The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 16, 1909, Page 1

ii, NO, 177 IDERER MAKES AN snES Says He Ought Hang and Denies Tak- Any of the Accused’s » all but paround his neck at sing incarceration among remainder of his life, accused of killing wife at Brighton Months ago. a plea for justice B the court toom of § Mitchei! Gilliam ' (gpectacular address to delivered after the E attorney bad an Frtd_ H. Peterson, | y, had notified the| that he did| George, despite case was set for! | Peterson says the} to and denios} ge of taking his prop- Plea. with rage and and with teeth bared wn high, George made | be shown bim in the court room} ) ited justice?” | je ia bis decided Eng. dis.) man to defend that may and he de) me in my hour | my plea. & pause, dur perspiration | on has not heard from as working ut he never) see me. And ; turning fiercely he wait to this Bake his withdrawal Wee that it will prove} ” Peterson. ea!” he wailed, with a about the room, tn jail never have on my keys and all is and told him to go) pin the Grand hote! on | to get my papers. % acres of land near Bich was worth $1,000 ructed Peterson to Hthe cash for my de- he has sold the keted the money is pw, but I do know ed me a dirt that is hardly Page Nine.) WS ASTRO HOW HE FEL |Bpproaching the pole. UP), was going toward the sun would be ight. He says he ight sun (marked De) OM April 7, and was marked 234 pole. HM Saye that the Was visible at that H 1, and that if Cook mon that date at the 6)" 850 miles from ether words, that his 816 miles in error. WED CANDE MD ON THE Ke a gonetbte drowning 4 y ©. K. Crager PS Landing, on the east Washington urned cance A man ee found in th rds of the police BMfice Aisclone ho re Missing under the lay & search is Owner of the Yet known whether or & privat Any IPASSIONED PLEA fo LAWYERS PRESIDENT 5 WELCOMED BY A BiG THRONG Is Greeted by Thousands Upon His Arrival in Chi- cago, and Children Sing Him a Song. (My United Pree) CHICAGO, Sept. 16-—The first lap of President Taft's trip was reached when he arrived at Chicago a after 11 o'clock this morn- ty into LaSalle st. station thousands of people had gathered to greet the chief executive of the nation, and/ as he stepped from the train he re- cetved an ovation. He was eating chocolates given to him yesterday, his birthday, by Vice President Sherman. A spectacular feature of the. re ception was an automobile parade. Greeted by Children. The route of the parade lay through Washington park, and here | “Here 1 bave | 200,000 school children had gather.|to marry a Jap. t I have ined. As the president and his escort | were slowly driven through the park 200,000 fittle throats joined tn the strain of “Columbia, the Gem | toro, and all we want ts to be left e of the Ocean.” Following the parade the preet- dent was taken to the Congress ho- tel, where he had luncheon. After luncheon the Art institute was visited, and the members of the Hamilton ¢lub escorted Prest- dent Taft, who Ia an enthusiastic baseball fan, to the Wéet side park, where two professional teams will strugale for his edification. Banquet Tonight. When the presidential train patted | led up by Patrolman A. N. Mayou j mixing in our private affairs,” sald AND THY Like Ruth of Old, This Girl Casts Home, People, God and Religion Away | for Love. “Whither thou goest, | will 90; and where thou lodgest, | will lodge; thy people shal! be my people and thy God my God. “Where thou diest, will | d and t will | be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more | also, if aught but death part | thee and me.” “1 know exactly what I'm doing. am of age and I wanted to marry | Tasutory.” This was the statement of Mre. Tasutoro Oota, formerly Miss Dora Jacobson, the white girl who fed from Maine with the Japanese foreman of a fish cannery more than a week ago and came to Se attle, where they were married last Monday. Bride and bridegroom were pick yesterday in thelr room at the Mt | yoka hotel, 10th ay. 8. and Main/ at, in the heart of the Jap colony,; and taken to police headquarters. | “| don't see why the pablic is the white girl who deserted home “Il knew exactly what I was do- ling, and {t's nobody's business but) our own, I am happy with Tasu The girl produced a marriage cer | tiffeate which had been attested by Galen Wood, formerly a minister, but at preeent a clerk in the office of the county suditor, It was Wood who performed the wedding ceremony | Daring the visit to police head Quarters Oota, who ie about atx fect tall, never uttered a word.| !There wae no charge upon which to hold the pair, and they were al-| AN Until April 7 he must} when | This evening the president will lowed to go back to their lodgings | be the guest of the members of the |in the Jap colony Hamilton club at a dinner at the! nencncrocaeeesinea ‘Sones a capacity audience at Or TQ NAME PURCHASING AGENT FOR THE CITY ehestra hall. | | At 11 o'clock the president re-| {turns to the hotel, and for an hour | will attend the ball of the American | Bankers’ association. { | ‘At. midnight President ‘Tafe|__ The clvil service commission will boards his private car and at 2:30 ™eet late this afternoon to consider lo'elock tomorrow morning his train ‘2 Appointment of & city purchas [will pull out for Madison, Wis.,| ie agent. Out of the large number ; > s or —_ Will be the first stop tomor-| aes have placed on the eligible ist. Any one of the first three named on this list can be appointed under the law. Clvil Service Com- miasioner Listman said today that the first three will not be known until the commission meets this af. | ternoon. } Cardinal Gatolli 11. MILA Sept. 16.--Cardinal Sa tolli, who at one time was apos |tolle delegate at Washington, is I seriously ill |BASES HIS ARGUMENT UPON THE STATE- MENT BY THE EXPLORER THAT “APRIL 7 WAS MARKED BY THE SWINGING OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN OVER THE NORTH. ERN ICE.” (Editor's Note: John Nelson Stockwell, A. M., Ph. D., has attracted world-wide attention as the author of scientific papers attacking the nebular hypothesis, and of other works which have earned him a com. He is the Memoir on the Secular Variations of the Orbits,” in the Smithsonian contributions to knowledge, and “Theory of the Mutual Perturbations of Planets Moving at the Same Mean Distance from the Sun, and Its Bearing on the Constitution of Saturn's Rings and the Cosmogony of manding place in science author of Planetary Laplace.” BY JOHN N. STOCKWELL, A. M., PH. D. Noted Astronomer and Author. When a man announces to the world that he has done |some great thing, it is the province and duty of men of science |to apply to his account of his deed all the tests provided by lt e learning of mankind, If the matter of the North Pole, science in many of her departments provides such tests, Astronomy is a branch of cience that of right must be permitted to apply its tests to data furnished by Dr. Cook, Lieut. Peary or any other man tk he who may claim to have discovered the geographical pole I have taken the best information I could secure as to Dr Cook's dat »bservations really show. Annatoak is situated in 78 degrees 37 minutes of north latitude, and is therefore 11 degrees 23 minutes or 790 miles from the North Pole. The sun rose at this place on February 19, RNS PETERS Se meena (Continued on Page Nine.) ° NOMER SAYS COOK'S DATES 316 MILES SHORT OF POL and I have undertaken an analysis of what his| SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1909, PEOPLE SHALL BE MINE CONDITION OF GOV, JOHNSON 5 CAITCAL He Is Resting Fairly Well This Afternoon, But the Danger Point Is Not Yet Passed. (My United Press) ROCHESTER, Minn, Sept. 16.—-Gev. John A. Johnaon, who was operated on yesterday for intestinal trouble following an operation for appendicitis, is somewhat improved this after noon, although his condition ts oti! regarded as oritical. Late thie afternoon Dr. Mo Nevin, the house physician at St. Mary's hospital, issued the following statement; “Governor Johnson is resting fairly well thie afterncen, al- though he atiil is suffering from some gaseous pains. The dan- ger point will mot be passed for several days.” HORRIBLE. MURDER MYSTERY MAY BE FOUND HERE??07” POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS A SKULL, FOUND BY = RE- GRADERS AS EVIDENCE. ed D GLAVI wah 2 LOUIS R. THE GLAVIS. SEATTLE ONE CEN} BALLINGER IS ‘SUSTAINED BY TAFT S MUST LEAVE OFFICE President Declares That All Acts of the Secretary of Interior Were According" to Letter of Law A afternoon, Pre predicted in the Boston dispatch of The Star yesterday dent T 7s in the matter of the charges against Secre ft last ni issued to the press a states ment of h tary of the Interior Ballinger and other officials of that depart« fine ment The it made good the prediction that his report He to find any excuse whatever for would prove to be an exoneration of states that he ble | -cretary Ballinger. } has been una | the charges of improper conduct on the part of the secretary, J either in connection with the Cunningham coal claims or in thet | matter of the Montana power sites thrown open to entry. Chief of the Field Division of the United States General Land, Office—Fired Because He Dared to Prefer Charges Against a “Higher-Up.” GLAVIS IS RESTS CONTENTED Will Not Talk While He Remains in the Employ of the United States Government. “t have read the letter of the president to Seoretary Bailin- ger, but will not at thie time make any comment thereon, as 1 am still an official In the gov- ernment service.” This was the statement made by Lewis R Giavis to The Star this He had just a little SILENT; the information gleaned from the president's letter He was attend ing to his business as usual, as were also the members of his office force. | Beyond the statement quoted above, | he would not talk reason to believe. just as as he There is every however, that soon receives his message of dismissal and quite the | loffice, he will have a statement to make that will be of intense in- terest to the country at large. Confidence in Glavis. Those who know Glavis best are quite confident of his ability to ex onerate himself from the charges made in the president's letter, that he “went off at half cock” In the | | Mute evidence of a posstble trag-! while before read in the morning Ballinger matter. ody of years ago was unearthed on Sixth avy. 8. between Main and Jackson sts, this morning, when | Paper that he was to be dismissed | the government service. | 38 Was Mr, Glavis, who, on Aug: Glavis is a young man, little over 20 years of age, but for eight years past every hour of his working the skull and thigh bone, presum-/ ust 78 Inet, Aa chief of the field | (ays has been devoted to his duties ably those of & white man, Were | division of the government land of. in the field service of the general washed to light by laborers operat- ing the huge hydraulic sluice. The police were notified and City | | Detective Corning carried the grue- some find to police headquarters. The bones were buried under about eight feet of earth and were first noticed as they were rolling down the long sluice box. No marks of violence could be found on the skull. Whether the discovery of the bones is the last vestige of a bygone tragedy is & matter of con | Jeeture. : es - institution's | PROF. JOHN N. STOCKWELL, WILL SEE THAT NO ONE HURTS MR. TAFT To City Detectives Lee A. Barbee and Henry F, Keefe will be entrust ed the Important task of safeguard ing the person of President William | Howard Taft, when he reaches Se- attle the night of September will operate with the regular secret service men, who at |all times accompany the president, Lee Barbee’ was the constant body guard and companion of Mr, |Taft when he was last here as secretary of war. The secretary took a great liking to Barbee. on They flee, had laid before the president | ev which, in his judgment, implicated Secretary Ballinger and others tn the interior department in fraudulent transactions tn con- }neetion with the Cunningham coal \claims in Alaska. He Took the Chance. That Glavis knew at the time he | tied these charges that he was | more Wan likely to lose bis position Au A Consequence has been well | known to his intimates for some thine. “To a friend @ short time ago he madj this statement: skgiow | am quite likely to ashe: in this affair and rf be ‘Wlamiseed from the service, but what is theré for me to do? if 1 am not permitted to work up- on cases that may happen to involve my superiors in office, my duti ly be performed. | have figur- ed this whole thing out and in the fight of what | have found and in my best judgment, there ls but one thing for me to do, and that is to go through with i When The Star representative cailed upon Mr. Glavis this morning he was at bis desk aa usual, and seemed not greatly disturbed over (By United Prev.) SEWARD, Alaska, Sept. 16. 14-year-old native boy, Klun Annie, shot and killed a native man at Kodiak, Sept. 8, according to ad- vices received here today, At the {nqueac the boy gave two reasons one that the man had flogged him and the otber that he shot him just to see him fall. The real reason SOENES OF VIOLENCE. AT A STAKE CENTER PITTSBURG, Pa, Sept. 16 With the Pressed Steel Car plant surrounded by 5,000 workmen, the scenes of violence which characterized the two-month strike, settled only last week, are being renewed today, When the 7 o'clock whistle blew this morn ing the strikers surrounded every workingmen not in sysapathy with the atrikers attempted to enter the plant they were forcibly restrained Several men who refused to listen to the demands of the strikers were roughly handled. FOI IOI III OR TOIT IO | AcYoP, ATTENDANCE. & * Yeaterday 20,163 * Total ‘ 870, * FORO IOI Ik * + 2 4 ae * A dissatisfied | land office, It was he who had charge of the Inst land fraud cases in Oregon, In which convictions were secured. His work in those cases was of a very high order, and until the present time, he bas never jbeen accused of going any farther |than the evidence warranted, | Cunningham Case, Glavia is the oniy person tn the government service at all familar with the Cunningham case, which is to come up for hearing in Se atte sometime tn October. With Glavis out of the service, as he j will be at that time, {t Is not un jlikely that the case against Cun- |hingham and his associates will fall flat. At any event, from the standpoint of these men who have made fraudulent effort to secure these coal lands in Alaska, nothing |could have happened more to their |satiafaction than this dismissal of Glavis, | {| ARCTIC EXPLORER CAMPS, United Press.) NA, Cal, 8 » Koven Leffin explorer ter quarters on the mouth of the McKenzie river, according to a statement today made by his father, the Rey. C. W Leffingwell, of this city, 16.- swell, the xman island, ne ALASKA NATIVE MURDERS MAN SO HE CAN BE SENT TO PRISON. the murder believed to be ent, however. Recently the boy received a letter from a native now serving time on McNet) island Wash, The writ stated that he was having a good time and that he liked it there. that the boy murdered the man at Kodiak so he could be sent to Mo Neils. CLUMS. FOR EVERYONE | Baked clams, fried, stewed, roast }ed clams, clam chowder and all sizes of clams will be given away at the Chehalis bullding on Exhibit ors Day to patrons of the fair who pay a cash admiasion, The latest estimate is that 7,500 prizes will |be given away on the grounds next Saturday Practical the exhibitors and concessionaires have come forward with from 100 to 1,000 awards. foot of the big mill, and when the | | |“SIMPLE LIFE” COLONY FAILS. (By United Press.) LOCARNO, Switzerland, Sept. 16. |—The famous “simple life” col Jony at Ascona, above tiere, has fail ed, and ite German promoter, Herr | Aedenkowan-Hofmann, said today |that the sanitarium, ‘chalets and |huts on “Monte Varita” will be of }fered for sale has gone into win Officials believe | all of | GLAVIS’ DISMISSAL SANCTIONED. { Incidentally, the president authorizes the dismissal by Sece! retary Ballinger of Louis R. Glavis, the special agent of the; land department, who filed the charges against Ballinger, and! llinger, the dismissal was ly announced from the department at Washington this morning, under orders from | | forme Glavis, at his office in Sea refu ing the president's letter, Until he is actually out When he finally connection with the government, however, it is believed that he ¢, ed to make any state- ment reg of the service he will not talk severs his | will make a statement of a sensational nature. PINCHOT ON FISHING TRIP. } Gifford Pinchot, chief forester, who, by the president's lets with Ba ached by newspaper men_ this din his controversy inger, is fishing in ter, is defe | California and could not be re will have something of an inter- Also, there is or not he will resign his office. imorning. It is expected that he esting nature to say when he reads Taft's letter much speciation as to whether My ed Brews.) * WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.—In a leordance with authority given him last night {n a letter from President Taft, Secretary of the Interior Bal linger today directed the dismiseal of L. R. Glavis, chief of the field jdivision of the general land office, with headquarters in Seattle The reason for the dismissal Giavis is stated in Taft's letter Ballinger as follows “The filing of a disingenuous statement unjustly impeaching the official integrity of his su- buttressed by legal authority. Insistence on this is not incon- sistent with a whole-hearted and bona fide interest and en- thusiasm in favor of conserva- tion. From my conferences with you and from everything | know in respect to the conduct of your department, | am able to say that you are fully in sym- pathy with this administration's attitude In favor of the conser- vation of national resources.” of to In view of the fact that the pres- ; ident sustains Ballinger, there is ior officer : perior o' “ much speculation as to what the In this letter President Taft ex- resuit will be regarding Chief For- onerated Ballinger of charges made ¢s:or Pinchot. The chief forester j by Glavis against him tn connection hae held that Ballinger had over- jwith the Cunningham coal land thrown the Roosevelt policies of cases in Alaska conservation, to which he (Pinchot) Glavis presented the charges on was devoted, and of which he was August 18, and after answers had on ardent supporter. been made by Ballinger, Asststant “The statement that Taft considers | Secretary Pierce, Commissioner of patiinger in accord and sympathy | the ra] Land Office Dennett with the administration leaves the and Chief of Field Service Schwartz, ,) impression here that, inas- the president prepared hi 7 clear decision } my much as Pinchot has bitterly disa- at Beverly, Taft also sustains the ; Balltanee, the attivaae at action of Ballinger tn regard to the “cannot well conform with restoration and withdrawal of pul Of the adiaintbtvation tuabe Ue lands, in connection with allega-|1s speculation as to whether Pinchot tions regarding power sites and the | will romain in the service. The for. so-called water trust at the National rtment is not under the |Irrigation congress at Spokane re : tof thactoteen j cently there is no di | In Taft's decision between Ball |vor of Ballinger in Pinchot controversy | follows “in my judgment he is the best friend of the policy of con servation who insists that every 1 th step taken in that direction - should be within the law and | = (Continued on Page Nine.) finds in fa the Ballinger concluding a n s letter to Secretary lated Beverley, Ma and is in part as fol- er 13 18th day of August last THRILLING, FASCINATING: VERNE’S GREAT NOVEL, “FINDING THE POLE.” Monday begins publication Verne's thrillir The Star serially of and fascinat the Jules ing romance Finding North Pole North Pole than a the it more “Findin Verne of fieti true on him Thor Sea wrote as a story, a it thing n, I has Just as his ad came come “Twenty Leagues in Round Days’ of the true Under the submarine the World in been shown plishment But none of this famous and French and his 80 has easy accom: gifted romancer’s creations has been borne out so fully, so much in detail, as his “Finding the North Pole” years after he wrote it. JULES VERNE. As in the present controversy between Commander Peary and Dr. Cook, there is a fight in Verne's story between two rival ex- plorers for the glory of finding the pole. In the ¢ as in the present case—well, you'd better read the story in he Star. The novel describes—vividly, as only Jules Verne can—the hardships and dangers of polar exploration, and makes clear to the readers with what bitterness one explorer, who has overcome all hardships of nature, will regard a rival explorer who threatens to snatch from him the glory of realizing his life’s desire. There is a surgeon in the story, the efficient aide to the chief of the party, just as Dr, Cook was Peary's brave and efficient aide before their friendship was broken, In rapidity of action and tenseness of interest of the great French romancer, which begins in Monday's issue of this newspaper, is not excelled by anything he himself wrote, and by few stories of adventure written by others, this old story 2