The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 1, 1909, Page 1

OL. 11. NO, 164 LTY GAIL oYSTEM TO LAME FOR THE RELEASING OF SMITH } ot the diffe rent offer naes for whic ™ Private Banker Will Have people are arrestod. On this sched THE SEATTLE ‘LAF SEAT ENGLISH LORDS CAPTIVATED BY PRETTY AMERICAN CHORUS GIRLS to Put Up $15,000 to ule, the ball for a grand larceny ’ case la fixe t $1,000. Keep Out of Jai Liat He, Had ¢ x Windt been famillar | with the Smith case, he Is Caught. }to me before assuming to fix the | bail. Had he done so, Smith would have been compelled to have se cured bail In at least the sum of $15,000 bevore securing his reles VA aystem which provides a set dule of the amount of bail to fixed for the release of persons d with crime, in which 91,000, seems to be responsible the release of W. W. Smith, ar a few days ago on the charge grand larceny tn conducting a alent loan office In this city. |{ told in The Star yesterday, | was released from the county on Monday afternoon, after bav ited with the sheriff's of-| m of $1,250, $1,000 on the | j NEW STUNT 15 TO GE WED larceny charge and $250 on a ly larceny charge. Caught in Vancouver. | Warrant for his arrest on the | iy larceny charge was teaued UD- | nistory of the world to Le complaint of the prosecuting at by wireless telephone. on August 23. Sheriff Hodge mM or-0f Gpecial Brente 1. W.| Hiered Smith to be tn Vancouver, married | | . Buckley, at the exposition, has| telephoned to the police there. | everything ready for the marriage gearch was made and Smith was in a captive balloon by wireless jed. As petty larceny is not! phone on Seattle day exc ept the! extraditable offense, the sheriff fled the prosecuting attorney of ith’s arrest, and asked that a lareeny charge be made | happy couple. The wedding will be pe first in history to be performed | | by the ald of the new invention, the would un-| doubdtedly have referred the matter | sched the bail In grand larceny cases | BY WIRELESS Wanted The frat: 6 couple tn the | } | MISS ESTELLE CHRISTY, HIMSELF, The tragic suicide in London of young Lord Eliot, as a result of his and Mise Christy wor Kilot had ne son » been Lady tim. This was dene, and eae seth: nae, ha infatuation for Estelle Christy, the young admirers parents objecte Church of the prosecuting at-| helow and talle into aha eee | beautiful American chorus girl, has) The young nobleman had been y's office was hurried to Van | tistrument This i t = ose revived the old mystery of the love with her for more than thr with a duplicate warrant. | win umet'y,. orbigrganney joa fascination American chorus girls years tits parents believed tt origina! it was deliver exert over British noblemen when he gave ber up, the Saentt after Chareh’s pd bss married on top of Mount Rainier,| Frances Belmont, a chorus girl, is his love would coas wat it nev “ fo an alrahip, or, in fact, most any be Lady Ashburton, Camille Clif-\did. He-had been heartbroken ev beet Wae.the prosecuting attor | “**T*. ford become the bride of Lord A alnce Was 80 anxious to head off the | b '* office from apprehending | Pmith is not quite clear, When found that Uhureb had gone | wer, he recalled the depu | to start from his office | pd allowed Church. who represent. | Bimself to be a deputy sheriff, fe bring Smith back To City Jail. ch and Smith reached Seat ‘on Sunday morning. Instead of ing bis prisoner to the county where he properly belonged, tn- ch as the sheriff had the or- Warrant. Church took Smith the sity jal. The sherit learn ; this, and two deputies were | Realty Associates . to the elty jalt and Smith re-|the cornimenne oS to the county jail i that | When Smith was searched in| ning Encouver only $7 was found on! Person. The search at the city in Seattle resulted also in the pvery of but $7. Smith, how » informed the officers that he | $2,500 sewed up in his clothing. | neither the police of Van-/ Witnesses Tell What They! Expected to Make by. the Purchase of Bonds, and What They Got. Ps are secking of a recetver for association, had their first in- in Judge Wilson R. Gay's court room this morning, when the hearing was resumed Of the four that testified they Hinvested part of their savings with the company on the promise that they would receive good returns, George Garner, a night watchman. ir nor Church knew anything | aged and palefaced. told the most This amount, with the $7, was interesting story of his experience n from the prisoner and turned | with the concern. Garner explained to the deputy sheriff when |that he bought two income bonds, was removed to the county valued at $100 each, and now fully | paid for. Name on Cuff. | What He Promised. the county jail, Smith made! «gent Enos, who sold the bond statement that he had been In-|1, me." said the witness, “promised | a by Church that if he would | ing | ‘would receive & per cent on one “Bud” Cummings as bis | my $200 investment as soon as | ey, and would aid in straight-| Pata in that amount up his affairs, he would prob- ppotntment prosecuting attorney's office ¢ name of “Bud” Cummings had | R written by Smith upon his pany told me the bondholders were to receive two-thirds of the profits and the remaining one-third would } and he first referred to it/¢, to the trustees of the realty hen discussing the matter of se-| Soncern.” Being an attorney. Garner declared that when he On the original warrant for| purchased the bonds he was in Smith's arrest on the grand larceny rge, & notation had been made pencil, “Bail $1,000." On Monday orning Smith was taken by Dep iy Sheriffs Joe Hill and Mark man to Justice F. C. Brown's , and the warrant exchanged | the usual commitment. At this! Clerk Windt of Justice n's court, acting according to formed that his $200 would be used in purchasing property, to be held and sold at a profit for the bene fit of the bondholders. He said it had n been explained to him that the company also intended to ereet buildings with the Investors’ money. “Did you know at the time you hought the bonds that John H. Me- custom of the court in ordinary |Graw was president of the Puget d larceny cases, formally fixed | sound Realty Associates?” Garner bail at $1,006, attaching to the | was asked the rubber stamp signature of | pelt’ tae. Stadia, Brown. In the petty ¥ case bail was fixed at $250. lar If 1 had known that that man,” aid the witness, half rising and Smith Let Go. pointing « finger at McGraw, who Bmith was thereupon taken back| was pacing the floor, “was cor the county jail, and later taken | nected with the concern, I wouldn't @ the «9 jail to be photographed, | have given them a cent Mr. Me n he was brought back to the |Graw joined the spectators in sup % Bty jail. He then verbally ten-| pressed laughter at this remark i ed to Jail Superintendent Rob-| H. H. Benson, 1819 Second av. N., cash in the sum of $1,250, half | testified that he owned three bonds, amount he had in the jail safe. | valued at $100 each. His story was was accepted, the balance,| similar to that of Garner's. 67, turned over to him, and at| Edward L. Gomall and T Welock in the afternoon he left |O’Nell, a merchant tailor, were the Jali, telling Superintendent Rob x that he was going to his office | amined paid Cherry st | $226 on a contract for a $500 bond, S According to Prosecuting Attor-|and O’Net) has one $100 bond, fully Vanderveer, the first intima-|paid for, and has given the com Men he had of Smith's release was | pany $300 on a contract for a $400 he read The Star last even-| bond. & He immediately consulted with| Both men testified that they were Brown, and a new warrant ae issued, with bail in the sum of | So far as could be learned BMS morning, however, no effort PMP being made to arrest Smith, pi bs WATER SHUT-OFF NOTICE. be 19 noon today the new warrant|* Water will be shut off in the poe Mot been turned into the # district east of 20th south and other two bondholders who wer Gomall said he had "tind dite dale bile cs sher , Office. |® Yakima av., and betwe Yes: Assumes the Blame. * ler way and Holgate st, Thurs * day, Sept. 2, from 9 a. m. until Brown this morning told | 5 p. m that his office was solely | ble for the release of} @nd that no blame attached the oifice of the prowecut- tn ey or the iff, % & most regrettable Bt” sald Justice Brown, " by the dulce ere eererrarares I Ee i Ne ee a ‘The contract for furnishing 40,000 electric Nght globes to the city will incl-| be readvertised, because the bid of “and was|the Fobes Supply company, which system we beve| was accepted, does not comply with of ball for all | specifications. she & bch Bondholders of the Puget Sound} 1 received the | }$25 all right, that is all, al-| ly get off without much difficulty lthough I bought the bonds in ith said that Czarch told him | i996 Cummings was very close to| “geeretary Higday of the com REALTY BOND-HOLDERS GIVE THEIR SIDE OF CASE promised that their money, like that of others, would be invested for the henefit of bondholders. Cost Too Much. Fred W. Went, one of the real estate men questioned as to [whether they thought poor jude ment was shown by the pany d to the detatie of ‘pany, was rece explain more corn's affairn, The samed this afternoon 3. & Duryea. who was tendent of agencies of the rea Spay, tontifins stand the ce that he reee but ¢ 1S per cent on a put of thy mums be pe ‘LE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 1, FOR WHOM LORD ELIOT KILLED rlog Was re |dleaged man & 1909, AUGUST WAS BUSY MONTH AT EXPOSITION — | Nearly a Million Went | Through Turnstiles and, Same Number Due in September. one million people were | admitted to the A-Y.-P. exposition Grounds in the month of August and the fair expects to have one | million paid ad ons in Septem ber,” said Chilberg this morning, in discussing the incre ¢4 business which each monthly re port of exposition attendance | shows Thies falr ought to double land in paid admissions and we are to date. ‘The total paid admissions here to date is much greater than Portland for the whole season, and we hope to double their figures Our. pass Het i» smaller, so the total admissions will not Portland, but the With Beattie Day, Taft Day Live Stock show and other big f tures, Beptember will easily b banner wonth of the fair The total admissions, including | yesterday, are £493,375, The sink jing fund of 30 per cent of the ga receipts has made possible to date |the payment of 60 per cent of the | bonded indebtedness of the fair and ve President the th janother 10 per cent payment will |be made fa two or three days |The bands will be paid up by Oct 1. Ab the time, the profits Nd | of the fair indicate that a substan tial payment will be made on the -~ poatiion stock of $800,000. ‘si UNCONSCIOUS MAN IS “| DISCOVERED BY POLICE, | menced to arrive this morning hun With his face laid open from }eheek bone to jaw, an unidentified man wag found at the junction of Firat av, 8 4 Hanford st. early thie morning by Patrolman B. F. Brafford and sent to the City how pital. The hospital physicians be lieve the man will recover. From the natere of his wound, ft ts tol thougit the man was #track by i a attest car, The patient ie a mid i poorly dressed. n UNCLE SAM WILL SAVE Cb A redaction from 43 to cents & pound on letters and posteards *\to the Orient by Japanese contract steamers, meaning a yearly saving in buying certain Seattle property, Hlettors’ 5 per cent on sales and oth- tof $7,282 under the preseut volume voiced the opinion on the stand that er 12% per cent. In reply to alof mail, has been secured by the the price of $231,000, paid for a cor-| question he said that the compan poatoffice department ber Jot at Marion st. and Third av. has not > is since was excessive. George Meacham, 1907 eRe hte . another; real estate expert, testified How can the company come out @ that the $240,000 paid by the com- abead wher » colle * are com- | ®& WEATHER FORECAST. * pany for a corner lot at Sencea st in?” asked Attorney Hammond, # Fair and cooler tonight; # and Third av, was all it was worth, presenting one of the bondholders & Thursday fair; light north & but that its value undoubtedly Duryea said he J not answer) ® winds. * would increase. [that question because he had been |@ * H. Higday, secretary of the com- absent from the city for some tina le ye MR RRR RR “PURELY SPIRITUAL” IS | IF THEY DECIDE TO HAVE CHIL-| DREN THEY WILL BE LEGALLY MARRIE (hy United Press.) y YORK, Sept. 1.—-9B. Herts, editor of “Moods,” a zine of personality,” and a friend of Artist dinand Earle, who, it is alleged. New York for a Europe tour with Miss Gertrude Dunn, a well known literary woman and settle ment worker, declared today that he was in a position to know that Earle was “perfectly mated this time.” Russell maga clone Pinney | has left} | One Affinity Suing. | known as “the who startled two/ deserted his Julia Kuttner, Earle is best loriginal affinity, continents when he first wife for Miss whom he subsequently wedded, and who is now suing to annul the mar | riage "Phis affair between Earle and Miss Dunn is entirely spiritual declared Herts toda And 1} FERDINAND P. EARLE. know that they are just as perfect ly mated as it is possible for human beings to be. It also is their In jtention to always remain soul BRUSHES TEETH (lf and there will no mar unless the couple decides that they want children. Be No Wedding. COWS EVERY DAY “AFFINITY” EARL'S NO. 3 NO MORE JOY RIDES 10 NOW Immoral Pictures, Also the Are Under the Ban in New York State. NEW moving hooche-b dances, jo and the tre YORK, Sept, 1.—In picture performances, and other Indecent riding in automobtles tment of youthful of fenders as criminals are all under the ban of the new laws which went Into effect in New York state today ne of the new statutes makes ft anor to admit to a kineto or moving picture show injur to ith or any child years of age, unless ac ympanied by a parent or guardian. | Assemblyman C. F. Murphy was re ja misderne morals, lows than double | cash 1 think will, | BE ALLOWED THE SEATTLE STrAk ONE CEN} NORTH POLE IS DISCOVERED 130 Buildings Collapsed in| Flood, Which Swept Down on Rawhide, Nev., From the Mountains. just about doing so up| RAWHIDE, Nev. Sept. A house to house canvass to : om that suddenly descended wu this city at sunset last nigi RAWHIDE, Nev., Sept. 1 fe was lost in the cloudburet pon ht. Pro. | vistons are being rushed by special train Into this elty today for the r Met of sufferers from last wn flood, when 600 families were dered homeless by the destry of 120 butldings Rescuers thi cludes pract population of the ing the path of the more bodies, but it ix believed the lows of life will be the five men jehtidren who | perished tn | water the entire town, are ne two women are known t the ravages Mein Street in Ruins. Until the special trains dreds of residents of the city compelled to make their ic meal off canned goods, cally the entire supply meats and vegetables w away with the crest of t Neveda st. the principal oughfare of the city in ruins. Hardly a business this street withstood agen of the wa house in the city damaged by the buildings, beginning with the tain saloon and straight dowr west disaster the *. Every business was more or lees| flood, while the; ight’s ren rection morning, and this In male reh for d that confined to and four have f the com orning as practi-| of fresh | © caried | flood. thor i# practically house ray Foun-| n the blocks, was crushed to kindling wood. That there was not more lows of life te today considered a miracle Many Heroic Rescues. The thriving little city was b alive to ite danger b re a te of water, 12 feet high, was px 1 its main treet and the residential ‘The lst of fatalities have been «reatly Increased by the number of heroic rescues Emil Grutt, one of the weal citizens of the town, at the ri | his own life plunged Into the a ctpal town section of hardly yrrent uring prin the would ut for made thiest side of Squattertown for six! isk of} seeth: ling waters and dragged Mrs, Robel jort and her two children to lof nafety. Two little gone into the flood with the c in of a bank were saved when Whytoek dove in after them. | When the flood was at ite and everything was inky scores of men dove into th land pulled out women and chi who had been carried away. | Son scores of lives were save | With the subsiding of the places boys who had aving | PR crest black, ea iidren in this d waters | today the work of clearing away the | wrecked buildings was immediately | atarte: a. HEAP HERE SEATTLE the | Indians by hundreds their squaws will come for Seattle Day |the attraction being jcireus now being |Major Will Inglis, lathletics at the fair arran directc umbia and Puget Sound tribe compete for cash prizes will be a tug-of-war by the men, the uptipping of canoe the the handling of the fragtle cra Major Inglis has two men vi the various tribes |great interest amond the in the Seattle Day races. Th tives have been given a can site near the live In thetr tepees while here. The will start and | in front of the ylanade | Stand at the foot of the It ts expected that j attract hundreds of Indians to tle from all over the Puget country races Pay the races MANY INDIANS ONY in na Hooche-Kooche Dances) tive costume, and big chiefs with to Seattle at the exposition, the Indian i by r of Indians representing British Col 8 will There canoe | SUICIDES IN s and squaws will show their skill in aft siting and they report natives he NA mping | nd stand and will/ finish | and Grand reak will) Sound | CHAMBER IS CLOSED. The Cnamber of fices in the “At any event,” he concluded, (By Untied Pree. ponsible for this measure. there will be no wedding cere CINCINNATI, Sept. 1.—W. Kel he Hill bill, also effective today, mony Jeey Shoep, who is heavily Interest: | is designed to put an end to joy-rid Miss Dunn, according to Earle, 18/4 in the Metropolitan Street rail-|ing, which has « d dozens of of a type directly opposite to bis| way of New York and who owns a| vietims tn this city recently famous affinity, Julia Kuttner, now | 150.acre farm in Glendale, a auburb| Anpther new law is expected to Mra, Earle, and he declares that|of this city, has purchased 24 coate t immoral dances, Owners | Miss Dunn f» no more to him than) oy his $75,000 herd of Jersey cows of theatres where objec ;& “mentality The two attendants, whose sole erformances are given will | | Ballard Dunn, a Chi hewS-| duties are to look after the cattle gullty, in the} paper man, and a brother of Miss | place these coverings on them every} ¢ w, with the managers Dunn, today declared that his sis ter had not eloped with Earle. He sald that he was convinced that the real relations between his sister The are departure teeth of each blpoded Jere ushed three times dally, T) in dairy farming ie jand the artist were perfectly! to repuit in better health and bett -vitijcdaad milk Depart Quietly. | “My sister and Karle,” declared|™ yyy 4 HH MR Dunn today, “are simply friends. | # |They are interested in the same|* BANK CLEARINGS. project of starting an orphanage, |* Seattle. “Yesterday I received a letter|* Clearings today ..$1,481,008.81 saying that she was in Paris alone,|* Balances é 168,234.20 and would sail for New York on|® Tacoma. September 4.” |® Clearings today $792,296 Miss Dunn and Karle, it ts re-|* Balances ‘ ported, left New York on July 26,|® Portland. but so quiet was thelr departure |* Clearings today » «$1,069,6 that most of thelr friends knew|* Balances 102,006 nothing of it until late yesterday. |» » 4 4 4 4 4 ¥ MERE ES morning to protect them from files, | ar sald mers for new ey valty kidnaping is in nis| creased, by @ law, to mum of fifty ye of twenty-five Another a maxi are in prison, instead years, as formerly in effect today child under 16 this city or state | provides that no years of may: be matter ebild will be only as a J age in treated as a felony it known ivent criminal, No mmits the ealt with Hnquent what | | { and ¢ + *| + * * * FRANCI8 COMING HOME, *| LONDON, Sept. 1—-Charles 8 * Franeis, the American ambaseador w/at Vienna, who with his family has * been making an automobile tour * through the south of England, sailed ¥ | today Te tniay : Hila ls closed this afternoon out of re family of C, B, Yandel the funeral of Nan was held at to the secretary, daughter Commerce of Central building were | spect | 1, the} whose 1:30 o'clock from St, Mark's chureh. Rev J. P. D. Liwyd conducted the ser vices. The interment was in the | Lakeview cemetery | Miss Helen McDonald, o' class of ‘09 of the Washington, daughter of and Mrs. McDonald, and W | E. Sander of Coeur d'Alene an ‘08 man, McDonald home, 6722 Gresn boulevard, this evening, Miss Donald is a Gamma Phi Beta | Sander is a Beta, | A UNIVERSITY WEDDING. f the} Judge iltam Idaho, will be married at the Lake * Me Mr. University of} BY AN AMERICAN EXPLORER | Seer ee | MANY. CAUGHT. IN WHIRLING SEA OF WATER Danish Government Has Received Advices That Dr. F. A: Cook; of! Brooklyn, Missing for Over a Year, Discovered the Pole in April of Last Year and Is Now on Way to Civilization. (By United Press.) | with a gold medal in honor of his COPENHAGEN, Sept. 1. — scientific contributions, following The North Pole has been reach- th _Belgian Antarctic expedition of ed. Dr, Frederick A. Cook, an 18 when a dash was made to American, is the man who ac- | reach the South Pole. He is presl- complished the feat and has dent of the Explorers’ club of New won the glory of being the first | York human being to stand at the point where every direction is south. Cook reached the North Pole April 21, 1908, according to a telegram received by the Dan- ish government from the In- Spector of Greenland. The dis- patch was sent from Lorwick, Shetiand isiands. Expedition Starts, Dr, Cook's expedition left Halifax, N. 8., in May, 1907, to make the dash to the goal that has spelled untimely death for so many brave |men, and the last word received from him was dated March 17, 1908, 40 miles above Cape Thomas Hub- Or. Cook in now on board the | Dard, jr. the highest point of land Danish government steamer |1n the North Polar sea. Twilight Hans Egede, now en route for | W48 Just beginning and he expected Denmark. to reach the Pole and return to In his dash to the northernmost |Ftah, the base of supplies, In the point on the globe Cook was ac. following September. companied by only a few Eskimos. The entire absence of advices from the party for more than @ Exploring for Years. The American has been explor ing for a number of years but until his reported successful attempt year led to the gravest fears regard- ing its safety, and in April of this year steps to form a rellet expedi- to /tion were taken. reach the Pole, he has confined his efforts to exploring the Antarctic Makes .Gaeh for Pete. regions It was the purpose of Cook to He has written a number of books | travel with all speed during the long on the frozen regions of the earth, Arctic night, so that he would be among his not to science being * worthy contributions in the best possible position to make Through the First |the run across to the Pole. Cook Antarctic Night” and “To the Top {8 @ man of indomitable couragé of the Continent,” the latter being 894 iron constitution, who recog- a recitation of his & ition to izes no obstacle, but his friends believed that he had miscalculated the time of his return and that he had run short of provisions The explorer made his dash for the Pole over a new route. He plan- ned to march across Ellsmere land, keep north by Nansen strait and |then strike out into the Polar sea for the Pole. Mount McKinley in Alaska. When Peary made unsuccess- ful try for the North Pole in 1891-2, Cook was the surgeon of the explor ing party and there he gained an e of the North Many Decorations. He was borr at Callicoon Depot, | 8 n county, New York, on June | 10, 1865, and, like his father, studied medicine He received his degree M, D. at the University of York in 1890, and two years was married. Cook Is Well, BROOKLYN, Sept. 1.—Mrs. Robt. Davidson, a friend of the Cooks, to- day ived a cablegram from Dr, Cook which read or his work of exploration of vecessful and well. Cable ad- the frozen regions and his writings | dress to Copenhagen, he has received numerous decora-| (Signed) “FRED.” tions from different governments. Mrs. Cook, the wife of the ex- among which ts “The Order of Leo-| plorer, and ber children are now at pold,” a Belgian decoration, ‘The | South Haverhill fsland, Maine. Mrs. |Royal Geographical Society award-| Davidson immediately forwarded to ed him a silver medal and the Royal Society of Belgium presented him Mrs. Cook the contents of the cable- gram, =3 forest fire four miles from Sum- |merville. Nearly 200 men are fight ing the fire, IS PEL} JN) MITIKEN ORDERS | CAUSE A WRECK are dead, two Injured, and ten are 2 ‘ missing as the result of a collision nr i Hee in ‘or of a we train and a freight on Henry ald ; the Huntington & Broadtop rafiroad Burglary, Swallows In- sect Powder Given Him by Physician. near Riddlesburg, this morning. The wreck was caused by mistaken orders, MILITARY WEDDING, | pit a | Sat Henry Baldwin, serving a sen-| (ny United Press) a tence for burglary, committed gul- PAM Te SRG, Bante. Leave elde this afternoon in his cell in the | Post chapel will be the scene of @ King county jail by swallowing in-| Miltary wedding today, when Miss | sect powder given him by the jail Grace Beall, daughter of Major and physician, He died within a few | Mts. Beall the brie of minutes. Lieul erett, of the He was sentenced July 26. The| 7 psiaeic aa seb ateaseh: acs man was 55 years old and had rela. | © oa tives In New Orleans. The body 1 @hOTHEANOOD COMING: at Butterworth & Sons’ morgue. Beattie lodge No. 17 of the Scan- dinavian Brotherhood laid plans for last evening FIGHTING THE FLAMES, a Scandinavian Day (By United Press.) at the exposition, September The LAGRANDBE, Or., Sept. 1.—Sev-|delegates from the national con- eral ranch homes are threatened | vention of the lodge at Spokane, with destruction and great damage September to 26, will come ta to property has been done by a Seattle for the day,