The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 13, 1909, Page 1

THE SEATTLE NO, 174. BES MANAGER: SAYS IT IS AN _ INVESTIGATION y State Labor Commissioner Blanche H. Mason cides That Laundry Has Not Violated the Law Trying to Get Evidence From Girls Who More Than Ten Hours. fe the fact that as many as a half dozen girls have Mby The Star who will swear that girls have been the Supply Laundry longer than 10 hours a day, fe the state law § that are questionable, Mrs. Blanche M. Mason, labor commissioner, after an interview with Geo manager of the Supply Laundry, announced that Bid be no investigation of the charges made follow ek-out of a score of girls who insisted on having a holiday. Mason had given out an interview this morning talked long and loudly about her position being W the purpose of keeping a motherly eye over the isis and women of the state, and after a reporter go with her to homes of girls who were willing ‘th Fwitness stand and testify to flagrant violations, ot announced this noon that there would be no in besides being forced to submit to talking with a single employe who could have @ dozen words enough to warrant the deepest of he went direct to Manager George D. Weir. And} fy did she hear his protesting denials of any ind, taking his word for it, announced that the m had ceased. talked with Mr. Weir,” is all that she would say, it there is absolutely no cause for an investi Mar, Jobn Where work is done by the piece the foreladies show favoritiem to thetr friends by furnishing them with such articles as pay better, by letting them have their pick from the pile as it comes laid out tor all alike. And if those suffering from the injustice complain to the |foreman, he discharges them. the Suyge+ If a woman refuses to work over fatal move | time for him he promptly dis- who refused to | Charges her as an example to the yy. They hold | others that he is to be obeyed. 4 who need| He said all the laundries refused They are over-|to give thetr employes a holiday matters. If only |last Monday. ‘he Troy 1 ry Iie they sre robbed | gave their employes a holiday, and ’s pay. and that can-/I believe they also presented their And if they refuse help with tickets to the fair. it hour because of| There is one Jaundry that is fair B late, they are dis and human gome work on Sun- Let the truth be told and justice don JOHN WURSTER. a Over Falls as Eager to Save | rom } Fate. Sept. 13.—Her i little child- Faithful dogs love their masters, | but the faithful canine Is not al-| ‘Rose! op ead ways alone in his admiration, fs the heroine of Wa sadly proven near the en-| Her body, with|trance to the fair grounds this i Timmons, morning. re tn the depths 11, Mes |'George Rankin, a youthful mes. r @t the foot of | Senger who was also the proud and where she met that cost Miss|% dog and came in response to the and almost resulted | "ame “Toss,” was riding hie bicycle! 1 & dozen helpless |*Wiftly down the street between the mg vee rowing the} a pe navigy Ra A friend and boon a companion, Toss. Bond above a) °, huge dray came into sight, and young kin carefully avoided tt, Wickets Raised. but, puppylike, Toss squeezed him: Taised the wickets of | self in between his master and the aM, Creating an eddy on the| wagon. All would have gone well i sittace of the pond that ir-| nevertheless, if the street car hadn't py drew the frail skiff|come along at that very moment Sie fall, With rare cour-|The messenger swerved out to the aa of mind the girl| side of the street, but Toss didn't ¥ ferrified charges into|see the car until It was almost on boat, raising the| him. He gave one big leap to the! Water. She was|other side, Ht squarely in front of) her craft against|one of the big rear wheels of the the vation and delay | heavy dray, and in another instant until other boats, | — = tiver men, could 6. Teached the apparent about the same | .~ e the hen to turn ow = = BOY PLAYING DR. erring the little We larger craft, one baby ‘Water, | Over Falis. children, terrorized bat, but were res.| (By United Press.) ay Boatmen, several of| SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 13.—Pre- in after them tending that he was Dr. Cook, and the skiff containing |an unoccupled cottage on the sum- approached peril-| mit of a hill at Utah and 19th sts brink of the falls. was the North Pole, 10-year-old John Ocenpled hand en made a bold dash from ecivi in her ¢ to | lization, namely, a lamp post, and} the boats, had |after successfully negotiating the) to stop the steady | ice ‘own craft. ter boar that had ; re could ro, her, Maa pitched over fields, reached the boreal cen- There, overcome by the cold and exhaustion, the brave discover: er started a fire in the basement of ne the pole, planted a small American Mg Waters below. flag which he had carried, and re Who had faint- turned to his base of supplies, the transferred to the lamp post, once more. A few min #he shared the fate es later the fire department was Nelther body was called out to extinguish the flames. hich were destroying the cottag: i SACRIFICES LIFE SAVING ELEVEN OTHERS “TOSS”, ONLY A DOG, BUT HIS DEATH IS MOURNED BY AT LEAST ONE PERSON TA BALLINGER AND PINCHOT WILL TAY President Taft Proves Him- self a “Trimmer” in Controversy in Land Re- serve Case. ger will not resign, Chief Fores ter Pinchot will also hold his position, and the squabble will be nicely smoothed out, This ts the lotion being made today by persons in close touch with President Taft and it is believed that President Taft will make a statement to this effect before leaves Beverly tomorrow afternoon, President Taft spent today making preparations for hie trip and preparing his speech to be delivered at Boston tomorrow, FISHED $205 OUT OF TAXICKR COMPANY'S SAFE, THEY ALLEGE WARRANT OUT FOR C. T, BYRNES, CHARGED WITH GRAND LARCENY, A warrant has been issued for the arrest of C. T. Byrnes, recently temparary night dispatcher at the Seattle Taxicab company. He ts ac-| cused of grand larceny in the theft of $285. Byrnes tx sald to have obtained the money in @ unique manner. In order that the money collected each day might be turned in safely the company has constructed a chute going direct to the safe. At the end of the day's work the drivers put their money and a report in a sack This sack is closed and dropped down the chute. it ts alleged that Byrnes walted until all the sacks had been turned | now, sat on the steps of their sum-| herd, mer home in Maine to be photo | greatest in and the employes had left tho shop. He then took @ long wire with a hook om the end and placed it down the chute with the hook tn wide the safe. Then he werked it! around until he landed one of the! wacks. After removing the sack he! repeated the operation. He got) seven sacks which contained $285 tn all. The next morning he was missing | and the company has sworn out a warrant Sl a a a a i ie i et * < Ave ATTENDANCE. * * Yesterday's . ves 17,063. ® ® Total ....., 2,812,153, ® Tree eee eee ee ee 2 had been crushed into a lifeless pulp, bis head being nearly cut from his body. saw what had on. Young Rankin dismounted and, hoping against hope, ran to the man gled form of companion. Tos yes opened wide, happy owner of an animal which)and then closed as his lifeless re-|are wealthy, had been repeatedly |answered the general discription of | mains stiffened on the bloody pave-| threatened in letters signed by the| found that Teresa was dead and cried | Black a the other two children were sertous leave a certain amount of monoy/!¥ Injured, | r | at a stated place. @t sundown yes-| tracks of the Eastlake car line, fol-| est friend and most ardent admirer | these demande were refused and the letters turned over to the police. | ment. “Toss, oh Tons!” young Rankin, his lower lip quive ing in the realization that his d had been lost in canine eternity. Taking the lifeless form in his} arms, and struggling heroically then, one by one, big drops of water fell from his cheek onto the form which he held close to his breast his bicycle and started home with his loved one. ident doubts that burial with impr wive ceremonies. COOK, FINDS THE NORTH POLE AND THEN BURNS IT, AL- North Pole was wrapped in flames and was juced to ashes, The or- igin of the fire remained a mystery until Fire Captain Charles Cullen today announced that young Whalen was an explorer bold, and the fire was built to warm his fre ‘& culvert tn city pia, 8 Yeare old, was found driver looked around, | wore kidnaped, supposedly by mem “ been done, and drove/bers of the Black Hand society, ™&n jwhile they were his faithful, loving|jan colony of Utica | noticed the three children lying, ap- to| were playing keep back the flood of tears that/in a bugey dre had rushed to the brink, the Iittle| were thrown Into the vehicle, where | notified the fellow looked after the dray, and | the) rledly fled. [friends of the Infusino and Per the kidnapin Securing @ fruit box at a near fore the police arrived on the scene, morning when the stand upon the direction of a street'the kidnapers and corner policeman, the boy checked | were out of sight. Nobody who saw the was turned In, and the entire police | kidnaped by members of the Black Toss had a force began @ search for the chil | dren, in which the fathers and moth ers of the youngsters joined, Barly | store culvert ed Fannt and he Is now being given the third | case degree The firemen arrived too late, for the | Confession. | 10 NO8E.| House late yesterday HOME -EDITION— SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1909, THE SEATTLE STAFF ONE CEN} THESE TWO WIVES WILL HATE | EACH OTHER FOR FAME’S SAKE a PEARY'S WIFE, HIS. “SNOWBIRD” AND HIS BOY — — Mrs. Peary and Mrs. Coo Their Husbands’ Cont: REE See See EE EEE See eee ee HOW TWO WIVES OF BIGGEST M | Mrs. Cook—Saw headlines 1 | Lewiston, Me. Mrs, Peary—-Newspaper ma where she front porch at home. WHAT TH Mrs. Cook said the cottage and tell the Mrs. Peary said: Oh, glor that flag. Is it true Mrs, Peary Mra. Cook's very her fortune. Mra. Peary sustained by h from United States navy AGES OF Mrs. Cook, about 36 years o former husband, and He b Mrs, Peary, about 40. ert, 9. low, aft RRR BY w.G. 8 BRUNSWICK, Me., Sept. 13 question, Did Dr. Cook and Pear But there's another big ques Cook ever be friends? Not unt They ve had polar expeditio mental cyclones of thought that « Casco bay, between the summer lived, and Eagle island, where | The north pole struggle of the b mendous. I've done my best by talkin Aiscover facts regarding this po Peary. Scientists may discover between the husbands, but no on other halves of controversy. ~~ Commander Peary’s family, happy ; graphed pondent Sbep-| Peary, pretty Marie, 16, who was receiving their) born “farthest north,” and Robert They are Mrs.) fr, 10. ee ee oe ore CHILDREN LUREDAWAY Wome HELP LEFT AT HOTEL fms meal me a BY FIENDISH RIONAPER In the first place, Mrs. Peary =2| had the north all to herself. Hailed as the wife of the only great north pole explorer in the United States, she walked alone in her fame. Her daughter Marie was born in the polar circle 16 years ago. Every trail, crossing hers. One cold win. “| ter evening, at the Arctic club ban- quet at the Waldorf Astoria hotel, she found disquieting marks. They MANAGER LUX, OF THE WAS! INGTON, iS NOT IN TO NEWS. PAPER MEN NOWADAYS. The threatened on Mrs. Peary’s heretofore ex- strike of the|clusive territory. : he white help at the Hotel Washing. The banquet room was hardly ; ton, as @ result of the discharge of |large enough for both of them. In : : took Freddie and, bol im " . Outrage Committed in New {00% nd. bolding him 11 / a1 white bell boys and the installa |one of Mre, Cook’s caches an Es- A 4 tion of Japs, failed to develop, be-|kimo reporter afterward got this York State Alleged to Be chee Ete a be cause there were not enouga white | statement from Mra. Cook: the Work of Black Hand ‘teresa. jemployes left around the hotel to| “Mra. Peary was very patroniz- make a strike that anyone could|/ing. Said she was sorry I didn’t Bleckmpilers. | Kidnaper Runs Away. “5 ‘ “eas know where my husband was. As “after the man had shot Freddie| Mr. Lux. the manager, at whose | if I didn't know he was on his way . vated he turaedl: ie revulver on. fae. | orders the house detective dis-jto the pole. Peary himself sald, eter 18 Under| He shot me through the arm and | Charged the boys, ts not in to m ‘Ab, Mrs. Cook.’’ feolated section of I fell to the ground too. Then he | P@Per men. either at his office or Slippery for Mra. Peary. today, little Teresa a . over the phone, #o escapes the trou- put the revolver in his pocket and| 110 ¢ making a statement Occasionally Mra. Cook made ran away: A , rm The discharge of the white boys|further progress by big stories in dead, Fannie Sufusino, aged 6. EY sx Gy Saate uae foe merely a case of dollars and|the newspapers of her husband's years, was dying, and Freddie not ahoeal me. y would | « , however, They drew $25and|daring in seeking the pole. She Sufusino, 3 years old, was found | $30, while the Orientals work for| didn’t seek them herself. She was “Then I fell asleep and do not remember anything more until I was awakened by another strange with a bullet hole in the arm. }$15, they say Late yesterday the three children at the hotel forced into it to help the proposed calls the telephone calls through| made many miles a day toward her the lobby. Few Japs could do his|goal of fame by such statements work, so he was kept in the service.|as “My husband will find the pole | Incidentally, he draws only $15 a|or die,” and “He can't miss it.” month and board, which is ascheap| Such remarks made traveling jas Jap labor can be had very slippery for Mrs. Peary. s They traveled widely a but this spring their trails came to- gether again Moved to Harpswell Isle. That was only half a mile from Eagle island. Heretofore this part of the United States was fa mous for its wives of polar ex- plorers, of which there was one Mrs. Peary. Now it began to look as if the wife of every man who worked out doors in winter was en- titled to honors along Casco bay. “What does she want to come here for, so near us?” a reporter found in a Peary cache. “Because it’s a nice place to spend the summer,” was issued from Cook camp. Oh, the bleak winds of telepathy that swept and cycloned that half mile of Casco bay. Oh, how cold the steamboats became on which both women happened to go up the playing in the) When questioned by the police in the Ital-| today the milkman stated that he vieinity of their ho parently asleep, in the culvert. The parents of the children, who Upon making an investigation he Hand, {f they failed to In every Instance Gitbeh te Gtarted. Late yesterday, while the children| turn to thelr homes in time for the street, two men | Supper last might, Ercola Infusino, | upto them. They the father of Freddie and Fannie, | police. The police were joined in the search by 1,500| (By United Press.) NEW YORK, Sept. 13.— Judge Robert 8. Lovett was to- day elected chairman of the executive Committee of the Union Pacific railway to fill the vacancy caused by the deaths of H. H. Rogers and Harriman. Rockefeller and Schiff, it is believed have been financially Interested in a number of Har- riman’s railroad deals. were gagged, and the men hur-| Other children who had witnessed copia families. The search was spread the alarm. Be-|kept up all night, and ended this children were victims | found by the milkman. |. Infusine, keeps a small store and A general alarm for the kidnapers | he is sure that the children were | their Hand, who had threatened him. The | Percopia family lived above the today a milkman found the body of little wa at the entrance to the} bay to Portland, on shopping expe- Black Hand Suspected. REAL ESTATE FIRM nd a farther search reveal Nearly,every Italian store tn the | : who was dying from re-| vicinity was closed this morning, | ditions. Bolletsalaiant treme, Cold volver wounds, and little Freddie,/and the elerks, in addition to the with a bullet wound in the arm, | entire police department and three lure. Poaty ious tauhilas Gver the The police arrested the milkman,| bloodhounds, are working on the | Snek eat San Uae Dinas vee tka Two suspects have been ar) phe puget Sound Realty Asso-| front end, Casco bay seamen will in the hope of securing a rested and are being sweated clates this morning furnished the | always talk about these cold spells, Violence {8 likely in the event 000 ‘supersedeas bond which that tho erlme f# fastened to any-| was required of them by Judge Wil json R. Gay in the superior court, which relieves them of the services of the two receivers, C. W. Ide and Mdward Brad Mrs. Cook's Triumph, One day, from Mrs. Cook's trail, came'a cry of joy, It reached Peary camp. Mrs. Look had been out on the trail as the wife of an explorer A bond of $25,000 was also fur-|OMly two years; Mrs, Peary had nished by the receivers, and it was | been out 24 years But no such cry accepted by the court, The $150,000 | Of Joy had ever gone up from the Although enduring great agony Fannie told the following story to-| one. day to the police in broken state No attempt, according to physt ments: cians, had been made to assault Jeither of the girls. The families }of the children are wealthy and are leaders in the Italian colony, Story of Outrage. “We were playing In front of our when a man senced to talk to Teresa. After com ENATORI j ¢ given Teresa some ey [AOR RO kkk tot tot ttt tO) bond was furnished by the Nation-| Peary trail MAG SENATORIAL O88 me Midd dara traced ies \* * al Surety company, and was signed} 5M husband has found the pole.” (By United Press.) “Come on with me, this man is|* WEATHER FORECAST. = iby Jokn W. Roberts, resident vice| |, vag iid hg ntal telepathy cy LOS ANGELES, Bept. 11.—H. B godfather.’ |* Fair! tonight and Tuesday; * president, and George W, Allen, res: | one [hat night neross aso bay Moorehouse, former member of the| “The man took us to the out-|* light westerly winds, * ident assistant secretary, Pi eotca Steen ne California jegisiatur® may be a| skirts of the clty, when he suddenly | * *| - tre kenbdias Gata Gmetaaare Poe candidate to succeed Senator|turned on Teresa, and with one |#¥¥¥ eee RH eM! Today's Treasury Report. wal pon ndina the Ph gesd = \ ook George 8. Nixon of Nevada, accord loath, shot her. | WASHINGTON, D. C,, Sept, 18 reporter ad photaavah . in vale ing to Frank Ward, a mining man| “Freddie and myself were unable Bar Silver Quotations. |Today's report of tho treasury] (ier iy cores, Pretty bleak dev of Goldfield, who 1s in this city|to move | HW YORK, Sopt. 18.—Bar silver| shows, receipts $2,022,148, disburse- |" '°"® wat hb Gl lays today. I begged him not to do it, but he |{s quoted today al 51% cents |ments $1,972,000, (Continued on Pago 7.) and daughter and boy Robert were sitting on the “Oh, my, goodie. I children.” y. Marie, hurry out and run up ? Oh, isn’t 1 splendid? HOW THEY WAITED: Mra. Cook, 46 months, three expeditions. 168 montha, during seven expeditions. FINANCES: n, Two children, Marie, 17, and Rob- looked like footprints of Mrs. Cook | Only one white lad remaings, He| expedition for her husband. She} k Must Always Bear a Bit« ter Grudge Against Each Other as a Result of roversy as to the Priority of the Discovery of the North Pole. De i i le Me ie in Me ie ie ie ie ed EXPLORERS HEARD THEIR ESSAGES. n newspaper on news stand at n brought message to Island, EY DID: must hurry back to er baving helped husband with usband’s salary of $6,000 a year, FAMILIES: ld. Two children, Ruth, 8, by y Dr. Cook, 4 years. SSSSESSE SESE SEE EE FH SEEEE SEEK eee ee ee ee es HEPHERD. We'll all probably say yes to the y both find the pole? ton Will Mrs. Peary and Mrs. il palms wave over the pole. ns of thelr own. The winds that swept over the ice wastes of the north were warm compared with wept and swirled the waters of boarding house where Mrs, Cook 8 situated Peary’s summer home. etter halves of explorers was tre- gs to Mrs. Cook and Mrs. Peary to lar trip of Mesdames Cook and who is the winner in the struggle can ever settle discussion between | eee * * THANK YOU, VERY MUCH. * Mrs. Cook's message to Mrs. * Peary was borne by Corre- * spondent Shepherd, who was ® the first to tell Mrs. Cook of |® news of Peary. * “Will you teil Mrs. Peary I * congratulate her,” requested | ® Mrs. Cook. |® “It's very kind of her,” was ® * Mrs. Peary’s reply. * * RRA KKK Sete ee tHe CLAIMS PEARY “OTOLE FOOD OF COOKIN NORTH 'Danish Doctor Says Peary ! Also Spread Report of | Death of Opponent, and | Gives Cook’s Version. (By United tress. COPENHAGEN, Sept 13.—A letter written by Dr. Norman Han- sen, a Danish physician, giving Dr. Cook's version of trouble with Peary over supplies, apgears in the | Daily Politikan, | Dr. Cook told practically the same |story to one of his closest Ameri- can friends just a week ago, be fore Commander Peary reappeared on the scene, but sald he did not Intend to make it public, because jit might lead to unpleasantness. Dr. Hansen was with Dr. Cook for some time in Greenland, and re- jturned with him on the Danish gov ernment steamer Hans Egede, “Now that Dr. Cook has gone,” jhe writes, “I am no longer under jany obligation to keep silent, and will exercise my right to publish jthe story about the house in Anna- took, @ story which Dr. Cook him- self had too much delicacy to relate to the world. I write it from mem- ory, as Dr. Cook told it to me, and |I am fully convinced that In no de |tails are my recollections wrong, Peary's Man on Guard. “Dr, Cook had built his house for stores in Annatook, north of Btah, jand it was this depot which he | Started to reach in February, 1909, crossing Smith sound. It was @ pretty large house, the walls being butlt of heavily packed provision boxes, so Dr. Cook knew that when this important point was reached everything was safe. He had before the start given permission to a young friend named Whitney to use the house while hunting musk oxen for sport In the winter of 1908-9 “When Dr. Cook and his two Eski- maux, exhausted and half starved, came within a short distance of the house in Annatook, young Whitney came out to bid them welcome, but inside the house was a stranger, a giant Newfoundland boatswain, on watch. This man had been placed in Dr, Cook's house by Peary, when the latter passed Etah with his hip, bound north. Peary had given (Continued on Pane 7