The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 3, 1911, Page 6

(By United Press Leased Wire.) DETROIT, Minn., June 3.—Riding in his pri- ‘vate car, attached to the Winnipeg flyer on the @ Soo line, President L. F. Berg, of the Mobile and _ New Orleans railroad, was fatally injured and Mrs. Berg was instantly killed when the fast train went into the ditch about midnight near Verdas. : One other passenger was fatally injured, and six severely hurt. Soon after the accident, which was due to a washout, the wreckage, including President Berg's pprivate car, took fire and wasconsumed. — washout was caused by the heaviest rain *Million Dollar Vessel Burns : “BUFFALO, N. Y., June 3.—The tween Buffalo and Duluth, wi de Northwest, valued at/stroyed hy fire early today, The 000, one of the finest veagels fire started, it ts bellévet, from the Great Lakes fleet, plying be- spontaneous combustion EE SORBETT BOASTS OF PURSE MADE OF DEAD MAN’S SKIN Does the following story indicate; found in the woods outside the city Jailer Jobn Corbett is a hu-| and was killed Atter telling his story, in detail, Maas, fit to hold the position! comer: pulked a purse from his } as occupied for many years?) pocket and handed it to Veness. _H. EB. Veness, of the Gold Bar| saying company, who, some years) “Do you know the material that bh & business deal with Cor-| purse was made out of? . lis the following: Veness replied that he was 1® was telling of some of his | judge of hides and had n@ idea what hff many years of| this was. mrvife in the police @epartment.| “That Is a piece of Tom Blank’s fe told of the capture of the notor- | skin,” he said. “I and another po- @ criminal, Tom Blank, 10 or 12|liceman seach took a piece for! ‘ago. |souvenirs and had it tanned and | had been arrested and es made into purses.” A reward was.placeg on his Does*it look like the reperts of dead or alive. He was finally | Corbett’s bratality are true? CHINESE TROOPS KILL 300 (By United Press Eéaxed Wire) | today In the southern provinces of 4 PETERSBURG, June 3.—An [that empire. In a battle with loyal Ing which is‘belleved to be/C se troops, 300 rebel® are re- of & general ovement apeteat [pen slain. Fighting ts also re- Feigning Manchu dynasty in ported from other points in south is reported to have occurred fern China Jom Strike in Vancouver (By United Press Leaned Wire.) jthe Chinese trades guil@s goes into [ANCOUVER, B. C., June 3—Co- effect today, and will stop work on with the strié of the union several large buildings in the Chi in Vancouver, which it is ex- nese quarter will involve some 5,000 or! “White man quit all same no like Workers, the Chinese carpen- Chinaman work. Savvy trouble,” rm and operatives in outside trades | was the only reason for the acti ‘also decided to lay down their | which could be obtained from the ¢ decision on the part of Mongolian YOU'LL FIND IT HERE NEWs OF THE DAY CONDENSED FOR BUSY PEOPLE INGFIELD, —— WW B.}forced by the former president to cashier of the Holland | change its name. men? is in jail for ~ because he refused to! Dennis Dent was arrested on com- information regarding the|plaint by J. L. Howarth, a saloon’ balances of depositors. . Who alleges Dent passed a Te iy owen keke worthless check on him. y * LOS ANGELES—Although in a handsome suite the Hotel Lankershim, Espinosa, formerly or of Hermosillo, Mex., attaches by ordering NEW YORK.—Galogero Buffa, a poor Italian, whose son was kid- naped a month ago, is asked $10,000 ransom for the lad. VANDALI — Hazel Schmidt, B mattress placed on the floes «| caushter of a former alderman,| has slept continuously for six weeks, # that he could * sleep in “spring beds.” “® *| ELGIN, 11—R. E. Hamilton, a . * . b died ddindndinde dnd tadnd business man, is suffering intense YORK—William G. Mc-|P4% following the exploding of a buflder of the Hudson tubes, |New Fangled” golf ball MS practically recovered from in. Fecently. received in an auto- WILKESBARRE, P.. — ~ Alieging accident.” excessive dockage, 800 coal miners went on strike at the H@llenbeck CAGO.—Maurice Enright, an | ™ne today. . ial of the Steamfitters’ union, With double murder, con.| CHICAGO. — Corlina Zwerens, Riling Winaan “Gente ed 22 months, fell four stories to labor ‘union agent. He (ber death when she attempted t self-detense, and absolved tee @ butterfly going out her win- low. lind a purse containing |, LONDON.—A new club calfed the ‘anywhere in front of the Cen. Three Arts has geen organized to building? R. H. de Mott, 206 |help actresses drawing less than building, lost {t running for |$5 ® week ®t the smaller theatres, Eastlake car. istering wessels IASHINGTON—The postoffice leaving or ing Sougd & fraud order against the |during foggy weather and at nig! hor Pacific Oil company of | Will be overcome under the new J . The debarred cor- | law requiring ‘all ships to carry | ton was once known as the | Wireless equipment and report as welt Oll cagipany, byt was | they paso thé’ station at Tatoosh, lien | Sinking of the barge Chena on the Iditarod, 16 miles from Dyke- man, was reported by wireless to the Merchants’ Exchange, TULARE, Cal—A. V. Mattos, a rancher, was killed today by a Santa Fe passenger train at the edge of town. Mattos, It gs sald, drove of the train in front See London's Bargains on page today's Star. 3 some souvenirs ducement to get your regular patronage. Sewing Machines REDUCED To HOMEWARD BOUND Can’t Get Work; Navy ' Deserter Shoots Self “Dear Friends—Do nat lay | this on any one for | don with my 38 | kidled m for | am out of work and not go not get any work, and | do not know where my mother is at, Rollie Hamm. My tather is 0. F. Hamm. My mother is Dela Ham to rest, think of the one that loved me best. “R. F. HAMM.” name was Rollie Hamm in the navy. Good bye. “R. F. HAMM.” “Born in the year of 1891. Am 19, will be 20 the 19th of October. | have been in the navy and | away. F. HAMM.” Leaving the foregoing notes on the washstand fn his room at 118% =e Hatteras Has No Fences; . Ail Animals Run Wild A HATTERA WUXTON, Hatteras Island, Agril| 12.—All the animals on Hatteras island run wild—ponies, cattle, pigs, sheep and goats, There are no fences and no cowboys, shepherds it|swineherds or goatherds, so the estic” animals of the island 1. * a nomadic life that is @nything |but that of the normal barnyard ess each animal has an owner. Even this shaggy serub steer shown in the aboye picture has # owner, and if you look down deep enough under his long hair you will find the brand of that owner. Once a there a CHICAGO, June 3.—Declaring that even if all the allegations in| the indictments against J. Ogden Armour and other Chicago pack: | ers, were true, under the new con struction of the Sherman law in the Tobacco and Oll cases, no crime would have been committeed, at torneys for the packers today ap pealed for re-hearing | year is a general) one Postmaster Geo. F. Russell dis cussed the new system of naming and numbering streets in Seatt before the Municipal league at t | Boon meeting at the New Washing |ton rathskellar, W. J. Rankin spoke on “Weights and Measures Admission 5c. Nationaf Theatre 315 Pike $27.50 B. D. Voris Ploneer Dealer in White Sewing Machines 1105 Third Ave. SEATTLE -—Phones— Ind., 594; Sunset, Main 705. Sewing Machines for Rent. 1921 Ist 1921 Ist RAMSEY Housefurnisher Come gnd see our new home Lower rent, better room, prices, Cash—credit, lower Billie sniine nictoanncssioobiics |it. And then, |the island are Washington st, Rollie Hamm yee jterday afternoon pressed a revol-| ver over his heart and fired. The| left and abov taken to th hospital. He may Hamm left still another lettef written to his mother, dated Thurs | day, in which he tells her of beings sick and out of but seemed recover hopeful of ing work jore ‘Out ef Hi ut of s Mind “He seems to have been out of his mind lately,” gald Mre. Jobn O'Briea, who conducts the hotel at 118% Washington st. “His mother had gone away from her home and he didn't know where she was When he got sick and was without work, he worrled so much that it seems to have affected his ming Last Sunday night be tried to také polson, @ut fatled. “Rollie has been with ua for several months, When we used to live in Charleston, he lived with us a good deal. He was in the navy then. When we came to Seattle, Rollie went with us. Hie failure to get work almost worried him to death.” 8 STEER, roundup. The sheep are sheared jand sheep and lambs are marked with the signe manual of their owners. Colts and calves are branded. Hogs are marked with metal clips. Then they are alll turned loose again. When an islamder feels the need of fresh| pork or fresh beef, he must needs go on & bunting expedition to get| just as like as not he may inadvertently kill one of bis neighbor's animals But that doesn't 1 ‘or the her folk of Hatte island are all big family with common inter: ests, and the flocks and herds of in @ way communal property. Received Another shipment of those high-grade Dayton Wheels Cut Price $45.00 Seattle Spirit, No. 1... . $37.50 Gai. 50 Theo. Wilts & Co. 1012 FIRST AVR, Seattle Spirit, No. 2 TAFT. BLOCKING PRORE WASHINGTON, D. C., June & Pyphident Taft directed Secretary {State Knox not to answer the summons" of the house committee demanding information regarding a @hestionable voucher for $2,460 tn the state department Knox was told to complete an in Yestigation and submit the result to Tat, Knox testified before a house committes. He sald by Taft's order he declined to produce the books containing expenditures of the emergency fund of the wtate depart mént, which the committee believes gontain the record of the transac tion whereby Chief Clerk Michaels cashed @ voucher for $2,400 in pay: ment for ® portrait for whith Paigter Albert Rosenthal received only $860. CABLE DROPS ON HIM E. Johnso®, a longshoreman, was} injured at 11 o'clock teis morning & Seattle Tacoma Power Ci » was dropped on bis hea he wag standing at the foot of Pike st. Linemen who were at work on the cable let go of it. He was taken to the city hospit, wehre bie injuries were reported as hot weriot THOSE INDICTED. Emar Goldberg, local manager of the Great Western Co, A. Corder, manager of the A. Corder Machinery Supply a, Silverstone, proprietor of the Herald tle hief clerk in storekeeper navy yard, the office general at the Puget Sound Bremerton J. A. Kettlewell, the navy pay office, ing. chief clerk in Walker build A gigantic conspiracy to defraud the navy gepartment of thousands of dollars: involving three business men in Seattle and two employes of the navy department, is bell b tion covering a pedod years. an inve of three Five Indictments. Five Indictments were returned by the federal grand jury yester day, T@e first charges Bmar Gold. berg, local manager of the Great Western Smglting and Refining Co.; W. A. Grder, manager of the W. A. Corder Machinery Supply Co.; EB. Silverstone, proprietor of the Herald hotel; Edwin F. Meyer, chief clerk of the office of the storekeeper at the navy yard in Bremerton; and J. A. Kettlewell, chief clerk in the my pay office, with conspiracy to defraud the government of $7,417 Kettlewell, Méer and Silver are h further charged separate indictments with ry. Kettlewell and Me: iso under a third charge of con splracy to defraud the government low, involving $344.25. The ger 1 cqpepiracy, ing all five o: the Indicted persons, fe believed go have been the be ginning of it mulet the ernment of enormous Puums of nibney by “2 tpulation of bide for supplies, mhde possible by Kettlewell and Meyers. Kettle well had almost exclusive charge of the paym office. 7 Paymaster De ) Pequent! it himself in connection with some court mar tal work How Seheme Was Worked. The indictments chatge that the Goat Western Smelting April 1, 1908, had « large of tinc, boler plate and sh which was fina digposed to the govergmeni for $7,417, after Meyer and Kettlewel! so manipulated the schedule and specifications for bids as to shut out every concern out side the alleged conspiracy The plan was te@bave Corder and Goldberg submit high bide, and a dummy corporation under the name of the Fowler Metal Co. of San Francisco to make a lower bid, it is ateged. The bids were required to be submitted within five days, supposedly to shut out firms out of town. The gpecifica tions were so fixed as to make It impossible for any one but the Great Western Smelting and Re |fining Co. to meet them. To fore stall any possibility of another firm competing, it ts believed, the pians included the detail that Meyer should furtoer change the specifi cations after the bids came in. rgery Charge Also. The dummy corporation was awarded the contract, Silverstone representing it. Silverstone re ceived the check from tha navy de- partment, although Goldbers plied the metal, it is charged Local Busirfess Men Indicted for Fraud OF WOUNDS. | bank, forging Smelting and | it » ngid. | tremula’ » ting from early in in connection with a bid for tal-| involv. | alleged plan to! CANFIELD Dito | Horace Canfield, of deposited the check in his} | Ho eee ecen mit, later x. Iberm iated deposited | pert, died at Spokane tordey, | from injuries received 1 antoe |mob@ wreck Tuesday Canfield was returning Spokane Golf and Cour club a@ the tme of the acc t. The lights of the machine it out rounding an abrupt cur He suse tained a fractured skul i inter nal injuries, He was 87 years old. # of Phillips Andover cotle and ab time practiced law in Chicago, first cal five years he had engaged ia cued trregularities| the real estate business in Beatle, master's epartment.| Mrs, Florence C. Canfield, tras ~ department ot ing i Be oy aw 4 vel ner #OM have discovered | funeral services will held Monday afternoon at Trinity Lath eran church, The body will be cremate then of the damm leged, and Go it to the credit of his company Following this, Kettlewell and) Meyer, it is alleged, defrauded the} government low bid by ob taining dummy bidders, represent ing themselve furnish tallow to the government 16% conta a pound, which they bad bought for 4 eents from James Henry, the The amount aggregated from the graduatd himee!f | one bellevin 4 24 atten-| For unfairly t tion to the in the ps Agents of the justice, ‘Tatter F part of 1910, 1908 to the SRR AT THE THEATRES * * * Moore-—Dark * re Dark. a *| WREHINGTON, June | 3——The attie—Max Figman in “The *|.in¢ of American Jews to entes Marriage of Kitty,” % | Russia on business missions whiels * * * * * TO ADMIT JEWS” Frees Denord Wire.) Lois—"In » Woman's Power. came into prominence when Ovcag Orpheum—New vaudeville, Hammerstein was barred some Ma. New vaudeville. months ago, has finally been ade New vaudeville, mitted by Russa, The Russiag embassy here has been instructed wha SSS ESR E EERE A] 2 2 ini sets idle binds “itn Jews ra ins are CENTERTOWN, Ark. — Banker M. F. Fair began a sentence of a VIVIEN BUYS poes year in jail for drawing a revolver at the christening of bis nephew, (By United Press Leased Wire.) James Stroud. Fair objected when| G%ONDON, June 3—Lady Dectes, the child was not christened 2° \rormerly Mise Vavien Gould, has Oe ae become an ardent dox fancies | sin@ her arrival in England. Sh |has purchased a number of famou@ |whippets and been elected view ial president o the Ladiew Keno B | Nib. f Ol ove | A MATTER OF ai a ie Whe debts e gin GOOD MUSIC i fire ThR announeement wil please you Mr. Max Donner Former Concertmeister ttle Symphony Orches- hes been engaged, and jj will have with, him a well f} chosen orchestra. He will ff be first hearg next Tuesday J} evening, and every evening thereafter from 6 to 8 and 10 to 12. Have you tried any of those supper Specialties we are serving? Thussday evenjng a hand- painted souvenir for the la- dies. Hotel Savay to insue passports to American citisens THE RICH AMATEUR ‘He's getting on in the world.” “Yes, indeed. 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