satur- hear him preach he would go where |day in the earthquake north of the people congregated and preach | Biwa Omi show that 81 persons lost to them anyhow About 1,000 per.) thelr lives and 168 were seriously ‘sons heard last night's sermon, | fnju ed written

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