The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 22, 1910, Page 13

ACS THE STAR—FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1910. LOVE THE REAR TRAGEDY IN THIS,.WOMAN’S LIFE ‘SLEEPS IN JAIL; BURNS TO DEATH MARK TWAIN VRE RRR RRR RR Ee BUTCHERING THE CHINESE CHRISTIANS Refugees Arriving in Pekin Tell Tales of Terror— American and English Warships on Way. NURSE WAVERS UNDER GROSS EXAMINATION \Pearl Kellar Saved From Confusion by the Court, Which Stopped Tactics of Hyde's Attorneys. (Ry United Press) PAYETTH, Idaho, April 22 While a guest of the night watel: man, William Jackson perished early this marning in the flames which destroyed the city fall, a wooden building Origin of the fire is a mystery. Jackson, unable to get lodging at the hotels, asked Night Watehman Feldcher for the privilege of oecu- pying thé empty jail, The officer had agreed to release the guest in | the morning Students at the Washington state About 4 o'clock an alarm of fire university will have a chance to| waa sounded, but by the time the wuther some of the $2,000 worth of | fire department reached the scen prizes offered every your by Hart, ithe flames were so hot it was im- cave tae saat ant ite he ang “| possible to enter the building. sar on scomornle *ADIEO% | When the fire was extinguished the body of Jackson was found on the No riot followed upon the reading | ote Bene 0 Bi Bk Jeffers | floor, a blanket wrapped about his anticipated, tt | head 20 a. m., when | many of the Jeffersonian democrats had departed or got drunk, And it was a mighty mean way to treat a professional keynote sounder, too. © temporal! .O mores! (Conctuded.) fon of his to her for bie his lant * The ap yp him. He om ‘The anx fis bed clo meas conse! By retook Re indicated tha t deat! Te nearly * is i as har Samuel L. Clemens hy checkered @ career as any acter he ever wr about Twain's road to fame and for tune was not royal, and he suf fered many vicissitudes bete ke won his niche In the hearts of the people. Hore is an epitome of hia ca November 30, Hannibal, Mo. 1889—Aftor meager education he left Hannibal and became a wanders 1858 (about) the Mixsiasippt 1860-—Mark ‘Twain money, coat, tre playing cards Bunker. 1961 ate company was mustered later, 186¢-—Twain and a friend named Higgins staked out a st! ver mining claim in Nevada Twain goes to care for a sick friend and Higgins on an rand, thereby losing a claim that made millfons fur others. 1867—He published his first book he Jumping Frog of Calaveras County 1867—Traveled abroad. Met Olivia 1. Langdon of Bimira N.Y 1869 peared 18T0—-Married Miss Langdon 1STL—Joined a literary ony at Hartford, Conn, where he did a greater part of the Uterary work. Regarding this he wrote “I became hooks and an ture among the other rocks New EBngtand 19? Roughing Tt" ‘The Giided Age” appeared. 18Té—"Tom Sawyer” pub- ished. 187% Paurer” 1985 published firm of « publishers 1890—"A Connectiont Yankee at the Court of King Arthur’ published 1893—"Pudd'n Head Wilson’ published. 1894-——“Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc” appeared. In this year his entire fortune was swept away by the failure of Webster @ Co. leaving him deeply in debt at 5 189%—While strugeting clear the debt, his eldest daugt ter, Olivia Susan Clemens, died, at the hour of her greatest promise, while he was abroad 1897—Reported destitute and dying In London, friends in America raised a purse of $3,000 for him. He refuses to accept the gift, saying his “case is not hopeless” 191-—-Yale university ferred degree of M. A 1902—Untversity of Missourt, his native state, conferred LL. D 1904—His wife died in Flor lara b he my hand aside mM k Into a atohers be- know whether ot, ‘The swing weaker in wea » doctors did and : Talk about your county has a real one Oxborn of inty yente d near her Dianas, King Mra, Harry collected $20 @ cougar she town. a i, ny # of Hoo home 1895, born at " tsmued in w im 1896, and EERE EERE EEE EERE EERE EERE EERE EERE EER EE EER River pilot on (By United Press) LONDON, April 22.—The foreign office tonight received a dispatch from Pekin, saying that rioting had been renewed at Chang Sha lout and bo Goneral bree SRR EER Re DOGS AND FROGS IN SWOPE CASE ink they won't have to call em was the whimsical message by Mark Twain to calle hours before his death Pwas the same man who gave to an anxious world of my death are largely ted,” and who later de himself as not ruggedly but not enough to exelte Gndertaker next day, 12 hours before gwen untimely death, his daugh Jean made pudlic this state ‘at the of her se with 2 Pere ee ee ee eee eee eee ee eee ; Entisted In a Confeder of tfantry, but rut a fow we (By United Press.) KANBAS CITY, April 22 Dogs and fro are expected to play an interesting part in convicting or clearing Dr. B ©, Hyde on the charge of mur der, The state has announced its Intention of demonstrating the action of strychnine by poisoning a live frog with the drug before the eyes of the furymen. Toxicologists em ployed by Dr. Hyde are main taining a “poison squad” of six dogs for the purpose of studying the effects of strych nine up them Some of the canines are being given one fifteenth of a grain of atrych nine four times a day, Others receive « smaller amount of potson. PEKIN, April 22.--Refugees from Hankow, who arrived here today from Chang Sha, wh the Metho-| dint mission was burned by an in | furiated mob of Chinese, who then attempted to kill the missionartes say that conditions at Chang Sha were serious when they left Wed nesday Following the deatraction of the mission and the governor's yam where the citizens took refuge, mobs began to wreck the properties of all foreigners The white persons who reached | hore assert that there is not @/record held in the Johnson house which belonged to an Ocel-|of brothers and sisters. dental remaining tn Chang Sha or) | the nolghboring villages, All have, An almanac printed in 1667 has | been burned or wrecked [heen sold for $385 in Boston. Blamed | Many Chinese converts to Chris-| pear #¢ old and high priced as their | tianity have been slaughtered and | ?**"* | # of students who attended the} gouTH BEND.—Sebastian Glew | mission training schoo! were burn-|the last local surviver of the one ed and tortured to death, say the my refugees. wit- | No foreigners had been killed up here | }to the time the refugees fled Wed |nesday, although the rioters were threatening them with death. Among those who left the place r of their lives was the Brit moul at Chang Sha. He sald | today that the escape of the whites : SPOKANE.—Mre. Sarah widow, was burned to death | yesterday afternoon in a fire that | destroyed her ho: at 812 Virginia | jav The lifeless y was found in| a bathtub fi i with wate where she had retreated for safety, it is supponed Crowel ja z instance pai hear the newspapers say | am The charge is not true. t Zaid do no such thing at my time Spite. | am behaving as well as pean. Merry Crristm to every . COLFAX eltia tn five y Within the last six months, nur cases of #, and thre ppendi ther in the family Innocents Abroad” ap = soh Amberol Reoords talk twice as long as Edison Stand ard Record: If we taiked twice as long as an Edison Amberol Record we could not tell you all of their good points Come in and hear an Amberol Record, but expect to stay twice as long as you intend for you will be twree as well enter tained a8 you ever were be fore. We carry the compte logue of Edison Records. Ballard Music. House 5411 20th Ave. N. W. Mard 1277. Open Evenings. merry was bis Christmas ts throughout a sympathising The hand of fate doalt erudiest blow to the kindest, ' of men Mfhe hour hand bad tray amaedl the clock before ter his nfidant, compan-|* Sad Amanuensis—was found! ® fe her bath at their country |* m Redding. Conn. That his|* Aeclined gradually from thie | * Ro onp doubts, and Mark/|® Dimseif did not deny it * * Langhorne Clemens was|# 1835, ma humble/® Mo, the extreme | ® His parents | ® Clemens of | # good wife, who! ® ws Jane Lambton of Kentucky. | # father was a lineal descend. | # ‘of Gregory Clement, one of the} # who condemped to) ® 1, and lox hin head | : \* _ Mother a Famous Beauty. \* ee Lambton’s forbears strove | * el Boone on the “dark | * ly ground.” She became |* ‘One of the most beautiful | * belies of her time. * served for some years |* rate in Hannibal and was|* tounty judge. His death/* ff marked the end of the|* education Nd * print shop became | * school. At intervals, |/® After he was 12 years old.) * the little newspaper. \* with wanderluat, young | disappeared from Hann | * 1853. He saw the world’s) * Fat New York and visited all|# cfties. | Keokuk he apprenticed bim-/ MARGARET SCHELPS. April 22 persecution, Mra San led but the | * do FERRER ERE EERE RR Re HERE E EER REE SAN FRANCISCO two years of tune and sorrow, Schelps, a widow Cal, blames love. For! for Minnie Pedro. She stopped the assassia’s bullet with her own frat) body For woeks the child lay uncon sctour—almost dead. Pinally she} | regained sufficient strength to tray On account of love, which has|@l Then Mrs. Sehelps fled to San | proved such a tragedy tn her Itfe,| Francteco to escape the fend who she has sought refuge with her 11-) 58d not been captured year-old daughter, Margare | At San Francisco she and Marge small farm near Chicago et were arrested on a warrant labore 12 hours each day for their| sworn out by a wealthy aunt of th Mise Peart Kellar, Colonel Swope's| support, while guarding her daugh-| child, who had started proceeding® | was providential, as the killing of a Duras. whose testimony ix strongly }ter from relatives whom she fears}in Lon Angeles to gain possesnion| single Occidental would bave start for the prosecutic continued Of} might kidnap the child of the little girl, She loved Mar-joq @ massacre, from which none the witness stand today. After fin Shortiy after ber father's death,} garet but not as the mother loved | would have succeeded in escaping ishing hor direct testimony she wasltwo years ago, little Margaret was | her | Advices recelved here today Tea severely cross-examined by att stricken with pneumonia. Her| Mrs. Schelps proved her love.|Ghang Sha state that the arrival &/neys for the defense. Hor story was| mother had been left penniless, so, She was without funds when shi lof the British gunboats has reliev & |abparently unshaken by the ordeal. |while the little girl struggled) reached Low Angeles, but paid her|eq the situation &| Mise Kellar described in detatl|/againat the disease, Mra Schelps Tkwyer to fight the cane #/the death throes of Col. Swope. The| worked in a laundry to “pay the| While he met quibble with quib. # |} moat noticeable difference in her] doctor.” hie before Judge Wilbur of the w | teatimony under crossexamination| As she walked home, one eves | fuventie court, the friendleas widow & | Was that she denied that she prev-/ing, a Spaniard, who had become! earned his feo by sweeping offices, tw jfously had testified that she gave/ enamored of her, boldly walked uf?éerubbing floors and washing | Col. Swope a strychnine tonic three! and ked to pay her, clothes times « day. Her deposition hither-| court ¥ "The case was won. to taken showed that she had given She ran screaming to her home. proved herself Swope the tonic. A week later Mrs. Schelps for her own She attempted to reconcile her) planting flowers in « garden im} With a capital of §9 she returned two statements and Waish insisted) front of her cottage, Margaret,/ to San Francisco She worked,| upon direct answers to his quee|weak from two months’ iiness, sat | drudged, acrimped for two montha, | tons bundled im an invalid’s chatr on the }te secure money to .cave for some! Judge Latshaw tnturvened and! front veranda | place where she could be at peace. told the attorney that the witness Withoat warning the Spanlard} Finally she gathered sufficient sould be treated with the courtesy| dashed tnto the yard, brandishing pmoney for passage to Denver. Even usually accorded a woman. & revolver }there she feared the long arme of Waiah objected to the remarks of) With strength almost superhu:her daughter's wealthy kinemen, so the court, saying that Judge Lat| man, the child ran across the lawaj}whe sought sanctuary farther, and shaw was “hedging him in bisland tottered between the man and| Mnally found tt and peace on a iittle cross-examinations.” bis intended victim as he fired [farm just beyond Chicage. Tn the course of croms-quemtiontng | sneer maeneterenes = a ribbler of immovable fix of communiatic merly existed in th y, in dead. He colony in 1955 KANSAS CITY, Mo, A 2 paecuter Conkling announced to day that he had discovered enough connection between the disappear ance of the notes of the grand jury investigation of the Swope ourder and the attorneys for Dr. Hyde the} Gefendant, to warrant « grand jury inveatigation which lapa v with the ‘ot to, car and WARSAW, Ind.—Preston one of the four men w | Jefferson Davis at the Civil war, in dead at L Brown, ptured of the cata The Prince abure. appeared “Huckleberry Twain entered Le Webster & and the RICHMOND, Va.—Fred Cunning |ham, alias Eddie Fay, and Frank Cheater, alias Little Dick Harris |charged with the robbery of the | Richmond postoffies March 27, tal ling $85,000 tn stamps, plead gulity | yesterday and were sentenced to 10 years in the federal prison and fined | $6,000. Finn the Co. SESE EERE EEE EEE EEE EEE EERE EERE EEE EE EEE EE EE EERE EERE EEE EEE EEE Washington Alarmed. | WASHINGTON, April 22.—The |situation at Chang Sha is ominous |today, according to reports from Minister Calhoun and American | Consul Bangh, of Hankow. Minis} ter Calhoun baa reported to the state department that there is no improvement in the situation in the Hunan province and it ta feared that the trouble will spread |one of the The legation at Pekin has asked | tured. Kear Admiral Hubvard to render) further assistance. The Cloveland, | which already bas been ordered to Chang Sha, is on the way Eleven people have died seddonty| |at Westerly, ~ from drinking | medicinal whisk It's « dry town for everybody except the under- takers. ‘ati: opted permission MITCHELL, 8. D.—A trio of yeam- m made an unsuccessful attempt | to rob the state bank at Kaylor, a small town on the Milwaukee, early this morning. or Cartwright drove them Mra Schelps competent to care i May be backward bandits, he may be affitcted with defec- tive viston? THE FUTURE May be filled with many hours of suffering if bis eyes are not Attended to. Our Spectalist can qwickiy tell you what ts needed, and you may be sure he is right tn His Diagnosia. PHILADELPHIA Indiana has complet teat of the new “barn door” brake for battleships. The brake will stop DiI the big warship fm half tts length | LANS ADE FOR while traveling 12 knots an hour. | - | PAR ON LAKE New York's to have a 31-story office building. The beautiful type- | peas writer lady on the upper floor will The battleship ed a five dayw | con- by Walsh, the state's attorney ob Cast. Bixby to learn steam} Those were th the wheelmen of Mis fiver packets were account: ence, Itaty, whither the family had moved in the hope that the climate would restere her to jected frequently to questions and the court sustained every objection Judge Latahaw interrupted the «x VASSAR CHOCOLATES MAY BE FRESH, * aimost be able to talk with Mr. The initial steps were taken at! Halley on his comet. the meeting of the council ‘commit. | Ranmination Free BUT NEVER, NEVER VASSAR GIRLS By United Press.) KANBAS CITY, April 22-—Vasear college today is plaintiff in & court action to restrain the Loose-Wilee Candy company from using the word “Vassar” on « certain brand of its chocolates. rin | objection of the college trustess the lege girl adorning the box, in imitation of the Vassar seal. the figure the words “Vassar Chocolates” were substituted for “Vassar College,” while underneath it, in place of the college motto, urity and Wisdom,” appears the slogan, “Always Fresh.” The complaint recites that the words “Always Fresh” appear to be ap- plicable to the female figure above them. ne er ee oe NEW YORK.—With his sole com- | panion, a little spaniel, lying beside him, Joseph Taylor, 70 years oid, } was found dead in his Brooklyn | apartments yesterday, a gas tube in| hin mouth. After living with him 50 years, his wife left him recently tee on finance for the establish-| ment of a long, narrow park along the shore of Lake Washington from Pine st., above Madrona park, down to Leschi, at the foot of Yester Way. amfuation of the witness frequently to give Mies Kellar time to reflect before answerlag and to explain her answers Undertaker Ott proved a good witness for the defense, his teatt mony conflicting with that of Miss Kellar in two important details. He said that water used tn wash ing the arm of Col. Hunton had been poured into a jar with the blood that was let from Hunton'¢ arm by Dr. Hyde, and that the liq uid might have been the blood whieh Mie Kellar bad testified THIS DOCTOR WON'T HAVE TO WORRY ils sins cold Gat’ ABOUT HIS PRACTICE FOR A WHILE He also said that Dr. Twyman, nd not Dr. Hyde, controlled the letting of the blood. He toatified (My Calted Presa) dence presented to the jury in that Dr. Twyman, and not Dr. ICAGO, April 22.—Dr. L. C.| Judge Tuthill's court, two years} | Hyde, held the threads that closed| iq & Zeigler is entitled to $100,000 | ago, Dr. Zeigier gave his profeaston jee vein and by pulling them at any] from the estate of Mrs. J. H. Mc-|a services whenever called upon. jtime could have closed it. Ott was! Vicker, as provided by a contract/gelying solely on the validity of| | Present when the bloodletting OD) he held to furnish, ber medieal|his contract for remuneration, | eration was performed on Hunton. | treatment while she lived. The su! which was to be paid from Mrs | TO THE JURY on whieh the sult was based was) the contract and alleged that the made on July 19, 1889, and Mra, Mc-| physician took advantage of hin Vicker died in Cajtfornia on August | personal relations with his patient 24, 1904 }to influence her to sign a contract, period of more than/|for which they assert no commen: rding the evi-leurate return was given NEW YORK, April | Wolter, charged with the Ruth Wheeler,,jo0k the stand te in hia own jygalf in his Wolteyy b ler had gilded hadonerved hir @val, and gave Their dress was at once perplexity of the river ey carried guns and thatr way by a singular code health. 1907—{Tatversity of conferred degree of Litt D. with great ceremony. He lost his Investment of $32,500 cash by fatture of the Plaamon Com pany of Amertes, of which he was president. A Masse chusetts library refused to give shelf re to his book, “Eve's Diary, laring it “shocking 190%—Iliness prevented . his taking active pare in reform in the Cango, a crusade he had proseeuted with his pen. with the late King Leopold of Belgium as the arch offender Children’s theatre founded by him in New York, representing of Twain's lifelong arn failed, Later in the he broke down. His close friend, H. H. Rogers. died Christmas daughter Jean died. W Bermuda to seek health EVERSOLE OPTICAL CO 3582-53-54 Empire Bidg., Oxford beds over night. i Sawyer, “Huckleberry . “Puddin’ Heas Wilson” and Fon the Mississippi.” which @ from his pen in later years, In@ident of this vanishing js dwelt upon lovingly Went to Nevada. ing to Hannibal he joined ib wt, Orion, who had accept pike Appointment as first secre Fo the new territory of Ne Samuel accepted the private hip, whieh his brother ex Ewas a “mood job, with noth do and no salary.” | a ae ae 1116 Third Av. one ditions, year I have six reasons why I want you to become better acquainted with my store. The first is, 'M IN THE CUT-RATE CLOTH- ING BUSINESS—OUT OF THE HIGH RENT DISTRICT. The other five don’t matter much. i SPECIALIZE ens Suits ee eee eee eee ee ee eee eee eee eee eee —- 2 a Perrrerrrr ere ee eer ee ee eet Se i a Ea i i a ee . aaee he summing up began. Each TEAMSTER CAUGHT BALLARD MILLS GuOse) STEALING GooDs (Conctuded.) pWirginia City young Clemens | s mself by writing letters Virginia City Territorial . and was finally engag Vegislalive correspondent at | To these letters he the name, i hich he adopted from the Misstesippi river term Twain, rated a wealthy man, thom sounding }sumed its debts, though {it swept of his articles hit Editor|awaey bis fortune and left an tn of the Virginian Union. | debtedness of $100,000, which he « proposed a duel | paid in full Colts revolvers. Twain| In the midst of this came the oposed ng | death of bis wife in 1905. He was ©, expending an|heart-broken, out laid aside his mount. of ammunition | grief long enough to pay her this rything the | tribute: ier character and disposition taking a|were of the sort that not only in » & luckless | vites worship but commands it.” jed with a random bullet.| His daughter Jean became his afar off, saw the bird| sole companion and assistant. Until to the ground. and lost| the time of her death they lived in Bee making the apologies | the beautiful country home Wurtied Across Border Stormfield,” near Redding, Conn authorities |named after Capt. Stormfield, whom a seals ; | Mark Twain sent on a visit o xample oye Mark. Twain | eaven. | nie Bastled across the border into} pact a ~ ol sa A year ago Mark Twain waa J eriticised for smoking a.stgar while | | waiting for his doctor's degree at Oxford, England They cannot attribute lerimes and misdemeanors excessive yse of tobacco,” was hia| " lreplyy @There are about forty Joined | the *causes, and tobacco will have nd. On ss d the} niey, a toame’ wae ar while selling a bag of Gem Waffle House at dinclomed the fact | past ik the Schwa company ob cigars, canned good ane has been taken premises and sold to ne Mark was practice shot wh re be Conley's ted today r the arr the here to cut those figures to $2 t1.6 that Ww he ter aitively th Wh seit tor bacher an of tb nsternation among Ballard. Many of the there it fight ‘ ayate Over the worth of « sugar and b u dn. al his y into ar in h hard to however de of torn h make i} looking squarel me will hf m a | thrown out It's War Measure. ly | ri ith hie bacher firr walking aittic thefts, measure,” said alty in to «i Kat ity girl } he ¢ ' of h with San went th: ir affor get F at the tw Ow Alamona | the great the Us Russia A ing no pai, z profit Virgin ald he home at on Hawali Sacran | through: all | the ler as ith mone J | } { | | at in 1 that 6 wo o'dlock on leged the He retur fternoon ri tay he of ar i the morning it Is al ms. mur was committed. | ed the} the and oe fight 00,000. fe 5 r' om f Boi A tion found wait As be mut of fashion good out of the world as} DID YOU SEE IT? WHAT? WHY THE MAJESTIC Want to Go Free? Why of Course! year Mark Twain. the y York medical school, appoare in his “angel clothes he termed them— a dress sult of spat leas white—a matchlous setting for the Juxuriant silvery hatr The fixhting spirit ondured to the last. Although sadness dissolved us note in his familiar author lent his volce to of woman's suffrage only before the death of his Jean. at ry ntrodu 1 a Coney € ed id suse had Ce whom man la, born | 5 be 24 im 1874 of O« Russian latter and Jear Tn Gabrilo That every one else sells for $15.00 and $20.00. Every one of my Suits is tailored by 10 fingers, not by a machine. The suits prove it; the prices don’t. If this invitation for you to come in tomorrow was engraved on fine pa- per it might look handsomer, but it couldn’t be more sincere. Men’s $2.50 and $3 Hats.. $1.85 “THE BEST CLOTHES ON EARTH FOR THE MONEY.” Ben Hiart Cut Rate Clothier M6 Third Av., Bet. Spring and Seneca a good] (Conciudea.) two days daughter TUG CAPTAIN IS ROBBERS’ VICTIM went out for a good fellow he would udded | ur Anhor, | : | we Anhor, he he man with} '" chool of borthand. | It was at Anhor tion, he| nald that he had tte Ruth Wolter de ar that Anhor had _ told him that she would be girl to get into the school | Prosecutor Moss asked Wolter| declaration that make | why he had entered notations con-| trouble if the taxes were not forth Jcerning crimes in the same book|coming. “I'll take the strongest lin which Miss Wheeler's name ap| methods I know how to collect |peared. One of the crime on| these taxes. All that can stop me | which notes had been ma¢ a} is the courts | wife murde | The of | Wolter he had cople lny nt pt the purpose company in the the Star there advertised n to the mentioned Then watch of The ing 1 foree to taxe Th fuse to pay to force the county Into court. The traction companies then hope that the coum ty attorney will recommend a de 1» the amount of the taxes ‘o hours tigation. The three com oat ayn classified col compromises ne tug | paragrapha for time | English.” countrymen from | Wolter night. They finally|of the fury a room in a lodging| The dofense was by a Jap. Here of | afternoon the aptain’s newly fc friends | examined in less him over the bh with a Wolter endeavored establish | panies in the past have always been f gaspipe and about|an alibi, but his statements were! active in tax dodging him, The tald| not corroborated by other witness but they do|es. After the defense rested, a re Vice gots more r im, wa Yelock, | world thin piety Ilded} Tramp four 1 Pau last wound up {n practice in vanity yt are They giv persons whose are in the ad }bames were picked at random from the city directory, They may be your own, There is always a good jshow at the Majestic, the |there is in vaudeville, Read vicious | Star classified ads and “Get Habit two free will be names | These fate will ¥ t tiokets by 7 hand tonight d this} & o'clock in Arthur ad to took struck Wn 1889 | piece He fowiden W best The the firm in 1884 fark from the police ptain could not in this Fletcher an P cosas taken unt! 4:30