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THE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1908.
No. 269.
AN KILLS KITTLE
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ISE WOOD TELLS ROW UNITED
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SHIP FLE
STATES SENATOR MADE LOVE
Omaha Woman on Witness
Stands Tells of Aged States
man's Wooing.
HIS LETTERS ARE
READ IN COURT.
New York Enjoys Sensation of
Divorce Case in Peculiar
Controversy.
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, May 19. Mao C.
Wood, the Omaha girl, who Is suing
Senator Thomas C. Piatt for dlvorco,
alleging that the senator formally
entered into a marriage contract
with her on November 9, 1901, on
the witness stand, Identified copies
of several letters which she said
were received by her from Mr. Piatt.
They were mainly of an affection
ate nature, In several there wore In
teresting sentences on other affairs,
one being "Your letter has cheered
mo up so that I am almost recon
ciled to Odell's election."
A picture of the senator was
shown upon which was written, "To
my little wife."
Couple Held Hands.
In telling how this was written,
Miss Wood said. "Well, I was sot
ting in his lap. Part of the time,
he held my hand and part of tho.
time I held his hand. We wrote it
together. Tho words 'little wife'
were written by him I think."
"Miss Wood said that Senator
Piatt came to her room in the hotel
with two men and formally acknow
ledged her as his wife, before these
two men. Senator Piatt was not
in court today.
The following letter was admitted
in evidence over a protest by Mr.
Piatt's counsel "My little bride to bo,
I have made all arrangements. You
are not to say anything to anybody.
You are to obey my instructions im
plicitly. I cncloso card to hotel.
You will be there at four o'clock
and have room 15S. I am an old
fool but you will never regret this
step. Lovingly, Tom."
Letters Worth $50,000.
Tho counsel for Senator Piatt lato
today concluded tho cross-examination
of Mao Wood by questioning her
about a release she gave Abraham
Hummell, tho former lawyer In 1903,
in which she agreed to accept $30,
000 In settlement of her claims
against Piatt. She declared yester
day that tho release was secured
under duress, but she said that she
had accepted some of the money. Al
though Miss "Wood had signed a
release and declared in her accom
panying affidavit that she gave the
alleged Plat letters to Hummel as
her attorney, she denied today that
she had retained Hummel as coun
sel. She declared that she could
have obtained $50,000 for tho let
ters. Mao Wood said today she was
paid $7,500 for the letters. She did
not know where tho money came
from, she said.
Piatt Eighty Years Old
Senator Piatt is about
eighty I
years old and is several times a mil-
lionalre. Ho made most of his money
out of the express business. Ho has
been a leading figure in New York
polltics for years and has been prom-
inent in national politics since his
election to the senate from New
York. The case against him by
Mao Wood has been dragging along
for years. Her homo is in Nebraska
but she held a federal position in
Washington for sometime and while
In this capacity she claimed to have
made his acquaintance which she
says resulted in tho marriage which
he denies. Mr. Piatt a few years
ago married a dashing widow, named
Mrs. Janeway, but their married life
lias not been happy.
LAND FOR IDAHO.
inn
Ceding Statu Million
Acres
Passes House.
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, May 19. -
Tho
House under suspension of the rules
passed tho bill allowing tho Idaho
reclaim district ono millions acres
belonging to the public domain.
GRAND JURY
NOW ON CASE
Threatening Letters Sent to
Officials Investigating
Guiness Case.
(By Associated Press.)
LAPORTE, Ind., May 19. The
grand jury convened today to in
vestigate the mystery surrounding
the death of the fourteen persons
at the farm of Mrs. Belle Guiness.
Prosecutor Smith has received an
other letter from Brooklyn, N. Y.,
threatening death unless he resigns
office or drops the Guiness investiga
tion. The chief of police has been
similarly threatened.
TROUBLE OVER BODY.
Relatives May Not Accept Corpse
Said to be Jennie Olson.
(By Associated Press.)
'LAPORTE, May 19. The issuing
of a death certificate for Jennie Ol
son and turning over the body to
relatives In Chicago puts the official
stamp of identification upon one of
tbe bodies found on the Guiness farm
regarding which there has been so
niuch controversy. Although iden-
'Hflnrl liv n hrnflinr mnnv rofneo tn
th(j dend geven un
identified bodies, including one fe
male, were buried in the Potter's
field today.
TONIGHT Is tho night. Dance at
Skating Rink. Everyone come and
have a good time.
Miss Bertha Vanderbilt, Miss
ing Five Days, Found
Drowned.
SUSPICION OF FOUL PLAY.
Coroner Holds Death Accidental Hut
Other Authorities Disagree AVith
His Findings.
(By Associated Press.)
PRINCETON, N. J., May 19.
Tho body of Bertha Vanderbilt, an
assistant at the Princeton University
library, was found lloating in the
Raritan canal about a half mile from
Carnegie Lake acqueduct. She dis
appeared last week.
Mrs. William Robinson of Now
York, told the police of Princeton
that the night Miss Vanderbilt dis
appeared she saw an automobile with
another young woman and man, said
to have been a Princeton graduate,
who was a suitor of Miss Vanderbilt
wh'lQ n college. He went to Prin-
ceton Wednesday to attend the Cor-
nell-Princeton baseball game,
Some portions of Miss Vanderbllt's
clothing were missing but there were
no signs of foul play except a few
scars which may have been the re
sult of rolling about the bed of tho
stream for the past five days. Dis
satisfaction was shown by some of
tho authorities of Mercer and Middle
sex counties, with tho decision of the
coroner of tho latter county who de
cided that Miss Vanderbilt was acci
dentally di owned.
PULP .MILL BURNS.
Plant Near Saultc St. .Marie Des
troyed With $350,000 Loss.
(By Associated Press.)
SAULTE ST. MARIE, May 19.
The pulp mill of the Lake Superior
Corporation in tho Canadian Soo,
across tho river from hero, was des
troyed by fire. Tho loss is $350,000.
'It is reported that two men
are
missing.
GIRL'S BODY
WILLIAM J. HANNA, SLASHES HIS
INFANT CHILDREN'S THROATS
WITH RAZOR AT SAN FRAN
CISCO. I By Assocratflti I'ress.)
SAN FRANCISCO, May 19. Will
iam J. Hanna, a well to do plumber,
of 1114 Tennessee street, cut the
throats of his baby son, Burton, his
baby daughter two years old, with a
razor early today. Both will prob
ably die. He then invaded the apart
ment occupied by his wife and three
other children, two girls and a boy,
aged four, five and seven, and an
nounced, "I have killed the two
Officials of Defunct Pittsburg
Institution Will be Sen
tenced Soon.
(By Associated. Press.)
PITTSBURG, May 19. Henry
Reiber, the paying-teller, and John
Young, tho auditor, of Farmers' De
posit National Bank, who embezzled
$1,100,000 will be sentenced tomor
row.
CITY FUNDS TIED UP.
Pittsburg Officials Have $1,500,000
in Closed Ranks.
(By Associated Press.)
PITTSBURG, May 19. More than
$1,500,000 of municipal funds are
tied up indefinitely as a result of the
suspension of tho Allegheny Na
tional bank. Tho suspension qf the
bank leaves the city with practically
no available funds.
Two Couples Discovered In
Wilderness Near Bellingham
After Long Search.
W0MENWEREALM0STDEAD
Lost Their Way on Chuckanut
Mountain During Storm and Were
Days Without Food or Fire.
(By Associated Press.)
BELLINGHAM, Wash., May 19.
G. W. Crawford and wife, Joseph
Lester and Miss Gertrude Webster,
who have been lost on Chuckanut
Mountah. since Sunday morning,
were found today on Oyster Creek,
twelve miles southeast of Boiling-
ham, hopelessly lost and nearly dead
from fatigue and hunger, and with
out hope of ever being found.
They were caught on the mountain
in a storm and lost their way. It
rained almost continuously and the
party was without food or fire. The
women could walk no further and
the men decided to stay with them
instead of trying to save themselves.
Norfolk and Western Passen
ger Goes Into Ditch Near
Columbus.
(By Associated PresB.)
COLUMBUS, May 19. A Norfolk
and Western passenger train was
wrecked by tho spreading of the rails
two miles west of here. But ono
coach on tho train in which twenty
people wero riding, turned over.
About twelve people were injured,
none fatally.
BANK LOOTERS
RESCUE FODR
LOST PEOPLE
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babies and now I am going to kill
all tho rest of you."
Mrs. Hanna jumped from the bed
grappled tho armed maniac and in
the struggle to prevent him carry
ing out his threat was frightfully
beaten about the head and face, but
managed to hold her husband until
the children, clad in their night
robes, fled into tho street. She then
followed them.
Hanna then locked himself In the
room with his two victims. The
police broke in and found him hold
ing the boy up by the leg and In
the act of drawing tho razor across
his throat. Hanna was overpowered
and handcuffed. He was crazed by
drink.
ISJ1 TROE
Capt. Chas. Bailey of Portland
Denies Allegations of Capt.
Olson of the Alliance.
PORTLAND, May 18,-Captaln
Charles Bailey, master of the bar
tug Tatoosh, denied in toto on the
wltnes3-stand every allegation made
by Captain B. W. Olson, of the steam
er Alliance, about being guilty of any
unseamanlike conduct while offering
to tow the disabled craft into the
Columbia river December 2 and 3.
He testified that the Alliance was un
manageable and had tho storm con
tinued through the night of her sec
ond stay, on the outside Captain Ol
son confided to him that ho intended
to head her toward Puget Sound.
Bailey swore that he did not
dicker with Olson over the towage
charge, but explained ot him Hat he
could not attend to such maui
it would have to be left to tho own
ers after they got into the river. Ho
further stated that he did not try to
frighten the passengers as testified
to by Olson, never having exchanged
a word with them. Ho said that two
of the passengers asked him what he
would charge to take them to Asto
ria, but he made no reply whatever.
Relative to the telegraph message
which had been given to Bailey the
following day, from F. P. Baum
gartner, agent of the Alliance and
which Olson said had been withheld
from him for two or three hours,
Bailey said he delivered it on the
end of the hawser which he placed
on board the Coos Bay liner. He
said that on orders of officers of tho
Alliance tho hawser was thrown
overboard. Again Bailey says ho had
the hawser and message put on the
Alliance and this time the note was
picked up and read and a tow was
accepted.
Owing to a rough bar he declared
that he did not go alongside of tho
Alliance until rather late, as he knew
it would bo Impossible to take her to
the Inside until about 4 o'clock, when
tho tide would bo right. When ho
did approach sufficiently near so as
to be heard ho stated that ho asked
Captain Olson If he still refused to
accept a tow.
"Olson refused," said Captain Bai
ley, "but I told him I intended to
take him fnjanyhow, whether he
agreed to if or not. It was then I
throw a lino on board with tho
message."
Captain Olson's testimony was
wholly along tho lino of tho complaint
which ho had filed with tho Inspect
ors, charging Bailey with unseaman
like conduct, which has been publish
ed. Ho reiterated that tho tugboat
skipper tried to frighten the passen
gers and withheld an Important tele
gram from him sent by F. P. Baum
gartner, of the California & Oregon
Coast Steamship Company, an hour
and a half before delivering it. In
all essential points Olson's testimony
was substantiated by tho following
passengers who wero on tho Alliance
at tho time: F. N. Clark, J. G. Ste
phens and A. A. Ansorgo. Purser
Harry Skinner also gave similar tes
timony. Witnesses for Bailey were Cap
tains McVicar, Staples and Cann, C.
II. Haddlx, O. Toser and Charles Tin
sloy. Tho hearing was concluded,
and It will bo a week or more before
a decision is rendered
WILL buy your good
Seo F. S. Dow.
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CELEBRATION IS
TfflTO ONE
Isaac J. Davis Killed at Eu
reka, Cal., While Welcom
ing Fleet Today.
EUREKA, Cal., May 19. During
tho demonstration here this morning
over the passing of the Atlantic bat
tleship fleet, an old cannon exploded
killing Isaac J. Davis and injuring
others.
The old gun was brought out by
enthusiasts who wanted to fire some
salutes for the men-of-war off Hum
boldt Bay. It was defective or over
loaded, exploding and breaking into
many pieces.
Well-Known Purser of Alliance
Assumes New Duties in
Marshfield Today.
Harry Skinner, for several years
purser on the Alliance and well
known and liked by everyone on
Coos Bay who has come In contact
with him, today assumed his new
ditties as agent of the company In
Marshfield. Tom James of North
Bend, who has been acting agent
since Mr. Shaw resigned a few
weeks ago, turned tho business over
to him.
The Alliance reached Coos Bay at
G o'clock last evening, having boon
delayed by the strong head wind
down. However, she established a
now record for loading and un
loading. In addition to discharging
the fifty odd passengers who came
down from Portland, she unloaded
175 tons of freight here and at
North Bend, loaded a carload of
sashes and doors at North Bend, took
on other freight hero and about
sixty passengers and sailed at 12
o'clock last night. Tho haste had to
bo made because she Is duo at Asto
ria Wednesday morning to take ex
cursionists out to see the fleet.
Many Leave Coos Hay.
The following was tho outgoing
passenger list of the Alliance:
J. S. Walker, D. E. Jones, wife and
two children; C. E. Jones, D. B. Hlg
glns, W. Wilkins and wife, T. D.
Mlnot, W. L. Gregory, H. S. Smith,
J. F. Glenn, E. F. Bonner, J. E. Rey
nolds, F. W. McMichaol, T. II. Mi
not, W. W. Gage, Fred Hoffman, J.
O. Stemmler, Mrs. W. W. Gage, O.
L. Ragan,- D. D. Hughes, A. L. Hick
ing, Father Donnelly, John Mahoney,
Mrs. E. Burkhart, A. Anderson, Rob
ert Norberg, Gust Lund, Perry W.
Bennett, Joe Gristlier and C. String
fellow. Many From Portland.
The Alllanco brought in the fol
lowing from Portland:
Mrs. A. Bansch, Chas. Frodellus,
Mrs. L. M. Perry, H. Gelce, G. Mar
chand, W. A. Lebt and wife, Orlln
Lebt, W. E. Clarko, Mrs. Clodfelter,
L. S. Parko, P. J. Brlx, P. A. Rnrick,
Mrs. J. A. Roberts, Mrs. M. F. Meyer,
Florence Meyer, Jas. Hlbberd, M. L.
Day, W. R. Whipple, Chas. Thorson
and wlfo, N. F. Thronor, W. L. Jones,
A. S. Rich, P. A, Price, Chas. Thorn,
Blanche Throsen, O, A. Freeman, E,
Slier, C. F. Willis, Dolllo Graham,
Geo, Crancer, Mrs. Rich, F. A, Gor
don, Jr., Thos. Hudon, V. P. Ed
wards, Stanley Bartlett and four
steerage.
WILL REVIEW THE FLEET.
President Roosevelt to Greet Them '
On Their Return.
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, May 19. Tho
SKINNER NOW
AGENT RERE
pjtatoes. twonty-four battleships will bo ro
Jviowed by President Roosevelt Fob-
HOUR
Plans of Many to See Great
Armada Here Are Spoiled
By the Change.
WAS RUNNING AT
FOURTEEN KNOTS.
Unexpected Speed Maintained
By, Vessels en Route to
Puget Sound.
(By Associated Press.)
LOS ANGELES, May 19. The
United States wireless station was
in communication with Hie flagship
Connecticut at midnight. The fleet
was then 1G5 miles north of San
Francisco and steaming fourteen
knots in heavy seas.
The above Associated Press dis
patch received by The Times shortly
before noon is the only definite in
telligence concerning tho where
abouts of the fleet that has reached
Coos Bay today. Rumors of all kinds
have been afloat.
Last night Secretary Walter Lyon
of the Chamber of Commerce, receiv
ed a telegram from the San Fran
cisco Examiner saying the fleet would
probably, pot reach Coos Bay until
Wpdnesday noon although It left
Frisco at 11 o'clock Monday morn
ing. This would allow for more
time than it Is generally believed
that the 'fleet will need in covering
the. 37G miles.
According to the Associated Press
dispatch nbove, the fleet will pass
Coos Bay sometime tonight. This
is probably correct because if it had
been otherwise. Rear Admiral Spcr
ry or someone connected with tho
fleet would have undoubtedly notified
someone on Coos Bay.
Czarina Won't Go Out.
It was definitely decided this
morning, on account of the lack of
definite information, that tho Cza
rina would not make any trip out
to see the fleet. A number of Coos
Bay people were planning to go out
to tho beach to spend this afternoon
and evening in hopes of catching a
view of tho fleet.
Meanwhile, the others who hoped
to seo tho fleet are thinking of a
poem that has soniethlnc about
"Ships that pass in the night."
Harry Skinner of the Alliance,
stated that late Saturday afternoon
tho Astoria Chamber of Commerco
received a message from Rear Ad
miral Sperry that the fleet would
each tho Astoria bar about noon
Wednesday. Tho message further
stated that tho fleet would bo off
Humboldt Bay at Euroka, Cal., about
G o'clock Tuesday (this) morning,
off Bandon, between G and S o'clock
tonight and pass Coos Bay between
10 and twelve o'clock tonight. Tho
fleet will como to anchor off tho As
toria bar for an hour or so, allowing
tho hundreds of excursionists from
northern- Oregon to seo them. Tho
Roanoke and Alliance will tako out
about 1,000 people.
F. S. Dow, who saw tho fleet at
San Francisco, says that tho regular
speed of the fleet Is ten miles per
hour. This they maintained on tho
trip around tho horn. At this rate,
ho figures thoy would reach Coo3
Bay after being out of Frisco about
37 hours, or pass hero about 3
o'clock tomorrow morning. '
BLOW UP CAR.
Dyuiuiiito Used on Track in Clove-"
laud, Ohio, Today.
(By Associated Press.)
CLEVELAND, May 19. Tho
trucks of a Suporlor Avonuo car woro
wrecked this morning and tho win
dows wero broken by tho oxploslon
of dynamite. It was filled with pas
sengers and a panic resulted but no
ono was hurt.
Notwithstanding tho widespread
disorder which prevailed last night,
tho Municipal Traction Company
claimed today to havo moro cars in
operation than at any time atneo tho
strike started.
ruary 22 next, tho dato of tho return
of tho Atlantic battleship fleet, Tho
Wisconsin nnd tho Nebraska woro
built on tho Pacific coast.
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