The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 27, 1909, Page 1

= Ny Tk nce Commissioner Is ' Exonerated by Senate on ) Each of the | Counts Against Him. UITTED NATORG Service.) 27.—State In nor J. H. Sehive good his boast rs of the state would support him tp his ment tris! to prevent his ent. This boast had been by Sehively and his friends the beginning of the Invest! Tt was never credited by senate outside of on, their theory being per of the senate could his sense of duty as self in advance to for acquittal ' The members who on each of 18 counts voted for sequittal Kastham, Huxtable, kerbocker, McGowan, Minkler, Potts, Presby, Whitney, Willems (Star Special P OLYMPIA, Ave Commisst i Maat night mde hat enough memt of th of rh, and Gang Hangs Together. Prom first to the last this fzation has held together hout the investigation, and trinl by President Ruth of the @, aanisted on the outside by BW. H. Davis, bead lobbyist for brewing Interests, At various oe In the fight these 14 mem: were alded by the votes of members, the members act- with them most frequently be- Rydstrom, Cameron, Smithson Booth. "On ouly one of the 13 counts @ which votes were taken did the of Schively dwindle to 14 This was on the count misconduct in connection the management of the Pa- Livestock Insurance company. Hutchinson Skidoos. the court convened last for the purpose of ballot- the final result, Senator Hut- was found to be absent. moved a call of the house, the sergeant-atarms was in- . to enlist the services of the police and ploy 20 men {n rounding up the atsent After some delay he was entering a iGcent theatre t to the bar of the sen- voted for Schively on all two counts. fourteen members who stood ively to the end were mem- MB who throughout the regular B Special sessions have at all Voted together as the nucleus “booze” organization, at all Bee Oppowed the investigation and tria} and who, by their votes on ily every test tesue, gave and comfort to the accnsed offi- Into Next Legislature. or Hutchinson has jumped had made the 130 miles in five and| Was Witnessed on First av., Bide to side throughout the Voting most of the time with thively forces. Cameron had ied consistently with them until Right. Rystrom and Smithson Voted with them on al! but half dallots ee result of last night's ballot fds the case against Schively legisiatare unless Governor Id see fit to reconvene that i the purpose of abolishing Oilice. He has yet to face the criminal cases and if one th of these should go against it will work a forfeiture of his These cases cannot be fin disposed of for many months, y for two or three years, will carry the case into the legisinture, when a renewed Will probably be made to oust Or to abolish bis office. RACT FOR CITY LIGHTS 1S AWARDED fontract for furnishing the Wie lights for the city Hghting ment was awarded to the Supply company, 560 First Practically all bids were the Sxcept that of the West trie company and a bid Burton R. Staire, The former disqualified because ft was not , and while Staire bid the by a few cents, on one size it is claimed he did not to the specifications. Contract Will amount to about ~ LOGEs Lives IN SURF. (By United Press. ‘ORIA, B.C, Aug C. T. ll, Hneman in the employ Domir government tele- and Gus Swanson, a chance lost their lives between tiver and Sooke, on the t of Vancouver Island yea- while attempting to make in the surf from a boat. mm 2 TES SKILLED, THEN Twelve! Kline, | Roberts, | THE SEATTLE SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, THIRD EXTRA JL OF TE PASSENGER ARE RESCUE “BROUGHT BAK TO LFE AGN Man Shocked to Death by | Electric Shock, Then Is! Restored to Life by An- other Shock. Killed by an electric shock and practically dead for 16 seconds then restored to life by another shock, Was the unusual and un canny expertence of Seott Allen who today lies on a cot at the Be! attle General hospital, on the road to recovery | Physicians luterested in the case and those who attended Allen de clare positively that Allen was dead for at least 15 seconds. Then the unusual oecurred and today Allen ie a live man. The accident occurred at the pow er plant of the Snoquaimie Power jcompany at Snoqualmie Falls, late last Sunday afternoon. A recent fire in the power plant forced a omplote new arrangement of tem | | porary ewitch boards. Killed by Electricity, Allen was working at one of the! switches when be heard a sizsling sound and intuitively knew that he) had closed a cireutt. Allen threw up hi# hands to prevent betug burn ed on the face and then the next | thing he knew he was lying on a cot jin a temporary hospital at the falls, | badly burned about the right arm, bruised about the bead, and with a | broken kneecap. | Thirty thousand volts bad passed j through hia body, He had been tne jetantly killed. But at the same time the shock passed through his body, there was [@ reaction and his body was hurled through the air and struck the ce | ment walls of the switeh room Shock Starts Heart. The impact started the heart ac- jtfon again. The time he was dead was & quarter of a minute. Alien was picked up unconsctons and hur. ried to the temporary hospital, A few hours later he recovered and Was brought to Beattie. Both Dr, Elmore and Dr. Willis, who attended the Injured man, de clare Alien was dead. In hopes of ascertaining what Allen passed through while bis soul had left his body, they quizzed him repeatedly, jbut Allen says he can remember |nothing. His case has already caus ed much theorizing on the part of local physicians, | TEPPELIN'S AIRSHIP MAKING LONG FLIGHT STUTTGART, Germany, Aug. 27 —Count Zeppelin’s dirigible, “Zep- pelin HL,” passed over Btuttgart at 10 o'clock this morning, cruising from Priederichsbafen to Berlin, and one-half hours. Engineer Durr dropped a message in which he sald that he expected to arrive with the ship at Bitterfield tonight. Bitterfield is 220 miles from this city, At Bitterfield it te expected that Count Zeppelin will board the seria! vessel and make a triumphant entry into Berlin tomor row, Owing to illness the count preceded the airship to Bittorfield, jas he did not feel as though he | would be able to stand the journey in the dirigible. At Berlin Kaiser Wiibelm and members of the royal family will welcome Zeppelin on his arrival there, MASHER IS SENT 10 JAIL FOR 3 DAYS J. 1. Nordland, a street car con ductor, who is alleged to have forced his attention upon a young woman on Pike st, last Wednesday |werve three days in jail and to pay la fine of $16. | Nordland, aceording to the young woman, followed her ahd spoke to her several times, Finally the young woman turned and com} menced to beat Nordland with her} jumbrella, Patrolman F. W. Miles arrested Nordland as a masher and| sent him to Jail. | | SPOKANE ARRIVES, The 8, 8. Spokane arrived in this morning from the North, She has been off an éxcirsion to southeast- ern Alaska, and this will be the jaat one of the season. On Monday {whe walle for San Francisco, with | passengers and freight | * lj = AcYeP, ATTENDANCE, \® Yesterday .... +. 82,181 |® Total + 2,271,886 * OR Re * * * * * * * ° night, was yesterday sentenced to|* 4 FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1909, THIRD EXTRA EATTLE LAST STEAMER OHIO PHOTOGRAPHED AS SHE SAILED FROM § TUESDAY THIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS TAKEN BY WEBSTER & STEVENS, LAST TUESDAY AT NOON, JUST AS THE OHIO PULLED OUT FROM THE WHARF FOR HER TRIP NORTH. a AIT SHES WTO. CROWD Sergeant Carr Does a He- roic Stunt During a Par- ade on First Avenue To- day. A spectacular deed of heroism near Madison ot. this morning, when Sergeant Carr clung to and stopped a runaway horse hitched to a Na tlonal Grocery company wagon, Just faa it was about to dash into a ble crowd. Carr waa in charge of a platoon of police at the head of a parade of the Balt Lake City Cadets, headed by Gov. Spry, of Utah, when the horse and wagon dashed up Firet ay from Columbia #t. The horse and wagon were bearing down with frightful velocity upon a big crowd standing in the street, when Carr Jumped for the hor head, He caught the bridle and was swung off his foot and violently back and forth, almost under the plunging hoofs, but he hung on and ly brought the animal to a standstill. Had it not been for his nervy act, a number of people could not have scaped death or th jury, as the animal was almost on top of the crowd before any warn ing was given. RRR BANK CLEARINGS, Beattie. # Clearings today . $2,126,768.86 ® Balances 285,611.66 Tacoma. ‘learings today ... Balances cf $874,017 B oy 68,786 Portland. learings today ...$1,194,289 C Balances ...+.++++ + 196,303 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Pee eee eee eee ASK FOR RECEIVER A petition for the appointment of a receiver for the MoNabb's Pure Food Cafeteria, at Firat and Colum bia, was filed {n the superior court this.morning by Helen Schmidt, ad ministratrix for the estate of James D. Moore. An order to show ne why a temporary reeetver should not be appointed will be heard Sep: tember 2. PS HORSE FARMAN WINS Ce aa GREAT PRIZE WN AIRSIP Flew One Hundred Miles! in Two Hours and Thir- | ty-Three Minutes, Break- | ing All Previous Records! RHEIMS, Aug, 27—The grand) prix de la Champagne was won today by Henri Farman, who eprang the greatest surprise of the aviation week, when he flow 100 milea in two hours and 88 minutes, four and six-tenths miles further than Latham’s previous | world's record. The prize ts the most valuable jot all the prizes, bringing to the lucky winner $20,000 as a reward for his daring work. | | PAULHAM FALLS FROM ~—AIR-IN- HIS: BIPLANE: | RHBIMS8, France, Aug. 27.—| While tempting to equal the Latham aeroplane distance record, Paulham this afternoon waa slight ly injured when a wing of his aero plane broke and caused the ma chine to crash to the ground, The biplane was smashed to kindling | |wood and is practically a total wreck, The heavy wind which has been blowing all day was the prt mary cause of the accident } Bleriot has repaired his machine, which was damaged yesterday by striking a corner of the grandstand, | and today he flew 27 mi) in the Volsin, in the face of the high wind, He made the flight merely to try out the machine before using it In the contesta, | LARCENY IS CHARGED } Maurice Kiemensky ts resting In the county jail on # charge of grand larceny, He ts said to have broken into the electrical repalr shop of Buxbaum & Cooley at 68 W. Colum bia st, and stolen $200 worth of tools, last Sunday. | Later In the week he was caught} in the act of trying to sell similar articlea to a second hand dealer | who trades under the People's Supply company, at Western ay. ° |the other passengers aboard the et aoe 2 MANY ANXIOUS, PROMINENT FOR NEWS OF THE DISASTER Much Excitement Here When First Reports of the Sinking of the Ohio Were Received. The firet advices received in Se attie of the wreok of the Ohio, came through the offices of the United Wireless, which company has sta tlone aboard both the Humboldt and the Rupert City, the vessels! that anewered the "8, 0, 8." nal of Operator Eccles. The report told of the total destruction of the Yersei and intimated great jons of ut , oe afterwards Frank §&. Burts, manager tn Beattle of the Alaska Steamship company, which operated the Ohio, recelved from | £. W. Hunt, agent at Ketchikan, | the following message | “The steamship Ohio struck o rock one & m. Steep Point, sinking immediately. State of vousel not} ascertained. At 11:16 o'clock another message came, this time from M. J, Heney, the well known Alaska ratlroad con- | tractor, who was A passenger aboard the Obio. Heney's message | Was transmitted by someone at Kotohikan, and was as follows “aboard the steamship Rupert City, Aug. 27 Captain Frank | Moore, of steamer Portland, regrets | to say Purser Stephen, Wireless Op- | erator Becles and three others were , lost last night on the Ohio, He and the others went down In saying the | passengers, instead of looking to! thelr own safety, Details if want ed” Sailed Last Tuesday. The Ohio sailed from Seattle at 18:16 last Tuesday, August 24 hound for Cordova and other Alag-| ka coast points, She carried a list of 125 passengers and ber ordinary | crew of about 60 men The most prominent passengers apoard the vessel were M. J Hene¥, who is building the Gug gonheim roads in Alaska, and T. J. | Neator and wife of Seattle, Pri vate advices indicate that Mr Heney and the Nestors are with Rupert City jeventy-five of (Continued on Page Nine.) the passengers See oe es MEN HAONRD THE ESSE The Ohio Carried One Hundred and Twenty- five Passengers and a Crew of Fifty Men. The following were aboard the jObio when she sank: Firet Class, R. M. Yates, A. N. Anderson J. A. Buckley 1. P, Rumaey Hallie Nichols. Helena Brock M. J. Heney. Horace V. Winchell F. 0. een. F. C. Greene. J.P, Gray and wife H. White. Clarence Cunningham W. R, Wells. B. P, Winter J. A. Gerow W. Erwin, Clara Allred Capt. A. O. Powell H. Beldenberg. Ed Wood Rose Elton Mrs. M. J A. W. Scott L. R. Loomis. O. P. Hubbard Mra, ©. H. Kraemer Mrs. C. C. Roberts Mias V. Thompson. Mra. Patvin Chas Walters. J H.W. Wright C. 8. Booth Mra. J. 8. G. G. Boe. D. H. Jones, J. G, Bilis Roy Newton Dr. W. J, Thompson F. H. Stewart and wife. R, J, Boyer 8. 8. Burrett J, Fenyer J.C, Martin Mra. J, Carlson Mrs, ©, J, Harbough Mrs, W. B, Wells, Anna Davis John Hawath B. H. Polly ~~(Continued on Page Nine.) Moore WIRELESS APPEAL FOR HELP BRINGS QUICK RESPONSE Famous Steamer Strikes on Rock in the Early Morning Hours But All Are Saved Except the Wireless Operator, Purser and Three Others KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Aug. 27. — (Wireless Bulletin, 3 p. m.)—No passengers lost their lives in | the wreck of the steamer Ohio. In addition to Purser | Stephen and Wireless Operator Eccles, the quarter- jmaster of the vessel and two of the crew were drown- led. All of the survivors are now on the Rupert City | and will reach Vancouver, B. C., some time tonight. Steep Point, where the Ohio was wrecked, is charted as Turn Island, and is 250 miles south of here. ' (By United Wireless.) KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Aug. 27.—One of the most ree markable stories of heroism at sea, with the magic wireless again playing its marvelous part in the saving of lives, will mark the history of the destruction of the big steamer Ohio, | which crashed into a rock in Granville Channel, off Steep Point, at 1 o'clock this morning, and went down a total loss, carry- ing to their death five persons aboard the vessel. The res ported dead are: Purser F, J. Stephen, 1523 Summit av., Seattle. George E. Eccles, United Wireless operator, Seattle, Three others, names unknown. The rescue of the passengers and crew of the Ohio is almost a parallel to the recent rescue of the Republic on the | Atlantic coast, from which Wireless Operator Jack Binns emerged a hero, ECCLES THE FIRST TO REPORT. It was at 1 o'clock in the morning that the Ohio crashed into the rock that brought its destruction. Almost the first , man to respond to the danger signal given by the crash of; impact was Operator Eccles, Clothed only in his nightgown, he rushed to his station and dispatched to whomsoever might pick it up the “S. O. S.” signal, which in the United Wireless service correspond to the distress signal “C. D. Q.,” used on the Atlantic coast. ! Somewhere not far distant were the steamers Humboldt and Rupert City, both of them equipped with the United Wire- less service, The call for help, “S, O. 8., 8. O. S.,” came flashe jing through the night, and aboard these two steamers it meant that somewhere, not far distant, a steamer was in distress. Come to Rescue, ' Then came the name of the ves-| jsel and its location. Almost {p-| jatantly the Humboldt and the Ru |pert City had started toward the when suddenly the wireloss that order might be maintatned and great loss of life prevented Hecles was flashing out blackness of the night the appe of the stricken ship, boats were being lowered and pase sengers and crew made safe there- men on the two ships found that in ‘phe greatest speed possible they had Ohto, This /in transferring those aboard the jominous Indication led to the be-| Vessel was necessary, as the fatal lief that impact had torn so great a hole in jthe bow of the vessel that there being too late, or that the opera-/was no hope of her remaining Ohio had afloat for more than a very short time. It was still dark when the lights of the Humboldt and Rupert City appeared in answer to the signal of Operator Eccles, who, in the meantime, had gone to his death, The passengers and members of the crew of the wrecked vessel were then transferred to the rescuing steamers. “lost” the they were in danger of tor on the deserted his post The developments show, however, that Eecles had played the role of a hero, to the end that he sacri ficed his own life in an effort to the lives of others. With Purser Stephens, Becles was among the first to aid the other officers of the vessel In calming the dis |tracted passengers to the extent STEALS GLURNET (22.2 CHICAGO, Aug bower "Rumbiles’ arrest. The plea war so was demonst c hy} el that Judge Watkina, of the |today when John Bumble {pal court, decided to continue J with the theft of a clarinet, pleaded | tne caso in extenuation that he had stolen it] . the p Mrs PARIS HILL, Matne, Aug. 27 | Jessie Bumbl ran|memorial tablet and boulder was away two nid | dedicated here today to Hannibal sweetheart Hamlin, vice president of the Unit Charles Krause accused Bumbites|ed States during the first Lincoln | Hamlin was born save = the clarinet were blast and the neighbor- hoing with tune after music. enized the familiar hood was tune of live K of must to take he with who, ago weeks an of stealing the instrument from his | admintistgation arme while he was asleep in his'here 100 years ago today, .