The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 20, 1910, Page 1

| THE SEATTLE SEDITION — nee Za te SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1910. ONE CENT. °%,,7"48, 0% NEWS STANDS Be. a A [5 °“weoowe ar wae TOWNS WIPED PUCK ©. SUED FOR DIVORCE PAWLAOAD aS oy BY WOMAN WHOM in Victory for Rawn, EE Ricsident of the ; B. C., Left in Ruins Sandon Is Surrounded—Nel- | American Federation of - Railroad, Killed | son Half Dark at Noon——Fires All Sides of Seattle. Labor. |W. S. Spalding Has Same Name, Same Occupation and in His Home by a Bur-| 3 , ——___— Same Appearance as Man Who Deserted Wife in lar Hundreds of men today are battling against the worst series of Texas Years Ago--Court Clears Up Tangle of forest fires that have swept the Pacific Northwest and British Co of th t nee enti E lumbia for a decade, according to reports reaching here. whone t ‘ Identity Errors. Vaited Press In Washington, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and British Columbia i | ewicaco, duly 20.—That numerous fires are consuming miniong of feet of the choicest timber, G Rawne president of the and are leaving in thelr wake desolation. railroad, was mot killed The toes already is enormous, and the end is not yet in sight. 17a but was murder Four towns have burned, according to the dispatches, three of is the belief of them being in British Columbia and one in W. ington. A large detectives, ed to day number of logging camps likewise have been reduced to ashes. invest) " Sr geath af the railway eee EIGHT KNOWN DEAD. he blced ctaine Eight persons are known to be dead, a number are unaccount- iafter daylight this morn: CAPTAIN DANIEL DU VALL LIEUT. MABEL STEVENS ed for, and scores have been injured, * outside the window A ceremony 81 ' am Indications are that rain will fall goon. If it does not, the ony of unusual interest jvisional officer, assisted b¥ hi! abilities are that the worst conflagration Im the history of the osed which oo peome will take place at the Salvation |*taff and all local Salvationists will! circ coast will result eecaped, Army hall, t Fifth 8 in charge of this pmony the curb. Detectives em rmy hall, at Fifth av andthe hall will be tastily decor + WORST IN BRITISH COLUMBIA. on the case think the | Washington st. on Thursday even- ated The local brass band will The firest that are doing the greatest damage this afternoon ; escaped in an auto: jing at § o'clock, when Captain /conduct the music. There will be} @rg burning in the Neison and Kaslo districts, in British Columbia, |“ bee rapivess| coset 3 e starte earch for waiting | Daniel DuVall and Lieut. Mabel! songs, duets, quartets, ete. The| seth of the Washington and Idaho international boundary line o we rmerty " poming fuses Ae r band, but he nothing of Stevens will be united in marriage.) public is cordially invited to at In the district approximately 3060 perrons have lost their | pe » wae 6 . eco “ m ur ‘ y< Then promi fier Robert Dubbin, chief di- | tend. | homes and belongin, millions of feet of timber have gone up in . , = her brothe jus B 4, of witness in the land fraud x smoke, and the fire ds hold absolute sway -— ms invelving the = Iilinois To the eastward, in the Kootenal dletrict, other fires are devas | * ont R — * t font cots of and the Western In tating the Canadian forests 7 t k i inder solvents. PIN i BR THER HF IN IDAHO AND MONTANA, TOO. Van ¢ secu n injunet 8 the #a ne, W. 8. Spalding: he G0, July 20.--Polive to In the Idaho panhandle and the northeastern part of Wash ot " Sar 2. Spalding; he owned a ‘are scouring the north shore ington numerous fires are taking their heavy toll of timber and ee . He was the and the negro « } homes, These fires, for the most part are being brought under id res ype 3 Jxame age, same ‘ ame com- ’ control ; ating: | r eight as the . In Montana, fires are burning on the Flathead Indian reserva : . Be npg iia eal | Texa ar 1. Burnsed ndian tn tion and in the Bitter Roots, For the most part these blazes are |"°O"CUS*! 10 uM hag oF wit ¢ Texas Spalding to able } . »| ] pod ng in the federa j ag aad “ek ae western Washington a comprehensive fire is consuming tim . fe ttle Spalding and the woman ° the Grays Harbor district in the vicinity of Hoquiam 2a vl em ungon wife Oregon, a big blaze has destroyed half a million feet of logs ; sonnet ge She came whe arrived he upper Grays River district, not far from Astoria, and is Aug rn uae met , lSpalding ar wife left Se- | attie ectintaiacaelinen e ach now burning in the green timber er w said he police of Winnetka believe * * * (My United Pree) Soa bes : invesmentiey ‘barelar necro, and |nsurgent Will Give Ac NE, Neb, July 20,—Wayne| Heavy losses of standing timber |tance of nix miles and ts threaten: | aia a jetowed ha ness a c police count of Fight Against) lo is under arrest, charged | "re threatened. and homes and oth some valuable timber. Already The London Murderer Will |tie Texas M . . arch, Rawn er improvements endangered by reported eating its way into a 4 Be in Hands of Police by | . . . the murder of his sister, be} room of} Cannonism in Opening). she opposed his marria, |forest fires which have broken out| tract of valuable timber owned by Early this morning he : shbor's daughter. The arrest|!n several places in King county }the Puget Mill company. Five hun Rolee and, coing to the} Speech in Seattle. followed a confession by the hired |One fire, raging between Lakes | dred cords of shingle bolts belong Tonight, Says Scotland i of his residence to in man, Willlam Elechencamp, 1%| Washington and Sammamish, is|tng to the Beaver Mill company Yard | Mawew as burglar putting) |. 1. joe Cannon Is being flayed | Years old | threatening a valuable body of tim-| have been consumed by it, and G ard. ee a bag Kawa) Une ioe snaurgent senators and}, Om the day of the murder, June |ber belonging to the W yerhauser| Pontius, whose farm adjoins that e \aecerted he burglar, and it is sup |*¥* “ ins we where he | 20, it was stated that Eichencamp syndicate. Another fire ts burning | of F. Pontius, bas been compelled tc on ee lasked that Be slipped, the opeinaed UNeg( maar Bo ~ ag eevinn an had found the girl's body near the /on the Stillaguamish river and | abandon his home and drive away Bray sb ‘Senreld wou Of home that w me of Sarah Barglar that some one|"4* been pressed into service St) Flegle home, Detectives were put ere are reported ‘from the|his stock In order to escape th ; ae ee Tike oe, St te E. Spalding » she claimed wile om. The two men|% cAmpalen sPrenomimation of the {om the case, and young Fiegle con-| vicinity of North Bend and Tolt. | flames. Iran. down by an tntound Capitol j a bigamous ¥ f Texas hus- Ib believed, from the |(he defeat for renominatines trom | tributed $500 to the $2,500 reward| The plant of the Montana Mill| The fallen timber and refuse left liill street car at 14th av. N. and base Broused the other SHEER the recent session of cen-|ctrered for the murderer The | comp about two miles west of | by loggers is so dry that it is dif-|& Republican «et. at 10 o'clock this - 4 Spa the household | gress. hired man ¢ egle forced | Auburn, is reported cc y de-| fleult if not impossible to check the | morning and his left foot sc y $ Angeles Shot Rawn Twice. Two ofthe members of the Wash- | him to tell the story of the finding | stroyed “y a fire which ha n | flames in many places, and crews | crushed that it will pro’ 4 swer, shot Rawn twice. The | ingt jelegation v i the /Of the body under the threat of /burning in» that vicinity several of men engaged in fighting them !io be a , All of the " | ttle was ere @istinctly heard by|Cannon-Tammany machine to sup death days. A fire, whic arted on the|are encountering great dif n tt | ™ » Los ele t for the pur- MP members of the family.| press independent action n | homestes Pontius on|In all directions from Seattl car whee ion he suffered : poe of ¢ m any Mra ‘Coburn, Rawn'’s son-in-law, | cress third mem the , [has creek 4 cinity of Bothell, | skies overhung b he ; toa calp and severe Spalding e e answered Mfirst to reach the dining | de . ‘ M * Poin has sw rows country for a dis | clouds of smoke er a - that the edth ohow he wae | - cxnnasintierandilicie: Tt ooha » weasel to een 1 g had been hi fe and his only in front of the car. Faia @ aloo est We m He found Rawn on the ot Warkeki With two wounds in his |allian nd to free a MOTHER is DEAD griconp rg igre | . ‘ r r heard mscious and| from th na of the insolen « of the tracks | | c Medical aid reached | Cannc Lig t nd Ww k t ron | 7 ¢ n for B The murderer | leaped through | the crime of opposing Cannon (iy United — f t ar, } vorce . . 4 r °., 1 . y is 0 i year, cl ellow's € cut and Cannoniain ' Cleveland, July » showed | standpatter iiers are| Thomas Prosser, mother ) el y Mdgev nt e Texa g. how- side door, | trying Tongresam ‘ Prosser, who was shot by Mrs. Vera \ ow t t | leve r € c er as an ntly ha xter 5 publican y Prosser, his former wife, on a rail « e foot ting off the | mpt to t ‘ the track. : I ting annon system road train in Montana, is dead at 8 and ¢ ' e bones a to ¢ her suit. A Sack in whic! . t t- her home in this city es W. 8. tarry away the pl jing tt the people She is said to have broken down |General hospita s Spalding came to ttle and met the only clue e pe te t In of | fi f he Texas Mr tain he Te Dh shai iadite te aes i one eo ee or Rookane * Comaiip Auditor r LL RE-ELECT DR. HAWLEY CRIPPEN his, Soniiten ate srg bndnion son Patermeth of Fourth | né a He p t Gince the killing of her son, the Says Number of Candi- ’ esis CARROLL OF te tek auias her husband and she had Winnetka po rae ae night mother has been prostrated. She) , SAYS JOE, July . seen h a life. = 7 eet se " ' LONDON y 20.—-That Dr ‘: 3 ‘ oath Ei fke veturs, one of! , Th ve mont | refused to be comforted, and died, dates for U. S. Senator, IOWA INDICTED GaAWia Origen ties wa Wie the | seats 0 wan indirectly « it is believed, as a direct result of | . thd ond police rdere 8 vt the tragic killing of her son. Mrs.| Makes This Imperative. | (By United Press.) a tn the wood PaaseS eee i: “ag ‘ , Vera Prosser is now in jail at Libby, | - | KANSAS CITY, M aly 20.—~ (By United Jton home, has been located, anc ters of Se Mont. (ay Unite’ Press) Declaring his belief that his cam S MOINES, 1 q Ithat he will be. arrested before Senet cm in SPOKANE, July 20.—County |Dtlgm in Kansas has assured the ern ‘ t 1} night, is the official statement to: side of the fearler ele eeakeaeenker ) anaior RB W. Butler, on the ad-|reerection of ngressmen Miller " e of erin y day by Inspector Dow of the Ante ee cuter Fred Pugh, to.|Campbell, Reeder, Calderhead and aunty gt John |iand Yard e. Dow says , Anthony, ali regulars, “Uncle Joe” | ( of the | Crippen is hiding in a health resort day held that there must be a first : aie See n . and pecond choice vote for United | ceumea errived in Kansas City t “ . ati and that t police have been ; aS \day. He looked tired and some-|tior ne t y watching him, and are sure of dis Scena i, imaring| ya, Wah atta ea | ee So me ye |e FIVE CANDIDATES September 13. ratotore “overlook. |Duysieal inaptitude he lacked no | Kove wif ge od Peart maeccinglt os enthusiasm when he further took | mismanageme 1 ality FOR LEGISLATURE state a 7 ecta al xe :| senatorial fight. Two years ago et ae: iy ce ogg NS oe na A TIME SAVER— shot,” said Cannon, “I never said | re an guberr 1 2 A STEP nega * Five candidates for legislature anything like that. This is a cam Send your Star Want ad by * | filed their notices of candidacy with 4 telephone, Costs the same as * |; . tor today. An thek vote was accorded each elector aes Sin: tek Wats 1k, The primary law says that when |i) o"y.wurgents certainly would when paid in advance rimary pledge. The four or more men aspire for con | shot, for they're rillas, fighting | Phonee—Main 9400, In z as follows: Charles gressional nominations, which i 100)" cides * a. Baxter, 3 atorial district: held here to mean the senate and wee KH Con uel Coles, representative 41st the house, under the definition of i district: B. A. Bowen, 30th senator- the term id down by W (By Uel Press.) | Thirty people were jal distriet; Charl E. Congleton, there shall be a first and 6 SAN FRANCISCO, July 20.—] (Nee oo hon Se s7th representative district; Frank choice vote accorded to the The Central theatre could not ac-|{ aa " * Jacksot 7th senatorial district in the reins so that he was dragged | # Roads to become a member of * tory Auditor Butler, who is pre Saal yg gy ger ll cy ‘ ago toc C, Jackson, 37th senatorial wera tea 4 downward for two blocks. He|#* the Atlantic fleet paring to print the official ballots ah Be Seattle oi to hear Gifford Pinchot speak in ST. P, \eustained, besides numerous pain for Spokane county, will get the " bebalf of Hiram Johnson, anti . 'AUL GETS IT ful cute and bruises, a severe frac |x we KK AAA AAW ee ewe) Ocal pmary ballot out with |* Bala 18,161 wang candidate for governor, last (BY United Frew.5 ture at the base of the skul. He} me : first. and second choice columns|* Tacom é Sant oo En, Mindhad Gunde. Coe IAGO, July 20 1 died at the City hospital this morn- | in the senatorial race ® Clearing» today a addr one in the building and | a Taft at Bar Harbor. # Balances Calihes B held in faservation congress will 1 ————— | BAR HARBOR, Me, July 20 MONTREAL, July 20.—Both the|# Portland. from an automobil in St. Paul. « nittees John Studebaker, carpenter, WAS) president Taft, aboard the May rainmen and the officers of the |® Clearings today $1,898.70) —_ LaLa me the Twin ( and | arrested yesterday for the theft of | jower, reached Bar Harbor t lGrand Trunk railway have refused | Balance 503.00 | Sf the National Conserva-|a check for $111.05, issued by the | sores of pleasure craft went out to|to arbitrate their difference oth | Spokane * andour today | United States navy disbursing of-| eet the presidential yacht A|nides to the controversy declare that /® Clearings today M * f * * n “the This morning Mrs. Lille 8. ng, of Texas, in an affidavit, Judge Alt the tale of en identity and he st once livorce case dismissed, of Independents in congress fighting the good fight for} restoration of representative * CRUISER WASHINGTON * 18 LEAVING FOR GOOD. * nment 4 (Sy United Press) * BREMERTON, July 20.— * The cruiser Washington will * leave the navy yard at 5 ® o'clock tomorrow afternoon, * probably nm © to return to ® Mains have been found on the state for which it was ® Rear K home Donald Rose, aged 11 years, son|#® named. The Washington will # * * * * * . * * * * * * * * * ® president * . * io * * * = in Rawn’s re ris of H. E. Ross, 1 th av, S., was|® take the state naval militia * * * * * * . * * * “anaes BOY IS DRAGGED BY road temporarily Will be filled by the ects in hana te} =~ RACING HORSE is announc« there were but three candidates for United States tor, and but one * and Mrs Raw elieves |fatally injured hen he was to San Francisco, Thence the Sher husband fired and wounded |thrown from is horse and|* cruiser will go to Valparais Mar. Ik is believed that the dragged for two blocks along At where it will join a squadre fe biding somewhere near } + yesterday evening. While representing the Unite , and that he will soon be other boys on horse States at the Chilean Centen Most of th Win- | back Donald's horse threw him, and nial. From there the cruiser Me Belping in the search for as he fell bis foot became entangled |* will steam alone to Hampton * seeeeeeee eee BANK, CLEARINGS — seeeetee TOOT TORR tte WEATHER FORECAST On Saturday last The Star published an article relating to Dr. C. F. Lathrop. The doctor takes exception to the state ments contained therein and asks that he be given a hearing, with which request The Star willingly complies, The doctor says Mit had detin't', decided that | fice to Milburn & Abbott, of Brem-| ..mper of the boats carried smali|the time for arbitration has passed | ® Balance Fair tong nd Thursday Was to be held in the |erton, The check was stolen 18| -aonon and the presidential salute|and that they int to fight to the|® light northeast nds. Capital, and that all|months ago. It was cashed nine Pe Se ee ed er the program had been| months later in Tacoma. Stude —_—__— WHITE GIRLS STARVE TO FREE A NEGRO FANATIC (Sy United Brees.) jHef that the mysterious incantations |In Baltimore, they allege, he beat) frenzy had not been dampened by WASHINGTON, July, 20.—The lin some way would result in the |a woman with a leather belt. He|her experience, and though she |Iiberation of Sturdevant did not deny the charge, they de-|was so weak that her voice quay : clare, but said that he was driving Jered and sank, she sang unceasingly Dying With Pellagre the devil out of the woman's body,|a peculiar chant which the police ‘The three white girls were found | §@y is @ part of the Sturdevant re | ligion. *| 7 * * * * * as fired end. ditor Seattle Star In Saturday's Star, July 16, 1910, under the caption, ‘An Apology for a Faker,’ you published an ticle about Dr. C. F. Lathrop, doing business at 213-14-15 sople’s Bank building. In this article you stated that you be lieved him to be nothing more than a faker and an {impostor and that the only medical experience that he had consisted of several years spent in the barber business, My dear sir, no man was ever born a doctor, and consequently he had to be something before he became a doctor. I followed the barber business a. a support for my wife and children while 1 was studying to become a doctor, Grover Cleveland, prior to his be coming an attorney, and later president of the United States was a barber, He studied his law books while following the barber business, atid why cannot another man do lik ein preparing for a profession without & per ted? Lam a graduate of three drugless systems@f tr " and I have a judgment against the State Board of Medical Examiners for three separate and distinct licenses to practice tn t te of Washington, «1 do not use ,edicine nor surgery in any way, shape or form ‘ racticing my sys tems of treatment st four 4 half years, and The St 1 ayone else is cc y invited to investi n ) shysician Pele today took charge of three | white girls, two of whom are dying | land the third nearly insane, who are alleged to be victims of the they coxert that her condition |8 the result of a search conducted K mysterious machinations of Rey. (104 they Mier tions she has |by Olxa Branton, who traveled from| When she had been cared for C. Beaton, editor of The Seattle Star, was yester- Jonah Sturdevant, a negro now| i deo, ag a result of the re-|Norway in search of the Johnson | Miss Codding defended the negro arrested ving # term in the fall at Baltl- | eee eee ania which controls her, |Sirl, When she found her she re-| preacher mpon the complaint of Chertes H., Ebiliips, » for bigamy. Hilda Johnson She does not know, they declare, | ported to the police, and through} “{ have been called by the Al tive and candidate for sheriff, on the charge of Norwegian, whom the negro re-| tit ghe is a sufferer from this dis: |the clues furnished by Miss John-| mighty,” she said. "Since the age libel in having published in The Star on Friday, cently married, and who Was re-\ ioe ks that the wasting | 80n, the other alleged victims of the lof 42 1 have Intended, in response 15, an article reflecting upon Mr. Phillips. cently a mother, is dying at the | iyi) of ner body Is a sacrifice for |Meero fanatic were discovered to that call, to go to Africa, I shall Warrant was issued out of the justice court of negro Meseieet n, also a Norwo-| Sturdevant, and that her sufferings Moaned a Pecullar Chant > now As BOON Ay I can Brother je je Monson Norwe fi < 6 pu iment ’ urdevant received a revelation ‘On g¢ and August 11 set as the date of the hearing. gian, was found dying, and Addie | will shorten his pani ‘ Re Addie Codding and Gertrude | Wwe \howing this, followed r that date Mr. Beaton will, if the case comes to |Codding, nearly insane from bun Beat Woman With Belt Monson had been living in the room ‘oduc lger, was found in an unfurnished| Sturdevant, the police say, is the |in which the Codding girl @ evidence that will not only convince ee room of a negro hovel. The Mon-|leader of a band of religious fanat-|found. The Codding girl w of King county that Mr. Phillips is unfit to be From ee ewe iice declare, was |ics, and has gathered little bands most insane from hunger Sturdevant, it is declared, had a of this county but which should also result in his dying as a result of a long fasting, |of people about him in New York,| was no food in the room in the|negro wife in Baltimore when he I from the Seattle police department. and the strange punishments she | Philadelphia, Boston and Newport little hovel in the negro quarter | married the Johnson girl, ‘I ts for | had inflicted on herself in the be-|News, as well as in Washington, | where she was found, Her religious | this that he has been put im jall ee ee eee eee eee ee ee ee! The Monson girl is also suffer ing from pellagra, the police say, him He has been imprisoned, but our sacrifices will open the door " ¢, PF. 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