The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 14, 1910, Page 1

|THE SEATTLE TA OL. 12, NO. 122 RTLAND IS FIRE SWEPT; « EIGHT LOSE THEIR LIVES FS ere ! | Half Million Dol- e in Rose City Perish in Seeth-| ——— ‘Lalted Press) } TB! Ore., July 14—Two ore dead, six are missing, 150 s and property & million dollars hos faa result of a fire | Phick, breaking « resid: . dry ive hor fm the baw dulldink Oregon City, fore- United Carriage Co. T (supposed), who died employe Fashion ; employes of the Co. stables allowed to sleep in yb fire was discovered at "J in the base ‘exposition building. | could be turned t frame struc- it. jumped the} ing the Mult. | E, houre from TUMBLES TO HIS DEATH WHILE PICKING CHERRIES — LEONARD GEHRING, COULDN'T TAKE MORE MONEY FROM MOTHER | So William Seemet Cut His money which his aged mother Worked amd scratched for at ter lt- tle home In Corvaitis, Ore, William Stemet, aged 28 years, last alght SAS CIS se While comfortably seated on a |Hmb of a tree in his front yard last jevening picking Leonard |Gebring, assistant superintendent of j the Beatie Brewing Malting |Co., slipped and fel! to a cement walk 20 feet below, fracturing his }skull. Gehring died before medical aid could be summoned. His wife and two children were sitting on t porch at the time of the accid jand rashed t bis jhe fell. Gehring lived at 142 Mable at., Georgetown, | Gehring had been with the brew }ery for veveral years. He was re | garded xs the fit successor to Supt John Moeller, He was a member of the firet and last city councils of Georgetown and always played a {prominent part in that city's af | falrs. sepemaniaaetetttnieniaa cherries. and SED: DOCTOR STOPS. EXECUTION OF SrATTLE. BY A especial diapatch to The Star from Moptie) Ala, reeetved today, states Gifford Sande, the wrecked & religious service by whip-|former Seattle high school were saved after aithough they Insurance | that not less than| ’ loss was sus eertain that the are te escaped from tion building, by & solid wall of ¢ br the skin entire bhody. He said that there me “for the boys in < oe Him. by the glare, my only chance.” from the building to an auto- 2 to a hospital. ‘Was being carried ut Toom. to be named ed fat burns when he @ sheet of flame from the exposition the fire has not According to W. employe who es the fire envel-| * tof the structure, the Jn the basement near to the two stables building = wan ‘Of the Jandmar! tedustrial fair ever ‘Was housed in the ered for a number of years | ar Meeting place for the ot to Rescue. “Sailors from . the and the cruiser 4 in Portland lo tesint the fire- the command of offi fa blue handled howe, ae On the burning roofs thing possible to aid Saved on account of! As the husky d in line and start- for the docks long crowd applauded bere of the Mult-| already started a im ¢ireviatton’ to fo rebuild the elub fire was wt itn Was pledged for the of the athletic club records and lshings of the club- tell how 4 summer the breakfast table ks when she oc ck late in the after- ping OUT @ razor and cutting bi. thtoat while the leader of the meet- ing was engaged in prayer for the men and boys who had drifted away from home and their mother’s in- Nuence. Seemet war eitting well up in front at the Apostolic Faith mi«- ston. 208 Jackson st. when the ap pea! for the wandering bey and man was made, “EP had been broke for some time.” said Seemet, in the City howpital to- Gay. “I had been taking money to live om from my olf mother, who was working her poor old hands off to get it for me As the meeting Dprogrensed, and as 1 heard of man- liners demanded of men, I wae im- Pressed with my utter faflure tn life. T was worthless, and suddenty I decided to rid the world of nmiy- self and relieve others of the trow- ble of my existence, so I cut my throat.” As Seemet stashed his throat the blood gushed forth and he fell over on the fleér. Immediately there was great excitement, Several of the congregation rushed to nearby telephones and called the police. Others tried to stop with thefr hand- kerehiefs the flow of blood from the ugly wound in the man's throat. Upon the arrival of ghe police Seomet wae rushed te the City hos- pital, where he was given prompt attention. with the result that this morning It was stated that he would recover. In one of fie pockets was found a letter from TM. Seemet, his aged father, begging “his hoy” to come home and live witht bie father and mother. The father, ina hand shak- ing with age. wrote that he knew he had but « short time tn world, and he wanted “hie bey” with him during that time. Seemet's last employment war with the Chittenden Logging com- pany, ee el WEATHER FORECAST. & light westerly winds * * * etn * Fair tonight and Friday; * * ML cont of $100,000,| * A bd HOW THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR CONTROLS SOME NEWSPAPERS (The following editorint explanation. The ineiden' ment, further thee ar he purely is, Iw hie senatorial vandidtney. fa’ {lids department and He policies (From Collier tit relates ix sl Igeal remark that Congtennm: rend ie now a brigadier general in the Nicaraguan evolutionist army, was captured by the government fqroes and sentenced to death re cently, but that hie Hfe was caved by an American surgeon, Dr. Berg: heim of Texas. Sands was captured and sentence ed to death when the Madris army took the town of Principaia. To wards the end the town was de} fended only by Sands and bin body | guard of seven wen, who put up a| defense of 46 minutes before the} twenches were captured } Gen. Irias, the Madris leader,| who had come in the gunboat Ve-| nus after the gunboat Sen Jacinto | had shelied the town, took Sands prisoner and proceeded to hold a) drumbead court martial. Sands | was condemned to die. | Just abot that time the Madrix| leader bad @ severe attack of Bright's dixease. Dr. Hergheim was called in, but refused to go to the sick man, During the sev. eral days that ensued between the capture and sentence of Sands, he! had become a friend of the Seattle | boy. When General Irias demand-| ed to know why the doctor would | not treat him, the physician sent) back word that he would give re-) lief only on the condition that young Sands be unconditionally paroled at once, This was granted. L Sands’ parenta have moved to/ Mukilteo recently. They have bad| no word from their son in weeks and were very much worried over him. He had been in the habit of writing regularly Nothing can be learned from the state department at Washington or from Nicaragua as to where Sands is now. If General Irias kept his promise, he did it probably only under the condition that Sands leave the rebel army and return to the United States. Sands is only 19 yoars old. was formerly a student at Broadway high school He the $7,000 was rained for the of Dr. Mike Powers, late ¢ catcher, at a benefit game and field day exercises in Shibe park, Philadelphia, recently, It ts planned to make the benefit an an- | nual event from the edrrent inane of Collier's Week! {leant beyond to men wl ” @ marvel.—-Rai ‘s Weekly.) The letter printed below so completely tells its own story that we shali encumber it as little as possible with extraneous facts. It 1s | necessary, however, to give this much of the setting: Baers vers ot The letter was written by one of Secretary Ballinger’s subordinates, n official of the Interior Departin at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho States Senator Heyburn.) his district, The letter is sent to a lrecelved this patronage, but who censed to receive {t last November, | about the time the Ballinger case became acute. The editor | loss of patronage until April, when he protested, and this letter is the | official explanation wpy the Interior Department advertising was with- | drawn from him; “George R. Barker, Esq, Sandpol ye have your letter , but have e an Opportunity to expla sent out from th at Sandpoint the practice in the department for the register designate the paper in which certain notices related to t vit has jong be of the land office to shall be published So far, this is a comparatively that “to the victors belong the spoils. (Parenthetically, As an incident of his office, he bas the giving | lout of a certain amount of advertising patronage to the newspapers in Naturally, under @ republican adestub notices go to the republican papers,” nt, who has charge of the land office | » is a nephew of United n editor in the district who formerly | ured the nt, Idaho. of the 16th, and have also re not had an opportunity to 1 mY position office to the newspapers ax fom, such harmless statement of the principle But read on: “When I assumed my duties as register of the land office at Coeur — SEATTLE, WASH,, THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1910, GAMBLING IN SEATTLE! ISN’T THAT SOMETHING WONDERFUL? THE TIMES OF YESTERDAY OPEN GAMBLING MUST STOP LOEN J BLEeTHEN FROM THE SHUT Five remminder of May fe the mayer sore tw soring thal Che ree Fannroy « SALOON LAWS ENFORCED. At last the Seattle papers numbered among the supporters of Hiram C. Gill for mayor haye distovered that gambling has been in progress in Seattle. They didn’t discover it, howevef, until after the mayor and the chiéf of police had determined that it was getting a little too strong and had sent word down t the different resorts that they most close their doors, Now these papers have raised up their hands and cried out against the evils. They mtst remain closed, these gambling places, and not open their doors again, “at least so long as Mr. Gill is mayor,” says one of the Gill news- papers. The Star told its readers two or three months ago that there was It told its readers that if they voted for Mr. Gill for mayor there would be gambling. Seattle's other newspapers protested against The Star's criticism of Mr. Gill. They asked the electors of Seattle to vote for Mr. Gill as against Judge William Hickman Moore, under whom as mayor there had never been open*gambling. The Star_advo- cated the election of Judge Moore and made the best fight it knew how for the former mayor. But a majority of the people of Seattle determined that The Star was wrong. They voted for Hiram C. Gill and the gambling and they got what they voted for. And now they have discovered that they don't want what they thought they wanted. They have found that gambling affects business and ruins the morals of the boys and the men. The newspapers that advecated the election of Mr. Gill have grown suddenly righteous. They even go so far as to criticise the mayor and the chief of police for “wink- ing” at gambling. They say there must be no more gam- bling in Seattle. And they are right. There must be no more gambling. There wouldn't have been any to com- plain of now had Judge Moore been elected mayor. Hard as it is to refrain from deing so, The Star declines to suggest that “it told you so.” gambling in Seattle. Oe BANK CLEARINGS, Seattle. today. .$! Se Suffrage Meeting. The Seattle Suffrage will meet toniorrow afternoon at 2:30 at the home of Mra. Trumbull, 16th av, N. aod W. Take Broadwuy-Pike car, Miss Groening of New York will ak, and Maude Barnes Steele ite club 948,047.47 07,030.48 Clearings Balances . Tacoma. Harrison st today ..$ 42.00 012.00 Clearings Balances * Portland, today. .$1) wat f Set atl the thieves to catching rings * | thieves and about one-half the Balances . 5.00 & | world would be continually chasing tea hk Re the otter, Clearings Balances: eee ee eee ee Spokane. Che today..$ settee e te ee eee d'Alene, Idaho, there was but one oot at Sandpoint, betw Review. The editor r friends, afd reasons we: patronage being extended to each paper. would divide auch patronage equally I had on different occasions © ited with both ediors o given them to understand, or intended that they should unders that this arrangement would continue realy se low contin to conduct thelr papers property tw with republican prin- roveray as between the Merth Idaho Ni of brth these Within # memory more than usually famf{liar with the literature of political intimidation, there is no equal of this in stratghtforwardness, But there is more was may ea in which present a er T bad occasion to obserye that your paper in sympathy with the republican party In order that derstand this fully, | will cite you to the specific inst y paper, in ny opinion, has not shown Itself entitled consideration tn er 1, At the the hearing of the cage against. th ton Water Power oo . iat in whieh the etary. Ballinger, dd mywelt Wan ned In connection With that case editorial was copled (verbatim, I believe) by your paper.” In other words, merely to reprint from another paper a comment unfriendly to Ballinger was to be punished by the withdrawal of patron age. There is light here for many who were puszled last winter by the attitude of their local papers. pehinge- ™ ed~ n— Senate: This same ‘This refers to the time of the Rules fight last March “9. In @ recent issue of your paper you published an editorial in which you made # bitter personal attack on Senator Heyburn. uP, oho Me beet pores at sey time baw THE SEATTLE "p ig CLEAN a wt Bente OF YESTERD UP, STAY 40. mat ve te wide enn and ther We “ eyes ity, during & ahernes trem the ety of Chist of Police Wep on te wont heartliy to be commented The te He power te aid the city séminibi/oive 1s ciy te ONE CENT. American Girl Murdered b Buried—-Police of Two for Hawley Crippen, A (iy United Prem.) LONDON, July 14.-—Not since the infamous Whitechapel murders has London been body believed to be that of Mra. Hawley Crippen, formerly. a noted singer, and the disappearance of her husband, an Americar dentist, who is charged with her murder. Police Investigation is believed to have uncovered two bodies in the dark cellar of an old house in Islington occupied by Crippen. Scores of detectives have been de tallied on the case, and the police discovery of a of Kuropean and American INTI-VICE LOSE aS = PEOPLE A PLAINTIFE Injunction Proceedings Fall Through When “Good Suh tae #0 plausibly Offers” Are Made to Man Who Was Anxious to |< Do Away With Red Light District. #0 aroused over | jerime as it is today, following the | ¢ ON TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS Ge. CHARLTON MURDER DUPLICATED IN LONDON y Husband and Body Is Continents Are Searching merican Dentist. | have jing man. Body of Woman. Beneath a cement floor in lar of the Crippen Islington the police body believed to be Crippen. Decomposition had set in, and the authorities were not | able positively to establish identity, | Surgeons declared that the woman jhad been dead six months. Mrs. Crippen was lost to sight of neigh bors last February “Died—Mra, Hawley Crippen, be- loved wife of Hawley Crippen, at j her home, 39 Hildrop Crescent, le | lington.” This notice appeared in a local per and first aroused the sus- | pictons of Crippen’s neighbors, Pre- | Yiousiy the dentist had announced {that his wife was visiting on the nt continued absence of Mra Pe. ga and the arrival of a young woman who became known as n,” and was introduced | ntist as his wife, im |creased gossip, and the police were called in Deceived Detectives. - Scotland Yard men questioned Crippen closely, He was calm and imperturbable, answering all their that they thrown completely off the | Scent, and departed satisfied. | “My wife quarreied with me and |left the house tn anger,” was one of | the statements made by Crippen to {the police. “I do not know where |she went. I did not want the neigh- been asked to arrest the miss the house at came upon @ that of Mra. An injunetion suit by which the and other documents were ready for) bors to know that she had left me, Anti-Vice Association hoped to put filing last week when suddenly |so I invented the story of her trip ithe present tenderloin district out|the plaintiff called at the office of | of existence was nipped in the bud | the attorneys and called a halt toe Gistviel secopeted tn removing! ae wae « the cause for action by “getting to”) 4 He sald that within the lest fow the man who was to bave appeared |G8Y8 he ba sor i Dey fie «i property in excess of the the > | his jas the Property owner plaintiff in) aounte it was claimed in bis affi- |davits that the property was worth | For weeks Blaine, Tucker & Hy z }land, attorneys for the association, | Prior to the at ped eee a! be have been preparing thix injunction | Vice district, and if he didn’t wan jsult. Numerous affidavits -were|t@ Sell, these same mysterious par | secured. thes would lease his property at a | oh 4 rental of what he claimed was their Property Value Less. rightful earning power. f : With that kind of an offer before Be renege b gor gore | he claimed that he could not prescribed district Affidavits | 9 into court and claim that he and fhowing that his property. was|Mi® Property had been damaged by worth so much, and capable of pro-| the vice district, go the suit w: ducing a revenue of so much before |dropped and the Anti-Vice Associa- the re-establishment of the tender. | tion in now looking for another club loin district were secured. Other to wieid in its fight on the tender- affidavits then were prepared show. | 0! jing that the.property bad greatly | decreased in value and earning |power #inee the existence of the district, and upon these premier the lawyers intended asking the super- for court to permanently enjoin city French Cruiser Coming. From advices received yesterday by R. De Lobel-Mahay, the French vice consul here, it is stated that the French armored cruiser Mont- officials, owners of property in the| calm will arrive in Seattle on Juty |~ district and everybody else connect- 20, and remain here until August 16. ed with it from allowing it to con-| The ship, while here, will be in com- tinue in operation at its present] mand of Rear Admiral De Castries. location. A reception for the officers is al- Every affidavit had been pre-|ready being prepared by the Al- pared, all the necessary petitions | \iance Francaise. TOMORROW WILL BE STAR DAY AT THE WHITE CITY—TAKE NOTICE Rattled? Somebody's mixed on the, , show your coupon and pay a “freight” at the White City, Madison |nickel. Or if you want to play the park, tomorrow, Star day. Well, this | Japanese ball game, ditto, Or ride is the way it really ts in the Ferris Wheel. just the same One Star coupon and one nickel|See? Rates are good all day and will admit bearer to any attraction | evening. on the grounds, S"posin’ you puree Clip this coupon and get the nickel to try your eye at the shooting gal-|out of your pocket. The rest ts easy CUT THIS COUPON OUT. This coupon, with 5 cents, admits bearer to White City and to any attraction inside the grounds on STAR | DAY, Friday, July 15. candidat if they are, es against publican part ng campaign, ican papers. “The grounds stated constitute, to my mind, sufficient evidence that the republican party in this state Is not getting the aupport from your paper that it expects and is entitled to. Your record as a re- publican # er to have been questioned prior to the } campaign, and I never questioned it until the matte first ‘statement’ appeared, which was followed by. the tained in the second, third and fourth ‘statements, ” matters con- Finally comes the offer of grace: The above ognized action In not having ree a proper the publication H ed, Tw elim t to you the full comslde te whieh you may ta Here, reader, is the spirit and practice of the Interior today. Under cover of such secrecy as they can enforce, steadily they hand the property which belongs to the peopl Guggenheims and all those interests of which the Gug typical, They are not chastened nor disturbed by exposure. was written April 18, when the Ballinger investigation had been months under way. Glavis is the sort of public servant who is discharged; Bat ting is the sort that is kept. The man who ought to discharge Batting upon the publication of this letter is Ballinger, Of course, Ballinger won't. Will Taft? Or was Teft's intimate biographer right when he ascribed to the president of he | es this theory of thé function of what he calls the postoffice vubsid It appears to him gross in- gratitude for the periodical press to attack the government which annu- ally contributes millions of dollars to its support.” Department quietly and over to the heims are this letter | | te America, That is where | thought | she went.” | This lulled the suspicion of the | police and they went away. | Then Crippen disappeared. At the same time the second Mra. Crippen also vanished. The house | remained vacant for several wi | and neighborhood conjecture again | became rife. Friends of Mrs. Crippen finally appealed to the police for ald in | finding her. The eirevmstances led | the detectives to the deserted |The old structure was ransac! |from top te bottom, the detectives virtually tearing the bnilding to pleces, The garden was dug ap and the walls sounded. Finally in the \cellar sfter persevering search and hard work the body was found. To | day the police and the coroner took two coffins to the house. A heavy guard was thrown about the baild- ing following the finding of the first body. The detectives would — not deny that a second body had been found, The coroner sald that two cof- fins Were necessary to facilitate "(Continued on Page Ei ae Eight.) DRUNK ENDS IN SUICIDE Fred Bryan, aged 38, held at the city jail on a charge of drunken- ness, hanged and killed himself with an old strap used for a belt jin the city jail last night. His body, suspended from the window bars in his cell, was found shortly before midnight by Assistant Jailer Reesler. When cut down the body was growing cold, and the man vad evidently been dead about a half hour. Jailer Corning passed through the corridor about an hour before, when Bryan stopped him and asked him for a drink. The water was given him, Nothing is ; known of Bryan other than that he was a laborer from Canada. He | was drank on the waterfront when arrested. 'TACOMA’S MAYOR SERIOUSLY HURT TACOMA, July 14. — While attempting to board an elevator in the city hall this afternoon, Mayor Vance Fawcett was seri- ously injured when the elev- ator suddenly started up just as the mayor set foot in it. He was thrown violently to the floor, The elevator was in charge of the janitor, who was running It in the absence of the regular operator. The acci- dent occurred on the third floor, Or, Libby was hurriedly sum- moned, and after an examina- id the mayor had sus: a broken rib, a wrench- ed neck and badly bruised legs. Mr. Fawcett complained of severe pains in the region of the heart. The Central Labor Council last night unanimously endorsed the | movement to secure owl cars on all of the main street car lines of the city. Superintendent of Public | Utilities Valentine and the officials of the Seattle Electric company are now cousidering this project.