The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 12, 1909, Page 1

REDS HURLED 10 ATH IN AURRIGANE Unable to Prevent Destruction in Ter- e Are Beaten Down and an Unseen Force » Out Their Lives—Scores of Bodies Piled in the Coast of Gulf. WRLEANS, La.. Oct. 12.—Several hundred lives have been Florida Keys hurricane, according to wireless messages Mb bere today place the casualties at from 400 to 1,200. From sources it was reported that 800 are dead. While full ee was given to the inhabitants of the Florida coast, the West the Florida Keys that the storm was about to descend there was very little they could do to protect them plainly | Sete of wind the hurricane was to mted fury i in strength un Feached a velocity then $0, and finally hour. [buildings were lifted tions and rent} force of the gale. ight on the streets were by the unseen hand and Herrific foree to the jas in this manner that WRESTLING 15 DEAD AND THE se) WRESTLERS 60 sting & ratitoad | D¥+ Roller and Jack Curley Keys were blown to| Leave Seattle This Aft- Apprehension fs felt i Won't Be Back for Some Time. is certain to have among vessels at sea. that were due to! iy and today have from. ms There will be no more wrestling are the steamers in Seattle for at least six montha. te, Momus and the | Dr. B. F. Roller and his manager, latter veusel bears | “Jack Curley, leave this city this of Louisiana, and | afternoon for the East and it will is being felt for his| probably be next April or May be lfore Roller returne. That Roller would leave Seattle and sot attempt to engage in further wrestling contests here was one of the understandings arrived at when C. Harrison Green yeater- day caused to be dismissed his criminal libel case against Roller. It is understood that Roller will be matehed to meet Middle W: Key West was prac ked in its entirety dings were razed to Water poured into the rivers. The prop- one is estimated 000. The death in exactly, is cer-) uexclusive of those West is under | the winter and that some time after oo Hardty | the Christmas holidays he will go morning be | to Europe accompanied by Curley Sto pillage the) Just whether these Eastern have been matches will be “on the square” ht pil. bas not been divulged by the doctor levers, | or his manager. ENORMOUS SHORTAGE CLOSES STATE BANK (By United Press) MINERAL POINT, Win, Oct. 12. —The First National bank of Miner- al Point bas discovered a shortage of $210,000, Que to alleged forgeries of notes. The bank officials work- ed until midnight trying to arrange the affairs so that the bank would be able to continue in business. The shortage was hidden by placing forged notes of local business men in the bank's vaults. No arrests have been made. Upon that. th the army bar had been badiy 10 Soldiers killed, Act War Oliver wired Officer to assist ing order. | troller of the currenty. Pee eee eee eee 2 2 Zl ' 12.—The most!» * i since the big blow | WATER SHUT-OFF NOTICE. # struck Cuba | * is the western | ® Water will be shut off in the ® In Havana ® district between Yesier way * were blown » and Dearborn st., east of 29th * five persons | ® ay. S., on Wednesday, October *® id about 25 tujured # 13,from9a.m.untiidp. m @ done was in|» * 10 or 50 NEWCO. tek hh hhh hhh tht H tugs were either IN TROUBLE. Havana and ted at $1,000,000 with from south-south Charged unlawfully pur of the tornado | chasing spoons and other silver. ce west of Ha-| Ware belonging to the U. 8. govern. Gubsided jast| ment transport Sheridan, E. M Dooley, a former employe of the dededadnde a ae CLEARINGS. | quartermaster’s department on the transport, was arraigned yesterday before U. 8. Commissioner Angus tus H. Armstrong. His hearing was continued until morning Will Expose Christian Science. Frederick W. Peabody, LL. B., of the Boston Bar, will give his lec ture entitled, “Christian Selence Ex posed,” at the Y. M. ©. A., on Wed nesday evening, October i3th, at 8 | o'clock 116,689.00 indeed (* ee bee beet ee ee oe in the public schools of Seattle ther of the famous Ann, smoothed voked ewhat quizzically at the was born my si ‘Bister is now er of n @s old a HOW OLD Is ter was on@quarter the age third as old as father and I In fou other’s r years I shall be JOHNNY JONES? womens | twirling for the Prat da Keys jerm and Bastern wrestlers during | The bank was! ordered closed today by the comp-| | first time in history 10 o'clock Friday} | Abstein, 1b; THE SEATTLE PIRATES: ARE HUT OUT BY THE DETROITS Tigers Win Fourth Game by a Score of 5 to 0, Which Makes Two Games Each. (My United Pree) DETROIT, Oct. 12.—The Tigers shut Pittsburg out in the cold today in the fourth of the world’s cham-| pionship baseball games. The final Detroit 5, Pittsburg 0. clubs have now won two Mullin for Detroit struck Leifeld was taken out games. out 10 men. of the box in the fifth inning and! Phi: ppi was substituted to do the The batting order was as lows Pittsburg Clarke, If; fol Byrne, 3b; 1 Wagner, as; Gibson, ©; Detroit-—D. Jones, i; Cobb, rf; Crawford, cf; 2b; Mortarty, 3b; T. Stanage, ¢; Mullin, p. Umpires--Klem, of the National league, was behind the bat; Evans was on bases, and Johnstone and O'Loughlin were stationed on the a Lal ifeld, Bush, a: Delehanty, Jones, 1b; outskirts of the crowd to judge fatr and foul balls, First Inning. Pitteburg—Byrne out, Delehanty to T. Jones, Bush threw out Leach at first base. Clarke out, Dele. hanty to T. Jones. No runs, no hits, no errors, Detroit—Leach grabbed D. Jone liner, Bush went out, Letfeld to Abstein. Leifeld hit Cobb in the ribs. Cobb was off first base when Abstein dropped Lelfeld's asstet, in an effort to catch him napping, and Cobb went to second. Crawford flew to Leach. No runs, no bits, no errors. Second Inning. Pittaburg—Un pire Kiem sent Bill Donovan to th tub house for crit letsing a decision from the bench. Waaner walked, Miller fanned. Ab stein was safe when Delehanty fum. bied his roller. Wilson forced Wag. ner, Mullin to Moriarty. Muitin threw Gibson out at first. No runs, no hits, one error. Detroit-—Leificid hit Delehanty. Mortarty singled. When T. Jones! tapped one to Leifield, Delehanty was caught at third, Leifield to Gib. 8on. Stanage singled, scoring Moriarty and T. Jones. Muitin forced Stanage, Wagner to Miller, but when the latter tried to double Mullin at first, he threw into the crowd, and Mullin went to second. Davy Jones went out, Leifield to Abstein. Two runs, two hits, one error. Third Inning. Pitteburg—Leifeld fanned, Byrne doubled to left. Clarke fanned. Byrne stole third and Leach stole second. The dect- sion of Umpire Evans on Byrne being safe at third looked raw Wagner fanned. No runs, one hit, ho errors. Detrott—Bush flew En (Continued on Page Seven.) eS eee to Clarke. WRIGHTS HEPHERD. Oct. 12.—For the an aeroplane BY W. G. NEW YORK, passed over a warship when Wil bur Wright recently sailed 9% miles up the Hudson river and back again Below, as he t fighting ships of seven navies, guns helpless when sped, lay dozens of & their monster he was above Onto any one of these might have dropped enough dyna mite to sunder them, acgording to them. vessels he his statement ly drop a bomb on a warship,” he told me. But could he? The navy men who saw him fly say “No.” Rogers Wells of the “1 could ea Commander United States battleship «New Hanipshire, over whose ship Wright passed squarely, while the officers and men of parts of seven navies looked on, smiled pleasantly as the aeroplane flew toward him, up the river Long before the machine could be plainly seen, the roar of its motor was easily heard. As it sud denly loomed out of the mist it traveled at such a great spe that, while one moment it looked like a mere gull, the next it had assumed the outlines of an aeroplane, much as the magician’s bud bursts in tly into a full-blown flower While it was In the distance there were dozeng of giant guns that st might have belched great missiles with its speck of Always at the tiny flyer, a human boing in the seat DON'T GO HOME TONIGHT—OR ANY NIGHT—WIT Leach walked. | HOME = EDITION— KX S Ses ep SEATTL WASH., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1909, BUSY TO READ THE QUESTIONS) “bowing his | Stil! Too Busy. Up to noon today he was still too Faderveed | Urdsraed., AY Copyright | Taft, b buatly aged, he said, to receive accepted all little gifts the letter officially. While he has | TRE GREAT COMMONER IN CHARACTERISTIC POSE, |trutt or tokens.” Where Ps j not take any offictal notice of the caine ileal Taft refused to wear the He j | pertinent questions asked by Repre ane leis, or wreath, around bis neck }sentative Hanson, it is understood when it was presented to him by that he has been quietly informed a native girl, Mr. Bryan meekly by bis friends as to the nature of | submitted, and did not remove it them until he had left the building When a reporter for The Star to read the letter to } bm, mayor ineleted that he was © too busy to Heten “Oh, I'll get argu® to those ques | tons In time,” he sald. “I may an awer them. Too busy now, though, to stop work to read the letter.” | And is Still Busy. “But Mr. Hanson charges that | A. V. Bouillon notified you before jhe was discharged from the office | of superintendent of public utilities | | by you that street paving contract./ ore Were cheating (axpayers all over In the Japanese buliding he sur | prised the custodian by his know! jedge of Japanese things and cus- toms. In the Oriental building he | purchased a white Italian marble |tigure of “Beatrice” for his wife paying $80 for it “We looked for something like that in Paris and all over Europe but could not find it,” he said. volunteered the Sl DAY WAS ORDER ical Defect Said to Be at Bottom of Most of Charges—Story of $28,000 Steal Is Scouted. ings he refused to be satisfied with &@ superficial inspection of the ex hibits, and asked for things which were not shown him. Why did A. L. Monyhan, cbief{thore was $240 inspeetor of gates, turn back the later “found” reginter on stiles at the gates? over, which was) by expert ac ntants. it is true that lights ¢ re burned er overl child that | the city,” sald the reporter. | How many huge draye were used in the admissions and treasury de Sg eek tn arene petting ‘Too ‘busy to read the ong in lin n carting away that $24,000 steal partment all night In a complete the little one or shaking its hand my oot capacity, is the may poly. wild rumor has cached away ‘checking u with the result that! The crowd was small and not or'a re | somewhere? These and numerous other ques. tions Were bandied about this morn. in the wee ama’ hours of the morn- ing the exposition officials gave out @ statement that a discrepancy of jing in the tempest-in-the-teapot al not more than $70 In the handling leged graft controversy, produced by of more than a million dollars was menta,” insisted the reporter, from duty of fi a mayor indicated that he was |ure, "Gray nf from dul be mag vague still busy by not reising his head. | While presence of William J Has More Questions. | Bryan on the exposition grounds fr. Hanson asks many more (this Morning lessened the interest questions along this same line,” |{n thig investigation of “who got the Statement being made by continued the questioner, “and ex-|moneyT’ or better, of what little committee pects that you will answer them |#um Wax gotten, the “relleved” gate “A. L. Monyhan, chief inspector #o that the taxpayers can learn men, who still Inaist that they have Of the gates, ordered Fred Lewis, Whether or not the charges are |not been discharged, were busy try. kateman in charge of stile 18 on true.” |ing to clear their skirts by going Seattle Day, not to take a reading The mayor was still signing his |to the bottom of all the many wild Of the stile When he came off duty, signature to documents when the | stories of graft. md ~ Oe a agro = reporter departed—still too busy to All Were Active, |gatemen when they take and oe joffictally recognize the serious) The officials of the admiaxions : the regist the stile. charges made against himself and | department were equally active, and) =, Sind. pnb polar aia ae bis administration it ail resulted tn the development | inig would be the only nystem by thee * het 4 Of two storiee--one that Monyhan | which the stiles could be beaten bad turned back registers on the and the exposition relieved of & WEATHER FORECAST. —# /attieg (and this Monyhan admitted), |Amyunt of somes worth tection ¥ jand th other report that there wasiing The report was strong after ‘The letter «ays this cheating loudly demonstrative, There was | was done by disregarding the apeci- | fications of contracts for taying | [gravel foundations of street pave. what there was was heartfelt. and there met @ reception which Make a Statement. eclipsed that of President Taft The investigation by the relieved | gatemon resulted in the following | sound at football that it gave Mr their far between The students whistled and shriek ed from the time he entered until he left, | was speaking. He split his address into two parts, the first on public speaking. the second on education in general He said in part “I am to make three speeches to- day. | was in some doubt as to which | entered this hall. I am now sure that I shall not have either afternoon or tonight a more recept ive or appreciative audience. * *% Rain tonight and Wedne $25,000 “over” after Seattle Day,| seattle Day that ‘they were “over” “I have long been interested in & day; moderate southeast =| ‘sete from a story told by a book:|s9s.000 in the front. offices’ a Students and it has been a ® winds. keeper to a money changer, ali | —_—~ manmade Of mY life plan to con ee ee ed * teen bel based on the fact that at Gret count (Continued on on ree Seven.) student the touch with life. In aly WMEN BOMB ON WARSHIP? |« | rents of air might have been thus thrown up into space against him “The arms now in use on ev- ery warship,” said Commander Wells, “would be sufficient, | think, to prevent an attack of roplanes. At the speed at which Wright traveled it would have been a remarkable feat for him to drop a shell onto us, if he had reached us. But he couldn't have reached us, | am sure, in time of war, . Rapid fire guns that send a rain of shells would, sooner or later, find the mark, if the big guns did not hit him. “In addition to these have the smal! arms, from which we could send hundreds of shots in a short time. These might, per: haps, only riddle the wings, but in time one of them would find a vital spot in the aeroplane. There ts no bombs straight up into the alr. | “But suppose, that an aero: | planist did succeed in dropping 200 pounds of dynamite onto our decks he wouldn't disable the ship. even, jthe gingerbread work and kill all the men within a certain’vadius, but the decks are so heavy that I am sure they would only be bent REMARKABLE PHOTOGRAPH OF WILBUR WRIGHT HOVERING OVER BRITISH WARSHIP vA alxinoh shell, fired at 4,000 yards, would have greater penetration than that of 200 pounds of dynamite dropped a distance of 1,000 feet.” ARGYLL, IN HUDSON RIVER. been realized by the rush of air of one of these great shells, even fearful of conflicting breezes, the | Worst fears of Wright might have | if it would not have hit him, network of rushing cyclonic A} cur: | HOUT A NIGHT PINK EDITION guns we] Tn the Alaska and Hawaiian build-| in little or no vociferous cheering but | He stopped at the Broadway high | want him to have the school on his way to the grounds | possible, If| in his leisure hours he Broadway can create the volume of | his mind as his companion, and he except during the time he! THE SEATTLE STAFF ONE CEN) MAYOR IS 10) (BRYAN, GOOD NATURED, LAUGHING HAS BULLY TIME AT THE A.-Y.-P. FAIR y through the crowds, ignoring the guard@ detailed to clear a path for him, and smiling, talking and shaking Ps PR a hands with everybody and his brother, William Jennings Bryan, 3 * He Hasn't Time Even to | Democrat, saw the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific fair in as truly a demo» Glance at the Letter cratic way as the humblest man who ever entered the gate. Which Was Sent to Him Gracious at - sion Taft whe . he jdid smile, he pushed his way from exhibit to exhibit, taking by Ole Hanson. ; > WA his time, signing countless register haking ntless hands, TA all to the desperation of the guards and « ttee. He spent Mayor Jobn F, Miller is too busy sneer : Hp to officially read the letter sent him two hours in the Government, Alaska, | in, Agr ural, by Ole- Hanson, state representa Japanese, Canadian and Forestr dit tive, setting forth for him to an ; see NTA ewer sev questions concerning | Fourteen years before the 1 and tho jalexed grafting methods being covered in his travels, Mr. Bryan has visited almost « eticed t tract t a a The letter, a copy of which was jheard him speak in Bangor, Me., mingle with those nted in The Star yesterday, 1 lvenched the Gta ot ake wasee |his father back in Illinois. Every man and ’ yesterday, and was opened by his }who has not seen the Commoner, has had t ge him secretary, upon whowe dewk it still ne chalet dan beaded hike and aft bn lise, teeteed Dr Kenn hat tt he The crowd surrounded him, embraced him, and all told him | brought before him so that he in unison where they had known and seen him before. No might read ita contents‘and make 38 \ cighbors i c greeted him; ten } « i reply, Mayor Miller displayed no |less than five. neighbors in Lin greeted him; ten heard him | Interest in the matter whatever. jat Chicago in 1896, when he first came out of obscurity. T Intend more and more to universities apd schools, 1 I have neglected them past “very man and woman In our country should be prepared to give his fellow countrymen his thoughts and judgment. I agree that it is |necessary for an orator to be born, like any one else, but that’s the smallest part of it His ancestry plays little figure. The two essen- tials of eloquence are that the speaker must know what he is talk- ing about and mean what he says. The age of oratory is not past and never will be so long as great ques- tions in history Switching to education, art arise he said Let no young man think better lmself by becoming ® money maker at an early age. Ha 1 ever watched two men chopping wood, one with a dull axe and the other with a sharp one? h The employer can well afford to pay the man with the sharp axe well for the time he was grind- mg it. “If I knew my son was to spend jhis life in manual labor, I would best education that his work more intelligent, but would have Not mer would be far would be fitted for better citizen- Bryan, defeats should be few and | ship | “There Is only one danger In edu- cation. That is that it may cause |} you to lose your sympathy for the masses. Remember when you have achieved your education that you are holding it in trust for society, Back it with a moral purpose. You will indeed be a failure if you go | forth from the university without = | was to be the principal one until 1] this | some | recall j conception of your duty to society and your country. “I once suggested ‘Evergreen’ as a motto for a high school class, objected to it, disliking to that they had ever been green. However, so long as you |are green you are growing and pro- limit to the angle of elevation of | Small arms, and the rapid fire guns | had made sp jean be elevated more than 45 de | grees from the horizon | “If any more defense against aeroplanes were needed, we could | use mortars that would throw “The explosion would wipe away | nounced in a formal manner, gressing. When you become ripe, decay starts. It is when a man overtakes his ideals that decay be- | gins As soon as Mr. Bryan finished breakfast this morning he left for the fair in a motor car, accompanied by President Chilberg and Charles G. Helfner. Two automobiles con- taining members of the committee and one or two newspaper men fol- (Continued on Page Seven.) GAANE HAS BEEN FIRED That Is He Resigned, Is Polite Version of State Department. (ity United Press.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.— The state department this af- ternoon announced the resig- nation of Charles R. Crane as minister to China, Crane was recalled from San neisco last week, the day be » he was to have sailed for € hina He had attended a banquet given in his honor by the Chinese jmerchants of San Francisco and eeches in the east and central part of the country regard- ing the Ofiental situation. Talked Too Freely. It has been suspected that Secre- tary Knox thought that Crane talked too freely for a diplomat jand did not show the proper” amount of discretion in his re marks While the resignation was an- it is |e ally supposed he that the tion is the ypsult of Crane's pub: lic speeches. It has been r ed in the newspapers that in Crane’s speeches regarding situation in the Orient be spoke with a conviction and cer- tainty that seemed to indicate that (Continued on Page Seven.) Rae ‘ise Oi THE STAR