The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 9, 1909, Page 1

=| THE SEATTLE WK THE SEATT | SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1909 ONE CENT PRINCIPAL FIGURES IN BIG ALASKA COAL CASES \ es et TELLS OF HARD FIGHT 10 SAVE i rit Dayan Ad : ee. fg RIGHT ALASKA COAL LANDS FROM fin We Saran id The Wont i 4 BEING SOLD FOR MERE SONG ™ Men Who Suffered and Died There Without |Man Whom Ballinger “Sat On” and Taft Fired, Gives Whole Story in Collier’s Weekly of the Single- Handed Battle He Engaged in When He Saw Properties Worth Uncounted Millions Going | Fraudulently to a Syndicate for a Mere $50,000. BY ARTHUR W. L. DUNN. October 12—M. J. Fortune, new patient, threatened with] by Orderly Belcher for for something to eat. | | ARTHUR W. L. DUNN, 13—John (Dadd Thayer prepared for burial in | enusssssssessmnsenmnnunmmaennsien tf by Order Belcher. Typhoid patient named TWO KILLED IN WRECK, a ies get ne «| KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Nov, 9— er left institut Two trainmen are dead, another ts so he walked lippers. It was his first day out|*everely Injured and a passenger | Over a mon }named Inkleroad was badly burt in n & freight k& tring the floor. jand « passenger train on the Louis | Nurse in charge of clothes mislaid his j In a remarkable article in this week’s number of Collier’s Weekly, L. R. Glavis, late chief of the se ec ticy Ville & Nashville railroad LOUIS R. GLAVIS,, RiGHAlis A MK Lodaee. || field division of the U. S. land office, tells the whole Toilets on hospital floor clogged up,| a collision today betw ES sein ssid nieeed tik - — . story, as he sees it, of the Alaska coal lands. He calls epee ant J the article “The Whitewashing of Ballinger.” gael ay who saw coal lands—the richest in the world, per- October IS—McMahon died. Watchman ‘Travers prepared | haps——worth uncounted millions of dollars sold for tfor burial. Reavers could ack find rar Cation ded unlors t. F (0, ESCAPES DEH TY T CET POSSESSION (if CoN a paltry $50,000 to a group of men who he be- ite died without professi nal attention : lieved were dummies acting for a syndicate—of Glavis’ fight to prevent the passing of these lands, © October 19—George Schwaibal Md sperated on by Drs. War-|County Treasurer Fails to Act and Prosecuting Attor- | Dr. Janson and Mrs. Janson-George Lay Bare Their — ve be een, peep oy rated and Dawson. Four incisions made in right leg. Instru-| ney Signs Away County’s Rights. ' Past Lives to Gain Son—Woman Would Give eat Lf the United States Tae wills den » sata Moe sand dressing had not been sterilized or solutions prepared. | Up Her Present Husband of em inpotan ial — aac . of agriculture, where he got some help, and his M. Beer ate ; ight “th lanced. Physician ae The claim of King county to|raker” for insteting that the county ha lees : final appeal to the president of the United States— d #e and sent to the matron for it. She mislaid| geo,000 interest. on the 194 s make a fight for the interest, Van ‘Tan appeal which ended in his summary discharge pharmacy, and by the time she found them, operation | Of the Seattle Electric company a 3 | probably heen the public service. Sua eae ncn ts Glavis, having failed in his highest court of ap- DE ea . ftrain th peal, now comes back to the people. This. 2061 was told to dress wounds of Geo. Schwai-! I. Fort : printed today in The Star by consent of P Fort publishers. oraenenn, pan derveer the other parties to itted to lapse the arbitration adopted Parish's of County | contentions, and Vanderveer ander mly to dis | took the preparation of a new set property when the taxes of stipulations, Under the new were due. The same fs true as stipulations the’ question of taxes nce. Schwaibald in| to $25,000 in interest on the com- ta to be submitted to the original pany's taxes for 1908 tn neglect ‘arbitration board and that of In tention. Was worst | ing to distrain the property County | terest to be tried out in court ber! Treasurer Gormly acted on the fore Judges Main and Ronald, sub My first experi have had expert a advice of Prosecuting Attorney | ject to ap nig Vanderveer and his p amor This new set of stipulations waa! BY L. R. GLAVIS. by tubercular patient of neglect by neth Mackintosh approved by the city counci! last | 4 (Copyright, 1909, by P. F. Collier & -) | Small property owners who night and was to have been sub! neglect to pay thelr personal prop- | mitted to the county con rty taxes promptly have thelr| this morning. Vand property distrained and the pay-[Present {t to the soi ment of the taxes enforced to | this morning, however, and it wili 22—Oscar Holir 1 patient, served de-| gether with tnterest at per cent| Probably come before them this| . jfrom date of delinquency. This | Afternoon ee HAMMERICH i ane G egg. rule has not been applied to the atta | Seat Electric company Bight Nane Gorince Wanna? rinal| swear corns [LOVE FINDS A WAY EVEN on Inmate Horn’s abscess. Horn is a paralytic.| Not only has the payment o ot} physicians have colds from river fogs. icials. Bad food. Decomposed From 1902 to 1909 I was in the field service of the general land office, for the last two and a half years as chief of field division. In Septe er, 1909, I was summarily removed from sition without a formal hearing by Richard A Ballinger, of the interior the United St ithorization of the president of Phat removal was accompanied by the publication of a let- f the president to Mr er. I believe that my removal Fe dit Fis RPE) WHEN VICTHM IS IN JAIL as the pen ee no Ey pais legs and body are paralyzed }in the original stipulations for the | ecause in it the president gives weight to a charge The | Arbitration of the taxes Prosecuting | ‘| Attorney Vanderveer waived the| was in bad shape but was forced from institution | county's claim to more than 6 per leent, and even waived the claim t me which I never had the opport td to admit James Cary, a delirium tremens case ie wn ever the op’ inity to see or answer, lhe president states in his letter that I withheld from him OR. ELIV JANSON. | information favorable to my superiors. I do not know of any A by Dr. Corson. Matron swept dead flies from ceil ee i : jto 6 per nt in case the arbitra THE CAST. | such informatio ithheld by m or am conscious of de pamaing room, into dishes. She did not clean them out tion board reduced the amount of nformation withheld by me, nor am I conscious of doing if iL ¢ the taxes. Dr. Eliv Janson, 38, who de my superiors injustice iF Fortine, disliked by nurses, discharged on first day | the’ tow: “peblt naive Gipteo Wea gecbcmtok tee whether the county c: Nevertheless, I should not now make any public statement I a hase eee ed to [Collection of 16 per or any overcr ywded. Inmate James Broden forced to lother interest on persanal property Watchman’s bed while latter was on duty. prior to distraint. No question has ) | been raised as to the right of the| Bodil Hammerich, a Danish actress. of the matter were it n Mrs. Bodil Hammerich-Janson, | ment many who deserted an affinity of still possible to save for the govern- sands of acres of coal lands which I believe the | land office may in the near future grant to fraudulent claimants. } | seven years’ standing to mar | |county to Interest after distraint | ry Dr. Janson. | The hope that my statem ill helpto arouse public aenst Ober 24—Orderly Belcher reported at office that Harry | ide: kel Hbekaad | Mrs. Janeon-George, whowasde. | OPS that my statement will heip to arouse public senti- : Iyti wits alt. é an eDstepes — } } serted by Dr. Janson, and | ment, and that this er to the national resources may be Petalytic, was dying. No physician at the institution.| There has 1 ever at any time been | ? " ays 7 ¥ x Bios Nomad found quick solace in Charles | averted, is what actuates me eee evening diphtheria patient ac ed, No physician escad a obstacte in the way of E. George. ine him. fore Hod — by _ se Hh Charles E. George, who deserted THE FACTS ARE THESE, 5 jurer to enforce the collection of Mrs. Ida L. Austrine-George = ie : ae Burns, patient able to get Nurse Daniels to at-|these taxes. The company did get to marry Mrs. Janeon-Geotpe. The coal lands of Alaska owned by the government amount to a ruling from Judge Hanford en Mrs. Ida L. Austrine George, | Ver 100,000 acres. They are the futu deserted by Charles E. |ofa coal supply of the nation, Me inestimable value Possession of them by private individuals George. j means great wealth—a monopoly of them would be a national menace, —o gg AO i On November 12, 1906, Fresident Roosevelt withdrew all coal lands Janson-George. jin Alaska from public entry; but previous to that time there were | about 900 claims filed, covering about 100,000 Gaind on his titling it to a reatraining order, but a1 Banborn was forced to occ upy bed in typhoid |that was on condition that the com Reaas. : Toe Ps . |pany give bond for 10,000 to wing to overcrowded conditions. | ®uarantee the payment of taxes pia ab and interest in case the decision 5. Wardell | Was against it # 25—Dr, Wardell did not examine Inmate Horn’s| pomossng however, a kindly dis acres (ne y the whole porngecesing, however, a kindly dis onhe, Jat on-George contest fo the| of the coal field The law attempts to forbid speculating in coal [ posed Mronscution: attorney, the puatody,, Of Le yearcld. a. Inet. | nds before entry—elther by dummy entrymen or by previous agree MFess belongir hn Myers, a patient, taken to use| necessity of putting up this bond, ments to consolidat dents today, but the | family ske The cor claims after entry. Of these 900 claims to hem the so-called Cunningham group—~ of many vated | Alaska coal lands na continue t between the among PANE patient's be<i and the county has been cheated forced i P of what would probably have been ed to lie on bare springs. a sound claim to the inter and|the majority are fraudulent, | jmother for the possession of the | ft sas They Try Again. | boy ha degengrated from the j PATENTS ORDERED WITHOUT INVESTIGATION. %—Patient ( se Schwaibald’s wounds lanced| After the row yesterday in Judge question of who is best fitted t Tour hittto who te Teact ated!) As to the action of the land office on these claims, | assert that | -Wlae ate seaman. tote prep the land office ordered the Cunningham claims to patent without due {the sordid court squabble r | Albertson's office ween Prose. ‘by Dr. Dawson I ating from wounds jeuting Attorney Vanderveer and Patients in ward plained but it was no use. [Assessor A. B. Parish, in which ul-odor em © to| investigation when Commissioner Ballinger knew they were under Vanderveer called Parish a “muck- | IDA HAGEN AND HARRY HALL. . point of almost heroic, when Mrs.| suspicion; that while in office Commissioner Ballinger urged congress 7-I , ——— Love will find a way Jat the time of their elopement, Ida eer went nana te “sea = |to pass a law which would validate fraudulent Alaska claims} that USE é/—Dsx. Wardell again failed to examine Horn's Mere jail bara were never strong | Hagem lacked a few weeks and the | “8S J © up her lates! aly att pa " he dae lell aga a xa | 2 all bi g | Ha lacked 4 husband—almost but not quite | Shortly after resigning from office he became attorney for the Cun. Dr. Corson | to keep strait-jacket on Inmate Ren THIS BURGLAR fo venag Ld _, ree go hye be on tec male iiity thet nn ‘der willing. ningham group and other Alaska claims; that soon after he became ab long as necessar IS GENTLEMANLY There is more than one wa . an She Never Knew It. secretary of the interior his office rendered a decision which would have on clever lawyer to win his case, and| Hag@n prosecuted th be i pare ea A SORT OF FELLOW | several other, nearepigrams might| Yetterday the bride of today be That he was a convict, a sharper | J , | validated all fraudulent Alaska claims. A reversal of that decision |be written about it. The story t#,| came@of age, And early this morn-|® moral free lance, she profe aes | THE MAN UPSIDE DOWN? h on every point was obtained from Attorney-General Wickersham, Had “Mind me and you will not wear| however, that Harry Hall walked ing, before anyone elae was around | never to have known until a week Mat Dutter, the « diamonds,” was the spirit of a few | out of the county jail upstairs into| the epurt house, Harry was granted |480. Then she saw her attorney |'t Not been for Mr. Wickersham’s decision, every fraudulent Alaska | polite remarks addressed to Mrs. G,|the jury room of Judge Ronald's !a leaye of absence from the county |about an annulment of the mar-| claim would have gone to patent. I assert that in the spring of 1909 | | Benton, 1328 Sixth ay., a little after | department, was wed to Mise Ida|jatl and he and Ida went to the|Tlage. She was almost ready to | the land office urged me to an early trial of these cases before the | midnight by a good looking young| Hagen, had a little session with | county auditor and secured a mar-| sive George up, but her woman's ‘ re few moments later, |faith in the man sho loved neemne | vestigation was finished, and when Secretary Balltnger, as the prest- fan Upside Down,” made First ay. the scene ff! burglar. | Judge Mitchel! Gilliam, and, with | riage Heense a few moments li ho {ed her to condition her relineuitt, | dent has stated, knew that the Cunningham claims were invalid, When s Operations this morning, and within two minutes after {| He was awfully nice about it,|his bride on his arm, walked out) Rey, Mr. Jonas Sigurdsson, who Darvas Gores eater Panne) i anpualed, to Beacitesy “Baliuese Se vostomenone ulticn ae WAS teen Hiding } t . J I | this well dressed, soft voiced gen-|into the mist this morning with joy |i also deputy county clerk, tied | m n jeorge's inability to clear |! ay 8 ; " ¥ q ed me ‘eit down the street in a wheelbarrow thé #) i snaniy burglar. “Don't get ex-|and happiness and the world before | the knot, and then Jylge Gilliam | himsel |to his subordinates, The department of agriculture intervened, I was aha Into The Star office were hot with the messages of | cited,” he murmured soothingly to| him suspended the nee that hung} Attorney Rawson, for Dr. Janson, “saw him first ° : uperseded in the charge of the cases, and the man who supers led d, and Harry | attempted to bring about a com , Benton as she watched him| It was the old story of the school | over Harry Hall's h e endorsed my recommendations, and the postponement was grantet Mrs, Benton as she watched him | were warinly | promise on some such understand. |e endorsed my r mendations, and the postponement was granted. ‘ r ce, elopoment, | and Ida, newly weds from her cozy bed, “I'll not harm| boy and girl romance, elopement, | ar new! idl 4 you. I need your diamonds in my | angry father, jail bars, minister and | congratulated by Frank Holzheimer, |{ng, but Judge Frater declined to | 1m t Hckets to the Were given away | eatre are proving a popular gift ly thereafter I my report on the Cunningham cases first two people who Fit vines and if you will just be | happiness. | thei attorney consider any conditional promise | to President Taft, and was missed from the service for insubordina- ‘Two fh about Duttey good we'll have everything all ar-| Harry Hall, the lovelorn youth, | ca ee ook by Mrs. George. tion fe more ety Will be ¢ by The Star tomorrow morn- | ranged in a few minutes.” Jafter a courtship of two years,|* ** Mak cheahinas . The Parental Love. THE ALASKA FRAUDS, two dersons who first While the burglarly gefitionp » | eloped with Ida Hagen, the beloved, | * 8. , , | The case, stripped of its ce (Glavis then rehearses the story®of the first suspicion cast on the stunt tomorroy 2 b rifled the drosser drawers and chif-| Thomas Hagen, the father, caught | Seattle. . *| nities, affinities, illegitimate chil pap yet ‘ a nosed ache Fee aa orrow w worth seeing. Go down into the busi fonter he kept up a steady flow of| them, was angry He had Harry | * Cléarings today. .$2,440,644.00 % | dren and all the muck ahd vilene honesty of the group of Cunningham filing 4, October, 1905, Specia A about 10 0% n on the fun--also take a 9) entertaining conversation. Lifting }thrown in Jail * Balances 825,000.00 % | with which it has been bespattered, | Agent H. K, Love reported that some or all the claims wer audulent, his hat he bowed himself out, inci} Frank Holzheimer, attorney, was | * Tacoma, =, ® lis a striking illustration of parental | In Special Agent Jones, after a preliminary investigation, reec Star, 3 1050, and the | dentally carrying away as souvenirs | called Into the case, and, while oth-| * Clearings today, .$1,006,459.00 *|jove—an indication of how tara 4 full investigation “by an experienced and fearless agent.”) fe . ar, Main 1060, and the #/ o's pleasant little call two diamond | or lawyers were busily expounding | % Balances 188,674.00 *!man or a woman will go for a P . ae the same & if you see him second. rings, one bearing nine stones and | the law in stuffy court rooms, Holz | * Portland, * | child | My first connection with these cases was when in the fall of 1907 new down town business Bi the other nine jheimer tickled Dan Cupid in the|* Glearings today, .$1, : 423.00 | “No material witness in this case|! discovered in Seattle, while investigating other matters, that some Mrs. Benton reported the Incident | ribs, and waited ® Balance 1,867.00 ® | ne - —— }to the police this morning. Neither boy nor girl was of age|* kk A KK we Ke * aK (Continued o:. Page Seven.) | (Continued on Fage Seven.)