The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 14, 1911, Page 1

beard the United States army : It is quite a while, We shout with glee, Since we have heard From Richmond P, “VOL. 13, NO, {AVOR FOUR-- _ CENT FARES Committee Endorses Sale of Tickets—Furth's Attor- > ney Threatens to Carry It to Electric does not ‘of selling +cent tick ‘care. The franchise the tity council yer voted to recom bill for passage declined to vot that he would not be pres: councl! meeting when would be acted on. He did discuss the bill. ed for and in ite discussion war for 4 time between Councilman ‘and Jas, B. Howe, repre eompany ee sahastt to it,” said “We will have to litigate ine court of the re We Will agree ition as contain Our corpora notbe classed with cor that) fly In the face of fe and defy the city Palabay, @ Filipino man fram leprosy, was placed | Dix at Pier 11 today, and be returned to his native | in the Philippines when | at ship sails tomorrow. was brought to this city em Washington, ). C, where he confined In an isolation the Marine hospital since ‘was brotight to Seattle Iy converted freight car, By an assistant susgeon Riraest ct marine corps of five men. has been no secrecy nor j fons taken with the Se aS HAIN DOWN aoe STOVES “ i ~ ~~ who own diamond tiaras bracelets and solid M watehes naturally have a lurk that some day some person may try to f their valuables. Such cases t rare. second story and sneak thief are advanced to scientific One doesn't really expect to home from the theatre and . ‘that somebody has dropped ‘One's kitchen and stolen the } HB stove and the supper dishes. | id Mra. J. G. But when they re. an evening's pleasure last night they found ly had already entered and stolen the and @ suit case Supreme Court if Necessary. Howe requested that the bill be sent to the office of the corporation counse) for his opinion. Both Grif fithe and Kellog wed thelr willingness to ha poration | counsel pass on it, but stated that hin opinion would have no weight in changing theirs. Howe attempted to appeal Griffiths as a lawyer 1 am not a Jawyer now, I @ counciiman,” was Griffiths’ terse reply. “I have not considered whether this ordina’ is fair to the Seattle Electric Co. or not. The attorneys for the corporation will wateh for that, Tam looking after the interests of the elty It was Howe's contention that to/ compel the sale of tickets on the cars would be contrary to the fran chise provisions, He called the bill an effort to force the company to charge fares below the required) rate.” counct! Monday afternoon and prob- ably will be passed , transfer of the affilcted man, since lleprosy is an infectious disease, and no one is in danger of catch ing the “ except by per sonal contac A small cabin has been built aboard the Dix, and Aclete will oc cupy this on the long voyage. For the rest_of his natural life the leper will be cared for at the government's expense at the leper camp in the interior of the Philip- pines. eenaane |@ For Seattle and | w Rain tonight and Friday; mod- # @ erate southeasterly winds # Temperature at noon today, 61. SESE ESAS ESSE OSS vicinity es ALLEGE. BRIBE WAS. OFFERED OTTAWA, Ont., Sept. 14.—Deciar- | ing that he had been offered a bribe of $250,000 to fight reciprocity be- phn Canada and the United States, L. Berthiaume, editor of the Montreal La Presse, today sprung a sensation which capped the climax of public interest in the Dominion nominations, which even before hie statement was the great- tat in any election Canada has seen in 20 years. In the great fight being waged and against ratifiesation of Sir rid Laurier's bargain with President Taft, even the ratiroad strength of the country is divided. The Canadian Pacific is fighting ‘even in th days, when the | "eciprocity tooth and te $9,235 IN POSTAL BANK At noon today 192 depositors had paid $9,225.50 in the Seattle postal savings bank. Some of the deposit ors are daily visitors at their new bank, adding $1 a day each to their deposit. Monday was the banner | day, when $3,269.90 was deposited. | Only one. withdrawal of $10 has taken place. oti tae sad oven me am} teeneane) *| ONLY 170, ous ‘MURDERE QDENT 10 DYING WIFE FULTON, Mo. Sept. 14.—Al- |though charged with murder in the first degree and having made a full jgonfession of the killing of John Griggs, 45, for the alleged ruining of his home, Richard Johnson, 69, today was admitted to $2,500. bail and rushed at once to the bedaide of | hie dying wife at Boydavi I cannot, | must not discuss this affair,” sald the aged man, weep ing. “I must have been crazy when 1 committed the deed, 1 spent a ales week «i heard my wife was #o wick was called from Jowett City, Ia, a week ago by & message that my wife was tl 1 was delayed and whtn 1 arrived found my wife was unstrang. Her confiesion T day made me a coniplete pay termined to & into my home. Wh Griggs appeared the man who came at the The bill will come before the! Johnson home Johnson pickod upl |@ shotgun and shot him dead. Mra | Johnw who ix considerably yunger than her barband, made jconfession alleging that Griggs | threa to kill her if she caused jhim trouble. The authorities are withholding her confexsion 128,081 In Local Schools School registration up date is 28,081, 300 more than last year at this time, The school cafeteria at Queen Anne high scho: working successfully. Last year Broad way and Lincotn high schools maintained cafeterias, They will open thie year as soon some ri rk is complet which is expected to bein a week or two, '‘Ward’s Machine Is Bucking (By Untied Breve Leased Wire.) PATERSON, NJ Sept. 14.—~ James J. Ward, as well ax Robert G. Fowler, is having trouble in starting his cross-country filght for & $50,000 prize, After ascending at oped engine two miles from the starting pout hie engine until % o'clock, when he reascended and started westward fying over the Erie railroad tracks Ward reascended at 9:47, again became confused and landed to get) At 11:30 he ascended for the fourth time today, and soon passed tate of the late Edward H. Harri man, at Arden. At noon he passed Grey Court, 55 York, and then followed the Erie railroad tracks toward Goshen. Ward reascended at 1:40 o'clock and started west. He passed over Otttaville, 76 miles from New York at 1:60, flying bigh and fnet. ELEVATOR KILLS. HIM LOS ANGELES, Sept. 14 fel L. Lyneh, a traveling salesman répresenting the Atlantic Stamping | Co., of Rochester, N. ¥., was almost | instantly killed here early today by being crushed in the elevator at ac Hotel Hayward. investigation proved, say the po Hees that the elevator was in charge of an inexperienced man, who be came excited when the car began to ascend and was unable to stop lite upward progress until too late. SHIPWRECKED PEOPLE he steamship Northwestern, | wich the passengers from the wreck: |ed steamer Ramona on board, is due |here at 10 o'clock tonight. Wireless messages to The Star report that |the passengers are none the worse | for their thrilling experience. HREM OR EERE RRR HH WATER SHUT OFF Water will be shut off to morrow from 9 to 6 on Lake * View boulevard and Lake * View place from Belmont av |e N. to Gartieid street [RRR RARER EAR FATAL AUTO CRASH | | SACRAMENTO, Sept. 14.—Henry Schoenberger, a former saloon man | today occupies a slab at the morgue }and Mrs. R. M. Johnson, Mrs, C. M Martin and Ray Mrown are nurs ing numerous bruises as tho result | | of Schoenburger's automobile crash ing into @ bridge and turning turtle six miles south of this city. They were traveling at a fast rate when the car struck the bridge. * * * \* * * * * * * * . NEWS ITEMS FROM THE HICKTOWN BEE sty lien Wiggin wil i wreek and I de | 4 7:46 o'clock this morning, he devel | trouble before getting; his bearings: at South End village. | the | miles from New| DUE HERE TONIGHT) SEATTLE, WASH., IN SEATTLE ONE CENT, TWO SEATTLE FIREMEN GET REAL THRILL WHEN LADDER BREAKS DURING A RESCUE atta abi FOR PHOTOGRAPHER This picture shows Tom fireman of the Pine Street station, carrying W. H. MecAttee just as he started @ewn the scaling ladder to illustrate jar’s photographer. A Star reporter and a staff pho- | fire station yesterday afternoon to} " get a news picure showing how firemen rescue people from # burn-) | ing building. And while the picture was being secured two firemen, who volun teered to make the demonstration, narrowly escaped serious injury, | when a scaling ladder broke #ud-) denly and unexpected!y To iMustente the weual risk taken| |by the ladderman in the Seattie| fire department, Tom Dale, a |husky young fire fepter, donned [jacket and helmet and, with the broad lifedelt around bis middie, | climbed | to the upper story of the| which ts tn » high bulla work (in eases | The soming ladder, tended to be used ings in rescue Dale, Geattic wards sho. slipped trom * fescue to per window i where the tall The.firemen then nimbly climbed | the mwaying scale and entered the | | rom above. In a minute he reap | peared, bearing W. H. McAttee, a may weighing about 160 pounds, on his shoulder The fireman cautiously climbed out. of the window with his #up- powedty unconscious burden started down. He had gone only four rungs on his slender ladder when there wae @ crashing noise, and MeAttee, the man on the fire managed to grab a cornic digging his toes into the win- i of the floor below, held if ser a baseman A fire slender \adder bi stonding Indders| He descended and tinkered with | tographer called at the Pine Street wit not reach), was attached to oe and) ‘This photograph, snapped a minute after- what happened when the nexpectediy, McAttee Dale's shoulder, but tuckily caught the cornice and held himself until rescued, Another fireman rushed to the up- in time to grasp Dale. man on the floor avove grabbed Dale and held onto him. Mo- Attee hung by his finger tips tilt help came. This accident will give a pretty | vivid idea of what would have bo pened, for instance, if the same scaling ladder was being used in a! real reseue from the sixth dr sev pth story of the Savoy hotel, the Cobb bullding, or any other high structure. And it is for just such resenes that the sealing ladder is intended. Ladder Was Defective. | This particular scaling | was taken from the hook-and-ladder The Seattle Star INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER TAU EE SEPTEMBER 14, 1911. It’ il SS 's quite a aie And, by the way, What has become Oh wtP Aine AND x AN! mwe PEOPLE Of William J.? WIN INTERURBAN RATE FIGHT my Jed Frese Leased Wire.) OLYMPIA, Sept. 14.—The tong fight between the Puget Sound | Electric company, owner of the Se- jattic-Tacoma interurban, and the patrons of the line, was ended to- day when the supreme court hand- led down @ decision affirming the [railroad commission in ordering jthe rates on the line reduced to the joriginal rate charged. The rates were raised by the company @ year ago to straight 2 rae a mile, making the fare be- POSSE OF 200 ARMED MEN & ED YOUNG SCHOOL TEACHER T POINT AND HELD HER CAPTIV | ladder | |truck yesterday for the demonstra-| has been on that truck for It wae w jtion. It | several years, it is said. fective, and the tiremen e inighty glad they found that fact with"no more serious results n & thrilling experience lout, LOYAL YOUNG WIFE STANDS BY HER HUSBAND WHO JURY SAYS IS GUILTY, find the defendant, | “We, the jury, guilty of grand Frank Downer, larceny.” They found Frank Downer mullty | of taking $175 unlawfully from the Belknap Glass company, where he was employed as bookkeeper and cashier But to the young man who heard this stern verdict; to the young }woman, his wife, who sat beside him throughout the trini, it meant that th 12 men had failed to understand. Wife Is Loyal and Brave. “He is a great, big trusting boy just a boy.” That's the wife's es timate of her husband. Downer frankly admitted that he took the money; he told the jury #0; he told his employer so, Downer had, throughout his 80 years of life, em joyed nothing but the highest re gard from his fellow men. He had no bad habits; he didn't squander | |his money on drink; he didn’t smoke or chew tobacco; he didn’t} swear; he hadno vices: He attend-| Chicken and Fruit Land East of Auburn res of strawberries, # or ranpberrion Ww living, make in m few years, one and that i ideal for alt o have nmall frulte situate 4% miles Auburn, nd of b to {fice, that we are selling at % OLE HANSON 4 CO 314-415-316-317 New York Bik. | says, wa jthe crime, FRANK DOWNER ed church regularly, and he was proud: of his wife and his home, as indeed sho was of him. Downer held @ position of trust with the Belknap company. He was responsible for all the cash, He had often let other employes draw money on their vouchers. Then | hen, in April, 1910, illness in his family brought him in straitened circumstances, he, too, drew! money. But he did not leave a voucher to show that he had drawn | the money “Because | was the cash anyhow, That's why he voueber. ‘And he to the company, and, as cashier, he kept it himself, He made a nota- tok on the books that there was $175 chargeable to “bills receiv able.” And little by little, Downer , he paid back the money that | hd, borrowed. {He had no right to ngney at any time,” Prosecutor ft argued to the jury “The minal intent was present.” “Restitution does not wipe if one had been was one of Jud fons to the jury Downer, ail through the and now, after the trig), be in her husband's honesty responsible for che told the jury didn't leave a made out a note take com mitted, Gay's lev jderstand her husband as she under: | stands him; that they would. see what seemed #o plain to herself. She believed, and still believes, that her husband trusted men, and| could never reaiize that men would | not trust him, | | But the jury didn’t understand, she thinks, Anyhow, they didn't| hear Mra, Downer’s silent plea and | prayer | Pending was fixed a an appeal Downer's ball $3.000. ee ee Harry P. Botchford, superin- t of the Northwest Lam Co. at Kerriston, was found guilty by a jury in Judge Main’s court of pollut ing, by means of sawdust, the waters of Roaring _ river. Botchford was fined $100 in the justice © and he ap- pealed to the court tende ber Seeeeeeeeee tte art superior eeeeeeeeeee tee ERR GIRLS’ AND MISSES’ MANNISH COATS, 8.50, $10.00, $12.50) and $25.00 | You are invited to visit the store and inspect these All the handsome garments. , } ® i i | new fabrics and shades are | represented ALTERATIONS FREE out | “i Shafer Bros Arcade and Arcade Annex. nw} | Sho hoped that the jury would un |? WOUNDED IN GUN PLAY WITH BULLETIN (My United Press Leased Wire) SNOWFLAKE. MANITOU, Sept. 14.—The assailant of Miss Gladys Price, the school teacher who was compelled to leave her school at the point of @ man’s gun, and who was kept in the woods for 30 hours by him, is believed to be surrounded. A posse of between 200 and 300 armed men have discovered his trail in the bush. A lynching is looked upon as being extreme- ly probable. It has ween learned that he Manitou last Saturday, he stole a rifle and bought four bottles of gin. His name is said to be Wilson. SNOWFLAKE, Man., Sept. 14.— The first gunpiay In the manhunt here came shortly before 1 o'clock this morning when Wm. Adam: ibanimaa! ef the Wentee hotel her tween Seattle and some of the way points so high that the settiers moved back into town, The com miss ordered them lowered, and the matter was taken into the superior court where the commis sion was affirmed. The supreme court today held that the commis. sion had a right to order the rat lowered and ordered the company to put the low rates into effect im- mediately. The decision was unan- imou: The case most concerns the Du- wamish valley people, who have suffered the exorbitant rates since October, 1909, KIDNAPER CORNERED URROUND MAN WHO COMPELL- © LEAVE SCHOQL AT GUN’S — FOR THIRTY HOURS—ONE KIDNAPER. | was shot in the leg by a man who |had broken Into the house at dead of night, seeking liquor. Adams was awakened In thé night by sounds downstairs and, in- vestigating, espled a man making his escape through the door, Ad ame ordered the depredator to halt, and, on his refusal, fi at which the man turned and fired, wound- ing Adams in the leg. Seeing an- other man approaching, the ma- rauder quickly decamped across (the open prairi The general opinion is that the burglar is the missing kidnaper of Miss Price, For four days he has had no food, and hae subsisted on the little Ik quor left fn his possession, and thig being finished, he evidently made the raid, intending to replenish his liquid sustenance. A half-dressed posse immediately set out in pur suit and are now close on his heels, The pickets have beet warned to be extra vigilant, and now hopes prevail for an early ponent ae SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14 race in which the contesting parties covered two states, was brought to a clo here today when David Weiner of New York received a tel | egram from his wife, at Reno, Nev. | agreeing to a “protocol,” as it Were, in their marital relations, In Jone Weiner, who is a New GOOD MORNING MR.GREEW, OUR C06 IS GOING TO GIVE AN ENTERTAINMENT AHO 1AM SELLING id TICKETS, THEY ARE ONE DOLLAR, PoCE — Wier You HAVE THE REPUTATION) MR.GREEN OF BEING a HUBBY A D WIFE AGREE TO PROTOCOL A) York wool millionaire, and his wife separated, after agreeing that each should share in the custody of their nine-yearold daughter Madeline. Mrs. Weiner, with the girl, disap- peared soon afterward, and it was only two weeks ago that Weiner, with the aid of lawyers and dete | tives, discovered them at Rend: SORRY MISS, BUT im AWFULLY! QUST Tus Homibic , AND VE BEEN BUYING Too na TICKETS LATELY. NO NOT THIS Time.