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I Ula on the Inside See Close Connection Be- tween McHarg’s Retire- ment and Sudden Trip. F _ E WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug { ial Washington fe in a busz of lement today following the that President Taft has decid. to accept the resignation of McHarg, assistant secre of commerce and: labor, and fat Secretary Ballinger, of the tn for department, has left Seattle bis way here on “emergency 28 two pleces of news are con by those on the inside of ad ation affairs with the war nm going on in the West er against the overturn Roosevelt policies by of the minor officials of the faft administration The announcement that McHarg lguon to quit Washington is taken wean that President Taft has Q to take drastic action In tase, and Rodsevelt men here elated today, because they say Means the beginning of a Ken clean-up of a number of meh were put in office at the be sing of the Taft administration Postmaster General Hitchcock managed distributed the federal patron ) P McHarg’s Action Significant. © The resignation of McHarg ts re- d as especially significant, be ft was McHarg who announ some time ago that Secretary Commerce and Labor Nagel conduct a “housecleaning” his department. This was fol fed by the annowncement that y Ballinger would alvo do ise-cleaning” in the in department D*House-cleaning.” in both cases, well known to have meant that and Ballinger would get rid the men in their departments had been connected with the velt administration. Neither officer got very far, how- becanse the big issue In the or department, involving the power trust In Montana and coal Jand frauds in Alaska, up immediately after Bal ¢ left Washington on his trip 8 it. One Thing at a Time. Maft, say the men who are closest ‘Aim, is a man who does only one atatime Now that he has d the tariff, he has taken up public lands question and the vation movement, and the velt men in Washington say Taft has finished with it, he Bill be found on the right side, and will be several places In his ieial staff to be filled. MeHarg is the tirst upon m the ax has fallen. as a direct ne of his activity against elt policies, Is conceded here. became active a8 goon as ok office, in mhigtters before interstate Cor Commis- ifecting the Pacific coast and . and. red to ‘ pled ¥ the re. of; several Puling® that went the trativcontinental rall- Later, when the water trust was brought into the ht, through the grabbing of ari river lands in Montan ne out with a declara- that there was no such thin fhe water power trust, and that Was enough timber In the of Washington to last the en other fifty years. Statements were) tements made by several messages to and Taft's attention was) to McHarg’s activity, Refuse To Tatk. The officials at the interior de t and at the general land today refused absolutely to any statement as to the ree for Ballinger’s hurried trip to ington. It is known positive . Bowever, that he is coming to BR # the final draft of the ox m his department is making President Taft in regard to the Maaningham coal cases. His chief t Sdviser, Oscar Lawler, who aS into office by Senator Flint, of ¢ nia, and who Mas leanings tow corporations, Prepared the legal defense Bat Ballin x ersonal explanation Wil have to « rom himself, and Weoming to prepare this At the F eau there PMR silence, bur re Be torn things ha is epressed joy at Ie Hurrying of the HURRY-UP WAOTING TON OPEGULATION CANT STAND ~THS MAN'S FOOD FADS Mrs. Sumner Grimes Asks for Divorce from Man | Who Switches His Diets With the Months. Recau food her husband te a faddint,” Mra, Sumner sued for a divarce expert accountant | One month the G Vegetarian diet, tty uncodked food fs « third month they try. Pletcheri#m, according to Mra, Grimes, all be ehuRe her husband has dyepepeia Mr, Grimes’ dyspepsia doesn't im- prove his temper she and he is continually in an unbearably bad temper. She complains that he hot content with trying diets on himself, but tnetwts th rest of the family eat what he whether they suffer from dyspep OF not Grimes Grimes ta an} hext month nsumed, and the ” fo but says, ts tad the Firet Grimes preaches the gospel | of vegetarianian, and the family meat. Then he reads in a health magazine that raw fruit and vegetables and unc oked | meat is the way to put dyspepsia on | the bum. “Fleteherten™ in the ge pel of chewing your food’ well, a the family jaws atl aching } n protracted mastication All of whieh has spatred the health of herself and one child, she alleges, and has made life with her! husband unbearable The Grimes live at the Maryland FOUR U.S, SENATORS SEE THE FAR TOOK | Four ataten, taboos are THIS PAPER. HARRIMAN [8 6 | THE TUG UNTIL IT MADE FA | TOOK HIS ARM ANDO ASSISTED TURNERS, N.Y, Aug 10, ~ A spirit of confidence pervading the vicinity of Towerhtli today leads to the belief that a surgical operation members of the United| already has been performed on F. | States senate committee on irriga-|H. Harriman, the railway king, and |tHon, which te touring the West In-| that he hae rallied eplendidly from Vestigating numerous irrigation ite effects. projects, were entertained at the A It te tntimated that the operation YP. exposition today, being | was performed after an examina tunched at the New York State tion by sutgeons had passed upon bufiding and shown about by expo the ease; that when the operation {sition officials, The visitors are| was performed it waa discovered Thomas H. Carter, of Montana,|that Harriman’s allment was of George E. Chamberlain, of Oregon |e minor character and was not | Francis BE. Warren, of Wyoming, | alarming and Thomas H. Paynter, of Ken Semlofficial reports declare that tueky. Harriman does not intend to give NECK AND |Howard W. Stone Slowly| Strangles Himself to Death After Protracted Drunk. Two little girlies, themselves suf- fering with tonsilitis, have brought Howard W. Stone, a laborer, 40|* world of happinons to » rs old, wound up a sevenday| Unfortunates confined to the spree yesterday by hanging himeelf | hspital tn the last two days in the Riverside school woodshed,| Jo#ephine and Rtlen were brought The body was found shortly before |!0 from an orphanage to be treated City | who resides near the school hou | Stone had knotted a rope to a raf er and then slipped a noose about bis neck, The suicide evident ly raised hie feet from the ground | @iae* of water here and a until he slowly strangled to death.) '9# Word there #oon warmer The body was taken to the undor-| hearts of the nurses and patients | taking establishment of Butterworth | #tke: & Bons by Deputy Coroner A. C. | Fit. could not play out doors with the other children, they busted them solves amang the other patients. A Finds a Father. “Lane of my little In the sulcide’s coat pockét was) girl at home,” said a grizzie found a receipt from Knights of| seaman, who had dailied too long | Pythias’ Diamond lodge No. 236, of| with the cup that cheers Hiawatha, Kansas, paid up to Janu-| “Do IT guid Josephine, the elder ary 1, 1910. A card bearing the| of the two, “I haven't any papa, my address of Brown Bros, Hquor deal-| geit, wo while I'm here I'll be ers at South Seattle, was also! iittio girl if you want me to found | And with that started « J, D. Brown, « member of the| ship that watak ts the ahioes ifirm, seid that Stone came from| did wr t Id sea dog of Clifton, Ohio, and that his mother,| his spell than anything elve Mra, Annie Stone, resides there. Stone had been drinking heavily for a week,” sald Brown today. “He was ery i at the South Seattle brick yards and boarded with a | Mra dor there. Stone left 1 place of business Saturday night SANDWICHES despondency brought on by drink.”| (Cheene you remind me | your | friend ne wure the | | exes: CHEESE a sandwiches will be pre sented to every Michigan visitor at of the} =r Before FRENCH COMMISSION Io EN ROUTE HERE members of the French com the A-¥.-P. exposition ived Ir y ? |ner fepo id bac Th eee ee ee | AN-P. E. ATTENDANCE Vester: 8 and are | da ng to ad Executive Com The who will Huet, |G M. | ing Joan | Ha Seattle, accor en rot * * * * v1 Laruetle pee eee Pugs ity company cont orning until Welock pn, on the of th eral award for | exposition Mr president 5 miasion Caleomber M ri barles Hetdrick mo peop cheene the the exposition gover of cheese arrived at the Michigan tom club building on the |the compliments of Fr private life fs a large m Two en for distribution the Mayor and |General Nadeau, of the exposit will speak hor’s complimenta, at the distribution jowed by & program o Auditorium Kelly principal Miller fair tomorrow orrow, at wit Wa ‘ounds, ed M r with the gove to all Michiga Th at noon will b f addresk at 2:80, I Michigan address and Dir eu mak ther h nor of Michigan, who In r n 0 t Gov or | citizen =E TAR - THE SEATTLE ITI SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1909, up bis railroad Krattschnttt Lores fe tutor intereats, planning to leave the iminor detalis ond LB. * for Avert! Harriman, who is expected | (hat their vieit on Saturday HAVE OPERATED ON HARRIMAN PHOTOGRAPH BY DONCOURT, TAKEN ESPECIALLY FOR N ON THE DECK OF THE | SOUTHERN PACIFIC TUG EL TORO, JUST AS IT STEAMED UP TO THE DOCK AT JERSEY CITY, ON THE AFTERNOON OF AUG, |@. THE NEWS DISPATCHES SAID THAT HARRIMAN WAS 80 WEAK THAT HE CLUNG DESPERATELY TO THE RAILING OF |. WHEN A NEGRO PORTER HIM DOWN THE GANGPLANK. bat young to undertake bin father’s work It ts reported that Harriman te! suffering from hardening of the | make -any further spinal said to have cons ing of two of the vertebrae, which the cord, It is understood that partial par- relieved column presen: re alysia set In before was finished pected the You're a whispered the dootor after it who vu ae being fit other members his pocket he carried « card marked Pledge” which had his name, sorawly | he left with a dentre |1 o'clock this morning by Ed Few,| for throat trouble, and instead of | ter and a cleaner life bemoaning their fate because they| of Josephine. hand, a of tt upon noctety The operation 1 | gardi ted of the remov-lintimating that he ls quite capable the operation Harriman must wear & plaster cast for several montha, but his complete recovery {is ex- TIES ROPE AROUND HIS ENDS A SPREE TWO LITTLE GIRLIES FILL HOSPITAL WITH FLOODS OF HUMAN KINDNESS He wae dixcharged thie morning to again mingle with in and in ttom, This One Finds « Baby. employn: morning an t A.V elt ‘The baby at came last week, for And the tired 1 tng on her couch of pain with grateful even Nor t# that all that can t in their favor | for them alight nt yperation was al liver Bouillon pubfic utilittes council has done with his the hospital to take the brave ha great big house just like | ¢ her a letter t wants two litt ite ae ‘LITTLE PROTECTIV BILL HAS BEEN LOST superintendent of want ordinance which gay er to examine all publte wht ther little 1 know of ulles to know what service m Lares. Ww And] to live a het All the work irce of thie ly looked on wald When the time came r ether for the not a whimper did] a girite, to Josephine, city pow. o-4 NM. CARRIGAN IS WORRIED ABOUT JAIL |He and Vanderveer Are Trying to Run the U. S.| Marshal's Office as Well as the Sheriff's Tn an effort to get themselves out of the meses in which thelr actions | have embrotied them, County Com | wminsiones M. J. Carrigan and! Prosecuting Attorney George F.| Vanderveer ha undertak to} transact the business of the Unt Stated marshal’s office Moved by the pubitc eondeania-| tion which hav come to them be-| cause of the order to Bheriff Hodge | to remove all federal prisoners from | the county Jail September 1,| Messrs. Carrigan and Vanderveer Visited the city hall on Saturday to an effort to find Chief of Police Ward and to arrange with him to care for federal prisovers tn the elty Sati | They Are Worrie: | Nelther of theve genti conmuited with Marshal prior to thelr trip to the ctty hall and bed not been delegated by him fo make arrangements for the care] ot federal prisoners, They ere | exceedingly anxious, how bulld up some possible def thelr conduct before the m of the Chamber of Commoree mittee, which is being held this! afternoon | At this meeting Sheriff Hodge! will tet] the committee that there in ample room in the county jail for the care of federal prisoners and that there need be no trouble what over if the county commissioners | will provide the necessary bedding. | Goes to Pierce County. In the meantime Marshal Hopkins | has made artangements with the} sheriff of Pleree county for the care of federal prisoners, to become ef. fective on September 1 if the com: | missioners of King county aro de} termined to adhere to the advice of| Proseepting Attorney Vandorveer and fefem the removal of these prisonefe from the jal, Alro, ar} rangements are being made to here j after hold court tn Tacoma, to which | city Judge Hanford will move dur ing court terme. Jue, how tar Mesnre, Vandervoer and Carrigan went in their efforts | to take the matter of caring for) federal prisoners out of the hands of Marehal Hopkina t# not known | They failed to find Chief of Police Ward and it te presumed, therefore. wa n ‘had | Hopkins tralthdns, Marshal Hopkins has declined to statements re-| controversy, merely the j lot looking after his own business. FLYING TEAM | STOPPED BY h PATROLMIAN Gritty Officer Grasped Un- bridled Runaways by Mane and Nose and Held on Until They Stopped. Spectators who saw the wild flight of a team on Sixth ay, 8. and) Weller st. shortly before noon to-| jday were loud In thelr praise of| the nerve and pluck of Patrolman A. N, Mayou, who brought the frightetied animals to a stop after) a dash of more than four blocks nh} Mayou's feat was considered all the more remarkable because the! animals wore no bridles, and to check thelr flight the plucky patrol man was forced to grab one of the animals by the mane and nose. | The horses for some unkr reason started down Sixth ay. 8, on the dead run, pulling behind them dirt wagon, Mayou came upon the Meeing animals and they pounded past him he sprang at one of the horses and « bed him b aj the nd mane with a grip of steel team dragged hin a) yards before thelr flight was halted, Mayou then sought the driver, Tom Urquhart and placed him under arrest for al lowing his team to stand untied The patrolman thought more of ar resting Trqubart than he did of his nervy feat will be raigned In police tomorrow js neon HOUSE UPSIDE. DOWN HAS GONE BROKE nowe The hundre¢ Urquhart ar court ters upon the request of any citlzer The bill was presented last and buried Bouillon wrote toda asking it r his ordinance The ison bill pre who felt t alipping over a on e fn expense and cost ha | expense ing a while could the would b making to th council mut the ¢ led hat few at the appeal moter charged the olty what ha yunell becom that an meter rounds ¢ to the kick, and a letter onsumer's olty The up to the the noth The din urt this by Wilfred Delage and defendant { the supertor c rnin John Coughlin RRR WEATHER FORECAST. Fair tonight Tuesday; light weet winds. and * * * * + ” * ee el taking the leading TA ONE CEN) S. S. OHIO'S OFFICERS TELL COMPLETE STORY OF WRECK NORWEGIANS HIVE REA DAY AT FAI Spectacular and Historical Events Prove to be Most Interesting and Success- ful. The greatest national pageant of the A-¥.-P, exposition, that of Nor way day, wan witnenwed at the fair today in two spectacles, the landing of the Viking ship on the Lake Washington shores, and the parade of the fair grounds, typifying nine periods in Norwegian history, from the earliest traditions to the in vasion of the Klondike by the modern Vikings, And | part of the at the ' Was composed of hardy Norsemen founded in the crowd minds pretty epectacte of the Vik landing took place at & Mttle 1 o'clock, Capt. Erie Thornte and his crew sweeping majestically Across Union bay tn view of the big which gathered alongshc Inge’ crowd to wateh them. Welcome on Shore. The Viking's bride, in the person of Mise Astri Udnews, and ber party welcomed the seafarers, and then the company marched to the Stadium, where the bix historical parade formed and started on its tour of the grounds, Thousands of sightseers crowded the exposition streets to view the floats and gaily costumed participants. The parade} ended at the Natural Theatre, whe the welcoming speech of the day waa made by President Chilberg, of the exposition. H. P. Rude presided and C. W. Berg responded to the welcome, St. Olafs Band, of Northfield, Minn, rendered the music. Finn H, fFrotieh, the eoulpt presented the bust of Ed ward cig, the Norwegian com poser, and it was formally accepted by C. M. Thuland, Historical Debate. | An historical presentation of the debate in the Eldevold assembly In 1814, when the constitution of Nor way was adopted, was produced, with prominent local Norwegian roles, and the rendering of Norwegian and Amer} ean national anthems concluded the program This evening the program of the Norwegian Sangerfest will be given in the Amphitheatre, with singing societies from all parts of the Wert participating, Carlo A. Speratl, of Decorah, la., will direct ' | } i | | auth | liston, } They Had Just Turned the Boat to Go Further off Shore When the Rock Ripped a Hole in Her Bot- tom—Engine Room Crew Stood by Their Engines Nobly——Only Four Drowned. OFFICERS’ STATEMENTS “An uncharted pinnacle rock caused the wreck of the Ohio. The collision was unavoidable. While we were closer than usual to port shore we were on our course, The fact that not more than four lives were lost was due to Chief Engineer Raymond and his assistants remaining at their posts."—CAPT. JOHN JOHNSON, ‘Quartermaster Albert Andreason, whose life was lost, was at the wheel when the Ohio struck. The story that George Eccles, wireless operator, received responses to his wireless appeals for help is not true, He remained at his instrument until the dynamo refused to work and then was killed on deck by some flying object.”—PILOT S. F. SNOW. “Although water rushed down on the boilers and be- gan to fill the engine room immediately after we scraped over the rock we remained down there and kept the engine going at top speed to reach Carter's bay, a distance of two and a half miles. My men knew that unless they remained at their post all would be lost."—-CHIEF ENGINEER E, W, RAYMOND. Andreason, The night These are extracts from the first|tain Snow and Albert tle account of the wreck of| who was at the wheel steamer Ohlo of the Alaska | was extremely dark. Steamship comp which sank at The Steamer Strikes. 1 o'clock Thar , morning shortly “Captain Snow looked out and after crashing into 4 rock off BteeD | 1.05 turned to me, asking: “Do you point, In Britieh Columbia waters. think our course is right?’ tre Since the fire news of the disaster plied that I nought we were a little reached Seattle Friday morning, | poser to the port shore than usual, many conflicting stories regarding | 4 omont after 1 gave the com- the sotual details of the collision | rang to throw the helm to port we have be aie + Captain Job lielt the bottom of the steamer In view of this ac ‘aptal n J ohn: grind. At that time we were run- son and Chief Engineer Raymond, | ning at the rate of about 11 knots who arrived In Seattle on the steam | 41 hour. 1 atopped the engine, but er Yucatan at 4 o'clock this morning immediately ordered it to start from the scene of the wreck, and again when I discovered the ship Pilot Bnow, who reached this clty | was not fast. I circled around dan- yesterday morning, today gave T cin Opera and Sched tea Gan Star a detailed account of the cause | iio. Hay lying two and one halt of the accident and of the thrilling miles east of the fock we struck weenes that followed I knew that was the only place Was Unavoldable, } around there that we could land. ‘ “In the meantime, the crew was Captain a Por iy _ lowering life boats so as to have sturdy sea captain that ee them In position to receive passen- ie @ short, stocky man, with a short | oo. in ‘the event that the boat nd chee red mustache and red cheeks that Jon: down before I could beach her, have been weather beaten for many The order maintained by the pas- york asa |sengers was remarkable, Many of ce Perso 2 ewan. te: felt them rushed to the decks, but the ing the first long statement that | °Te* had no trouble in inducing has passed his lips since the col. | ‘em to return. Protect the Women, “The ship was beached about 600 yards from shore, in Carter's bay, and by 1:40 o'clock in. the morn- ing all the survivors had reached could not have “At midnight I was relieved in the pilot house by Pilot Snow, but on account of the rain storm that was raging I returned at about 12:45 o'clock. In the pilot house with me were Third Officer Johanson, Cap- (Continued on Pave Nine.) SSS WILLIAM SCHELLE HAS HIS WIFE AND CLERK ARRESTED Accuses Them of Eloping and the Two Are Now Held in the King County | Jail. Mra. Bba Schelle, wife of the pro prietor of Schello’s Grotto, and A. C. DeRoy, a jeweler’s clerk at Belling ham, are in the King county jaf! un dor @ warrant issued in Whatcom county charging DeRoy ing with Mrs. Schelle arrested in Bel with elop The couple were Mngham Sajurday night and brought here Sunday Schelle came to see his wife yesterday and He had a morning they quarreled then went to and warrant Bellingham sworn out against the palr Mrs four She Is told her husband she was going t th Yakima to visit a sister, and Hie has been missing for weeks. sald to have the truth. The chapter from a novel romance reads more than le ¥ back ried ar re d Mrs. Sch New Brunawich other man “i they the contir to Seattle the DekKo: drifted to Washington alec not a UEC OBE, fally, in whe grew rich fina great financ world, and here he Schelle a beautiful bles followed Well, come had four of the Rell q les fe ing 1 worth t Aine preciate to DeRoy, and the what may the most preciou low tast do ACCURE of th When iirst arrested in an Bik wt, in Belling nied his identity to yvand 1 he Her her Scholle mer yuse On ham, Roy a protect his old sweetheart, but up-| gown and an expensive plumed hat on seeing the arresting offfcer| when arrested, and many more gor knew everything, he confessed. geous costumes were found fn thelr Mra. Scholle wore a beautiful | apaytmente. aes TROUBLES COME IN BUNCHES FOR VICTIM OF BABY CLOTHES THIEVES at Chehalis, {8 enough to drive an ordinary woman insane, were she in sound mental and physical con We the) dition, but Mrs. Bolton must b {t all while she lies in the hospita awaiting another call from the un- lous stork, singly. It roubles never come ains but It pours true to the saying ft Mrs, Ella Bolton. f seven chil- of | Sorup for Doub’ dollars that rip-| were turned in for the unfor te help,| woman were made to go as far ag Seventeen but with trouble heaped with her husband only a linge while the germ of tubers culosis are slowly eating his life away, and her young hildren dependent themselvemy thelr mother pless in possth realities of 1 fairies pains and e- rable cane who was robbed recently her dren bable and s the w clothing for hom 7 tarted | they would with a Chehalis her hus with seven band lying © n pital and } n Nttle ones mn when ¢ aching sink. intere e at this trimmed” THIS WOMAN HAS LOST HER CHARM FOR J. C. WHEATON . ost the big hat and then discovered HERR RH BANK CLEARINGS. Seattle ee ee ee REx Rae THAR AEE SERRE RE EEE RR RR EH ompany, receiver for the PO sa eamens

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