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Show 8e Captain Suicides In Presence of Wife and Children. The ship Spartan has arrived at Hau Ftti'flsc'o from Puget Sound, report In that her master, Captain K. Kjeien had Jumped overboard on Aukui 5. He wns taken out of the water In en nnrenH, loua condition and died within an bour. He was burled at sea the following fol-lowing day. Hla wife and two children, to lioto he was talking nt the time he Jumped overboard, were on deck, when the funic event happened. No motive fr the act la known. KJereu wa a Norwegian 45 year old. |