The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 28, 1899, Page 1

). ™ «§S Gal SITHDODPOHIO OS HOOD Twenty-five Cents a Month vy FIP IIS POP HOO OOOO OOOS: ail or Carrier THE SEATTLE, SEATTLE _ Ww WwW EV DR DSDAY Serr aN eer ET IRE RI ETT RN RET TI TERI SRS ETE AY TER A ERR TIE SC FETT 3s . Telephone Subscriptions te Pike 150 NING, JUNE 28, 1899. NO, 106, SOME PHYSICIANS ARE DISPLEASED By The Star's Statements Regarding the Medical Trust. AND THEY VOICE THEIR OPINIONS A Number of Seattle's Prominent Citizens Also Volunteer Remarks Upon the Interesting Subject ‘The Star's article on the “doctors'| visit physicians, nevertheless, pa- trust,” published yesterday, ts to-| tents are ariged he ay = Se day the one theme discussed by the} ea practice L emer & great deal of diseretion, While not a member Jocal medical fraternity Star re- of the King County Medieal society, Porters visited the office of nearly || pelieve that under present condi every physician in the clty and did tions the fees are reasonable and mot find one who had not read the) 1 do not mee any lack of con- article in question. Some who were eroney te qhargiog different fuse | to} rich and poor for the same serv! ROE regular readers of the paper had) Ts), haleve that a physician Fn Tecelved marked copies from other! violating the schedule if he di Practitioners, and there waa no hesl- bills rendered to tancy about talking on the subject | ° ‘when the interviewers appeared. An Foca = - Be A aga a physician: "I do not adhere religtous- Sen ie aremiade to see every DhY#-|Iy to the schedule, but do not belleve in Seattic, Dut many were OUt) inat the fees set forth are too high. attending to their professional du- We cannot come down to the tees ties, hence the poll was not aito-| charged in Eastern cities. I came to wether satisfactory, In every sae a in Nag he gy ger tlee under stern system © eee ee Oo | ton While I did $200 “gp Seen sees | business during the year, I found jt Phatic expressions of disapprodation necessary to draw on my bank dc- ‘Were made by those who did not ap- count for $150 at He close, I do not Prove of the course of the paper. think that the latitude given in the cae at anes We OT, patients Sa to mast 0. fea / nts y to meet dest an made to the reporters. ¢3t/ic Loca the ehanges and compli: 4s the intention of the Star to alw@y® cations that might result as the case Sive both sides of every controversy, advances, calling for more attention in @n endeavor to secure fair play. | dnd different treatment.” Not one of the doctors denied the Opinions of Druggists. Gorrectness of the statements made| Mr. A. B. @tewart, of Stewart & by the Star regarding the scale of Holmes, expressed a doubt te the Prices charged, or the organization existence of a real “doctors’ trust.” which exists to keep up the prices.| He did not think {t would hold to- Geveral did ask, however, for the | gether. He thought that those pa- Same of the physician who had giv- tients who could afford it were charg- em to the paper a copy of the private I dhominn ayrtneegrreder Amada Aedts, ~ “Dhe BPir could not con-| maintained for those who will not @istentiy grant these requests for in- pay, and someone must foot the bills. formation. it has, however, In its 1 can see no other use for two fee- possession one of the printed copies, rates.” of the “Constitution, By-laws and) Mr. Lee, of Lee's Pharmacy, Fee Bill of the King County meti-| Me. Lae. over the whole matter, and| cal Gociety.” presented to it by one dectared: “There is no Woctors’ @f the prominent doctors of Seattle, trust.’ That is a wrong statement ‘end the statements published yester- for a paper to make. If you want Gay regarding the fees and the pen-| ‘© Know ft, I don't have much re- alties for non-conformity were tak spect for & paper that will agita this sort of thing. When any other ‘Word for word from this pamphlet. | profession does as much for charity Statements of Doctors. jas the doctor's do.” said Mr. Lee, Dr. Thomas W. Sloan: “I do not | warmty, “then it will be time to raise @hink the schedule of fees here in| a howl.” Mr. Lee said that he doubt- Beattie is too high for the average ¢4 whether the doctors collected one-| petient. Of course, there are por- fourth of what was due them. He} @ons who are unable to pay the mint- *aid that charges here were higher mum fee, and to such 1 have often than in Canada, where he learned his @onated my services. The latitude business. “The whole thing Is mal- given in the schedule is based on the iciows,” he added. “there te no trust. Patient's ability to pay. It isa case Why, you might say there ts also a Of the rich paying for the poor. for trust among druggists, but there is Qn average must be struck somehow, Not. We simply make an agre oF physicians would be in bad straits. Ment to sell patent medicines at cer- ‘While I have never reduced the fees tain fixed prices. There i# no trust) ww the standard set by the so- | about it, though.” Mr. Lee wun) iy. I have often, in cases where I | Positive that it cost more to live in| it proper, rendered « bill for Seattle than tn other places. amount and accepted at por- Opinions of Citizens. tteenent.” | John Lamb, one of the schnot @irec- tors, said: “The prices charged by | Seattle physicians is excessive. They ask double the amount demanded in Eastern stat ‘The citizens of Se- atthe object. . . J. Booth appeared very re- Tuctant to discuss the question. He Geclined to say whether or not he ‘Would accept less than the schedule fee from 4 patient unable to pay such amount. eee City Engineer Thompson the Star is right in attacking the “doctors’ trust.” “The prices charg- ed in Seattle are a great deal high- er than those of other cities,” anid he, “and the poorer classes of peo- ple cannot afford to pay.” re ee | Police Clerk Kennedy does not like the idea of a “doctors” trust.” and) told « Star reporter today that some | steps whould be taken to discourage | it. “The only way the police can do,"’| he solemnly remarked, “is to form a trust-not to get sick,” one Dr. 8. J. Holmes: “IE do not think that any reputable physician would p ~scsdrrea @ patient to the extent of iting on payment in accordance ‘with the fee bill if he believed that BY #0 doing it would grievously em- Darrass him. It ie my custom @uch cases to present a bill accord- {pg to the schedule of the society, Dut to take what I can get in pay- Ment. As for the argument advanc- 4 against high fee the @uflerer is deterred from calling in @ phytician, knowing that he will be taxed according to our society's scale I will state that this schedule is not Suppored to be in the hands of any but members of the society, so that the patient is practically ignorant of ‘what he may be charged. ‘The poal- tion of the patient is a factor that is considered in fixing a fee. A Wealthy patient is, of course, charg- e4 more than one in more mode Circumstances, and this has always been the custom.” thinks . Palmer, proprietor of the Hotel Yor! “It's about time that medical fees in thie city should be| reduced. The cost of living tn Se- attle does not warrant the high charges of doctors. I am very giad to see the Star take the matter up. and I would like to see the doctors’ combine broken at once. People in Seattle have been overcharged t: | long by the doctors.” | . } “ee Dr, Annie Russell: “I am not a Counctiman Diller, of the Diller Member of the King County Medical | hotel: “Doctor's fees are, no doubt society, but have adopted their too high here when the cost of living of fees, as has every other is taken into consideration. I would| n of any standing In Beattie, | like to see the fees reduced. When I, however, accept emailer fees from $2.00 and $2.80 ts charged for a visit, poor patients. I believe that the it bears too heavily on people in ability of a person to pay should be| moderate circumstances. 1 don't considered in fixing the amount of know anything about the so-called ® bill The rates for medical ser- doctors’ combine. If there is one, it vices in Eastern cities cannot be should be broken.” eatabiiehed here, if for no other hades Teason than that the eecurity for A prominent tawyer in the city payment there doesn't exist here, n who did not wish hia name used, said Socount of the large floating pop | he knew of several cases where ox- tion, A physician in the Bast does| cessive fees were charged for visit Not lowe more than 10 per cent. of the ing the sick. One doctor called re- money due i Here he is for-| pentedly at a neighbors just across tunate if he doesn’t lose more than| the alley from his home, ahd charg- 2% per cent.” ed $2.50 per visit. . he whole secret) Assistant Postmaster Colkett did of high fees here in Seattle ew in the| not know anything of chargos elne- counter prescription habit. There is| where, but was ponttive that doctors not a drug store in Seattle, the pro-| did not charge the same here for vis. prietor and clerks of whicy are not | its of the same length. He remem continually usurping the functions of | bered one visit to his house within physicians and prescribing for cus-|the last month where the charge tomers. While, of course, the great-| was less than that given in the ®r number of such persons finally | schedule | Dr. F. A. Noble: Coat of Tar and Feathers DANVILLE, Hl riley, Heged w Rossville, wan severely whiteeaps and given a of tar and feathers, W covering caught a f for this place and was taken hospital June os fo beater whipped thick coat h no other ani treat to a he May Spank Her Husband NEW YORK, Jur The Ausky ve, Ausky spanking case was decided today by ce Justice Wakefield at Portchester, and Mrs. Ausky wae declared justified in spanking Me Ausky when he refused to bring up some coal, Judge Wakefield further told Mra, Ausky that she should re peat the spanking Whenever her husband got boisterous, Upon this Ausky jumped in a wagon, saying he would never RACE WON BY PENNSYLVANIA return, POUGHKEEPSI®, N. Y., June 28 One of the most exciting race in} boating circles was p off here lant night. Pennsylvania won, with unknown quantity, 4 1, the winner of four years, and Wisconsin, clase second. ‘ the races for the 5 Columbia were in ft at all after je Wisconsin would un edly have won by at leant three-quarters of length if a berry| crate had not got e way, In} the steers. order to avoid @ col man put the and wae not to make the best finioh. The 20,000 people who saw the race yelled them- aseives hoar over the « escsnrassing finish, NAVIGATION ON THE YUKON SKAGWAY, on the Upper Nay is tnoreasing June 22 igation Yukon daily, and the water in the lakes ts) rapidly deepning. Lake Bennett ts rieing from two to three inches per) lare Nicholas! Coburn, of the day. The warm weather of late has caused much snow to tin the mountains, aod many etreams are pouring into lake Linderman, Hen nett, Summit and Middle, The shal low water between Bennett and Cart- bon, which has heretofore been & five fertiliger and the plana to ¢ stock of Wi | Morriaan, of @4n Franciac Contracts tileer, and jons of fish | Increased in serious hindrance to navigation, ts now quite deep. IS IT ONLY A FAIRY TALE ? being recrulted( arrive they will report to Law- A hint that the Aispicared = with officially troops now at Maniia, ton instead of Otis, }ddministration i the work of Otis cannot be verified. MRS. McKINLEY FEELS BETTER Precpeate ery the Pr sident’s Trip to the Greot West. WASHINGTON, D. C The condition of Mra. McKinley was gteatly improved this morning. The feport that the president has can- celled his pros 1 Western trip on account of her condition i# untrue. He never promined to go to Minnvap- olis, or the Pacific coast, but accept- #4 invitations on the condition that nothing should prevent, and thus the matter stands, Unless something intervenes, the trip will probably be made. | home, « June B=) o'clock this morning, of pneumonia, MEETING. There will be a special meeting to- night of the Alaska Geographical soclety at the parlors « Rainier- jrand hotel, to meet a party of din- tinguivhed gentler who are in ¢ leave for A steamer Quee on ngements have been made for short addresses by | Col. James Hamilton Lewis, Col. A, J. Blethen, Rev. H. H. Gowen, and others. ‘The attendance of members of the society ta re quested FUNERAL OF THE ENSIGN, BPOK ANE, 28 largest and rr ever held here of Ensign John June the *t impressive funerals wan that yesterday Robert Monaghan, One of U. #..N., who was slain in Samoa Civic ceremonies were held in the forenoon. The services were held in the church of the Jesuit Fathers o | Gonzaga, and the funeral cor was made up of secret orders, mill tary orders, city officials, and many others. BLEW OUT . HER FLUES Recttont © ona Stoambest Ac- companied by Fatalities. ST. LOUTS, June 28,—The steamer St. Paul w out her boller-flues, near Alton, last night. ‘Three men were scalded to death. Two others received probable fatal injuries, The coroner's inquest over the re- mains of James Murray, who was murdered Monday night, was held this afternoon, and the jury brought in a verdict of murder by someone unknown to the jury, Several wit nesses to the crime testified, but nothing new wae brought out, | made a rigid investigation,” | ed of Mr ed that “the committee would inves- | tigate the rumor, and tf any one was/ | found guilty, arre the (IGANTIC COMBI ‘Fertilizer Trust With $2,900,000 HAS JUST BEEN INCORPORATED | BY filing arti¢les of incorporation this morn the North American Fertiliser & ery company start- ed the formation of a gigantic trust! to control the fertilizer industry of | the Pacific hwest. There are ute on the com to induce them all trust, The capital 11 Be $2,509,000, Tho tne ors of the North- weet Pertiliget & Fishing company ne tvte jare: J, Purth, Geo, W. Dickson, ik. C out of the coar #0, | Neufelter, and James 8. Goldsmith, | to turn it in time! of Beattie; @n@ Nicholas Ohlandt, Clarence W. Coburn, and Alexander and the capital stocks 181,000,000, They have secured the inhon & Colt Fertil- ising plant, nacertes, The plant will be enl new and improved machinery be put tn, and the output very, Materiaily increased. already been signed for the total @@tput of the plant for the next 10 . at good prices The out lor this season will and 2 tons of fer- n 3000 and 3000 gal- which wil! be greatly enwuing years. of the proposition Handt, Clarence W. of Coburn & Te- vis. of San Pranpiecs. and Alexander Morrison, a prominent San Prancis- co attorney, Pepresenting large in- teres. ‘The fertiiizer manufactured by the trust will be shipped mostly to Japaa the Mi telanda, ae THAT BRIBERY INVESTIGATION done, #0 far by be between The men money from the Chinere optum | them police protection tn gale WASHINGTON, D. C, June %%.—| the charges polo that variou#! phe Navy department recelved the 2: It is intimated here that when the| city oMfciais were accepting bribe) gojowing this morning: The Strike Sett CHICAGO, U1, June %.—The stock yard strike has been settled, and the }inen went back to work this morn. jing. | oritting for the Prize. COLFAX, Wash, June 2.—-Com pany B, National Guard of hie ton, received He new uniforms, 45 in number, yesterday morning, sah spent the day in asserting them and getting them ready to weer boys are drilling every night In the hope of winning the $100 prise at Tacome on July 4, and also have! strong hopes of being given op-| ippines, COLFAX, Waah., | will hold @ camp meeting in the | krove on Clear creek, five miles east of Colfax, beginning July 8 and con- tinuing ten days, and possibly long- er, if the interest manifested will is expected as most of the ministers in the district are expected to be present and aselat in the work, Sev. eral prominent revivalists will be present, GOVERNMENT TO INVESTIGATE decided to xend out @ revenue cutter to investigate the mystery surround- ing the disappearance of the little steamer Jessie and the 18 people the Kuskokwim river. News to this effect wan recetved yesterday in a letter from 8, M, Rock, frat assiat- ant engineer of the cutter Corwin, to Richard Camden. The states that the cutter has received orders to investiga expedition, and asks that photo- graphs and other identifying articles | Be nent, The cutter is now en route | to Kuskokwim bay, in Bering sea. ‘Those on the Jesste were: W. T. Reyton, Tennesse; KR. P. Friarson, | Tennessee; Dr. RH Allen, Kentucky: A. C. Stetson, Harry Hedreen, Se- attle; BE. 8. Lines, Connectiout; 0, F. Amraad, Seattic; Engincer Kensier, ~ Smalthoure, C. H. Wintchell, J. T. Murphy, Kentuck; El Knudsen, Genesee, Idaho; Clifford Hare, Eng- land; Japanese cook, Rev. Rh. Web- ber, wife and two children. DEWEY MOVES TOWARD HOME Another Cablegram Telling of ~ Mile Start for Port Seid, WASHINGTON, D. C, June 2%— “Colombo, Port Said.” Transiated, the dis- jamokers of the city, and promising | patch means, the Olympia, with return. | Dewey aboard, galled this morning Counciiman Wm. McArdle, one of the) trom Colombo to Port Said, and will members of the committee, stated to] make no intermediate stops. a Star reporter this seagege® ean the committees would begin a o of the Chinese dens on Friday one get what facts they could from the opium amokers, “Do you intend - was Tn reply he cat Me Artie. id follows, Charles A. Howard, a colored bar- age 4% died suddenly at his 126% Third avenue, at 1 ber, after a short tines. This morning he expressed a desire to sit up for & short time, and he was placed in a chair, Several minutes later he fell forward dead. He leaves a wife—a white woman. PREDICTS RATE WAR. A well known railway man of this city predicts that within a fortnight a rate war to Bastern points will commence between the Southern Pa- cific, orthern Pacific and Great Northern railways, He says that a big cut in the present rates is bound be made, and that a8 warm a@ time it as that during the rate war of last year will be experienced, In railway circles today there was | conniderable rate war rates talk of @ pending being cut In two. Railway | officials however were reticent on the subject, and several stated that there Was absolutely nothing in the The ratilway man who predi rate cutting, this mornin The ar out of the cut made by the! Southern Pacific to get the National Educational assectat to travel its line, A rate was made much lower than the Northern Pacific and Great Northern ever thought of. A protest was made by the North. ern Pacific and Great Northern rail- ways.p but it apparently has not been heeded, if the Southern Pa- cific doe t offer a satisfactory ex planation of ft# big cut in this par- tleular case, I am in ta rate war will follow, are several minor causes that lead me to believe that the pr ent rates cannot be maintained three y. # the! one lines 4 now at loggerheada over both freight and passenger rates, and if the ultimatum sent out by the Northern lnes to the South-| ern Pacific #* not given, the proper | consideration, lower rates will fol- At the C. P. R. offices hore, nothing but rumors of a pending rate war has béen heard, Several eastbound travelers made enquiries at the off ces of the other lines as to a prob- able reduction in the rate, and we informed that there had been no 4 finite move in that direction yet. An answer from the Southern Pa in @ dayror two, which would probably result tn @ position to CHICAGO AT LAST SHOCKED CHICAGO, Lil, June %.—The eyes of all Chicago were turned today on the lake front fountain, and the gasp which was caused when the nude figures of herolo-sized nymphs were first exposed to the critical gaze of cultured Chicago was lengthened and deepened into titanle propor- | Gone, These nymphs were modeled | bY young wornen under the direction of Lorado Taft, director of the sculp. ture department of the Art Insti- tute. The majority of the great crowds Were of the opinion that Chicago's morals were going #traight to the bow wows if such nudity In stone was to be permitted to be on view. Preatient C. C. Bartlett, of the Law Enforcement league, said: “The trouble with these figures in my op- inion, i# that they are not nymphe. | A nymph iva ature with @ perfect figure and therefore a beautiful fig- |ure. These figures were evidently | made from models who were dis- torted by tight-lactng. The figures, ; therefore, are those of nineteenth |century corset victims." "You couldn't keep the people off the grass,” said Policeman Dolan, bunch of plaster fairt Tt would) take forty coppers to do it, I have been on this post long enough to know something about art myself, both nude and nudeless, but that ts © came down the the best that « pike. One little feather-weight wo- man went over there and ‘rubbered’ | at tt 4 me why I permitted such a spec- tacle. present trouble} | IN THE EAST | DENVPR, Col, June 28.—Accord- ing to reports recetved from Secre- tary Charies F. Martin, of the Na- tional Live Stock association, the drouth has destroyed all the large Colorado ranges. “The reports to hand,” said Mr, Martin, “show that unless there je speedy relief from the | present conditions, the loss to stock. men will be something enormous. | Even should the cattle and sheep | survive the summer they will be #0 poor and em come that they will drop like leaves |from the forest.” Already cattle are dying {n the San Luis valley, where the drouth has as- sumed & most serious phase, Like jconditions, varying in severity, are reported from Northern New Mexi- co, parts Oklahoma, the Indian nations, Western Kansas and the | southern part of Utah, “As T understand {t an X-ray wit | |go straight through a man's head | There is nothing quite so penetrating -|i# there?” cific is, it ts understood, Jooked for “Oh, I don't know, Did @ hear my daughter slng¥* enilhing ‘The | portunity to eee service in the Phil- | Camp Meeting at Colfax, June 2 The | | Methodists of the Moscow, district | warrant a contimuance. 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If we could trace the waalte: of ‘fastons arising from their mi: it would be found to be beyond calculation. And yet there is no industry which gets such little support from the general public. Hiding behind the remark, “I don’t know anything about such things,” there is a world of pre- judice with which the malicious and the envious may al- ways be counted upon to use in wrecking even properties proved to be exceedingly valuable. There is no class of men superior to the prospector and miner. Their courage is unequaled and with hearts over- flowing with the milk of human kindness they are ever foremost where quick, generous charity ts in demand The 2 or 3 per cent. per month Shylocks will prob- ably differ with us in our estimate of the legitimacy of mining, especially as a bulwark against which future waves of misfortune will harmiessiy break in their wild efforts to engulf the prosperity of Seattle. There is such a thing ax aggravating common calamity by talking of matters of which we are wholly ignorant. JOHN E. McMANUS & SON, 918 Second Avenue “when they got @ ‘rubber* on that | — Orders Taken for Wedding and Party Cake, — Special Rates to acon Hotels, & Steamboats Union Bakery, - + = Manufactarers of Hardtack and Toast 119 Pike St. All Kinds of Bread, Cake and Pies, P. A. HALLBERG, Prop. Comfort on a Hot Day you can enjoy when your bathroom is fited up with @ good shower and @ handsome porcelain tub, We will fit you up @ bathroom with open sanitary plumbing, @ fine shower and a tub that looks inviting and luxurious, at @ reasonable cost, RAUTMAN PLUMBING C0 Cor, Third Ave. and Spring St. | Festooning, Cannons, istols, Caps Bunting, Flags, Paper Balloons, Japanese Lanterns, Cuban, British FIR and Hawaiian Muslin Flags, Fire- | crac kers and Torpedoes. 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