The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 31, 1911, Page 8

Taft’s Explanation of Ryan Grab to Be Compared Closely With the Facts by Committee House Probers to Seek ng oak on Several Points About That “Dick to Dick” Letter t President Forgets to Mention, BY GILSON GARDNER WASHINGTON, July 31,—The answer to President Taft's explana tion of the Controller bay affair will be made before the Graha mittee of the house of representatives when the commit Investigation in the fall, Following are the main points which will be Drought out at that time 1, The disappearance of the “Dick to Dick” letter—recalling, as ft doos, the antedated Wickersham report and the suppressed Lawler Memorandum, which occurred under the auspices of Don Carr, Ballinger’s rivate secretary, who has remained in the partment.under Secretary isher, and Ashman Brown, who became secretary when Carr was pro moted It was Carr who helped burn the original of the Lawler mom Orandum and advised the destruction of the stenographic notebooks con taining the Lawler dictation 2 Presidential denunciation of detractors was a regular occurrence during the Ballinger investigation. 3 » president does not explain why he reversed Roosevelt and r 28, making possible Ryan's grab signed the 4. The president doos not explain why he gave Ryan advance in formation of his intention to open these lands to entry 5. The president does not explain how it happened that surveys made during the summer and fall, before surveys we in the official records as having taken place in Novem) 6 The presid does not explain the disappearance of the map of December 14 from the war department files; also the disappearance of | two other letters from the interior department files 7. He does not explain the use by Ryan of dummy Ddeing his brother aud the other two being members of a Wall st. firm of bankers. After bringing out facts suggested above, the committee will be shown: 1, That the ext claims ag to brother Chariey M. F. Abbott. 2. That the legal arguments in the president's message prepared by Secretary Fisher as to the possibility of competition at Controller bay were unknown to President Taft when he told Ryan he could have the | shores of Controlier bay. 3. That even suai inquiry would have disclosed Ryan's connec: | tions with the Morgan-Guggenheim syndica 4 That evidence of the fraudulent ter of the entries and sur- veys were on the desk of Secretary Fisher for three months, and that) Fisher started no inquiry, and did not even read the “Dick to Dick” tet-/ ter file. | 5. That publicity alone has checked the efforts of the Morgan. Guggenheim syndicate in its scheme to contro! Alaskan coal by monop- | elizing the only outlet. — : rymen, one} ence of the “Dick to Dick” letter and Ryan's ¢ proved by other evi than that of | YOU’LL FIND IT HERE NEWS OF THE DAY CONDENSED FOR PUSY PEOPLE ‘Third Arrest for Sheiton. ;$100 which was hidden in the mat After being arrested three times| tess of the sanitary couch. Aside fn three weeks, Chauncey W. Shel-| from bureaw drawers and the mat ton, manager of the dance hall at| ‘ress, nothing im the house was/ Lana Park, was again arrested yes-| touched terday on the charge of conducting! _— “dances on Sunday. Shelton was re |F¥F¥ eee eRe HEH wael Jeased after the necessary bail of |* *| *® NASHVILLE, tnd. — Mrs. #) 00 was put up ” a |e Eptzabeth Wheaton became # Match Burns $600. i Mra se Harden yesterday, ® thus becoming a bride for the | * c yy a lighted match | Bae see cicalioaly sg conti by |* fourth time. It is the sixth #/ re. Morret, destroyed the $600/* Marriage for her husband. #/ frame house owned by R. Schwen|* Harden is the father of 12 # gad occupied by Bert Howe, at 2423/* Chfidren and his wife ts the *| W. 65th st, at 11 o'clock last night, |* Mother of eight. * Of the $600 damage done $300 is) . covered by insurance Cece eee eee eres SPRINGFIELD, is—Armed with | extradition papers, Sheriff David Allen of Pike county Is on bis way) today to San Francisco to bring | ff back Cary E. Manker, former prest-) dent of the Bank of Pearl, charged with embezzlement. if your middie name was Love and you had first seen the light of day m Happy Valiey, Tenn. and fiddiing was your occupation and holding pab-| Ne office your} regular rec rea tion, would you be a carefree optimist? No, indees, you'd be Senator Robert L. (L. stands tor Love) Taylor, and you'd also be 61 years old today. The Tennessee moonshiners would dry ly remark, “Let's irrigate,” which ts sprung just about the time the fid- — senator celebrates hia birth- y- RRARRRARERE READ * * BOSTON.—Ancient papyrus, * ‘# containing an alleged conver. ® sation between Jesus and a® Jerusalem, < & ered by scientists in Exypt, ac # cording to announcements # the Boston headquarters & the Exyptian exploration * Prof. Whittemore. $ RRKRKRRARRKAAKH Discover a good ball tosser a you have something better than a July 21, gold mine. Six hundred people attended the pienic held yesterday by the Allied Printing Trades Council and the vention called by the people of Mis sourt elected a new governor THE SEATTLE STAR | HIS WIFE AWAY legal, were dated | n | CUT WS RSERTED | ees | rd nl Reet eenee * méT BROTHER AFTER 22 VEARS. G. T. Hood Asks for Job in Fun and is Turned Down. NORTH YAKIMA, July 41 —B. F. Hood, a Fruitvale rancher, was accosted this morning by a middle-aged man, who asked for a job. Hood replied that be was fullbanded, but the man Importuned him, and Hood was about to give in when the stranger grinned, and Hood recognized bis brother, C. T. Hoof, whom he had not seen for 22 years. C. T. Hood, who ts & coment coytractor, in Des Molm towa, had arrived in the elity Saturday and began his round of surprises by calling on bis mother, Mra. Phoebe Hood, 415 South Naches avenue, who had not seen ber son since leaving the East, 14 years ago. See eeaeee eeene OFFERS $20,000 TO CITY FOR SALOON MONOPOLY GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. Jaly 31.—Grand Junction {s a dry town. J. W. Wilson advertises an offer of $20,000 a year to the city for the privilege of operating one monopoly mn. A vote may be taken on his proposal. GIRL OF 17 HAS BEEN MARRIED THREE TIME Seeeeeeteeteteteeeeeeeeedt Seeeteeeeeseesreseeseevesesese CARRERE * * Unele and Niece Drown, \* VANCOUVER, Wash, July }& di—-Unele and niece went * down in the murky depths of # Bachelor's slough, as the for * mer, Prank Thibadeaux, tried # to save pretty Eva Tromblay * from drowfing. Seetng the effort ‘unavailing, arge Young, the cirl's eweet | rt, attempted to rescue her }® but his strength ga way # Other members of the partyot }# 14, which had gone out ple |# nicking, dragged him out un * conscious, hut he jumped into ® the water again 48 soon a8 re ® vived, It took several hours j® to bring him around when | & dragged out again, SESS S eee EEE ESE EERE EE ES \* KERR CHEHALIS.-Mre: M. A. Mitohell, |68, who has been in the hotel bust during nearly all of her 24 residence here, died at th: Helens’ hoxpital following |xtroke of paralysis occurring ls | Thursday, SPOKANE.—Because some ital jan laborers kicked his dog, Thomas | | Kelly, ite negro owner, who remon- strated and was in turn attacked t four men with # 22 caliber re-| }volver. One of th |nocent bystander, and Keily wept bitterly because the latter was hit.) He shot the others in self defense, ce / NORTH YAKIMA—Joe Brown, son of Covhciiman Brown, was drowned in the Yakima river, His! attempted rescuers were forced to break looxe from hia mad clutch in |the treacherous riffle’ under | Yakima bridge. | SPOKANE.-Thousands of fish are dead as the result of the barst ling of @ vaive in one of the am-| monia tanks of the Star Bottling | Works’ ice factory at Pullman, The | ammonia escaped through various | channels into Kamlackum street | lereek, which fs now littered with | | dead feb. STANWOOD, of seid the logkedoff lands hereabout | © hoping for rain, as they are in| tant danger from forest fires! have been raging cast of “| | REAL “DAUGHTER” FOUND, AGE 111 Has Lived Under 25 Presidente Her 90-YearOld Daughter Tillis the Soll. | ATLANTA, July 31.—-Mra. Mary} ‘Trawick Proctor, aged 111 years, a| great-greatgrandchildren, @escen Revolution, bas beon discovered in a bumble oneroom cabin in Bar tow county, Georgia. Her only! companions are her daughter, Mise Mary Proctor, aged 90, and two) great-grea-grandchildren, @esorn- dante of another daughter. | Mrs. Proctor was born In Wake| county, North Carolina, in 1800. At} the age of 19 she married Hiram | Proctor, & veteran of the Revolu-) tion and the war of 1812. She has) |ved ander the administration ot} 25 presidents { On a bedding of straw, consist- Ing of a mattress so thin that the! rough plank slats can be seen, this| daughter of the Revolution lies, ber form emaciated, ekin wrinkled — most a skeleton. Her aged daughter admintsters | to the wants of the little house. | hold and sometimes tills the soll) in « small cotton and garden patch | nearby. Coffroth Afte Big White Hope (By United Brees Leased Wire.) SAN FRANCISCO, July 31-—-A) conference which Jimmy Coffroth, San Francisco fight promoter, ex pecta to hold today with “One Round” Jack Hogan may bring to a climax the unsettled pugilistic program for August and Septem-| ber. Coffroth on his return from Lake | who find Washington's t p was an in| ~ he says. | the | i | | | today, the : a new governor and other offl- efals, the regu larly elected in- cumbents having joined the se cessionists and fled from the capital, Hamilton Gamble, the new governor, declated unconditional; of the ‘Union, and Missouri remained « SAN FRANCISCO—Through a Ladies’ Auxiliaries of the 8. T. U. and 8. P. P. U. at Wildwood park. The Times aggregation won the ball lgame, defeating the Post-Intelli-| gencer nine by a score of 7 to 1.| | H. L. Tilford won the 100-yard dash, | with H. A. Miller coming in a close | |wecond. C. Hofmeyer, Janitor of the tele-| phone exchange at Seventh av. and Pine st. was held up by a young man at 17th av. and Pike and) robbed of $2. a down at Los Banos of the on which Louls J. Wilde the banker accused of embezzlement in Oregon, is coming from San Dicgo to surrender here to Oregon a. bor ities, Wilde was not expected to ar- rive in San Francisco until thi« af- STOCKTON, Cal., July 31.—David R. Slack, 18, is dead, and Alex Molen and Arlo Harrington are severely injured today an a result of an automobile acciaent here yes “terday. KE. C. Young, real estate “dealer, sent his machine into a Cen tral California traction car and ia fn the hospital with a broken arm and wrist, J. W. Farschon received ® broken leg and J. H. Gouulard is suffering from bruises. William A. Lewis, 67 years old,|the old Plymouth church 20 years|ant gold disco @ecretary and treasurer of the Se attle and Puget Sound Packing Co, died yesterday at his home, 80% 15th ev. N. He leaves a wife and a num- ber of children. Mrs. Jane Stiliwell, 78 years of B. retired daughter, Mra. R. K. Owens, 2508 ‘Thorndyke av., yesterday. A Toledo, 0., policeman has seen 40 years’ service as a bluecoat. Oh, what he must know about a lot of peop The Emerson and Degler cigar stand, at 1339 Third av., was en- tered yesterday morning and $5 in cash was taken. Two boxes of cigars and a couple of cigar light ers, were also taken. White Mrs. H. McPherson was away during the afternoon some one entered her house and took The funeral of C. V. White took | pi yesterday, Rev. W. A. Major) officiating. The Masonite ritual |was observed. Representatives of the Chamber of Commerce and) |Commercial Club, the Manufactur- | lers’ association, the Elks and the |Master Printers’ association were also present. | The temporary floor of the new |Plymouth church was crowded |with onlookers yesterday as the} ceremonies attending the laying of | the corner stone took place. Nine ministers participated in the pro- gram. L. J, Colman laid the cor- ner stone, assisted by the pastor, Rev. F. J. Van Horn. About 30/ |members of the church who saw| |the laying of the corner stone at} ago were present yesterday | Explained. | “Katie,” said Mike, “if ye're listening tonight and hear an in- audible whisper underneath your |window, ‘tis mesiif that's keepin’ quiet"—Harper’s Bazar. LONDON. — King George and Premier Asquith will hold a con- tere Wednesday regarding the |lords’ veto bill, It is now prac- |tically certain that the bill wit go |through without serious trouble, HALIFAX.—8triking on a rocky reef near Cape Sable in a dense fog, the Canadian cruiser Niobe ts wafely afloat today. The vessel came off the rocks-five hours after she struck, It’s natural for a woman to get , Saye a fair one. the water wagon sometim: Siebel ie tere a: SHELBYVILL Ind, July 31— Mary Hoover-Luther-Smith, 17 years old, has been married three times. When 14 she became the bride of Andrew Luther. She divorced him, married him again and again di. voreed him. Now she has married Cary Smith. Crowds Rushing to New Gold Strike Tahoe expected to meet Hogan and) discuss pl for a match here with Freddie hb. Hogan was not here, Coffroth is anxious to know whether Hogan {s willing to give) up his plans for @ fight in the Kast “Until I have seen Hogan,” Cof- froth said, “I cannot say what my plans will be. I did wire Ufer, who i managing Carl Morris, for a Mor-| ris-Fiynn fight, but have received no answer.” RRR * * ~All to Daughter's Fiance. * WILKESBARRE, July * 21.—Harry H. Swainbank of * this clty has been tnformed *® that the mother of the girl he * loved and who died some * years ago, just before the * date fixed for their wedding, *® has left him $50,000. * The young woman was Mise * Mattie Frutchie. He met her * 10 years ago, and after two ® years of attention to her, they * became engaged. When sho * died he was heartbroken, but *® he did all he could to console *® the stricken mother, Mra. * Loulse C, Frutchie. That she *® remembered his kindness was * evident when her will, open * yesterday, left her entire ® estate, worth $50,000, to him. * The cross shows where an import- ry is reported in Alaska, Bob Henderson, discoverer of first gold in the Kiondyke, made the find. Hundreds are flocking to the spot from Dawson, General Wi Here. General James B, Weaver of Towa, presidential candidate of the old greenback and populist parties, is in Seattle visiting his daughter, Mrs. A, R. Ketcham, 8057 Walling- ford av. He will remain until Sep tember. General Weaver, during his service in congress for three terms, advocated at that time the direct election of senators. That was before 1888. The Japanese of this city ai endeavoring to get Admiral Togo to spend one day in Seattle. By cutting short his visit in Canada for a day of two, ho can manage to do so and still be able to catch SSCS ESSE ESSERE EE EES De ll le a “STANDARD OIL” WILL BE SPLIT $9 TIMES NEW YORK, July 31,—Posl- tive announcement that the Standard Oll Company of New Jersey Ie to be aplit up into ite 33 corporations was made by the trust officials this after sent to stock- u be distributed according to their holdings to stockholders of record on September 1. letter to the stock- the petition to the war hero. ima ti hd ii Ian vals Hi gi fs Finds Washington Endurable, Even in Hot Weather THIRTEEN IN PARTY; ONE DROWNS. some one has to die before the end of the year, enberger of Phillipsburg N. J., as he | started out with thirteen friends Soon afterward while trying swim the Delawa river at Rocks | burg he was drowned BLACKSNAKE KILLS William Spencer threw & wine | foot blacksnake he caught on his farm, near Higgdnum, Conn., into a haymow in which he had seen} & large rattlesnake disappear In fi¥e minutes a fierce fight was on, the binckwnake | finally choking the rattlesnake to death, |being in turn killed by @ farm hand BURIED WRONG MAN AS HUSBAND, Beores of citizens of Haverstraw were ready to swear they had seen MRS, ROBERT LOVE TAYLOR (4 ghost when James Kelly came Sho is the wife of the senator | back, but Kelly convinced them be Tennessee and one of the! was real. women of the congress! Last April he was reported killed by a train, and a body was identi fied as his and buried by his wi lin the family plot. Nothing bad durable while their men folks have to stand It FURNITURE DRY GOODS “Thirteen in a party meant that) WoLoOg COURT IN remarked John Loud j jaince been heard of him [he has been traveling around | Magistrate Pont Ind., bas = establh quarters in a tent in the city park | during hot weather, and dispenses | justice there Offenders against the |tomporartly incarcerated | monkey cage, the former occupants | RATTLESNAKE. | of which died. _——- | COAT WEARERS IN | cH | Not only does Rothrock permit men and boy# to) of the W. O. W., willet attend his church pointment duly entered on ship's log, says bis third mate |made eighteen trips, covering |400 miles. He says) MAYOR FINES HIMSELF NELSON, B. C, July 41 Twenty prominent cit s & peared in pollee court at Rev stoke to answer a charge riding bleycles on the sidewall among them being the mayor and three al The mayor w an trate and fined himself costs. Each of the sidermen paid $2.60 and costs and private citizens $1 and conts WOODMEN COMIN Camp 69, one of the local lodj vinited morrow evening by the Wood: TENT IN PARK.) of Mounds Park, ished bis head-| | Jaw will be} in URCH FINED. the Rev. W. F.| at York, Pa., in their shirt sleeves, but fines them |isage from Everett, known a» Evel if they wear coats Last Sunday night almost one wore a coat, fine jally THIRD MATE ELEVEN The youngest off! going liner ip eleven months old, third mate On| torehiight the Norwegian frult steamsbip Ida| arrived apt. Iversen, who has the ap-| FREDERICK & NELSON, Inc. Btore Closes Dally at 5:30. assessed against each mater increased the collection. at on a hot day. |green Cam 147. The offie No. Yi from Everett, assisted by tf and the five-cent) crack drill team, will initiate Carp 69 & large clans of candi at the W. O. W. temple, ca Fourth ay, and Marion st Woodmen will assemb! at 7:30, proced to interurban station, and u fof the special cars from F procession MONTHS OLD.! on any sea Erling Iverse place. Boston from | Dance at Dreawi a tonight, eee FURNITURE DRY GOODS Vudor Porch Shade Will Make Your Porch a Welcome Retreat—They Lea ahiecamh ad] aS |) Wn Tp WALA 4 of passers-by. They Out the Sun and Let HE slats of Vudor Porch Shades are far enough apart to admit enough air and light without letting in the sun's rays or the gaze in reality add in the Breeze another room to your home—the best room for Summer card-parties, social calls, afternoon teas, an hour's nap or a cool, cozy half hour with a Displayed in our Drapery Section, Third Floor, in the following sizes: good book. 4 feet wide and 7 feet 8 inches long, $2.75. 6 feet wide and 7 feet 8 inches long, $3.50. Also a quantity of Vudor Porch Shades in a discontinued color, at, special, $2.00. 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