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11 KARST .-5 OliJIUAl AlliAiM/l, VIA., OUlNUAl, MAY
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Mrs. Von Ciaussen Denies Pact MARRIES FRIEND'S IC MILE TUNNEL
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Won't Marry Prominent Briton
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Her Stormy Career Is Recalled
Mrs. Ida Von (JIaussen shown in an aeroplane while on a
visit in London.
WIFE; APOLOGIZES;
CALLS IH "JOKE"
Street Car Inspector May Also
BEING PLANNED BY
CANADIAN PACIFIC
This, With Three Others Con-
Discharge First Husband,
Who Is a Conductor.
templated, Will Practically
Eliminate the Rockies.
Figures In a Negative Capacity.
NEW YORK, May *10.—Cablegrams
from London report that Mrs. Ida
Von Clausen is not to marry Fred
erick Davis, Jr., whose family are
among the prominent persons of Great
Britain. The match had been publicly
announced and the denial was of gen
eral interest.
It is the first time in her unusually
busy career that Mrs. Von Ciaussen
has ever figured in the news in a neg
ative capacity. Heretofore she has
been a live, active figure in the doing
of something, and there is no woman
of this generation who has created so
much interest in her earnest efforts to
see ’ that no stagnation ever took
place in her immediate neighborhood.
Mrs. Von Clauasen is the daughter
of Adolph Ciaussen (minus the "von’.’),
a merchant. Her grandfather was
Mike Byrnes, once a New York con
tractor, who left a comfortable for
tune. From it Mrs. Ciaussen holds an
interest amounting to one-eighth in
the Hotel Lorraine that pays her
about $C,000 a year.
From this beginning she has caused
cyclonic disturbances* at the court of
a Kiftg. been a thorn in the 1 side of a
President of the United States, a com
bative litigant in courts, the assail
ant of bank officers in a knockdown
fight-, and has generally commanded
the center of the stage whenever it
pleased her to start something.
As Ida Ciaussen she married Dr.
William Francis Honan. The wedding
took place in 1899, and one child, a
little girl, was bom to the couple.
She got a South Dakota divorce in
1905, and shortly after that event
went abroad. It. was during the sum
mer that a naval officer introduced
the tall, striking-looking woman to
old King Oscar, of Sweden. The in
troduction was at a lawn fete, and the
King told her to drop in and see him
any old time she happened to be in
his kingdom.
She happened to be along that way
in 1907, and went over to Minister
Charles H. Graves’s house in Copen
hagen for the purpose of having him
present her at court. In the mean
time she had prefixed t,h£ tilth
“Counters” to her name and added the
link of “von” on the strength of the
idea that she belonged to a noble
famih of Germany Graves was not
satisfied with her credentials and >de-
clined to present her. If regret ever
comes to an official at a foreign court
Minister Graves probably is entitled
to pose a? an expert authority on re
She preferred charges, at YVasnin-
ton against the Mirry: r. ^ She went
in person to the White House when
Roqsevelt was President and de
manded his removal. The patient
buffer, Loeb, was then keeper of the
tent door at the White House, and he
shunted Mrs. Von Ciaussen off with
out allowing her to get at the Presi
dent.
She came to New York, prepared a
complaint addressed to the Supreme
Court of the United States, and filed
it in all of the newspaper offices in
town. In it she named Roosevelt,
Minister Graves and his wife, and
Robert Bacon, Ambassador to France,
as defendants, and she besought the
Supreme Court to force some lawyer
to represent her. The burden of her
complaint was that the officials had
Kept her out of society and that the
hotels in this country considered her
an undesirable citisseness* on account
of their activity. Nobody ever paid
any attention to the suit, and she took
a glass pistol, loaded with perfume,
up to Saratoga, wheer the Republi
cans were pointing with pride and
viewing with alarm in State conven
tion in 1911 to oppose anything that
.Roo.vovelt wanted. A s he wanted
almost everything in sight, she had
plenty of * opposing to do, and the
papers had a lively lot of gossip about
her doings.
Trouble in Court.
’About the vamo time she appeared
in the Domestic Relations Court to
make a tight upon her former hus
band, and created such a scene in
court that the Judge had a couple of
capable policemen eject her vi et
armis. She strenuously obpected, and
went out in the street, mounted a
goods box bnd spoke her mind to a
grinning street crowd.
The woman is powerful and ath
letic. Her arms are like steel, and
she is proud of her muscle. When
she could not get the officials' of the
United States Mortgage & Trust Com
pany to see a financial matter in the
light that impressed her, she invaded
the banking house at 55 Cedar Street,
and when the smoke of battle cleared
two vice presidents were stretched on
the floor, knocked out by punches
from hef gobd right.
Her troubles were more or less of
a minor nature for a time, but she put
all of the energy of a gladiator into
them.. T-liey recruited in her'being
rent to Bloomingdnle as an insane
person. She fought this procedure,
and Judge Morschauser.- in March.
1912, declared her sane and directed
her release. Then she announced that
she was to marry a distinguished
citizen of another country whose
name she declined to give. Following
her arrival in London, some week*
ago, it was* called that Mr. Davis was
the man.
first real jolt several days ago. Cobb
jumped on his car and said:
“I want to apologize to you,
George."
“What for?” asked George, who had
an idea when th" inspector came on
board that he was going to be called
down for something.
“I want you to Bee that lam doing
the right thing and am playing the
man.” continued Cobb.
"What do you mean? What are you
apologising to me for?” asked Sut
ton.
Cobb laughed and said:
“Oh, it’s nothing but a little joke.
I’ll tell you about it later. ”
Then he jumped off the car.
Cobb referred to his “little joke”
several times after that and Mrs.’
Sutton also appeared to have some
sort of secret.
Finds Marriage Record.
“I became suspicious.'’ said Sutton,
“and questioned her about Cobb last
Sunday. She owned up. I could hardly
believe it, but I took a day off yester
day and went to San Rafael. I found
at the registrar’s office that Cobb and
my wife were married on March 22,
1910. She had given her grandmoth
er’s name of Mary Coonan.
“I don’t know what made her do It.
She says that she don’t know. He per
suaded her with his soft words, prom
ises of money and fine clothes. She
told me he had promised her these
things.
“It is a Serious case. I don’t want
to cause anyone harm, but I want
Cobb punished. He knew she was
married to me. He knew of the chil
dren. Some men would kill him. but
I can’t see what good that would do.
I have placed the ease in the hands
of my attorney and it is puzzling him
how to figure it out. I don’t want to
do anything to my wife. I want to
see Cobb punished, hut I don’t want
him hurt Cobb told me he would
square it by having the marriage an
nulled, but that would be letting him
off too easy.
Both men have been in the employ
of the company more than 15 years.
Sutton resides at 2294 Union Street
with hlfc wife and twd children, one a
boy eight years old and a girl five
years. Cobb lives at 2717 Union
Str.eet.
Thanksgiving eve, 1903, Sutton mar
ried Agnes McGuire, who had come
to this country from Ireland. They
were married at St. frigid's Church
in Van Ness Avenue. For the firs:
few years life was happy*for the cou
ple. As an old friend of Sutton, Cobb
was a frequent visitor.
through freight trade, mainly meats'
and fruits, between the Pacific States
and the Canadian prairies.
The third transmountain and Brit
ish Columbia line will be by way of
Edmonton, in the northern competi
tive territory. Two practicable pass
es remain in the North, the Pine Riv
er paes and the Peace River pass.
Both would open up fine, productive
territory and either would give the
Canadian PacifC what it Is ambitious
to obtain—easy access to Northern
Pacific ports by way of Saskatoon
and Edmonton.
It is said the completion of these
improvements will make the Cana
dian Pacific main line 300 miles
shorter than that of any other trans
continental railway either in Canada
or the United States.
The Kicking Horse Pass was a
historic stumbling block in the path
way of the Canadian Pacific Railway,
and it was the dominent genius of
Sir Donald Mann for railway con
struction. together with laborious in
vestigations by some of the best en
gineers in the world, which enabled
the company to penetrate the barrier
with the 4 1-2 per cent grade ihat
existed for twenty year*. That grade
has latelv been reduced to 3 1-2 per
cent, and it will be less than 1 per
cent when the tunnelling is com
pleted. The route will also be short
ened by five miles.
CAPTAIN LORD TITANIC
SCAPEGOAT SAYS PAPER
LONDON, May 10.—The May num
ber of the Nautical Magazine con
tains a defense of Captain Lord, the
sklpepr of Leyland liner Californian,
who was reprimanded by the British
Court inquiry Into the Titanic dis
aster for neglecting to answer that
vessel’s wireless calls.
The periodical maintains that sev
eral unidentified vessels were much
nearer the Titanic than the Califor
nian was. yet no steps were taken to
trace them. Captain Lord, it says,
did not have the opportunity of de
fending himself.
"In consequence of the finding of
the court. Captain Lord was asked ui
resign, and has been without employ
ment until recently
'The Board of Trade declined to
hoid an inquiry into his conduct when:
asked by him to do so after the
Titanic inquiry.”
WINIPEO, May 10.—A double
railway tunel. 16 miles long, the long
est In the world by nearly four mile*,
is being planned by the Canadian Pa
cific Railway.
It will pierce the Rocky Mountains
through Kicking Horae Pass, link
ing Alberta and British Columbia. It
will pass under the crest of the Rocky
Mountains. Its eastern outlet will
be in Alberta, its western in British
Columbia.
Cost $14,000,000.
It is estimated that the tunnel,
with nil modern appliances for con-
etruction. will cost over $14,000,000
and will take seven years to build.
The Canadian Pacific has an even
greater plan afoot in the West. For
purpose?* of commerce the company
proposes practically to eliminate the
Rocky Mountains. It is said to be
its plan to have no less than three,
possibly four, distinct routes from
Winnipeg to the Pacific Coast. Two
of these routes arc already partially
completed; one of them, the present
main line. Is done except for tunnel
improvement.
The line partially built is the
Crow’s Nest Road, which, after tra
versing the Kootenay district to Nel
son, will almost certainly be directed
to Portland, are., through the Cas
cade Mountains. The object of this
line will be to capture the fast
! itiiSt
SAN FRANCISCO, May 10.—George
E. Sutton, a street car conductor,
found out yesterday that his wife,
with whom he is living, had been
married for three years to his chum,
Charles W. Cobb, a street car in
spector.
But Cobb has apologized.
Besides Sutton might lose his job
if he gets too peevish about it. Cobb
is an inspector on the same line that
Sutton is a conductor—the Presidio
and Ferries railroad.
“Darn it!” said Sutton. “He knew
1 was married to her. What did he
want to go and marry her for?”
Sutton thinks it is a serious case.
Cobb, however, and Mrs. Sutton-Cobb
referred to it as “a little joke.” Sut
ton had felt vague premonitions that
things were not quite right between
his wife and Cobb, but he got his
Woman W:
: oirred Whole World At
Kiss at Midnight
Wakes 50 Sleepers
Outburst of Affection Also Results
j in Call 'for Reserves in Quiet
and Sleepy Yonkers.
NEW YORK. May 10.—Fifty
guests sleeping soundly in a Yonkers
hotel were routed from their beds
and police reserves were called out
early yesterday all on account of a
kiss.
According to Policeman Barney
O’Neil, Miss Gretta Smart, a fash
ionably dressed young woman living
at 163 Nepperham Avenue, Yonk
ers. was the author of the fuss.
Miss Smart reached Yonkers with
an escort shortly after midnight. H
had been to a theater in Manhattan.
She and escort went to a hotel in
Getty Square to have supper. As she
was leaving the restaurant an hour
later she says a young man approach
ing her on the sidewalk attempted
to kiss her.
She rebuffed him, and, becoming
hysterical, created a commotion that
brought the guests from their beds,
and subsequently the police.
Chickens Raised on
$1,000,000 Tract
Pittsburg Woman Keeping Down the
High Cost of Living by Little
Farm.
PITTSBURG, May 10.—Mrs. John
S. Flannery, president of the Mar
keting Club of Pittsburg, will solve
the high cost of living problem by
raising her own chickens and vege
tables upon a million dollar tract of
land at Grand Boulevard and Fifth
Avenue.
Mrs. Flannery has rented the old
McCurdy homestead, which is within
a stone s throw of the University of
Pittsburg and Carnegie Institute. She
got it at a bargain, she asserts, and
is really saving $10 in rent.
Mrs. Flannery moved into her new
home Monday, and had the ground
around the house ploughed and put
in some of the seeds. Chicken coops
were made ready and a hen with 11
chicks, purchased at $2 from a down- i
town butcher, was installed. Mrs. I
Flannery has dug up practically all I
o/ the ground.
From her "farm” Mrs. Flannery ex
pects to get fifty bushels of potatoes
and fifty heads of Yorkshire cab- |
bnge. She also has planted corn,
beets, lettuce, onions, parsnips, car
rots and radishes. She plans to plant
pumpkin seeds, peas and beans. She
Secured her seeds from the Govern
ment.
VOLUBLE WOMAN
EASILY EMPTIES
THE COURTROOM
Judge, Prosecutor, Her Own
Counsel, Witnesses and All
Except Her Husband Fled.
ST. LOUIS, May 8.—A woman who
was prosecuting witness in a case in
Justice Willecken’s Court in Clayton,
a suburb, talked down the prosecut
ing attorney, talked down her own
lawyer, talked her case out of court,
talked the witnesses out of the room,
talked the Judge off the bench and
kept on talking until everybody con
cerned except herself and her hus
band had taken refuge in (light.
She is Mrs. Clara E. Furnish of
Menchain Park. St. Louis County. She
was there to prosecute Clara Ming, a
negrosH, for disturbing the peace. The
defendant pleaded not guilty ami As
sistant Prosecutor Chappell called
Mrs. Furnish to the stand.
Rapid Talker.
“Your Honor, this is a frame-up,”
she began, speaking rapidly, as soon
»ts *he had been sworn. “But 1 am
going to tell you just how It Is. 1
had to go to”—
"Wait a minute!” shouted Chappell.
“What do you”
** to the grocery to get some
things and told my two little boys to
come down and”
“Hold on!” shouted Chappell. “What
do you mean by a frame-up?”
“This whole thing Is a frame-up.
And told my boys to come down to
the grocery, but this Clara Ming”
“Just ft minute, madam.” said the
Judge. ’Let’s got this thing straight.”
• Judge, I know this is a frame-up.
This Ming woman locked them in the
3
torney, Charles Noble broke In suave
ly. Hut Mrs. Furnish kept on talk*
ing.
'Your Honor the case is dlsmlsd*
ed!” shouted Chappell.
Mrs. Furnish kept on talking.
"Mr. Constable, tell the witneeseq
to go home!” Judge WUlfecken ex
claimed.
But Mrs. Furnish did not pause.
Chappell ( aught up his books and
departed. Noble followed soon after
ward. The witnesses filed out. But
Mrs. Furnish went on with her story.
Still Talking.
After another effort to stay the
tide of words the Justice announced
court was adjourned and hastened
out of the room. Mrs. Furnish fol
lowed him, trying to explain, until
he had disappeared into another of-
floe,
One of the last persons to leave
the court was the defendant. Bhe
had been looking at the prosecuting!
witness with amazement.
“Is they through with me?” she
asked a spectator, getting an affirm*,
ative answer.
“Well, that white lady’s collocation
sho’ is surprising ain’t it?” she- ob*
served. .<
house ——
"Wait, Mrs. Furnish.” her own at-
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