The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 27, 1914, Page 1

eS \ oy 1| N ENGAGEMENT tonight? Break it. Tired? Forget it. Ill? Get well. We want you to write 180 words of your opinion of the best answer to the question: “BUFFALO BILL—WHAT HAS HE DONE FOR AMERICA?” This positively is your last chance to win one of the 39 prizes offered by The Star for the best answer to that question. Thursday afternoon the winners are to be announced : MORE THAN 45,000 PAID COPIES DAILY WELL, ANYWAY, no flea-bitten Brazilian can come into our coun- try and find a river 1,000 miles long that we never knew about. VOLUME 16. OY OFFICER TELL "RAVING MADMEN IN JACOB The judges must have time to go over the answers, which have piled into The Star office since the contest started. We have one, for We Dan Landon that looks as though it is going to break into the money But there's plenty of chance for YOU yet if you sit down tonight and get yours in, The prizes are worth while. have contributions from many instance, from Senator persons. They are: A first prize of $25, a second prize of $12.50, a third of $7.50, a fourth of $5, 15 fifth prizes of two reserved seat tickets each, and 20 sixth prizes of one reserved seat ticket each. And the question is: “Buffalo Bill—What Has He Done for America?” An easy subject to write an essay on, isn’t it? For the scout has done many things in his life. He has been a plainsman, a scout, a guide for some of the best gen erals in the world, a friend of kings. There is all the The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News NO. 80. S HOW HE FOUGHT OPEN BOAT AT SEA Describes Horrors of Two Weeks T Men Drink Salt Water and Die He Nearly Turned Cannibal. By H. P. Burton (Copyright, 1914, by the Newspaper Enterprise Associat HALIFAX, Nova Sco- tia, May 27.—“You can see the scars on my body,” said Robert Tiere, “but | you can’t see the SCARS ON MY SOUL!" He was lying there, peacefully enough now, anion? © vale flat white pillow in a sunny room in the Victoria General hos- pital, this 22-year-old slip of a boy who, for 13% days, commanded like some Iron Duke, on the wide, lost waters of the Atlantic, a boatload of hungry, sinister men— MEN DYING OF STAR- VATION AND MAD WITH SALT WATER MADNESS. Lying there he was, drawn and white and searred, and with a great box holding up the bed clothes from off his feet, gangrenous fyom Robert Tiere, Photographed on a Cot in Hospital 80 we decided to light a signal. We got out our matches; THEY WERE WET AND WOULDN'T LIGHT; we waved our flag; we shouted our ure. was first person to be al-| selves hoarse; but the great ewes seen to Naas the tragic| Olympic, in her blaze of happy lights, swept by. “Still, it was altogether too soon to give up hope. There was nearly three-quarters of a cask of water andé almost a full case of biscuit in our boat, and surely we would be rescued when the sun should come up and reveal us as we tossed on the high waves. Indeed, that very morning, about 10 o'clock, we located a tramy story of this third boatload of the burned Columbtan's survivors, from Robert Tiere’s own lips since he told {t, in disconnected bits, to! Captain Johnstown, of the Seneca, | While that rescue ship was racing | to Halifax harbor after picking up that final four, who had watched; 11 companions perish at their feet within a single week, hey Were Lost on Atlantic; Eleven Writhing Among Mates; Tells How “Jakob was a giant of a Russia aod had been afraid tn th first of what he might do to us in & fight at the finish. He was big enough to murder all for the food supply he knew could be his at the price of our biood. “Jakob was sitting in the boat with one of the axes he had gotten holt of in some way, 1 am going avhore for a drink,” | little bit of Biscuit and that little! | bit of water. | Reign of Terror in Open Boat at Sea | “The first Sunday we spent In | the boat, the seventh day out, was | the beginning of a reign of terror | for me—the beginning of the time when ( selfcontro! started to some of those big. we } slip off from felt that that death from them “Hull, an oller, was the first to But his true nature was more or'less gentile and he began only to DA = AND SING IN HIS | MADNESS, and then to scoop up, jand drink great dippers of the alone could keep came at me him and got him to He down, tak ing away everything else I figured he could use as a weapon TENING TO KILL t Ha ee Tier. tt does kill me,"|ALL and be master of the boat. | he cried ‘Anyway, 1 want to die |With such @ giant it was all tit 1 can't go ashore’ The salt | Belanger, Kendal, Ludwigsen and |water meant only one thing. HE,! could do to c ower him, but ' DIED IN AWFUL AGONY we finally su din TYING J > a v4 HIM TO THE BOTTOM OF THE “1 said what | could remember of the service for those buried at sea and we dropped his body over the side. Then the TERRIBLE THIRST began to affect them all, and they began eyeing me “Do you know what it means to be sitting on the water and food that separ: a crew of big, glar- | ing men from death? | “And to watch them looking at BOAT. He lived six hours, screaming ali that while at the top of his voice. At the last when he became exhausted we for a little fresh water between his lipe, but it was |no use. At 1 o'clock Saturday morning we dropped him into the j sea “And then on the fourteenth day, little 14-year-old Prieve died. He was so young and he LOVED HIS you? Looking under thelr *¥8'/ MOTHER 80, and as I saw him rows cunning-like and ug'¥—! die, all my Christianity came back measuring you Wen. ty inc to me, and I said to myself: ‘I wish Began to Steal Water I could have died in his place,’ and d Food I felt then as though THE DEVIL aap ui COULD NEVER EVEN TEMI “Well, they even tried to steal wig AGAIN TO TRY TO TAI water and biscuite—and they did|pisctIT OR WATER beyond mp get some of the biscuits oma | lost all SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1914. strong, primitive mem in that boat |he yelled T will; by God, I will, and to reduce them to cavemen. |'e,shrleked. s | They became mad for water; they hy do you keep my money | away from me?’ he hissed as he But I coaxed the ax away from | than he got a boat-stretcher, | y Af Phantom of Murder Rode in That Boat “The real story of our adven- ture,” said Robert Tiere to me, “was the things that didn’t hap- , but they were the MOST TER- IBLE THINGS OF ALL. “Starvation and madness and utter despair and death all rode fm that little boat with us, but do you know that all the time some- thing far more terrible rode with ué—and, though all of us knew it,| none of us even admitted it? “Well, that thing was the phan-| tom of murder.” } Robert Tiere lay back on his pil jow and drew his hand across his eyes to shut out the sight of what still burns In his brain—a boatload of men at bay, falling dead all about | him for | of food and drink, white he SAT GUARD ON THE WATER CASK AND FOOD BAR. REL, doling out each day only enough to make each of his ene- mies—“for enemies hunger and thirst drove them to be,” asid Rob- ert Tiere—crazy for more. “You see at first we were posi-) tively gay, It was just past Sun Gay midnight—Monday, May 4th, at 12:29 a. m., to be exact—when we left the burning Columbian in our | little Iife-boat, the 15 of « and we | expected to be rescued the next day | gure by some passing boat. We had given the 8S. O. 8. before the Co-| lumbian's wireless was smothered, and we figured that would bring many a steamer our way. So we established a watch and turned tn. Saw Salvation and steamer less than seven miles off, We fastened my rain coat on an oar and waved it. But we were not seen “By this time the storm, which had been continuously sweeping us into the wallow of waves and slop- ping our boat with brine, began to quiet, so we rigged up a sea-anchor with our oars and canvas and kept the boat riding the crest of the waters. Fixed this way we passed another night One Pint of Water and One Biscuit for a Meal “The next day I noticed shadows, just faint ones, flickering on some of 14 faces that looked at me; and I myself, indeed, for that matter, be- gan to wonder how serious this “They seemed to have honor, But could you blame them? When our engineer died and some jof the others, too, we FOUND THEIR POCKETS WERE CRAM- | MED WITH BISCUITS. But those | biscuits, stolen In the dead of night, | killed them. Their stomachs, near- y empty for so long, could not | stand the sudden heavy intake of Then Came the Horrible Thought of Cannibalism “There were now Just four of us in the boat. “We had no {dea where we were—perhaps we were drifted far out of all ship lanes. “For a week we had been eat- food under the frightful strain their | ing little pieces of shoe leather cut bodies suffered. After that I HID THE TWO AXE in the boat I knew I was no longer dealing with no: I men of the 20th century, but h men who had practically become sav ages with only one instinct Get food and drink.’ And the looks that I got—was jalways getting! And how I felt myself! I was no hero, either. It from dead men's shoes, pounded up with fresh water Into paste and mixed with biseuit crumbs But now all the biscuit crumbs were & Prieve's dream, too, was not coming true, for It was the fourteenth day and he wasn't rescued “There he lay dead in the bot- tom of the boat. And now came the horrible thing of {t, Men in thing was going to turn out to be.| was as though the DEVIL KEPT our condition had fought out the So I decided to take the bull by the horns first instead of last, and I established rations. each man one pint of water a day and one biscuit for each meal “And the shadows grew a little deeper. We caught a little rain in a storm on Thursday in tarpaulins but it wasn’t much, and on Satur day—the sixth day—the men, hav ing seen so little water during the week, grew very thirsty, and very hungry they had grown, too. Then they began begging for food and water, but especially water, But I had to be firm. It was at this time that little Prieve, who had ur cabin boy, spoke up. at water and those biscuits Then It Faded | ™ ¢Early that morning, through the Night fog that dripped over us, the watch saw a great blaze of light coming, not three-quarters of a mile away. He roused us all and we cheered, so happy we were over an "early rescue. rowed towards the oncoming steamer, shouting as we rowed and waving our flag, A BARPAULIN FASTENED TO THE ~BLADE OF AN OAR. But the have got to last week, fellows,’ he sald, ‘so you'd better be careful of ‘em and not tease for ‘em Then » TOLD THE DREAM HE HAD before he left Antwerp “4 dreamed,’ he said, ‘that 1 was in an open boat 14 days before we were rescued, and so | know w day.’ “Bo we all took heart and the rest of the day there was not one ‘1 be rescued on the fourteenth! COMING TO ME and saying are guardian of these provisions; jis looking and save yourself.’ “But I put it away, It was an| “But not little Prieve'’s. We awful fight, but 1 MADE MYSELF | couldn't do that—he was so young WIN and #0 brave. And they fought me, too. When we let him down very quietly | ever I would break biseuit {n| and very gently into the water and half they would yell at me and say| hoped he was In a better land. that I cheated; that one-half was Well, whose body would it be smaller, and half maddened as|then? That flashed upon us, too. they were, that phantom of murder,| “And {f two of us died and there which I knew was always riding| were only two left and just enough ‘You|same problem before. “Should we eat dead body? That I allowed | you can sneak a little when no one| was the awful question we actually discussed now. \so us, kept getting stronger and | water for one day, what might hap- stronger. “But one by one they died until | but #ix of us rode in the boat, Kach| of Belanger, went the same way—tried to get|and myself? water and food by a secret forage led to swill that terrible salt sea water that splashed all around us. | | pen then? ‘And who would the last two be Kendal, Ludwigsen “And would there really be then another whole|and then, getting the dipper, start-| some terrible unknown struggle on those high seas? “But the Seneca came in sight When he went mad we would) and though we could not believe it, fasten him down, and when 4 she headed for us came, heave the body over And so what might have hay ide pened there at the end, I shall About 6 o'clock Friday night) never know, thank God! (this was the ‘ond Friday and| “Draw up that blind, will you?" we had not seen a ship for ten|said Bobby Tiere, first officer, days), Belanger woke me up. | went out. “I want to look at the “"Prit, Jakob has gone crazy,'|green gr Spring is beautiful he said. on land, isn't It? Do you think it “And I felt then that that phan-| helps take the SCARS OUT OF A/try Jac Olympic didn’t seem to notice us, menacing look as 1 doled out that tom of murder was-surely upon us, MAN'S SOUL?” 2 ONE CENT 1A GONA JUMP— No) AIN'T - Yes | AM= No | AIN'T Nes 1 AM No 1 AIN'T ( | AUTO GOES OVER EVERETT BRIDGE; DROPS FIFTY FEET EVERETT, Wash., May 27.—A seven-passenger auto- mobile owned and driven by John Johnson of Silvana homish river here today, and dropped 50 feet. Four of the men in the car were killed. With three others, they were going to Everett to see the circus. The dead are: John M. Johnson, Ole Prestlien of Nor- man, a farmer; Chris Clausen of Silvana, and Louis Arsen, a Stanwood rancher. Cornelius Langjoen sustained severe sprains. Charles Lund of Norman and E, Peterson of Stanwood escaped by jumping. FIND MAN'S BODY DISMISS CASE SLAIN WITH AX) AGAINST GIRL | Judge Ronald scathingly rebuked the prosecuting witness when he nceiens | dismissed the case against Miss | Jack Mint, 60, was found lying) Alberta Pennell, an artist, yester | dead on the floor of a shack at the ‘ f yesterday, The Seattle Star NEWS STANDS. fe FURTH DYING! KILLED IN EVERETT ACCIDEN | WATCHFUL WAITING | | smashed through the rail of the Everett bridge over the Sno-|ers of America, meeting in th Could You Use $25, or a Couple Tickets to the Circus? Here’s Your Last Chance to Get Them latitude in the world And, should you win, you will receive the prize from the hands of Buffalo Bill himself. For he is coming here tomorrow with the Sells-Floto Circus and Buffalo Bill (himself), ich is to exhibit here three days, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Then, some time during the day on Friday, he will personally hand the prizes to those who have itten about him and who have won a place in the award column of the contest Prize winners will be announced tomorrow AST EDITION WEATHER FORECAST — Fair tonight and Thursday; fresh west aN erly winds, diminishing Thursday, TKAINS AND Intellect Unaffected by His Illness, Fi- nancier Has Con- ferences With Associates, Clos- ing Up Affairs. Jacob Furth is on his | deathbed. Returning a few weeks ago from an _ unsatisfac- tory trip to California, where he went to better his failing health, Seattle’s biggest financier is con- fined at his home, at 1203 Minor av., suffering from a complication of diseases, from which physicians say | he can not recover. | His keen intellect unaffected by [his bodily ailments, Mr. Furth | knows that he cannot get well. | Resigned to Meet End He has summoned to his bedside | the closest of his friends and busi- | ness associates, and is closing up [his affairs, ferenées have been held. He is said to be perfectly re Signed to what is to come, Mr. Furth requested some time ago that all the members of his family be summoned to the city to / and her daughter, Dorothy, abrupt- jJy_ended a tour through Europe when informed of his illness and hastened back to Seattle. Mrs. Jennie Terry, a Family at His Bedside Mrs. Frederick Karl Struve, a daughter, and her husband, a mem- ber of The John H. Davis Co., of Seattle, are circle. also in the family Wetherill, wife of Capt. , U. S. A. has come to . and Mrs. Furth, the wife jof the sick man, is in constant tendance. Mr. Furth is suffering from en- jlargement of the liver and intes- | tinal trouble. Mr. Furth is accepting his illness | with a philosophy that is a souree of wonder to his many friends. Dat- ly his business associates, and the men he has at various times helped during their struggles in various enterprises in Seattle, are calling at his residence to express | their regrets. | Mr. Furth’s| knowledge of the most minute details of his affairs | is a surprise to his associates, The other day one of his business associates wished to locate for Mr. Furth a certain paper and was up- Several of these con-_ COAL MINERS OF THE NORTHWEST OFFER TO FIGHT The satisfactory solution of the Colorado strike troubles was the chief subject for discussion today in the session of the third annual Jconvention of the Rocky Mountain | Association of United Mire Work- Grand Union hotel. Scores of mine workers through- out the Northwest, it became known, wrote to the Seattle local office signifying their willingness to join an armed company of miners to go to Colorado to aid in wiping out the gunmen. ble to find’ it. The fact was re- | ported to the patient. He quickly told the exact position of the pack- age in which the wanted paper was filed in his office. Mr. Furth came to Seattle 80 years ago from Colusa, Cal, where he had achieved success in a gen- eral merchandise and banking busi- ness. In his career in the South he |gained a solid reputation for staunch honesty in his dealings with other men and was compara- tively wealthy when he came here, His first business venture in Se- attle the organization of the Puget Sound National bank, which later was merged with the Seattle National, now existing under that jname. He is chairman of the | board of directors of that institu- tion. Through the Stone & Webster corporation he took over existing street car systems in the city and developed the Puget Sound Trac- tion, Light & Power Co., of which he is now the president. TEDDY AND WILSON DRINK LEMONADE NEW YORK, May 27.—Col Roosevelt was in Washington nine hours yesterd and they were characteristically busy ones He visited President Wilson P ; ferred w »FO} sive H foot of Whateom av arly this/@4%, after hear! ee fieeges baba nis tere trophies in morning, with two gashes in his| brought by Dr. W. T. Lockhart,/the gmithsoninn institute, spoke head, inflicted by an axe. The axe} who complained the young woman|pefore the National Geographical was wielded, it is belfeved by) had threatened to kill his wife. | society, and renewed his acquaint Country Jack” Konttuurl, with) ‘The girl denied Lockhart’s ad-| ance with many old friends. whom Mint had been on a spree for| missions of intimacy. His call at the White House a week | A peace bond of $1,000, under| proved not to be as sensational as The police are looking for “Coun-| which she was placed in police|had been predicted. The discus- who rented the shack/court, was canceled by Jude [son of politics was avoided. The president received his caller in the red room. After they had exchanged | greeting they sat for half an | hour on the south portico, drank lemonade, and discussed mainly travel and books, The colonel professed to consider his lecture before the Geographical society the real event of his visit He warmed up when he touched on the questions concerning his dis: covery of the River of Doubt in Brazil, declaring he “put it on the |map,” and challenged all the cartographers in the world to dim prove it,