The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 21, 1902, Page 1

RR. etcut paces JARY 21, 1902 25 CENTS A MO oor cess THE SEATTLE STS rit SEATTLE, WASHINGTO? FRIDAY EVENI G, FEBRU The Republican Platform favors a Municipal Electric Plant at Cedar Falls. Following is | the Language: “We are in favor of this city immediately constructing an electric light and power plant in gonnection with the development of the Cedar River Water System, and promise to furnish to the citizens of the city electric light and power at the lowest possible cost consistent with a prudent and economical management of the plant after its construction.” THOMAS J. HUMES SECURES | BEST ARGUMENTS FAVOR MUNICIPAL UNANIMOUS NOMINATION FAVOR MNP 3.50 Three Hundred and Fifty-Four Delegates Line Up for Him--Platform ET OR Te ee ‘Gonmittee Inserts the Plank of Public Ownership of an Electric ADAMS¢ BLANCHARD Lighting Plant--The Measure Carries the Convention With- 749 Second Ave., Hinckley Block out a Dissenting Voice--Full Platform of the Party-- Councilmen, Comptroller, Treasurer and Cor- poration Counsel ; WEATHER FORECAST Tonight, fair; Saturday occasional rain. ADAMS & BLANCHARD, 719 Second Ave., Hinckley Block The Tailor’s Art ? ' to an extraordinary degree is found ‘o sein the ready-to-wear clothing at »(€Rthis store. We have clothing made i to fit the stout as well as the slim. here is really no excuse for pay- ing a tailor a big price. We can furnish you the same style, the same fabric and the same fit ata much less price. Just ask to see Ninety-Five Per Cent of Public-Owned Electgio Lighting Establishments Are Profitable—Cities of England a Unit in Their Favor—Statistics Which Cannot Be Juggled BP ie: SIGN OF THE BIG COFFEE POT Coffee Special C Mocha and Je Coffee, not our fin- ent grade snd J. Coffee, but « good, reliable article, The finest grade sellin at co per ib.; this Coffee is our second grade, regularly sold at or 8 iba, for $1.00; Special for nd evening, only 2 lbs, to @ customer .......26¢ AOS Dr. Frank Parsons; the eminent! plant pays expenses and interest authority on economics, and a man chee its heer agen tay — At fur “ nishes commercial light at lat on re- 1 whose arguments have not been of % cents per lamp, or 36 cents for | futed says: }all over six connected.” “It can be stated without question From the Old World that 96 per cent. of the cities in! one goitowing ie from an article the United States which h e bite on Municipal Ownership by John electric lighting plants have found | sarin in the World's Work of June, | them successes in every way. Per | jy sons interested in corporation and monopolles are the only ones who ttack muaicipal ownership, In their 4 | Sopbiatical attacks they clte isolated cases, and even such are hard for), | them to find.” a The Star publishes today the fol-| ney The Counciimea fe the lvelfest place | Judge Bostwick seconded the mio-~ efty today. Three hundred | Yon, and it carried with a whoop. At the ward nominations which delegates to the Re- a. Shcbiahineen one were held afternoon, the delegate: convention, and perhaps as party ef the city “sreed to put up and support th of Seattie, in municipal convention | following ticket of counctimen: Firs interested workers, over- | assembled, submits to ine pie ot} ward, Patrick Fitepatrick; Bec gonvention floor this morn- | *h!s city the following piatiorm of| ward, A. Kistler; Third ward, E t spectators were in the Progressive cities in the old world are running their own electric Mehting plants > In London, t Giatrict of Thore- working class quarter with. | wealthy streets, se) the | ric Ughts in the me- | nd made @ profit last year | } Saturday afternox The Dutchman’s Auction .¢ principles: Gil; Fourth ward, J. A. James; L Fitth w Els ieon Resolved, That we fully indorse|ward, “Woe Fo Rie eee » the forenoon session, and r ‘Beventh | }oWine reports which cannot be J¥8- | tropolis 4 the prince: #et forth in the last| ward, J. 4 | wled of $36,000 after he all char 0 do It of useful ornamental articles that umber this afternoon. | platform of the Repubiican pert rd, J. Redward; Elghth ward, Dr ‘The city counelt of Grinnel, Towa, | Trunwiow, 1 ll en re Our show window is full of useful and 0 ¥ of/J. E. Crichton; Ni A . ntion was called for 10 i the United States, adopted at Phila-/Luod. At a late aeet rs ein det it was 10:30 when Fred | delphia, u whieh William McKin-| by delegates from qvery ward tha and Theodore Roosevelt were this ticket would chairman of the city | elected elec! president and vice president | proved by the conv invited the assemblage to | of the United States. | will be reduced 10 per cent. In price every day until sold-—-10 per cent. lens every day; but don’t walt too long, or someone will get the : The Dinner Set as collected figures r rding the Towa and Pancras have succ ful municipal rr Af = ae Ta wor and eight other districts have adjoinin os 4 in course of construction, In eo = he @D-/ lished In the February short time most of London will be | ‘on. | Municipal Engineering, page 106.) iicnied by municipal electricity The Lamp City Officers which show the average rates for) to business. The din of aL. | Its Growth Phenomenal wi all good citiae: ot re-| For comptroller, John Riplinger ia | both public and commercial lighting ‘ Would bave drowned the abs. withome reanea party, wa| to be the wintinde, tor treaperen to be very much lower In the cities| “Throughout Great Britain elec A Handsome Porcelain Base 2 A Two-Piece Semi - Porcelain Dinner Set, handsomely Geoor- ated in green, floral wreath— & good $6.76 value Wednesday was priced at ...... Wednesday was priced at.86,75 } wap, 00. ecegeooaiecccbnnesee eee Thursday was priced at .86.08 ( Thureday was priced ot.815.75 Today is priced at 85.47 ) Today ts priced at .... Tomorrow will be priced. $4.03 And #0 on until sold. ! nh | tricity for light and power is fast mourn the untimely death of our| Matt Gormley is stated aa a aurety,| having municipal plants than in|) ‘ | eet one t rivate cor. | becoming one of the leading munt the front rows heard Mr,|™4Ftyred president, William Mo-| 4nd for corporation counsel, M. Gil- theme dependent upen © ' ; porations. }ipal industries of the country. Ita| request for the nomina- aii peas | are In fifteen cities of Towa, Minne-|srowth has been phenomena). At the) & temporary chairman, and denials dali sik citesioe sote, Missouri, Nebraska and South | "4 of 1900, 198 works were in opera-| Mattos nominated H. T./ and urmiy judicious administration | | Dakota, supplied by private corpera- | tion in ettt 199 of them being un without resery the statesman. tions, the meter rate runs from 15|4¢f municipal management Sacubeitots ia ter Piemieek Rootes : cents per kilowatt hour, In 13/!" private hands. Out of I Rarrison Bostwick seconded | Prewi oosevelt. | att 4 Mr. Seott Iv. | of Towa, Iiinols, Minnesota | tutions tn course of construction, 9 } pation, am rr. ott was | * REA AIN OPEN. fa foghorn, but a few dele Lamp, lacquer brass trimmed, with decorated glove to match; | Sipat | belonged to public bodies, while 113 hout opposition. The gen. We most h ly indorse wine | bras having municipal thers hed authertty from parila- | and business-iik 4 t o ot! the meter rates are from 6] ® took the initiative in get-| the city, and soe adlyns yor ggnged 5 cents per kilowatt hour, The| ™ent to establish plants. pthe job were appointed a/ results brought about by ic, = Set zate “Tn alt eames ¥ showed him the /and¢ was expendicuse of pub-| Retail Places Will Not Be Closed | sunsilea : teers : aa by + ite moneys for the lasting ese t of Ls been revolutionary agitators, eager ‘ures run from 20 cents to FL. Tomorrow oy ad ee municipal ownership! to upset society and tnaugurate a! cities the corresponding rates are| new era, fustead of #teady-going feeb glorifying the Repub-| mediately constructing an ¢ Washington's birthday will be ob-| from 15 to M cents. These are com- headed business men of good i and municipal, | light and power plant in connection "*TVed tomorrow by euspension of | ercial rates. anding. he the convention what/ With the development of the Cedar all public business—federal courts, A Seeeas Comoanten de eee ~- oy ro el Y It took a temporary | fiver w system, and pro’ “The cost of aro street lights af | eee wae conduct the er mise tolcounty offices and city hall offices largest industrial operations in them. 83 assistant on the | farninh fo the citizens of the city| will be closed. ‘The banks will be| ste curvurations vances trom Bf im | men who are financially honest and Wm. Inglis be- | Sectric light and power at the low-| closed, but the majority of the busl- | Jerrerean City, Mo., to $162 In Grand | “!#play their civic loyalty by getting [Hees houses of the city will remain|isiand, Neb. Watertown, 8. D. {the same advantage for the com Several of the larg- $120. and Pipestone, Minn., »: ris jmuntty as they would for them- er wholesale houses will clove at 1| The fate for are lights in any | *!ves. bets _ | p.m. of the cities named, having munio- Mpg acy conan de os wewsie yt ipal ownership ta $60 in Austin, “Not theoretical perfection, but a ind a1 | make no observation of tae day.) Minn., and in Indianola, lowa. Mt./ practical benefit has been sought. : 2 Goortte-thean, Meapeclale athe yun | The university will not hold teasion| Pleasant, Iowa, and Fremont, Neb.,| Therefore as has been shown these ot es an | ness portton of the cit 4 of th tomorrow. pay $60. Galesburg. Ill. $4#; Galene, | ploneer activities profit the taxpayer, 4 business and platform, COn-| city controling and Teiunation el Companies B and D, Gol. George B.| Ill. $40; Independence, lowa, $12. In| the consumer and the employe alike. oe of one member from each | system and requiring a > Bes tc Lamping, commanding, will parade! Kidon, own, street lights are free| THEIR CHIEF POINT OF INTER ‘Was appointed. ~The commit-| companies to pay a reasonable rer 4 1 | tomorrow afternoon, and Co. B wilijand the plant pays a profit also EST IS THEIR DEMONSTRATION ‘Were as follows: “4 rental hold a banguet tomorrow nigh; at|from its commercial Mghting, with|OF THE ABILITY OF A CITY TO for the use of such conduit: An | we are opposed to permitting such |t@® Maison Barberis, la flat rate of 35 cents per lamp, or| MANAGE REVENUE PRODUC our city. A Brief Specen ¥. ebairman made &/ Ws are in favor of this cit: y tm-| lectric et Assayers’ Material Everything used by Amateur or Professional, Field or Laboratory. Biowplpe Outfits for Crucibles, Retorts, Balances. We are Headquarters, Stewart & Holmes Drug Co. 627 First Avenue me | of the plant after ft M the call for the/ : : vv. heat wed with by| We are in favor of the city con-| then on mo-|*tructing and owning an under-| we | a - [36 cents where more than 20 are|ING SERVICE 80 AS TO SECURE —————— companies to lay several separate | : YAN po connected by one consumer |FOR ALL THAT ADVANTAGE | fzp'eme of such condutts, construct- OOLLEGE GIRLS | “Alta, Iowa, pays nothing for| WHICH, U PRIVATE MAN . W. Upper, tate’ repairing them at frequent street lighting and ite muntetpal| AGEMENT, GOERS TO A FEW. [ff Attend Attrao- Ward—Griffith Davies. | in rvals, and thus keeping our Il the Last - E. Todd, Ll. B. Andrews. } G. 0. Gury. tion for serious consideration, we are of Miss Ora Dodgson, one f th x wis Levy. lpremen fee ee alan ok rat | screrity girls who is about te wate |ot eattia in the ‘same busines, {esting Chinege and Japanens warern |Atarchists Hold Open Meetings in Hitherto upon such latter company or city| Miss Dodson leaves Monday on the tontrtharing's fuse proportion of the| Empress of China for” Yokohama Unaffected Provinces Big Attractions Here for To- morrow’s Selling Ware. H. Eaton, pavements and streets in a state of GIVE A BANQUET . eat an ‘Our | Doles, that the company receiving |" an extended trip. such permit shall consent that the Miss Dodson has Jol a party cost of their erection, where the party will charter a We are In favor of the necessary | steamer for their prospective cruise, FIRST—The balance of FIRE SALB lines must be closed out regardless of cost. cnet : | Ward—Amos almost continuous dleorder, to the| 1 r " Wub-dena site “ —_ =. our merchants and the in-| aie yd : ‘ inven ° . he A were Whalley. | snes: oe So nee The young-ladies df the Alpha! jf Sale. Specials. 4 joddard. As the erection of so many poles | Society of the university gave a ban- | gamete: pam santa Santas as tii i Bids at at i | poles erected under it may be used|from Whatcom who are going to a | Werd—Hermon W. CSraven, | P°T™'t# being granted to competing Parra Oréer of Business | along eur streete has becsine & deeee | quet at the Butler last night in honor by any other company and the city| spend six months cruising in inter- Ward—wiii Werd—A. B. Stewart. Ward—Howard Josiyn. * . J. Carr. me th Aelection of the commit- fonvention adjourned until Afternoon Session ws G Session of the con- oe PRS Called to order at 1 ”, 2% say, the call was made, Was slow about com- al Wards were still cau- ™, Alter considerable mauling eae SBVel, the chair succeeded mens the rict. Oscar Wise a sergeant-at-arms Tport of the committee on Was presented by Grif- chairman. There were Lommittee on permanent or- h L. B. Andrews, chatr- the following: The Organization to be made + Pominations to be made toliowing order mayor, comp- r Sorporation counsel, treasur- 4 Counciimen-at-large, city PMiale, chairman of the come platform, handed p the Which was unaen mously ae ‘he viank on the ru lant being loudly « pyses m lly ch . 3 Vrasimousiy Nominated 8B. Humphrey erm and said: “o fr mayor ip Honest Tom You all know i Proceeded tv, Ot Beattic during th the » Gwelling partic Mecessful ina 1s Fiver water plant, and jw in his next term a 5 hting plant would be OReration He eulogized * warmly and predict. acclamation. | zens. but such permits should be | conditioned, for the joint use of such | Doles by other companies and the city of Seattle desiring to use the same. And we are in favor of amending extating franchises tn so | far ex may be necessery to secure | this remult, not onty for the erection of poles tn the future. but also ar to those eirendy erected. COMMITTER ON PLATFORM | AND RULES OF ORDER THTLIUS FALE. Chairman WASHINGTON, PD. C., Feb. 21. The president today nominated John | O'B. Scobey, receiver of moneys at Olympia, Ballard Foresters BALLARD, Feb. 21.—Foresters of America, Court Crescent No. 8, wil! wive # social at Sandron's hall to- night. TWO CHILDREN BURN IN ORP One Other's Lite En- | dangered by Ex- posure | WORCESTER, Mass. Feb. 21 The Rose Petit orphanage burned at an early hour this morning and two children were incinerated furnace-room. The structure was a mans of flames before the watchman +|discovered it, and ran through the dormitories arousing the children and attendants Both the children who lost their | lives in the conflagration were young and occupied the same bed. Their names were Vera and Charles Lieven The temperature was bit- | terly cold, and before they could be carried to neighboring houses the children in some cases suffered from the exposure, In the sick ward was one child, Lillie Chevoux, suffering from pneumonia. It is feared the chilling received in carrying her to \@ piace of shelter will prove fatal The fire * is supposed to have originated in the HANAGE FIRE ‘Indiana Blaze ‘Ladan- | gers Lives---New | York Fire LAFAYETTE, Ind, Feb, 21.-—-The Loeb and Heness drygoods store and a] adjoining business concerns se destroyed by fire between mid night and 4 o'clock this mornisg Total lows, $400,000. Two firemen had a narrow escepe from death beneath falling wells while the fire was in progress, and one other was struck with a flyng fragment of a cornice and sustalsed a severe scalp wound, | Now York's Fire NE WYORK, ,Feb. 21.—At mid- night fire was discovered in a ware. house In the yards of the elevaied line at Fifth avenue and Thirty- sixth street. A gale was blowing at the time. destroyed, as well as considerable mechinery. Damage, $260,000, Several building were; | } ; agente tiger | companies, in o 4 pat MuiayneeY. | Saag’ we hed and the toneaen ome! 7 | LONDON, Feb. 21.—A Barcelona will be reached in the affairs of state | tie . F. Ha | petitive prices secured to our citi Ss | dispates dated yesterday fails to) When the decree is signed. jconfirm the report of @ serious colli- |#lon betveen the troops and strikera in which 600 persons were killed or wounded. The dispatch declares that }up to lam pight only 40 had been killed sin ting began. A few rioters w killed Thursday while attempting to take a number of their | comrades fiom jail, | A Madrid dispatch saya the con dition at Barcelona is improving thia morning, though the danger is still great. Arrests of anarchists con- tinue, Stringent measures are being taken to proteet trade and traffic Food ts extremely acarce, however and the consequent distress among the poorer, classes ta increasing, The soldiers known to be lukewarm in their allegiance to the government have been appréeached by Republican leaders and urged not to use their jarma against the strikers. A heavy rain last night had the Jeffect of dispersing the rioters, but {there were a number of collisions during the earlier hours. Trains ce {not enter the city, all rails having | been torn up. Strike Sprea MADRID, Feb. 21 e strike eit |uation is become #o Serious at Bara gossa that martial law has been pro- claimed there, The strike continues to spread Valls, Vile-Franche Lasnor, Cuencas, Licbregray and | Cardonier all affected In Be jona the situation ts slightly improved in some. respects a crowd and wounded wsevetal per- sons, In all the meetings women are in evidence and in the street fighting appear in the background urging the frioters on to renewed violence. Premier Sagasta is said to be pre- {paring @ decree that is sweeping in its measures, providing for the plac ing of every province in Spain under | martial law. It is believed a orisis } The sniping rs and guards {from t wi 4 behind 4 in th ) ttleé p t the city has been checked through drastic measures taken by the of | ficers. , | | Anarchist meetings were dispersed Hast night in several places, but with out serious loss, although In one in stance the soldiers fired a volley into | Busy SECOND SEVILLE, Feb. Anarchists busy over all this section of count and in meetings held this forenoc RIBBONS—Hundreds of Ladies’ have taken advan- tage of this Big Ribon Sale. In order to wind ft up with a blaze and mlory, we give a 25 per cent, discount on all ribbons for tomorrow urged the this eity only, ; in the re 1 THIRD—From 9 a. m. until 10 a. m, we will sell the best 12%c pressed by police with Norman Peordate and ina ‘ shed and their reaidences “ bes, & rk patterns, at 6%e a yard, FOURTH—One of the after 6 p. m. specials will be the balance of Ladies’ Silk Finish Vest and Pants, regular 600 value, at 260. rived here from Bilbao ed bands of anarchists ere alvo and it is momentarily expected that an uprising will break forth. FAINTS IN POSTOFFICE | Lady Falls Heavily to the Floor | While Purchasing Stamps Mra. Golder D. Gritman, residing Bon March: & at the corner of Fourth avenue north - jand ay ton street, fainted this morn Telephone Main 880 i413 Ae SAS= ing in the lobby of the postoffice - RCS hablinarsindidepesudhidrahaniin Ales She was at the stamp window when = a he reallaed she was going to thint WE have the largest and best assortment of glans Of Water, ahd aa he turned to Coffee Cakes in the City, and our Coffee ts © was carried into an adjoining | Served with Pure C soon! and weomreviveds ream, TRY A CUP. She then took the ear for home ONE DELIVERY ONLY TOMORROW Tomorrow being Washington's| birthday there is to be but one de- | livery of mails throughout the city, | and that will be in the morning | ‘The postoffice will be open a | stablished 1890 Fourth andPik NO MORE BAD-FITTING SHIRTS E have just installed the latest machine for ironing men’s shirts. Remioves all fullness from the bosom, and makes a perfect fitting neck band, Phono Main 9 from 9 to 10 o'clock tomorrow morn ing. As the state convention of the let ter carriers is to be held in Tacoma tomorrow afternoon nearly all of the carriers will be able to attend, | res ull