The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 12, 1901, Page 1

A EINE: ae eoeroee SIX CENTS A WEEK VOL. 2 NO, 277. 1 PEOPLE SCORE A vicORY THE QUO WARRANTO Action Heard in Judge Jacobs Court This Morning and No Removal Is Allowed—Able Counsel for the State. hearing of the petition for re coed fuperior court, the gas company, came on oe Judge Jacobs An‘four and ong-hai should the defense set up by the gas com- pany. In the second bout the people score &@ victory over the gas company. THE GAMBLERS ARE NOW SAD “Gambling shall not exist above Yesier way,” says Mayor Humes, and it now remains to see if the po- Mee department will close several te gambling establishments which last night opened their doore | Aged public. It was stated in po- circles this morning that H. B. Kennedy had opened up in the How- ard building on First avenue. The Gamblers declare that if not per- mitted to publicly they gamble will establish resorts in the heart of the city and continue their vocation. in spite of the police force, Mayor | Humes, or others. It was rumored about the tenderloin this morning that several of the boss gamblers had declared their intentions to open up what is known in gambling vern- acular as “brace” faro games, where- fn victims are, when steered to the lace by cappers, and fleeced out of le money. Just what action the police wilt take is not known, but it is expected that by tomorrow the proprietors of gamen above Yesler way will be giv- @n orders to clone. AROUND THE STATE Garfield has @ number of cases of fearlet fever. i. The Yakima Armory association will be incorporated with a capital of $4,000. : ‘The Olympia chamber of commerce has urged passage of the Nicaragua eanal bill. eS E. W. Winberg has been elected ehiet of police of Colfax, and J| 3. Carter deputy. | 0. EB. Weymoth wae arrested at Port Townsend Tuesday for peddling without a license. E. A. MacYonaid, state dairy com- missioner, is preparing a substitut law for the pure-food law now in force ‘The receipts of the Whatcom pont- office for the last quarter of 19@ were $4408. Fairhaven postal receipts show a large gain over thone of last year ‘The Incrense in money order busi- nes was $16,000. Dr, R. L. Markley has been ap- neinted quarantine officer Lov Bell- Phone Main 1050 ® NE; | were set out. ingham bay ave had to wire to Pe for instructions. The regents of Agricultural Station considering 1 98 the insti Experiment of Sclence . name the Senator Warren Spokane county | the stature a bill for the cre of road commission, to be posed of three members named by w Will Intraduce Polman. of the governor The newly elected marshal of Kv erett announces that all gamblers slot-machine men and keepers and inmates of houses of ill-fame mus pay their regular monthly Anes | to the elty treasury The date of the governor's Inaug ural ball has been changed to the evening of Jan. 16. P ng the ball @ legislative reception will b given at the executive mansion by Gov, and Mre. Rogers ... A rough and tumble fight “ook place at Spokane Monday in the Superior court roome between At torneys Frank Graves and Deputy Prosecutor Miles Poindexter ©. H. Neal was presiding and ft each participant $15. The sheriff, who sought to part received a black eye. A. B. Poole estimates the value of the hop crop of Yakima county for 1900 at $364,000. see J, W. Blackwell, superintendent of the Skokomish fish hatchery states that has com fall salmon. which 11,665,000 eggs were ne cured. tee Reports have been recently receiv ed from different parts of the state from which it is estimated that nearly 1,000,000 fruit trees will be set out during the coming season Last year about 750,000 it trees eee Ite reported from Sedro-Woolley that the firm of Hightower Bros. has dissolved and two new firms or- ganized by the members of the late concern. J. T. Hi & ©o will continue to te the mill at Tower. EB. Hightower & Co. has secured a large tract of timber upon which they are erecting a mill & short distance from Hamilton, on the Seattle and Northern reed The Port Angeles City Council has been asked for terminal facilities for ® railroad that will ultimately ex- tend from from Angeles to Gray's Harbor. ‘The applicants are Josiah Quiney, ex-mayar of Boston H. Ferrons. general counse! of the Western Union Telegraph Co. and ex-Gov. Stone of Pennsytvanio The applicants to commence work within 9 days, to bulld and equip nine miles of the road from Angeles within nine months. and the balance of the read com- plete to Gray's Harber within two years, orinst “THE DUKE OF BLAK DIAMOND of Wirchester at the Mines and He Borrowed Money. An alleged duke has been holding down Black Diamond for about two months, or rather did hold the bauy coal town as his own, until Inet Sat urday. The Duke of W =x bas now gone, and with him several bundred dollars belonging to confid ing acquaintanc Two months ago « goodicokin suave, young man wandered Into th town and gained work at one of the colliertes. He proved husky and strom, and a good fellow where- withal. Nobody knew him, or even Greamed of the alleged grandeur of his personage. He wore neither fine raiment, nor did he carry unlimited gold, but rather worked as other mortals are wont to do in and about the mines. ‘Three weeks ago today the scion of nobility was ordered to another job a little more auduous than he one he had. The nobleman's breast swelled, and he sald: “It’s little of this work I really have to do. iff tola my story, scon would I be above the shovel a the pick.” He told his story at his boarding house that very night, and amazed and fascinated bis bearers with a tale of wealth and grandeur. He enid his noble uncle, the Duke of Winchester, had just died in Lin colnshire, Ieng., and he had fallen not only into @ several million dol- jar estate, but into a dukedom as well. He showed « couple of papers signed by Queen Victoria~-no matter where he got them—and his word and these papers carried suffictent weight to enable him to quit work and Hive off of his credulous friends. He began to borrow right and left, and his credit good. He promis ed all kinds of pay when his remit | tance arrived. It never came, and now some tlack Diamond folks say he has gome after it. If this ts he took many and many @ good American borrowed dollars with him. THE ANNUAL | The annual meeting of the Seattle | ¥. M. C. A. will be held next Mon- |day evening. Reports on the work that has been done during the past year will be read and plans for the future discussed. Kight new mem bers will be elected to the board of directors: Tomorrow Rev, Hf. D. Te ver an address to the mem association at 3:30 p. m. Cc. K. Ober, the international M,C. 5. # Seattle for the iaat few days, lieave toninght for St. Paul is. ¥. retary, who has been in will and | CINCINNATI, ©., Jan. 12—~The | Saengerfest Athietic ation is fully determined to pull off the Jef fries-Rublin fight Fe The pub Me sentiment, howev is to the The mintet women contrary clubs and other organizations oppos ed to the fight are unusually aetive, Judge | PRIZE-FIGHT | SEATTLE, A TOP LINER IN THE CONGRES SIONAL ‘VAUDEVILLE SHOW WASHINGTON SATURDAY EVENING, S- ass but it is now up to the mayor. That | official today renewed hie promise to | the Athietic club to issue a permit twe days before the fight. It ts gen- erally thought that the mayor's per- mit wilt be one for ® sparring ex- Initbition only. The directors will| = take chancen on proceeding un- iS An informal meeting the mem of bers of the bar was held yesterday, | and an opinion waa sent to Mayor| Fleischman. The opinion held that) for the last 13 years the Jaws of| Oto have been very severe against | prixe-fighting. The attorneys held | that a ght for the champtonship of | the world, could not be termed a/ sparring exhibition. It further points | out that the Saengerfest athletic | elua 6 an organiaation whose arti- cles were signed after the Jeftries- | Ruhlin Gght was agreed upon. j The attorneys of the evangelical) anpociation of this city have out «| warrant for the arrest of Gue Ruhtin | ag soon an he appears. The statute of the ot makes it a felony to a) man to be training for « fight while ' te. ” MARINE NEWS. ‘The schooner Winslow arrived at) Port Townsend from Santa Crus. The Britich steamor Glenfarg ar- rived at Port Townsend from Kalo Chou this morning. | The British steamer Caithness ar- rived at Port Townsend from Muro- | ran. LOND ACCEPTED. The $35,500 bond of F. McClellan for the improvement of Broadway from Yeater way to Roy street, con- | ordinance 6311, was reeetved by the chy clerk today, The American Bonding & Trust Co. of Baltimore City fs the éurety, HORRIBLE DELD OF MOTHER She Kills Her 16-Year Old Daughter With a Bottle. MINNEAPOLAS, Jan, 12. —~ Mra. Louis Helstrom, living in « fashion able flat building, this morning beat out the brains of her 4 year old Gaughter Alice with a bottle The only explanation given was: “Alice fe t00 pure to live, and so I killed ber, The woman is insane, The poor girl was asleep when her moth- f entered her room at eight o'clock Later she appeared in the hallway of the buliding and told other ten ants what she had done and exhib. ited the bloody bottle. The was a horrible epectacte. ‘The girl apparently died tna tly Santa Fe Lay-Off. men and euspending certain work on account of the threatened coal fam- ine as @ result of the Gallup strike 0 000000000000000 0000000 OOSOOOOOSOSOO SOOO OOO OOOO CHICAGO, IM, Jan. 12. Light & Coke Co. cannot charge the city above that figure. be made between the two. Pees eooee MURDER AND THEN SUICDE tT ons | Husband Kills His Wife Child, Then Himself. ALBANY, N. ¥., Jan. 12.—Louis Carrier at 3 o'clock this morning cut his wife's throat and battered his son Archie into insensibility with a baseball bat. Me then suicided with a rasor. He left @ letter his wife of unfaithfulnes couple quarelied frequently. spent thirteen years life eral times but prosecute. POLICE NOTES, Allan Esplin, @ notorious character who frequents resorte in the tender- loin, and recently acquitted on a charge of larceny, was arrested on a charge of being a disorderly per- son last night. They of ‘wedded The husband was arrested sev the wife refused to STR, LANE RELEASED. Yesterday afternoon the Charles D. Lane furnished bonds to each of the four Itbel cases that are held against her, and she was allowed to leave the port. ‘The Puget Sound) whoat Co. the Aaginaw Steelship Co., Richard Opinim et al., and W A. Winters eb al h have libela filed againat READING, street car strike operation here for a week, ended t6 day by the company agreeing to the men's demand. Whe BOISE, Idaho, Jan. 12,—May wheat jumped from 78% to 77 Ty Judge Dunne’s decision means that while ing purposes in Hyde park, tt cannot raise the price In any part of While illuminating ed in the cane, it te nevertheless certain that no discrimination can simply based their calculations are known to be good. calculation will prove more, these on whichanoney could be real- the more than Tie for fuel People's an nd heat- sis not includ WILL MAKE SEATTLE HOME 8, Johnaton of the Second United Pr n church of McKeesport been obliged to give up his je on account of |lthealth. has come to the coast thinking th climate will prove beneficial, and is now residing with his mother on Beneca street. MR. ROSENBERG GOES EAST Mr. E. Rosenberg, treasurer and ager of M. Seller & Co left this month for an extended During Deil formerly city Eastern and Kuropean tour. his absence he will make purchases for the three houses of his com- pany doing business in Portland, Oregon, Spokane, Wash., and this oity. BATTLESHIP, The work of bringing the battie- ship subseription up to the $100,000 mark was continued today. The fund is now above that point in face value, but as some of the notes are not bankable paper, the value of the fund ts not yet $190,000. It t# hoped that the sum will be secured right obert Moran, in Washington, has been ffered the contract of the new battle- ships, and, acting on the pledge of the chamber of commerce commit- tee to complete the $100,000 fund, he copted the contract. No doubt ix entertained that among the busi hess men who have not yet subserib- ed, enough will found to com- plete the fund at once. None of the not have been thrown out All will be treated ex- actly alike. The committee and Mr, Parry, of the Moran Bros, Co., have ot room | passengers as sisting of sidewalking as ordered by| PRESCOTT, Jan. 12~The Santa’ Fe and branch lines are laying off! @ every position from @ judges to the paper weights in the Jani = that have been made for the recep- ° ° @ | engaged 40040066000 09960500000 SOOOHOOOOOOOSOO DOSED OOOD of this | | ined at once if the company desired. The | due unth the continpemed f hat Moran Hrow. complete the battleship on time, are but hot really commercial paper several of the aubseribere have offer ‘The! cent ed to discount their notes at 6 per offers have pot bean } accepted. sireumstance shows | the differepee between the battle | anip subscriptions and ordinary sub scriptions, Today additional rubscriptio were stil of the subserthers ha | thought the ‘tee has explain fed that this te the compie- | thon of the fund. If these men com ply with the [not to delay tu | the many who fo gain ma | terially by the ling of the bat- Seattle. send in their sul- itise's request Ueadip in ecriptions, the fund can be completed te shor Off FOR THE { | tram of four ing for Newport with 6 of the fash- jtonable set, to attend the French- | Vanderbilt wedding. Alfred's broth. er, led that he will not attend interview he hed nothing to say. | INTHE COURTS. The county court house was astir atan early hour this morning in view of the chunges that are to take place Monday moraing, when the | tive offices cee in nearly that of the There are to be ‘The # office preparations tion of the new officia nigh completed, and ch j@walt those oy Vy ee |. This morning ge Jacobs was in ring motions and clearing the elvil calendar Judge Benson was afforded his |iast opportunity to perform his de~ liverance rite, in granting the re ular Saterday morning diver: numbering MINISTER CONGER’S REPORT WASHINGTON, D. @., Jan, 12 It is understood that the acceptance of Minister Conger’s resignation an diplomatic representative of the United States at Pekin has been de- jeided upon. In order to spare the feelings of himelf and his frie immediate action will not be taken miniatration is displeased at al features of Mr. Conger's handling of diplomatic negotiations with China, epeeiaty his mistakes | in signing on the part of the United States the Joint note of the powers | with the word “irrevocable” in it, DEBATE ON are well Senator Bacon Makes a | Flerce Onslaught Upon It. |, WASHINGTON, D. Cy Jan. 12.— |The army reorganiaation bill was at~ |tacked in the senate but the objeetion were chiefly | against the clatse which would give | the prewdent diseretionary power to increase the army up to the maxi |mum Hmit and the provisions con the fund's value on the notes that| cerning admission of volunteer off half of those not counted in. this £000, possibly ‘They will be kept, along with Probably | cers to the regular army. he cause of the volunteers was vigorously taken up by Senator Daniel, who atgued that the volun- teer officers Who bad received their! nee EY JANUARY 12, | mpeech, in |power to the president to increas | the army within the maximum Mmit subscription notes, being not Fears, and based on | week. but the man: | taken up. im Burne & At kinson cont $250. The Beattie | Gas & Electric Co. gave $800. Bome itor next week's proceedings in the not yet sent in notes to cover their contributions, iT, and « few of Bla WEDDING NEW YORK, Jan. 12.-~-A special mt care lett the Grand Central depot this morn- Cornelius, Waa pot among the It ts rumor. In an hewly appointed officials assume the 3 duties of an pages ARMY BILL yesterday. | Terai 19OL, the the « admitted t qualified, on ter green graduates He offered an ar de that volunteer designated for examinatie Kho establish thelr at appointed to the grad 1 of merely frat ught to t army wh ter than Point to prov be thy of captain inate Hioutenant, as provided by the sen Ate amendment, oF second Heuten ant, aa provided by the house bil t ” Daniels arr ent war pted, 24 to 2? nator Pettigrew's amendment to | de that one-third of tt ap pointmente, to commissioned rank n the regular army should be made lfrom among. the volunteer officers was _ wt Benator | Proctor #aid that it waw unfortudnte that there was no ayetem where! volunteer officers and eniiated men 4 for callant or cor but he opposed th 4 be prom cucnia Fery amendments as Senator Bac b " h he denounced to the country give discretionary bill as @ mm c The clause to was cially attacked by con, Me declared that such dan gerous power should not be given t any oMfeial under a republican ernment ret contended ve 4] ; | power of one menoo men at discrs-\% Loggers’ Supplies, such as pertious r Platt argued that the pow abuse it, Mr ‘otect the reer peo | ple against abuses the same reason the limits of auth ority should be preserved, as constitution anticipated. If co green gave its powers over to president, it was false t and betrayed the trust of the peo! who expected it to be ever a WI ome eheck © t whe at his powers ainst the bill, because tn the Philippine The army bill was then laid aside, and the house reapportionment bill passed ‘without objection WASHINGTON, D.C. Jan, 12— reorganization will still cl senate ne! hope to ne cure & vote on ite passage Tuesday The leginiative. executive and judi- etal appropriation bills will then be A tentative programm house include the coneMeration of the rivers and harbors bill, and Loud's bill to codify the postal laws. TREATMENT IS TERRIBLE Pessant Condition In Hea- gary ls Awful. VIENNA, Jan. 12—Peasants in fare, Hungary. to the number of 300, are in open rebellion agatast the enforcement of conditions of serfdom in the district. The treat ment of the people ie described as outrageous, one of the offenses of the officials being the demand of peasant's daughters for concubines BATTLING AT WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. .— In the senate today, after the ap- pointment of Mr. Perkins as tem- porary président, a telegram from the California te senate was read preying for the of a bill quarantine The nena eded then to pay of the lute Davia, of Min- nesota. Mrs. Dayls occupied a seat in the gallery, while several hun- dred Minnesota employed in the departments, ls the eulo- « Senator Minnesota, made the first speech and was fol- lowed by Senators Hoar, Morgan, Clark, Lodge, Spooner, Pettigrew McCumber, Foster and Towne. . pr tribute to the memor; Senator Cushman K. TWAS A WILD STORY If M. F. Peake, the man who start. ed a story of the wreck of the Grey- hound, shows up at the office of that steamer, he wlll run into a veritable host of hornets B. Scott, who is manager of the company operat ing the Greyhound, swears ven- geance It appears that Mr, Peake was @ Passenger of the train leaving Byer- @tt at 9:30. As the train passed Ed- monds, the Greyhound Was eeen out in the stream. As the train passed & group of trees, the steamer was completely lost from the view of the Passengers of the train. As the Greyhound eould not be seen whea the train emerged from the trees, it Was taken as a fact that she had gone under, This report spread like wildfire when once started by the in- discreet Peake, The office of the steamer at Seattle was crowded with friends, mothers and relatives of the passenger A. B. 8 this aft ig, Who Is to be married to one of the passen- ne gers of the ner, Was almost wild with fear is ‘betrothed’s loss, When excitement was at its height, the steamer was seen rounding the point just north of Seattle. apt. Gilbert Parker, of the Greyhound, said that the steamer had never been in the least danger, —W rived at Edmonds, he o wind too strong to attempt the run to Seattle, and so determined to lay up until the wind subsided | President Getting Well. WASHIN i Jan, 12 McKinley's condition shows a steady improvement this* morning and he may sit up & good portion of the day. Gigantic Cigar Company. TON, N. J Clear Co., Jan. the Tebacco trust, A Hot Sco matituting an if- | justice to regular army officers. ae a apectacular the | ause the there waa no| For the ite y ie the ambition of any should be inclined to Senator Hoar announced that while |he did not consider an army of 100. |000 more Gangerous t ne of 25.000, he would have to} the juse that was to be made of the army the country The | with $10,000,000 | capital, was incorporated today by | he only Paper in & Seattic thet dares § o % ONE CENT A COPY, BRUNNER & CO. 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