The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 16, 1902, Page 1

Tuner of Washington First Speaker of the Day--Bitterly Denounces Republican Party INNA FAVORS EXCLUSION ‘pige Amendment Striking QutSection Making. ft Unlawful to Employ Chinese on Amer- ican Vessels Is Adopted dee INGTON, D.C. April 16 clared the bill's purpose was to the Gay for the taking of a make quick and sure, with cheap the Chinese exclusion bill, labor, the exploitation of the Phil- | r met two ot agen gee ee — yo bower gh overs —. : : order to give the senators anna followed Patterson, declar- | opportunity to discuss the | ing he considered the essential fea fore the hour of voting. | ture of the bill the re-enactment of ‘the bill was laid before the! a law that for years had protected | Mr. Turner of Washington | the laboring men of this country, and floor to reply to ha he | that he would vote for that amend: | Was & personal asea le} ment. erday by Mr. Spooner| Before the bill was taken up Frye | presented resolutions received from declared he had fol- | the Federation of Labor urging the Repadlican party as tong | adoption of the Pacific coast bill and sould and far longer than he | deciaring that neither the Platt gg amg cog tied amendment nor the Proctor | | tending the present laws would be its virtues had ceased to ex-) satistactory. He also presented | that party, and that he felt hel more than 7 telegrams from San} ard it. He declared | Prancisco, Portland and Seattle, ask- Agelgew ghey ing for the adoption of the Platt bet rot i orgy ee ig} 2mendment. Just before the voting man could yeturn to began Fairbanks started to speak, would fail to recognise | **¥'D8 the pending bill viclated no Principles for which they | treaty rights. Voting began prompt- the Republican party of to-|'¥,0' Loclock. | asserted the party preferred Pn Bebe ame zeet voted on was to the man: that ft was) oat ee amendment striking out to the principle of human | * section declaring it unlawful for and that it was groasiy ma- | *"¥ American vessel to employ Chi- Ail its instincts. He insisted | P°** 1% its crew. It was adopted by! part Nettle regen & vote of 47 to 29. item of therty that er The Quay amendment, providing that Chinese Christians or Chinese it it was attemping t | rs san. ar hood a triendy | who assisted im the defense or relict | . et nn. meependence | should be admftted was lost. ‘arm Speeches |. "The house this afternoon vo! | ted t of Colorado followed | ciose the debate on the Cuban rect-| & Violent en eeee® | Procity DIU at 3 o’cloék Friday after- a Payee if < t | | ISE 2000 MEN w Rebels Massacre and Capture De- tachment of Imperial Troops ! April 14.—The im- rebels are in force. Skirmishes took has an- place on several occasions and, it ie from the rebels | now belleved, these were for the pur- grows even more | pose of enticing the troops farther | was received | into the mountains. | effect that the| A narrow defile was reached and | troops sent out) as the army was fairly within its! had sustained | confines an ambuscade was sprung | ctlminating {mn a/and the entire force massacred or | tre near Pu Tan in| captured. One report says that no ince. | Prisoners were taken while two oth- of 200 men were | @rs say that more than 800 were per- Province, hoping to | mitted to surrender and are now held mn Revolt Takes a Property-Destroying Turn--Funeral of Victims Hundreds atiently followed the bod- les afoot. The utmost decorum was maintained. From every man in the ranks of the procession menacing looks were directed at the troopa on the curbing. May Break Out The attitude of the people through. DIA, Belgium, April 16. | this forenoon set fire | @lass works and the! Dlant was destroyed. The} 4s estimated at $150,000. Fire a to several other | the gendarmes succeeded | them. ery, #0 Sortege passed between Brim lines of soldiers J HPPOINT a OMfiet ¢ X jout the city is threatening. The tat con Place where life | slightest spark may precipitate a ihe Were freely used | catastrophe, Gendarmes and cavalry Were Strikers, and many|are patrolling the streets. The : Geyerety beaten. |#trike haa spread throughout the » | country among miners and working ~ A ne men of all classes pril 164--The funer- Today the alint intend te WO ehtizens who were killed| make a formal « and in the cham rlots occurred this| bers for universal suffrage As the ss - toons of gendarmes,| demande will doubtless be set aside, 4 SUNK, Were stationed | it ia feared serious trouble will en Bett PORE to the oon. sue. The government is now confirm ing all telegrams sent out and exer- clsing a@ rigid press censorship F Green Lake Freight Car | The Seattle Klectric Co. has added « Warden Jensen this afternoon | 40-foot freight car to its equipment. The car was bullt in the local shops, | Sppointment of i igene mt port warden at a| and will be put om the Green lake line | for the accommodation of the growing | freight business of the Fremont-Green | yo The appoint- » She position bein fervice s Lake district Another Portable Schoo! No. 1 took School district out a | | permit today in the city engineer's | office for the building of another | portable school house. It will be placed at the school at 6570 Phinney | EW ROAD street and will coat, like the others| previously erected, $245, Other per- mite issued today were to J. Rodia, pana \ for a one-story frame at 1111 Sturgis | FARE, Aprit 16,—C¢oiaia 7 | £084. to comt $360; to the Bullding In WACiBic are hore toda. |. | vestment Co., for a one and a half| et Oregon short jinn | Story frame house at 317 Thirtieth | iW depot facilitien t4.| *VenUe, to comt $1600. r Line extenss m to Los Ar SN ee wae | Calearrtt construction traa| Another Kick | xtenmion here | John W. Roberts has filed a com- | munication with the city clerk, pro testing against an assesament upon his property to pay for the sewer re- | cently completed on Highland drive. ne es FORECAS] ees Se ay | He that the sewer does not it. and vicinity Tonight and|come within 150 feet of his house ‘freattona showers; cool-| and that he has already paid two aa- th to wo ithweat|sesements for the Warren avenue WU commene. states jana Second avenye sewers, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, CHINESE EXCLUSION BILL IN THE BALANCE WOODLAND PARK — EXTENSION LINE When Completed, Car Service Will Be Improved Work on the Woodland Park ex- tension of the Seattle Mieotric Co.'s | ine ls progressing rapidiy. ‘ The com- any has over 60 men at work on the new line and if nothing occurs to retard the work the road should be completed and open for business by duly i It is the intention of the to fun the morning Cars out through the park and return to the city by} the tracks on the east side of Green Lake, run out by the east track and return through oodiand park. Ry this routing of cara the time spent on the cars by residents of that district morning cars will run through the scattered residence portion of the district first and then returning by the east line, will pick up the heavy traffic. The reverse route In the evening will accommodate the larg- eat proportion of residents and will be a saving fn time of from 16 te 20 minutes a d BIG FIGHT TOMORROW Tommy Reltlley and Hob Hodge will fight a 20-round contest tn Ger- mania hall tomorrow nigtt. Al- though Hodge is a big. husky fellow, With lots of strength and endurance, Retiley ts generally picked aa the winner. All is in readiness for the affair, Both men are in condition and ready to co. oe ODD WRECK SPOKANE, April 14.—The eastbound exprese on the Great Northern was wrecked at a point twenty miles rast « here yesterday and siz care thrown from the track F. tyson, A. B. Leonard. of the foreign legations tn Peking | H. W. Blanchard and A. B. Johnson, of | the tr crew, were beuleed and slight iy injured. The conse te unknown as the train was runsing o8 & emocth, straight track at the time the accident occurred. Lake Union Ciubhouse The Southeast Lake Union Im- provement club Will beild « house this summer for the use of the residents of the district. Arrange- ments have practically been com pleted to erect the house on a lot at the corner of Bast Lake avenue and Ward street. A definite settie ment will be made at a meeting of } the club committee tomorrow night The bullding will be two stories in ON TRIAL The trial of Dr. O. V. Lawson on a charge of administering drugged Nquor to two young gtris, Beulah Baldus and Florence Perry, was be- gun in Justice Cann's court this aft- ernoon. The case is sensational and a large audience of spectators is present. HOPE FOR A CLUBHOUSE Earnestly to That End At an adjourned meeting of the Hroad way Improvement cinb last night a com mittee appointed for the purpose eub mitted plans and a proposition for the conatrnction of a club house There were accepted Rach member wae ap potnted on a committee to arouse in terest in the project, and it ia hoped | that by the next meeting of the club plans will be so far matured that cor struction on the Buliding will begin sooa thereafter 1 club house, as planned by the committee, will be located on the block north of the new high «# building and will cost $34,000. It will be one ry im height and wiil contain a banquet hall, reception room, smoking elab room, cloak rooms and a en. A dancing academy of the city 4d to buy the alte for the bullding privilege of using it part of the me it wn decided at the meeting to petition the council that the city might bear a part of the cost of the proposed pavement of Broadway. CHARGED WITH ACT OF FORGERY Harry Raabe waa arrested yesterday by Deputy United States Marshal John Stringer just as he w starting on a little fishing trip. Raabe is charged with having cashed a powtal order made out to H. Bred Raabe on a forged endorsement. The order was issued at Nome, Alaska, on October 6, 1001, and Fred Raabe mailed it to himaelf at Seattle for it some time later he found it had already been gathered in, presumably by Harry Raabe With a large lunch basket in one hand, bis fishing rod tn the other and two large botties of whisky in his pockets | Raabe wae taken to the county jail late yesterday afternoon aT. PRTERSRURG, April 15.—The | man who youte rday assassinated Minister of the Interior Siplaguine has been iden tifed as Nicholas Baleahanstt, a stu dent Hie ways the murder was com. mitted for revenge, the minister having prevented his reinstatement at a uni versity from which he had been ex pelled for participating In the riots of 1901. company | In the afternoon the cars will| club | city couneti fast alent 1 When he called | THE SEATTLE STAR. APRI { UGLY FIR BALLARD | Saloon Destroyed at an Early Hour This Morning Fire gutted the interior of the ; agile suicon at 182 Ballard avenue Rallard, at 2 o'clock this morning The entire contents of the place, which Is owned by James J. Russell, were destroyed, A bowling alley and billiard room next by Al Richards. also sustained some damage, princi jpally by water Mr. Russell eat. mates the damage at nearly #2000 Insurance amounting to $1600 Is car- ried The building In whieh the loon is aituated ie owned by 1D. P. Calla jhan. The saloon occupies the lower floor and the American hotel the up per story of the bullding, whieh is a two-story frame. Fire damaged only the saloon, The hotel part was un- injured door, owned How It Started from an air-tight stove which war In the middle o the barroom. Mr. / Russell, who acts as night bartender left the saloon at a little after | o'clock this morning He says he closed up the stove tight, It te be Hewed that the heater exploded and started the fire on the floor, The top band of the stove had been blown off, which fact corroborates the theory, The fire then ate a hole through the floor and set ablaze a pile of rab bish under the building flames were discovered by lodgers in the hotel and the alarm of fire turned tn The bell wae not sounded long enough and the greater part of the volunteer fire department did not hear It Two Streams Gotng ‘Lhe fire engine was manned by cit- isens, however, and soon streams were playing on the flames which now enve od the whole f of the enloon and had eet fire t a pile of barrela of liquor It was neatly ¢ c'elock this morning when the fire was finally extinguished The interior of the place ie com pletely Purned ond almost every bot- tle and barrel broken to pieces, BALLARD Many Questions Up Before the City Fathers & At the regular Mteting of the Mallard * marshal was inetructed to act GH the advice of the eity attorney to the matter of mm “ certain frame hulldings which bed on moved f w focation to anothe | within the fre limite of the town, The buildings tn question moved from Lone lot ther in the same block | some time ago. A elty ordinance pre | habits this, and abeut three weeke ag the counell ordered the marsha » move the buildings. The owne eeted and @ction Ia the matter wae deferred night the counell agals ordered the mar shal to act and it is likely that the courte will be called upon to settle the legality of the ordinance The question of better fire protection for the northwestern part of the town wes laid over till the next meeting A request from a Seattle billposting company that the poster Meense be re duced from $100 to $26 was referred to the Heense committee The proposed new pound Hieit ordt hance was turned down by a vote of Swe Shilshele Avenue The question of Shilabole avenue tm provements took up a ¢ and was thoroughly erty owners slong the avenue claim that they bought property there at « high price and understood that the rat! roads that run on the street compelled to grade and improye it. The The council wae of the opinion that the rallread franchises said nothing In re gard to improvements and therefore the td diecnased. tof time Prop the fire and water committee and water wuperiatendent In regard to grading avenne from North to Ship atreeta, the city engineer reported adversely MONEY FOR NORTHWEST Special to the Star. WASHINGTON, Db, ¢ April 16 The sundry civil bill reported by the the yenate committee today carries the following items in addition to those }carried in the bill passed by the | house brown's Point lighthouse, $3200 Bathing Point lighthouse, $6000. Robingon Point lighthouse, $400. For the survey of the American- Canadian border, west from the Rocky mountains, $1000 Improvement additions for the Co- lumina rer quarantine station, near Astoria, $20,000 INTERRED NEW YORK, April 16.—The re- maing of, the Rev, Dr. T. DeWitt Talmage were interred tn the family | plot at Greenwood cemetery this morning. The service at the grave was brief and simple, The services | were conducted by Rev, Dr, Howard | Suydain of Rhinebeck, N. Y, . | DUGDALE WINS | Dugdale's Daisies ran up a big score on the Lavitas yesterday afternoon at | Athletic park. The Lavitas were hand capped by not having their regular pitch er, Kinnear Donnelly and Harmon, of the league, pitehed for the Lavitas, and the regulara found them easy. The score was 20 to 0. Today's game, between the | same te , Dromises to be mére even, | The fire is supposed to have started will be materially shortened, for the | two! COUNCIL Laat | would be/| roads could not be held The city at torney advised the connel! that Improve menta could be made on. one side of | the «treet and taxed to the abutting | property A water main on Third avenue and Wilbert street was asked for by J. I Sprague. The request was referred to eof Sixth | 8 Pages 25 CENTS A MONTH IL, 16, 1902, INSURRECTION ENDS IN NORTHERN ISLANDS 'Chaffee Receives Malvar’s Surrender---Moros May Take the Warpath | WARBITINGTON, DPD, C., April 16 authoritie He afida that every pre } leg ‘ «| caution is to be taken not bring on Gen. Caattes,. 15 6 Semeeeen so a yenes ul wa" with the Moros, but j} war department today, APMOUNCER) that it is necessary that our author ithe final surrender of Gen, Malvar ity be respected and the sovereignty | and all his troops, thus ending all or of the United Biates be fully ac. |} @anined resistance to the United) knewledmred Btates in the department of the Gen. Chafee faye that while the North Philippines ’ are warlike, they will proba- en. Chaffee saya that while the | bly yield to the demands rather than thon with 1200 men has been sent to | open war with « force of such mag- jarrest the Moros who murdered | mite this reason he sent a |Amerioan soldiers near Parang and | gufficientiy large and well equipped puniah the Datos who refused to turn | detachment to overawe them, If pos- the murderers over to the Amerioan | sible KURDS SLAUGHTER 300 CHRISTIANS IN DIARBEKIR | CONSTANTINOPLE, April 16.-News recetved here that the Kurds hay mmenced a war againet Christians in Kurdistan and are slaying right without | merey, destroying men, women and children. with the exception of young girls, whe are held in cartivity, to be #01d as faves \ Varbekir the ent m of the city was \@ i$ wiped cul By the sword a to the houses. More than 900 Christians In this viace were k 4. The advices do not state whether or fot the weign Christiana were included, but cal missionaries, knowing the character of the Kurds and having @ knowledge that ma foreign missionaries are in that field, fear the annihiiation was compiete THE ALASKA CENTRAL RAILWAY COMPANY The Biggest Corporation Ever Organized in This State Files Its Papers—Headquarters in Seattle ' | Articles of incorporation of the Al-/ ta above ney ge ey gem a river, a distanee o to jeeks Central Ratiway Co. were filed) pn hesurrection bay the road ‘will ay in the office of the secretary Of] pow the Sushitna river, crossing state at Olympia The pacy '*) the Kenai peninedla and tapping the neorporated for $30,000,006, and ts ing tet adjacent to Sunrise backed by prominent business men! city and nagain arm. From the fot @enetien CWT wer recetved tm} grenttna ft il] cross the divide fnto city today that a map of the) Tanana, crossing it near the head of eliminary survey of the road has! navigation en filed and appr 1 by the sec ‘The preliminary survey of theeuad ret of the inter |} Wan made by ( Anderson in 104. The articles name George W./ Four parties of atveyors wil] beset Dickinson, preaid and general! out this eurmmer & make a perman- ager of t pany; John H./ ent survey of the Fond. Next Mon- } raw, viet president: J. W. God-| day the company Will open head offi. win, treasurer; J. EB. Ballatne, sec-| ces in the Denny bufiding. Besides retary and auditor; Senat George | the officers named, C. L. Denny and Turner, general counsel; Chas, F.\ E. E. Caine are diréetors of the reed. Peck of 0 a, chief too en- Resurrection bay ts one of the and ©. M. Anderwon, of this| finest harbors on the Alaskan coast, and i* open the year round. The survey te for a road from Kes-| country to be tapped ts heavily tim- urrection bay, on the coaat of Al- | bered, and « valuable mineral die- aska to Mike Hees creek, a short dis-/ trict. MR, MEEK KNOWS A GOOD THING WHEN HE SEES 17 County Commissioners Are Between the Devil and the Deep Sea, but the Liquor Inspector Keeps Sawing Wood Pandora turned and collect from chiet engineer, The troubles that the owners legal | loose on a peaceful world were not fees therefor, ie now the ontral much more serious to that unfortun-|figuré of the poor saloon keepers’ ate matron of mythology than those | nightmare |} which have overwhelmed the board | A How! Goes Up of county commissioners as 4 result | A united hoy! against » enforce of their appointment of 8. G. Meck! ,, ‘ the < Ww A the 5 ‘ as county liquor inspector for Beat. | ¢ ance ¢ tt liquor inspec tle under a musty old taw passed} inl duties, has gone up fr the j by the territorial legislature tn 1863 | saloon met ut Mr, Meek shows no for the protection of the bibulou# | signs of abdicating the office. The ploneers from home-made forty-rod | gator me have demand hia re | Whiskey ' but, armed with his little kit | The next lawyer who unearths an | of testing apparatus, Mr. Meck is Unrepealed statute of @ vintage of | atin ¢ ing his rounds of the bar- 40 years back, and attempts to get) rooms and wholesale spiri tores, the county commissioners to enfor gathering in hie fees. ” ite provisions, will make those thre Regular Gold Mine humble servants of King county hi« ~~ sincere enemies for life, If nothing The fee provided by the old law ts worse happena to him Halt the | 5° cents a barrel for liquors in wood, | mental anguish the three commia-| “4 12% conts per dozen for Nquors | eloners have endured eince Mr, Me in glass, to be paid by the owner of | took office would make the afflictions | t? Nauor. If 4 ct Ee weet, | of Job look ike almanac jokes | Mr. Meek, it Is claimed by the aaloon | jmen, will soon have a nk account Troubles Jost Begun j ike a railroad president | And the worst ts yet “to come In vain have saloon men When the commissioners firet ay | brought preaau ear upon the | pointed Mr, Meek to be county | county commissioners for Mr Meek's } 'quor Inapector last summer, the sa-| removal, The commt ners recent- | loon men of Beattle laughed with the ly went > fara to consult a lawyer rest of the community, and regarded | #@ to their power to de e the of | the revival of the old law as a huge | flee vacant, but although assured of joke Later they were bothered, | their r to take that step, the po then worrled, and now they are| litical pull of Mr, Meek and his Re. furious, for It has finally dawned up.| Publican friend was too etr me and on them that they are the victims the inspector still reigns supreme. joke, and that it ja a most costly Which Is Best to Do ; ce of wit at their expenne | The | soe Of wit as thele | De ae , |. .The question of again attacking bty honor, Liquor| Mr. Meek position in the courte te Inspector Meek seems to have fall-| now before the liquor dealers’ } 1 en into the fattest job in the state Organization and will probably re. The supreme court has recently UP-| sult In another test case being made heid the validity of his appointment, |of Mr. “e y | Which was several months ago at fees a oan aber ag hy Ad * gaa j tacked by means of a test suit] In the mean time with ‘elect! brought in the superior court, and | coming on, the county co tb cg Liquor Inspector Meek, empowered |ers are figuring which it would ce with full @uthority to Inspect and | most advisable to cast ovarian hg approve, conflacate or condemn, all| Mr. Meek and his political tegen alcohohc beverages sold in ttle, | the saloon vote. ae eae have been gullty of ordeving or countes nagcing the torture of Fill , Dinos, an in- vestigation has been ordered y MUST FACE Secretary Root last evenin sen Senator Lodge copies of ingtructions sie. sued to Gen. Chaffes In these Gen. Chaffee was given a review of the teutl- mony before the senate committee on Philippine affairs and direeted to order Maj. b. F. Glenn to return to San Fran. clsco at once to Diace himself tn readi. hess for trial by court martial. The Men Who Gave Water pinyoe two participants in the admin- tration of the water eure to the presi. in dente of the town of Igbaria, Lieut. Con. Cure to Be Tried 7 and Assistant Surgeon I you, are now a this country and will also appear, Youngst WASHINGTON, April 16.—As a result , spi ols diol of the avowed Intention of President reaene fh add A ay Peds ry Roosevelt to sift to the bottom aed] 16. The totes alk samo Was well played, and the punish eficers in the Philippines who’ youngsters were evenly matched, at eae ae ae ee a li