The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 28, 1911, Page 1

EH YS ES Moin 5 ae rear ne * REY: ‘HOME EDITION : At es NATO It is said the easiest word to pronounce in the English language is “murmur,” It is two sighs stuck together, WOMAN SENTEN TWO YEARS IN PRISON FOR TELLING A LIE Charlies Pryor was sentenced by Judge Gay this morning to: three te five years in the penitentiary. Giadys Johnson was sentenced by Judge Gay to two to five years in the penitentiary Seanette McLean and Marie Ber-| nard were sentenced by Judge Gay | to one to 1S years in the Monroe! reformatory Pryor was convicted of a heinous crimiual offense against a 1%year old Norwegian girl, He held her as his white slave. He kept her a prisoner, the evidence showed And he did while he was in the uniform of a policeman } Mea. Johnson's Crime, And ( Johnson was given | two si © penitentiary by the same Sud And here ts the erime Mrs Johnsen committed | Ghe wanted to keep her past a secret 4 she did pot tell the truth when she was asked if she married In lowa, All| { that her previous mar wa had no material bear ing on the of her sult for damages against the city of Seatte for injuries sustained by a defec: | tive sidewalk } Denied Former Marriage. | “Were you ever married before?” | she was asked by the corporation | counse! in the damage suit, “Bhe had good reason not to re veal her past.” said ‘her attorney in court this morning. “She wanted to maintain the respect of her pres | ent neighbors | And so Mrs. Johason denied her first marriage. A jury awarded her Woman Who Whipped RED-HAIRED Judge Still in Jail — Mrs. Christina Olson, who at-.the scene from California, and re | tacked Judge Main with a horse. raigned before Judge Gay this morning on a charge of assault in} the third degree. She had no attorney, but Harry) Olson, her husband, insisted that) her plea of not guilty be taken im-| Judge Albertson, and a jury award | hatred £ mediately. ; “We are said. “We de not need an attor- ney for that.” Bond was fixed in) the sum of $500. set for trial next Saturday. Up to) noon teday, Mrs. Olson was still in the county jail, being unable to get the bail. Mrs, Olson appears to be a gentle, | fraji woman, who is overwhelmed | by what seems to her a gross mis-| standing the verdict for the defend-| red-haired choruses he has carried | carriage of justice against her hus-| bend and herself. | The case which caused her to) come up to the court house delit- eratelp to whip Judge Main, was/ one brought by Mrs. Catherine Syl- yester agninst the Olsons for rents. The Olsons had rented their house from E. W. Fleraing, an agent of Mrs. Sylvester, for $30 a month. According to the story told by Mrs. Olson in the county jail, where she was taken by Bailiff Phillips, who saw the attack, Fleming used to of-| fer them discounts {if they paid)| their rent in advance. Finally, he} offered to jet them have 20 months’ rent fer $500, giving them a dis count of $100. He gave them a re- ceipt for the money Mrs. Sylvester then appeared on —— a (By United Press MEXICO CITY, Oct. 28.—Openly | asserting that Francisco 1. Madero fostered and financed the Elimino| Zappato revolution which now! threatens Mexico City, three news| papers here today predict the over: throw of Madero. They declare} that Porforio Diaz, the former pres- ident, will return to Mexico and again be placed at the head of the government, or that ¢ With Councilmen Biaine and Haas the only ones in open support of the mayor's veto of the ordinance compelling the S. E. Co. to sell tickets on all street cars, a deter: | tlned effort will be made on Mon day to override the veto. Six votes are necessary. With Steiner ab- sent from the city, all of the re- maining councilmen must vote for the ordinance. i: te plead now,” he| Sylvester's attorney, Byers, as! i. Bernarde | to Hor murder in the first degree | seulptor $2,500 damages, Then the city of Seattle sought vengeance upon her and Henry Johnsen, her husband, aod had them arresied for perju in the second degree. They weren't tried for perjury, for that would mean that the false statement complained of rust ha been material to the issves in the case. But thoy were tried for per jury in the second degree, a new law, passed by the 1909, at the dictation of the conven tion of prosecuting attorneys, who prepared an entirely new criminal code in a few weeks. And under thia law the vieted, ‘The Johnsons say they were mar ried In California I don't believe that,” Judge Gay said this morning “It 1 did, I woulda’t sentence these people.” So, accordingly, Judge Gay tenced them this morning. The man came up first Husband Pleads for Wife. “I can see that yor love that woman,” Judge Gay sabi to him, “I know that you have been a hard worker while In Seatth, She was the wife of another when you left lowa. You said she wes not mar ried before. Hut at heart 1 believe you to be a good man,” Johnson was crying silently, and wiping the teare away with his handkerchief. shall make your sentence light. 1 can make it any term what- er. Your sentence will be nine months in the county jail.” Then Johnson broke into weeping. loud pudiated Fieming’s agency. She had | Fleming arreated at one time, but! whip yesterday afternoon, was @F) withdrew the charge, and Pleming | has disappeared Then Mrs. Sylvester brought sult against the Olsons for the $600 rent involved In the 20 months* ppt The case was first tried before ed a verdict for the Olsons. for a new trial, which was granted. The Olsons then took a change | quested to be out In front to make | countenance of ber husband The case will be |of venue, and the case was to have |ready for any emergency that may | tran come up before Judge Ronald. The latter was busy, and he transferred the case to Judge Main again decided in favor of Olson. Last Saturday Byers asked f judgment for the plaintiff, notwit ant, and Judge Main set aside the jury's verdict, and gave judgment to Mrs. Sylvester. The point involved was whether @ contract for a longer term than one year, where premises are leased, could be valid without # notary’s seal and a written agree ment. "7 Judge Main bad an overcoat thrown over his shoulders whe Mrs. Olson attacked him. The blows fell on his shoulders before he turned around, saying, “What does this mean?” He didn’t rec me Mrs. Olson. He continued bis way |to the court room, and immediately took the bench, sending bis clerk, T. H. Patterson, to inquire who the woman was. Judge Main was not injured OF MABERO Reyes, the army idol, may be given the presidency. Madero is declared to have in structed the Zapatistas not to enter the capital If Madero really planned the Za-| pata rebellion to discredit the De La Barra government, he is suc ceeding. Three members of the De La Barra cabinet have resigned be- cause of the government's inability ubdue the rebels. uP. FOR A alleged to have killed Frank Bressi on Sept. 30, as the result of a feud, was arraigned He entered a plea of not guilty, and the case was set for trial Nov. 1% Sculptor Putnam Worse BAN FRANCISCO, Oct 24. Arthur Potnam, the California is in more serious con dition than he has been at any time since bis confinement in St Francis hospital. ‘The second op eration, performed Thursday, has weakened him considerably “CAS SANDBAS By Bsrtron BRALLY | Boss Furth, just back from a Powwow with Stone Webster mon- ey dukes, says business won't be | better untii the people “let us alone” and “quit agitating. perice | The day-is dark, The skies are gray, The dogs all bark In gloomy way. The froggies now Do naught but croak Well, what's the row? Jake Furth bas spoke. There is no hope? No, not @ flash; In woe we grope, We're golng to smash! The future's glum. The nation's broke, It's true, by gum Jake Furth has spoke We mustn't scott Although we know He gets this off Bach year or #0; We can't escape With sobs we choke. Put on your crepe, Jake Furth has spoke. VOL. 13, NO. 207 legislature of | Johnsons were con wen: | es |. “There is no one | love more than 1 do my wife.” he cried. “Ph your honor, | would rather take her sentence, too, than have her go to | jail. We've been jail since jdune 1." in Johnson begged to be allowed to} his wife and speak to} sit next hers But he was hurrjed out of the jeourt room down to the jail by jepaty sheriffs. Then Mrs, Johnson came | sentence And Judge Gay sata 1 felt sympathy for Mr. Johnson, At heart I think he {s nearly n't think #0 of you. Th thing wrong with you 9 a little girl. It will take some time before you will be jright. I think | understand you and you do not appear to me to jlove Mr. Johnson as he does you Falis in » Swoon, Johnson Was given a sen ra in. the up for | Mrs. tenee of two to five ye |penitentiary at Walla Walla. [Johnson did not utter a syllable | She started out with a deputy sher iff guarding ber, and when she | reached the door, she suddenly fell in a swoon, striking her he aguinat the door. Four or five dep uty sheriffs rushed to her, and car ried her to jail Giri intenced. | Jeanette MeLean and Marie Ber loard were found guilty of picking an Alaskan’s pocket of $110, while out joy riding with him. Their lorime Is called grand larceny. Judge Gay sentenced them to the mint | mum of one to 15 years in the Mow | roe reformatory. FRATERNITY IN SESSION Are there many red-haire | ple in Seatth : ve There are! Seventy of them had presented Jeouponk at the Seattle theatre ax guests of The Star, at 10:36, and |the rush hadn't yet begun. Scores had called for seats over the phone | It will be a gathering of the red-| ernity~-ladies, girls and boye—at the Seattle matinee as guests of The Star. The fire department has been re agnor but ent of red jartve from the then preeau haired kiddies, The Jury | tions have been taken to keep all| knew bis parents and burle iaflammable material in the back ground. Billy (Single) Clifford t« jauthority for the statement that with bir in the past have never \reaulted disastrously—except to hu- [man hearts. Billy himself is pare } tial to red-haired ladies. At the box office it was stated that several artificial red tops had | been detected, but nearly all of | those who edlled were bona-fide ar ‘52,000 BAL FOR DAANEY O'HEIL 1 ' | (By United Press Leased Wire) VANCOUVER, B. C., Oct. 28— | Ball for J. 8. O'Neil, the Idaho banker, who is being held here awaiting extradition proceedings, has been fixed by Judge McInnes at $20,000, to be divided in such same jas may be convenient. 8. S. Taylor, K. C., who is ap- pearing for O'Neill, considered the ball rather large, but Judge Mein | held that this 8 @ case In which there was an International obligation on the part of the Cana dian authorities to ensure the saf custody of the accused. SEYMORE FOR CITY GOLF LINKS (My United Prous Leased Wire) TACOMA, Oct. 28.—"Maybe the people aren't ready for the idea yet, but the time will come when all the cities will have municipal golf tink said Mayor Seymour today. “Many persons think that only the rich and the elderly play golf. That is wrong. } am going to work for city golf links in Tacoma,” ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO BUN ELECTION (Ry United Prose Leased Wire) 1 INGTON, Ky., Oct, 28.—A} leged plans by the democratic lead. ers here to buy the forthcoming state election will be frustrated through the efforts of the Johnson detective agency of Cincinnati, ac ‘ding to information made public e today. D. 8. Johnson, manager of the jageney, i sald to have a score of detectives gathering evidence who are already in possession of numer. ous sworn statements from negro voters. Rescuing Pryce (By United Pres Leased Wire) LOS ANGELE Oct 8. C. Larkins, former member of Gen. Cap Rhys Pryce's insurrecto army jin Mexico, owner of a cattle ranch near Shawnee, Okla, is in Los Am eles today, and has opened nego tiations with a security company to raise his former commander's bail, set at $1,500, on his cattle ranch Larkins was wounded in the first battle of Tia Juana, hi right Mrs. | »| He told his wife he was going for a walk WIDOWED WHILE HER — HUSBAND LIVES, SHE VISITS DUAL SPOUSE Mrs. Kelly Broken Hearted Because She Can Get No Response From Man Who Wooed and Wom Her While a Mill Worker —Rogers Still Knows Nothing of His Past 14 Years. How, would YOU, wives of Seattle, feel if your husbands suddenly gazed blankly at you and did not know you? How would you feel if: | You married an apparently normal, healthy man, had a jolly court |ship and a happy home, and then and know nothing of his wedding and nothing of you; if-— | Hie past 14 yea which his mind could not penetrate? And he sheuld be again a 17-yearold boy instead of a man of 32, and know nothing except incidents of his tife up to his 17th year? | AN ACTUAL EXPERIENCE That is the actual experience of poor little Mra, George Kelly of | Renton, Mrs. Kelly yesterday visited 8. ©. Rogers in the Providence hos in Beattie. Mrs. Kelly in the wife of Nogéreby divine she is the widow of George Kelly the man in body and human law. In } actual fact Kelly and Rogers are alities In | same but separate person wll else. s ie th lived here and slunged table Kelly measenket boy who was vd hWelle on the operating alwotutelf nothing of George New York oree Kelly knowing experience STILL A STRANGER TO HIM arold bey his 14 years }_ It was as George y that Agnés Johnson | months ago. She had him brought to the hospital here for an o when he wandered from howe ineand, Last night the same man |kaxed at her withont recdgnition, She was to him only the strange woman whom he found at hix aide when he awoke from the operation. Rogers, phystenlly, is the same man who attended the dances at Renton while serving at the Hremerton navy yard Miss Johnson, and after receiving bin discharge from worked in the lumber mills at Port Blakeley. After bis lived at Port Blakeley as Mr. and Mra. Kelly | MADE SCORES OF FRIENDS Their life was ideal, Kelly made scores of friends, His peren nial good nature and jolly manner made him a favorite with bis fellow workmen and the general community. | Oct, 10 he quit work at the mill and came home That wa was found a maniae in the forest ng found he was examined by physicians, who pronoun [him insane and were ready to send him to the asylum. Then the lit woman he bad married came forward and insisted that he be sent to the hospital, not the asylum That was the end of George Kelly, He awoke as 8. C TRYING TO WIN HIM BACK } Now Mrs, Kelly, broken-hearted, f* trying to win ber hi to her, She saved him from the asylum, Her devotion s@ But it also robbed her of the busbasd she k the navy hi marriage th with a headache the last seen of hing watil be After be Rogers Kelly, “Rogers, with the miad althyea ‘lady they say is my wife” and “Mrs, Kelly does Mr, and Mra. William H. Burnett and William Adame. Mrs. Kelly, also saw Roge t the hoapital. He did not know them | Yet, as George Kelly, be used to come to thelr and joke and talk and play games. - MANNER OF SPEECH CHANGES He was a refined man, of ready speech, apd used no slang, Mr, Adams. “Now he uses the slang of a New York newsboy | talks differeatly and is a different man.” } But what of the little wife? No woman ever had a problem so hard to solve. Divorced in all but name and rendered a widow to the man she married, she is stil foyal to the atrange boy who now wears the but who speaks in a strange tongue of things of which she never heard he told his wife of baving a mother and father er, This was afl fancy, an the boy Rogers never no sister, 1880—but that was all said He As George Kelly and of burying « | his birth—May 1 Look! Chink Rebel Flag in Seattle! You probably couldn't guess what have abandoned the old dragon with | {flag this fs in a year of Sundays, /the old royalist Ideas. The pleture |so here is the answer right off the|of the flag was taken today in| bat: Seattle's Chinatown, It has a blue} It's a pleture, taken In Seattle field with a white sun in the cen by The Star photographer, of the|ter. It was sent here from San jnew Chinere redel riny'’s flag.|Frangisco, This is the banner that Doesn't look much like the old Chi- jis waving at the head of the tn ese dragon fag, eb? laurgent troops, and defying the boy triumphant Chinese nyeror and his imperial uncles. rebels | Never Violated Richeson’ s Law; Says Andy NEW YORK, Oct. 28.—United States Marshal Henkel went to. day to Tarrytown to serve John Defense (By United Press Leased Wire) D. Rockefeller in the Stee! | BOSTON, Oct Absdtute de trust suit. Rockefeller had nial that Rev. C. V. T. Richeson agreed to await him there. Ddedd- wih ide mbes of w Maheri Hewkehesrved was duns [onmwer wit the marder of Mise mone on Andrew Carnegie iaet | AV¥i® Linnell, ever purchased cya night the ironmaster said: }nide poison from Drugeist Wm. “I never violated the law in |Habn of Newton, and the produc my life, but | suppose | will fing of correspon from Miss have to take these papers. Lénnell to the minister, proving that -¢| he was not responsible for the girl's unfortunate condition, are included in an outlin the minister's de fense, published here today “We are certain that we can prove that Richeson never purchas- ed cyanide,” said Philip Dunbar, at- torney for the accused clergyman. “We will produce letters which M Linnell wrote to Richeson which will prove in the girl's own words that Richeson was not responsible for her condition.” | Buy a Small Farm tor $250 Ten Dollars cash and $5 per at at BO RNa month will make you indepen )|***¥ #¥ # MMe me eee dent of day labor if you place 4 WEATHER RORKOASY, z your savings in five acres of {!% pair tonight and Sunday, * land, We specially recommend {}% moderate easterly winds, Tem- * five acres situate near Poulsbo }]* perature at noon 51, * at $50 per acre; 5 acres situate }|* * near Auburn at $60 per acre, or {| *# B¥ ¥¥ RX EN HHH 5 acres in Snohomish county AFNESS CAUSED WRECK? Good title; treatment. warranty deed; fair }/ the night watchman is blamed for the,wreck of the Princess Beatrice, according to evidence at the in quiry. The lookout sighted land and, going into the wheel house, shouted a warning to the watchman who had relieved the qnartermas ter OLE HANSON & Third co. "oor New York Bloc Your husband should suddenly be aroused, as if from a long sleep, | were an utter void to him—a blank wall beyond} Mighty Fleet George Kelly knew the date of| The waterfront was lined with pa : | many =/stead of Mr. Boggs, who was a} prince | Sobe y by a night in |Jail, Frank Minnematsu, Japanese | lgardener, who yesterday shot and |kfied Francis Boggs, local manager | of the Selig Polyser ympany and | seriously injured € Wm i] IN| SEATTLE ONE CENT. “ON TRAINS AN NEWS BIANDS | | | | The Seattle Star - ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1911 Reuben divorce bec solitaire. SEATTLE STEAMERS — COLLIDE; ONE SINKS HOME EDITION No fatal triangle in that case. i At AON TRO at A 2 O. Colburn of Boston got a ause his wife played too much) | THE STEEL STEAMER IROQUOIS, WHICH RAMMED AND SANK THE MULTNOMAH Creeping | off the sinking boat. denly collided at a few minutes | past 12 o'clock this morning, ween Seattle and Vancouver ‘struck the smaller steamer | Multnomah, which runs be-| the Canadian port, and the Olympia , one of the crack boats The Iroquois was entirely rescue of th uninjured, and, after landing ¥#* «ffecte He met and wooed 1,000 feet from Galbraith’s pier. the other steamer’s people, con- The Iroquois, running be-|tinued on her way to Van- couver. How It Happened. The Iroquois was just leaving for through a dense|enough for the Vancouver boat | the heavy fog, a few feet from each married him, two fog, the steamer Iroquois and|to come alongside and take the ration ithe steamer Multnomah sud-|*W° passengers and crew of 20 other. The collision could not have j been prevented. Passengers and crews of both steamers kept their nerve, and the Multnomah’s people quickly and without aceident Well Known Boat. The Multnomah was one of the best known boats on the sound. She was built at Aberdeen 20 years ago, and was for some rs considered Jobn Smith tween here and Olympia, amid- boat was just arriving when the was her skipper. She was a wooden ships, and cut her nearly in two. | *ecident were sounding their boats but happened. Both whistles, t in length. The Iro~ about five years old, boat, 160 f quols is on The Multnomah stayed above jneither knew just where the other 300 feet long, and tonstructed of water 10 minutes, just at San Diego SAN DIEGO, Oct. 28.—On the eve of « of the most notable since the Atlantic Meet cruised around the world, the mighty fight: | ing fleet of the Pacific coast tx to- day gathering in the landlocked har bor of San Diego. The battieshi teh-Amertcan war fam just undergone extens! Oregon of Span pairs at) long | was. ‘Mrs. Herman Harvey Teichner _ tim today cousins of RAYA mobilizations on Chis coast) which she started is interchanging letters from Seattle and other cities in an effort to get-more light on the novel situation. And then both loomed out of | stee! Ferry Having Real Lively Time SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 28.—Married to three men, all at the same be out skirmishing for Mrs. Genevieve Grace Herman-Harvey-Teichner-Ferry is supposed another, while the husbands’ club Joseph D. Ferry, husband C, started the epistolary fireworks when he learned that Thomas D. Harvey of Seattle, husband A, was sending money to the woman in the ca: right; that he married Mrs. G. G. H.-H. | Husband C will not stand for such business, and is suing in the Oakland which has | courts for an annulment of his part of the marriage. Husband A replied that it was all F. once, and had that privilege. Bremerton, glided majestically into} “4 cats Sera ® vane ae won aurea a ven me LOU Stole My Little Girl, Mother Cried as She Shot Man battlesbip as she rounded the potnt. | A handred whistles, shrill and gruff, | blew the Oregon a merry welcome and before the big noon sea citiens had visited | triotic | fighter, Taft Can’t Vote (Ry United Press Leased Wire) CHICAGO, Oct. 28.—Delay in se the United When Presi- dent Taft arrived here on his homeward journey from the Pa. president today. cific coast Ne was notified that he would not be allowed to | vote at the municipal election in Cincinnati next month. The tion papers | failed to reach Cincinnati in time for him to qualify as an elector there. The difficulty will not interfere with Presi- entd Taft's visit to Cincinnati. ME MIGHTY SORRY, |: ~—SHYS JP SLAYER y United Press Leased Wire LOS ANGELES, Oct. 28.—"Me| mighty dam sorry that I kill my | best friend, Mr. Boggs, and hurt Mr. Selig. It what you call booze, t jmake me looney in the head, and |now I'm so sorry. 1 wish I die in- toda} lig, owner of the company, | re | in the above words expressed | morse for his crime. HOME-MADE. MARRIAGE | (By United Press Leased Wire) TACOMA, Oct. 28.—Repeating a} marriage emony which they} d made up, Robert J Wash., grocer | themselves b Metcalf, Bryn Mawr and mental science teacher and Miss Ida L. Baum, lands: artist jare man and wife today. A minis ter formally pronounced them mar-| ried afterward to satisfy legal re-| quirements. The home ceremony de clares that the bride loses her name bat not her individuality. Oregon at San Diego (By United Press Leased Wire) SAN DIEGO, Cal., Oct, 28,—-The battleship Oregon, which made the famous trip around the Horn in the nish war, arrived here today at} the end of her first voyage since she was rebuilt in the novth, She |will remain here with a score of jother war craft, the biggest fleet ever assembled hero, until the mob- ization of the Pacific fleet at San Pedro next Tuesday night FRANK GOULD ILL. (By United Press Leased Wire) NEW YORK, Oct, 28.—Frank J Gould is recovering here today from jan appendicitis operation, perform ed last Wednesday. ‘Bhe operation was not learned of by his friends until today. Gould returned from Paris two weeks ago. SAN FRANCISCO, Henri young Helen Whitson after being| De Oct Lorme, who married| acquitted of the charge of having} effect abducted her purposes is in a sanitarium here | again, the girl made a-shield of ber today with a bullet wound in his| own bedy while she assailed him to side, and the girl's mother in a pai jded cell at the central emergency |about them h. hospital, as the result of an attack! De Lorme had taken her girl. The she made upon De Lorme in the| wounded man feared another shot street last night. De Lorme’s i7-|and he grappled with her, secur-, year-old bride | for “white slave” at bis bedside. / 28—} Crying, “You stole my little girl,” Mrs. Catherine Johnson approached De Lorme and the girl and fired two shots at him, the second taking He dropped. . To prevent her mother from shooting him his feet. Mrs. Johnson walked terically crying that ing the revolver. — HELLO DEARIE! dUST GETTING HOME FROM THE WAVE You SEEN WE EVENING PAPER WON’, AND Do You WANT YOUR PIPE AND TOBACCO TKNOW DEAR, BUT You CAN SCARCELY GET ANY THING, LESS: THAN ar | GEORGE DEAR, WHAT DO. You THINK t DID TODAY? 1 BousHy A NEW HAT HOPE You WiLL (NN KEEP bay Dear?