The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 24, 1901, Page 1

LE: Only Paper in Seattle That Dares Print the News : : : NO, 103, mittee on Pol THE SKATTLE SBATTLE, WASHINGTON, MONDAY AND ice Corruption Character Whe the committee on investigation of charges of police cor ) Wappent are incapable of performing the dutios of their respect Proaght by the Seattle Law and Order league reports back to the | Mor Mr. Meredith's character will not heeaiied, nor w t report ie gounei tonight, the following will essentially be the report indicate the finding of the committee further than to file a justifiat “fhe Gnding of your committer, appointed to investigate charges snanendniion ter tin semevel Besrruption, disclose the {act that Chief Meredith and Detective | That Mr. Meredith t# s young man; that he ts ambitious; that he is a ———_—_ EDITORIALLY VIEWED. The resignation of W. L. Meredith | shoulder to shoulder, and afterwards t ‘ hanges w a = aie + si~ chief of police of this city ts the | commanded, watched their old chiet/ follow, but the acting chief has not fesignation o! Je Meredith from the office of chief $| an- ~absorbing topic of interest on the| leave the statéon as yet decided upon then | 1 Sal pelice must come in the na- %/ streets, and in political and official! One sergeant wald this When seen todey - @tare of a bitter surprise to bis @ had o say « idets, and in a measure to @| “icles today. It ie @ well kn h was always a favorite in of. Chet of Sees Be person tn the community @/ fact that resignation was jopartment, and will always be 2 while mot takin, tive | said ey na >it yet @| Toluntary; it was the direct result of | favorably remembered by those whe 1 have nothing whatever mote pleasure in believing ®| request from Mayor H ade at| were under hi " @f pudiic officials than in ©! 6 o'clock aturday afternoce | their faith in executive @) It wae fre iy jarred; by such as these, @| Im regard to the matter, Mr. Mer . t ra ” g that Ifa t ‘ Resignation of Chief Mere- ©) aith oaid today: “I asked for a flr ak for th ean be received with no @) r hief among men of the de-| propose to y that if 1 “ epen investigation, and did not get of elation, but rather must @ rtment after the anation of have M h resign m regret. Not regret that @) it. 1 now ask any who p come ‘ . Meredith is no longer at the @| * » tind Mr. Meredith, it is an undentabte| ™itt “ " an - rward and t he @f the police department, @ 3 vy ’ fact that John Sullivan, who has —— . im the light of events, tt ts @/ tory to my chara it ngainet bh was yr been chosen to act as chief unt for the city that Ris of- 11) 16 nae teen atlered aa seed . head has been removed: @/ July 18 would be unanimously Tearet because « trusted © deen @ bribe-taker, why don't these . he prom y ied Hitel largely the moral welfare of @) board, and then, if they are to be b Acting Chief Sullivan will make ae Sommunity, Bee made him- @/ tieved. ict some one prosecute me| several changes Ii the department , Priday sight Mable to 4tsmtesal. * i and did you request b « Pir. Meredith's resignation @| “Timinally in the courts.” Whteh he constters Wit ald him ta a08 “) age gta Saaiee tote a Moved Out of Office, [his work. This morning Chas. Ten-! 1.4 @ he he@ doth ‘= } vant, the Well known patrolman, wa D » know t th t the investigation commit-®) Crie¢ Meredith today moved his - cream by that werd) of © pe i ott oe a given @ position of trust in the sta.| the committee wil! be t * sonal effects from the police st se ack her 4 oe duties of at 2 » *"! om. He will hereafter act as pf I do not know r I know ReSEREGS ioe reat 20 ne eet EU genuine Fo | ee secretary to the chief, Jaék| whether there will be any report or Humes’ demand @| S**! that on the part of many of | marck, who hes held tHe poattion for| made tontent bis resignation. Which @/ the men with whami he had worked | some time, wilt be placed on the staf) When asked if Capt. Sull wh Of these conclusions ts cor- @! if either ts, the Star can- Geclare, for the committer @ @een ft to withhold from ity the details of the tes- © y it secured regarding the © alleged corruptness in @ ce. 4 ‘True, it scarcely can be doubt- © ed that Mr. Meredith's refusal @ Pesign (assuming him inno- 7 ) wodid have been followed @| structure _Reaebing th BRENNAN’S TERRIBLE FALL © behind Dashed From the Top of the Price Building Into the Cellar Below—His Companion Narrowly Escapes. Quick dismissal by the o —— a a, reting sabe rer. “4 on i wale and floor on wateh 3 ‘ was instantly Killed while at work | struc aron en om Bet te HR the most O] 0 ine Price ball Jing, Firat and jon laborer, was struck by Bi ble thing to argue that ©) spring. at 10 o'clock thie morning.| in his fall, and narrowly escaped a ac . Mered‘th is so self-eacri- @ Ry the tipping. of a ladder which he | similar f meee ane would Was secending. the unfortunate man Brennan end Golden, acting v . . a om th med wont 4 Was dashed eight stories Into the orders of Foreman Jack Rb w i. oor Baes i al O| basement, his Drains being scatter-|atarted from t rior @iecharging wn | mayor's) appointee than @ bie own (Meredith's) @ ,» When assailed, by © * “I am innocent of © Wrong-doing, and a5 an inno- @ man I cannot think of re- © at this crucial time. @ have it within your au- @ ity, a8 mayor, to dismiss @ ° There's an HONEST RING in @ ike that. ° Mr. Meredith chose resigna- ‘Mon to dismissal, and in doing @ 0 be committed @ suspicion- ‘able act. ° ° PESOS OOEOOOOOOOD FALKLAND _ CAPSIZES LONDON, Eng, June P bark Faikiana, Capt Tacoma, Feb. 4 with for Baifour, Guthrie & Co., and disappeared off Hish- Tock, Falmouth, Saturday night. captain's wife and child, second fe and 2) men, were save: It is all others were drowned. A wind drove the bark among Feefs. She actually struck the thouse and then turned over. igged by a Hors WALLA WALLA, Wash., June 24 George Smith was thrown from a &t noon Saturday, dragged by foot along streets and through , and finally left more dead alive on Alder street. He was to St. Mary's hospital and well as can be expected JUST AS GOOD AS A LETTER While your wife is away for the summer you may not have time to write her as § fully as you should. You can certainly Please her by having Mailed regularly from this office the STAR, i rac : with all the news | went to work in the machinery, boll- | 4 to do viele men about the jer or pattern shops of Seattle this! oo inciuding @. Frink, acting su-| the whistle blew, 5) Lerintendent, who rolled up hie| urers announce rt es and got himself in readiness Lo open and begin work to work in the shops. | o'clock. The whistler ain Supt. J. M. Frink is expected from | UNION IRONWORKERS OF SEATTLE DID NOT GO TO WORK Whcn the Whisles Blew This Morning at 7 O'clock Local Machine Shops, Not a Union Man Responded. at the oaltion exist seen, and apparently no ¢ Not a man, far as could P shops began to turn |but there were no employes there to it ie enid, step go to work except @ few apprentices pioy @ suffict and helpers, and no more of them Hin men t than there were on Saturday. Bo jthe wheels of t the East today or tomorrow, when | Will be taken to em t number of non start the foundry men who walked out gave no intim-| rn far as the strike situation in affect-| 1 f discouragement, but on the| .BLUEFI ae See today it stands where it did last) contrary state that they will hang| 7% Pecahontos mining in week and the strikers say, will stand | i+ to the bitter end I thig section was visited by a flood for weeks to come unless their rea hat started ay morning, in sonable demands are granted. They Weipors ot the Veloan satdaly i te bablovee Cecio S00 yorecu still contend that there is not skilled; ‘The Vulcan Iron works dia not} ¥" - bagel nie labor to be had, and the situation start a lathe this morning. A few | perished, and the property loss wi tod. which, it was supposed by | helpers and apprentices were in evi-| reach milifons of doll A heavy dence around the & little shop. work in the pipe room there ‘Tradem aanociation but beyond | rain ace nied by a severe ele the Metal t, does look that wa beet one § me vo trical storm, began about midnight There was one exception was nothing done in the shop ae AP yar That is in the case of a form Heveral delegates from the head-{#Nd Increased in f of the Washington Iror f the Machinists’ union | for hour who did go back to ¥ the plant from a @istance,| ‘The Pocah mining district ts went by—with the y soon grew tired and left. | tocated in a basin surrounded by ecutive committes of the Machinists’ Puget Seene Works fanesnoeh by cig gt 2 MB eis te sees nee 5a was a case of “nothing doing” at| through it Is the Elkhorn creek. Th fending ‘pat ae they eald ‘they Puget Sound Iron works at 7| water came rushing into the bastr pm li jo’clock this morning. It is aid that|s, suddenly and with such territt ere 4 | the whiatle did not biow there. There | fn “1, 8 eer Ne nem Mesa At Moran Bros,’ Shops was but a few men around any-|foree, th J , a in Chiefent interest centered around | where to go to work and “what the| habitants did not time to es the gates of the Moran Bros.’ Co,| use to open her up?” said one of the | CAp®. They we ried down this morning. What took "place | strikers: the mad water together with every. fair indication of the situation else-| om the ir 4 a Ten union and non-union men ar-| carried into the stream, where they or c snare. a toe ee in the attempt to| rived in the city Inst Thursday, Fri-| soon upset, throwing the occupant Saas worn ia taae aes’ wae on | aay and Saturday to go to work thin] into the water, drowning them like s0 + rgioe hace orning at t foran Bros.’ Co,| many rate the steamship Garonne. The gates|™morning # Bie} er ee Mw selang | many Tat of the big shipyards presented the| usual bu Raged at Keystone. not to go to work. One man ie from New Orleans, two are from Texas,| Keystone, the most important town approached for the toting of ved four from England and the rest are|in the district, with it# 2,000 inhab. whiation, but of the whole namber|from California and the East. The|itants, was the greatest sufferer who streamed into the entrance and | srotn Trades association paid thelr| Practically the entire town Was dc Past the armed guards not one WAS! fare to Seattle, amounting to a total |atroyed. Until late Sunday night oe eee or thee niitied laboner lof nearly $1,000, They all maid that | the food ragod mplishing ite ws aot gr hPa! gy At ere told before leaving for Se- | ruinous work employed in the tron trades. A few attle that the difficulties here had Planta th it apprentice boys who are under con. | Atte that the aly mation and thay . tract with the company and who, on! naching shopa were unlonixed washed aw A that account have been working rigt | "They were met in almost every case| railroad train was washed from the along, went to thelr places aa usual. ral toral strikers, and when| track and oarried down the atreatn, * noe Alleged machiniate are still! intormed of the true situation, stat-|the passengers being. reecued by ed and housed aboard the Garonne. | 44 they would not go to work. This| means of ropes strung from the win At the Washington. | morning showed that they kept their | dows of co to the tops of the A handful of men were engaged | word comers were at| remaining coke ovens, some distance about the Washington Iron works. | Machir union headquarters yes- | away Seven o'clock found a dosen or more |terday afternoon swopping jokes and| Fifteen railroad bridges hetween of the strikers lingering about the | smoking pipes with the strikers Pluefleld and Vivian yards, a dis |premiaes, spotting “intruders The strikers consider the situation | tance of 28 miles, were completely |Semonstration was made, however, | today a decided “victory” for them. | Washed away, iene gy ee eect EVE? APPENSTEIN TAKES CUE FROM MEREDITH RESIGNS FROM POLICE DEPARTMENT! (3): in Its Report Back to the City Council Will Not Assail Ex-Chief Meredith's -A Victory Nevertheless for Law and Order League. The Star offers most hearty congratulations to) attle Law and Order L the ING, J efforts to affairs. repil ¢ th » the NE 24, jokingly my left t wht hand doeth enetein this after resignation as depart The f his resigna Beatle police ing Chief Sulliva: text Sullivan cure clean administration of munict! A @ intend & PAY ONLY ONE CENT A COPY—That’s the Price STAR. 1901, the what nker oF hanio ot 4 STYLISH 3—T ht | SUMMER SUITS the newest re right. $10, $12.50, $. One Price, One Method ue for its persistent al HIC JACIT WAPP ° — ry @ And you, t Wappenste ¥ @ How have the mighty fallen! @ @ Do you feet enster, now that @ @ the ordeals over? Or do you @ ¢ war into the @ by demanding @ arry t my'e ee vindteat ¢@ the hands i wer > : board You have tha Of her jewelry could have rented a box in the ne Fes S yes, vere Seattle Safe Deposit Vaults A Whole Year ' ated” bythe mayor; your @ | for $5. Fire and burglar proof . ° +. . ° ° * ° f hereby tends ae al® en were hedaed by no @ met t the +, ole ry . ¢ seers take x, teneng Mat ty le whalt e »“p y’@ I | Ky 1 ppcthoge ipiahtalesd ¢ SEATILE SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS, Inc. aying that if given a fi |@ What WERE you up against, @ 7Ol Firet Avenue ie ae oo eeeraves © Wappenstetr * would be kep " |@ WHY did you resign? ° oo 00% for t xt 60 day#, and then if the) @ MUST be wearing to be @ . t A > jon “nay faves ° ne of contention,” as you @ wt THE LEADER f omy ° "a 710 Second Ave t @ Farew ne ew © will peer ut y ry | blow * mi $ Watch Us Grow be a . « ut we ehall wea and our grief leas bit Ane patterns, Batter r etc., at a @ tor grows, maybe then we shall @ rENTH THEIR VALU ¥ ve have THROWN THis Bi. @ be able to smile, though faintly, @ One CO. which is t TALE OF THE @ a» rover ak ° i at ‘ ae Me t name of War ° yw better preps ive the people of Matter short. L quit now. ‘The way |@ mein o attle and state bargains never be in the North- Gaathted Wan, states or that ts oe o ted a plearant and profitable shopping place, air the Beattie police force (PCOS OOOSCOHOD ODED y the great crowds we have been having to James Br M years, He and leaves a ther mei m, then atrike with and the wedt rworth’s an had lived in Seattle as about are old won and daugt in r washed down, cut nd making ae damage and) lock wen full ening Must Be Suffering. tne ft Ket relief ( Th eacaped homeless and without f sesartly be compelled to reo untold suffering panies have started a big force of men to work upon repairing their Conditions Summed Up. KONOVA, W. Va., Ju Only meager news has been r trom st Virginia district cloudburst, as all tele munieation ts still com f ' f the foc far as known this morning, can be sur med un follows Low estimated at fror Thirt y track gone, and 200 for running purposes A weore of con! plants damaged and put out of ration for weeks. One hundred cars swept away by the torrent Twenty-five bridges, perhaps more, miseing Sixty miles of t Vivian to Williamson and from which no we ax to the safety of It# people and the fate of its prosperous towns and vil lage Troops Are En Route. 24.—T re stormy erty CHARLESTOWN, W. Va., June pe are being t to t pt district to guard prop latest reports are that Welch, The Telephone and tele-| the county seat of McDowell county, {fen wes FLOOD HORROR VISITS WEST VIRGINIA TOWNS ‘Monster Rainfall Turns Elkhorn Creek Into a Raging ‘urrent, Which ey | Sweeps Away Whole Streets--Total Number of Dead Victims Variously Estimated From 100 to 1000--Ruin, Deso- lation and Untold Suffering Mark the Path of the Storm---Troops Are Called Out stock and sor to oUF pace, thus ¢ uring ample apace for a ra.from them ar Pepe aes at fire Sale Prices IS RELEASED # ©: ee Ee new rou wie and be convin Don't forget that every purchase ONE entities the purchaser to participat Come with a at the Leader In the FORE- in the freé @istribu- n of 16 « and handsome » nts, to n away abso- I ‘ tely fre y4 _e qe a t the One Silk and Wool Novelty $ Two Ladies’ Sik Parasol who wae ar Dress Pattern, value ....$18) (total) value) po ington, N. %.. in Nov One French Venetian Over Three Ch’ ember last on charge of being Ar skirt, gold applique trim tal) valu rate eee Ses med, value $15 two Manicure Sets (total) or at Colchester Park, England One Flack Silk Waist, white value s+. tama } ene tucked front and gilt of Five Off Paintings “(totaly plique, value .... $10 {Value .. os 06 we escent eSB f eee oo Twelve acres fronting on Lake Washington; © each; splendid location for summer home; very easy terma HERBERT $. UPPER 12 and 13 Scheuerman Block. First Avenua and Cherry St. Great Western 5, (0 and 25c Store 1422 2d Ave., Near Cor, Pike Street. No iT in the store er 25 IX BIG SPECIALS Watch the windows for the biggest bargains in See | Wan a severe iffere and that many Ge ted and Oxydized Silvey liven were lost tt cies, by 1000 Lost -A Rumor. Kirk's Tranapa G00! pourida’ fresh “Butters Soap, per box of three per pound + snnglOe | , June 4 or Berty Dishes, benutifurs Late reports received here ear that Mat Pins rate Elkhorn, Cooper and Keystone were whaped ‘heads mplet washed away, and that wos. probably 1,000 lives ar | "A correspondent reached here thie} e of Liquor, Morphine, Opium or Tobecce | morning from the region affected by KEELEY he only Keeley Institute in Washington the cloudburet He states that there} British ylumbia. Inetitute Kilbourne Ave. ‘ake ja nothing to bear out this state. E Green Lake or Fremont car. Office 80 § bn Builds ment ing. Tel. Main attle, Wash. G. tle, Mer Victims Prominent. BLUEFIELD, W. Va, June 24 Communication ts entirely n, making it No Saw Edges on Collars and Cuffs, Very smooth are the collars after the west of Hikhorn, ge SO ery rough edges have been removed by the lone of life and property#by the flood new edge ironer recently installed by Officials of the 1 operators Third Main se | ntrieken ‘district have sent + CASCADE LAUNDRY CO. South mors te tlkhorn ho report conser life in some of the drowned be ing among the most prominent citi zens of the coal fields. The towns of Keystone and Vivian are thought to be the greatest suffer ors, Keystone ts located in the val ley, which ts about 200 yards wide there. The entire force of the fi t against the most thickly « d portion of the town, before the | terror-stricken people realized thele| danger On the © estimate ft the ‘CHAS. G. HOLCOMB OPTICIAN Con Second and Mark o Blue dik "JAMES G. GIVENS & CO. MINING BROKERS $3, 34, 35 Starr-Boyd Building, Seattle inch valley division of the | river, between this city and Newton, | We haye some Mining Stocks on which a dividend will be declare communtoation in entirely sev:| ed soon, Save'tmoney by investing before they advange Reporte come of great loss of and property throughout that “ section 19B96606606950008 1650000595500 Atowerketimate. |f KEEP COOL ROANOK®, Va., June 24.—A few 8 Fuehorn BEE A ON ICE CIDER ON ICE survivors of the flood in en BRUNNER & CO. They think the le » has been | Telephone Main 1060, 502 Pike Street, over estimated, and that it will not e608! exe 100, PPG IOS FI OTV9O F998 Bo B39 BVI GID prias ie b \WAALWAAR eA PE = ry oO lS GU JL Sie n a o° rr rry t and ower the | from