The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 1, 1902, Page 1

FADLOC THE SEATTLE STAR. SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1, 1902 ETWEEN CITY UNCIL AND GREAT NORTHERN BROKEN Teason to belie in the city counct! x it Northern tunnel fas been broken and that terminal problem will be solved at the next Of the city law-making 4 fh committers on cor- pp and streets and highways peted with Judge | Thomas , fepresenting the Great and other railroads, and Thompeon this ‘after- ly believed by those turn affairs have last few days that Fesult of this after- erence will be that the to a conclusion franchiae ordinances. wake & final repert to the ‘at its meeting Monday May Begin Shon trae It is very possib! i wil be taken upon Ga the counc!! at that result, it is claimed with the ey tt rail- being com- sud depot irs came this jurke request- with the council ‘with this matter in _tpding the derdieck existed between the the ratiroeads. At several weeks ogo that the committees had d the matter up to ‘and tt was for them KILLED NOTHER HURT iow 3B the two rear- jor ite right-of-way on Ratlroad av- | enue to make a b4-foot roadway on Ratiroad avenue from Union sireet past Bell street, and will also meet it Eliot av was vacated be and Blancha: 4 od by the railroads, the city half way on a proposition | to cross ite old tracks and make an easy grade at Vine or some other streets to the top of the hill. On South Side On the south side, it is said, the ratlroads will agree to widen Fourth avenue south from King street north to beyond Main street to a Bang, to traffic across its tracks ceptable manner, and widen that Street between Fourth and Third enues south to 10 feet, and to Freet the city fairly upon a proposal it open up Jackson '¥ present looking towards th: ™ Of A roadway across the ic from Fourth avenue south and Washington street to Third avenue and Yesler way. This leaves but one block on Fourth avenue, that between King and Weller streets, where the road- | way on that avenue is not 100 feet | wide. ‘This, according to the infor- mation from the railroads, can be widened by condemning enough of the Smith block that stands in the way. Thus, it i¢ claimed, the traffic problem at the south end of the tun- nel can be solved. The Great North- ern rafiread, it is stated, Ix also fa- Yorable to the vacation of « part of King street, where its tracks cross from the tunnel to the terminal yards, and will dedicate back to the clty Occidental avenue from Jack fon street to King street, which was Vaeated in their favor by the city years ago. It is claimed that the ratiroads offer to give up in alt $75,000 worth of property at the south end of the tunnel for the concessions they ark. Tt is expected that the commitices with this matter under conaidern- tion will meet ‘tonight and bly again tomorrow. as Judge Burke |» reputed to have received orders to hurry the settlement. A Side lesue A side tasue was brought into the railroad question this morning at the meding of the board of public works. C. J. Smith and A. 8. Kerry appeared before the board, claiming tor mit property owners on Ei- Mot ‘avenue, and requested that the imptovement ef Biliiot avenue, as or- dered by ihe counci! before the tun- nel question arose, be prosecuted. Chairman Thompson stated the hepotlatene bet es roads and the city, pointing out that b Beattie could not af. ford to await pendtng investigations with the ratirosds, Tt wan at luxt decided to advertiae for bide for the work, but Chairman Thompson stated he would not agree to let the contract without in structions from the city counell. 4 FATAL JOKE COVINGTON, Noy Willie Martin, 13 years old, din- gulsed himself last night and ax & Hallowe'en prank entered h home wearing a mask. He went Inte his mother's room, and she thinking him to be a burgiar, shot and killed him. He died {natantly without uttering a sound. His mother ran out of the room, calling for ald. Other people In’ the house entered the room and upon lifting the maak disco: that the woman had led her own boy. The mother |B ts almost insane from grief. GRABBING FOR COAL LONDON, Oct. 1n-It is reported om the stock exchange that J. P. Morgan. is negotiating for the pur- chase of the North Staffordshire coal fields. The price required is several miltion pounds. It Is said that the deal is practically. compteted. OREGON SAILS SAN FRANCISCO, Nov, 1.—The battleship Oregon sailed for the Asi- atic Vorlay. AND IN COLLISION t cars caught fire and ‘The whole train was saved p. by the crew of the flames Were several peculiar fen- tures about the accident. One was that while the collision occurred on a from the track. It ts the belief of railway men that there were no signals on the rear end of the freight train, standing on the main track. Although the crews of the trains are not permitted to talk of the accident, ft ts strongty intimat- ed that no signain were seen by the passenger enginesr. The facts will probably not be known until the In- Neither the engineer nor the fire- man had a chance to jump. The fire- man Morrow was kilied like a rat in| ‘The lower part of his body Rorribty crushed, and he wae badly scalded. ‘The engineer, Burke, escaped death bat was badly injured. He has a broken leg and other injuries lees serious. ‘As soon as possible the members of the freight train crew got the two {njured/men out of the wreck. Their j work waa done none too soon, how- ever, for soon after they had been a traj Id Up Opera Variety Theater | Gambling House and October 27 AT JUNEAU Masked bandits successfully {UP and robbed the Opera variety and gambling house ental, on the morning of Oct. athe steamer Humbouse e er Hum it, G. Baughman, which arriv- from Lynn canal. T8 entered the place at & the morning, when the bi half 2 dozen gamblers at le in the room. in were covered by one) other ® wix- i bartender’s face and jette into a bag and the robbers their escape. ‘The iched. nat tour! ‘ thought ‘at fret that the would try to get out of aed a? 08 the Humbol fact! evening, but alt which igh the acters were #6 ped Into River nm to Pamengers who care up the river Dawson on the Fasialse td Wan, whose hare Just’ oo: Daweon, camer Dawson ped overboard and was | te us ont of the hospital ind it iw presumed he register. The coin ‘ables ‘was then | was carefully watched, no| was insane, The river steamer La France was the last to reach White Horse with passengers who took the Humboldt at Skagway, She was delayed four below the Pelly river. The ice from the Pelly and Stewart rivers had so blocked the Yukon that the La France's prow was battered to | pieces from contact with the ice, and the steamer had to be stopped while |her nose was sheated with irc Dr. Le 8. Keller of Skagy ceived by letter the information that a $1500 gold nugeet, weighing six pounds, has been found on Canyon creek, & tributary of Mush creek, by |Morley Bones. Treasure Cargo The Humboldt had $299,256 treas ure, consigned mostly to | and « big list of 181 passen eluted In the latter were a great number of employes of river boats. most of which have been Inid up for inter, Of captains r ix ay ree of Customs I I spend the wir of larger ions for the various needs of Alaska. For removed the wreck caught fire. Two some time the wreck burned. cars were totally destroyed. The freight train left Beattie for Argo at about § o'clock last even- Ing, and was left standing on the tracks near thet station. oPe ial train, consisting of an engine and two empty passenger coaches left Seattle, 16 minutes after the freight. Conductor Flemming of the passen- ger train thought the track was clear. ‘The passenger special was specd- ing along at about 20-mile clip when the boltieton occurred. tt is said that there were no lights on the freight train, as no caboose was j carried. Suddenly there was a crash. The light eclal engine had dashed into the r end of the freight. ‘The collision occurred on a straight track, and all of the cars re- mined on the trestle. For weveral hours Inst night the Northern Pacific trains had to come into the city ‘over the Columbia & fet Bound tracks. ‘The wreckage waa finally cleared away, however, ind the track t# clear today. John Morrow was well known tr S tle, although his residence was in Tacoma, where he has a wafo and a family, Burke, the injured fireman also has a family in Tacoma. At noon today he was reported to be getting along well at the ho al. COT INBY STEALTH The Duty on Anthracite Coal Inadvertent LAWRENCE, Mass,, Nov. 1.—In a speech here laut night Secretary of the Navy Moody said | “In a speech at Madison I stated that under the Dingley law there | was practically a duty on anthracite |and that that duty was inadvertent- lty placed in the act, Both state- | ments have been challenged, and al though the subject is somewhat hackneyed, I desire to take the oc |casion to affirm my statements and |@ive the reasons upon which they were based, Anthracite for some ime prior to the passage of the Dingley law was free of duty. As |that bill left thechouse, anthracite wae still upon the free list, but certain changes were made in the which ajtered the situation lly and the senate amend- 4 finally became law,’ of the dments to the A that their form st operate mate me hia act argu . at they wns to onstrued. CAPER ESE ESET ED ERD WAS QUIET HALLOWE'EN aided by the small things up the back lint oF les rtment, f Bullive to enjoy practical tt adopted Ar . m of Kove ment by injunction, As the or der Was backed up by a suffi clent to seoure obedier In a general way, there are many abducted gates, doors fences in Beattie this morr In the saburbe, however, t! small boy development of t Be spirit wuffered little striction, and the dawn of Ne vember found the Wsual ocular evidence that the exuberant malism of young males of the human species can only be restrained by superior physical force. There Hatiowe'en dyna mice found vent in greasing street car tracks, toppit small buildings, and the promix us mobilization of detach able and portable chattels, No serious misc reported, and gray matter of Beattle posed to be already fix Teconcentrado camps Thankegiving turkeys ed, or upon the calendar to find the Intest date for conneetion wit ristmas present @ through matriculation In the Sunday school. + e EEE EEN EEE Tete REO Gobling, rm PLE a little bamp the favor ad 0O0066906469046094888 ere rerr rr eee Cut Cut Special New WILK RBBATC 4 of thelr in Rewspaper corr an inkling of the ved by the commis. sioners, ImmeWiately after arriving In th city. Mr. Watkins, in behalf of the inwued an order an but of the local prear at h and representatives of members point vist Accompany the commissioners tn underground trips, A large number of special correspondents of metro- politan dailies have heretofore ac companied the commission, but all were compelled to remain behind |when the commissioners and the favored exceptions among the news paper men entered the miner. excluded correspondents were great ty disappointed, but there appears to be no help for it Operators on Hand When the members of the commis sion arrived in the city they were met at the depot by @ number of THE MOLINEUX TRIAL DRAWS GREAT CROWD NEW TORK, Nov. 1.—An extra large squad of pol was neces. sary to keep the crowd of women out of the court room at the Moli- neux trial this morning. It ts esti mated that five times the capacity of the court room sought admittance Molineux wes abruptly dismissed from the stand after a very few questions by the prosecution thi morning. ‘The dete « cool and fran mn that he is leaving @ favorable tim LE COUNT — CASE UP CIVIL =SERVICE COMMISSION HOLD: |EARING DECISION UNDER ADVISEMENT No decision Tenched by the civil service last night at Ite rehearing Of the case of Ernest Le Count, the patrolinan dismissed from the pollee @apartment for the allege! extortion of money from @ woman in the Parle house, The members of the commission heard the additional evidence introduced by Le Count and then went into ex- ecutive session. Chief Bullivan was placed on the stand again last night. testified that at the time be discharged Le Count he was under the impression, from the information then In band, that Le Count had demanded and accepted money from the woman for his own use. Since that time he had not personally Investigated the mat- ter further. He said there was no nevessity for issuing speccal instructions to of- ficers that they should report all al- leged violations of the law to head- quarters, and should not themeeives “fix things up.” Buch Cases Common Officer Huff, who te on the Biack- chapel beat, where the transaction took place, testified in regard to having learned afterwards that Le Count wae looking for him before the transaction that resulted in that officer leaving the force. Muff stated that he had known of as many as 100 cases where in the presence of policemen money had been “blown back.” It was his opinion before this case that an officer was justi- fied in necing that such a settlement was made where the complaining witness refured to prosecute, He admitted that he himmelt had in inatrumental in making such ements, However, since thir had come up he thought differ ently of the matter. He aid he had ever known of any headquarter’s Jation prohibiting #uch settle. mente. Officer panied La Cou iy Cameron, G who accom. when the latter went to make the settlement with the woman, and who a@ a ow suspended from duty stated that he did not think ft the duty of an officer to make such a settlement, Ask Reoonsiderution Attorneys Shipley and Page, rep- resenting Le Count, naked that the comminsion reconsider its former de- cision with the understanding that the chief of polloe suspend Le Count for 90 days for not reporting the cane to headquarters, Commissioner Randolph potnted out the fact that the superior court had recently held that the commis rion had no right to modify a charge. It could only sustain or not sustain the chief of police. City Attorney DePruler stated that in hin opinion the charge could be amended with the consent of the commission by the chief and then the commission might sustain or re fuse to suatain the modified charge. TO SETTLE THE STRIKE PARIS, Nov, L—A meeting was held at Arras yesterday between representatives of the striking min ers and of the coal companies, to try to find some basis of a settlement of the difficulties that led to the strike. No conclusion was reached, although the operators off to conced 1 of the demands of the nd it is thought thet an a y be hed t Loubet ts t of his influe # havi : able effect in advancing negotintions, Pression upon the jury. | After the prisaer had been dis tiseed from the stand Marcellus |Gumpei, a form lifornia hand writ pert, was ealied and told jot va trials in which he had Deen an expert witness on the cific coast. Gumpe!l eald that bh {had compared the handwritings of the prisoner and those on the poison packagers and then ma the post. we declaration that they bad sot heen written by the came person. GARDNER IS DEFEATED BAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1—Geor Gardner loet the decision last night in & fight with Jack Jonnecn, « col- ored = heavy-welght. The negro weighed tn at 185 pounds and showed much clevernesa, Gardner weighed 165 pounds. BREAK THE RECORDS MEMPHIS, Tenn., Nov. 1—Crea- cous yesterday broke the two-mile trotting record by making the dis- tance in 4:17. The previous time was %. made by Onward Blive Prince Alert broke the mile pac- ing record for geldings by going the distance in two minutes fiat. The prior record wap 2:00% TO BE LITTLE INTEREST TAKEN IN T That a light ‘vote Wil be cast at the annual etty schoo! election this afternoon is apparent from the spe- dial registration books which closed yesterday evening, Notwithstand- ing the feet that women as well as men are allowed by the state law to Vote at school elections, but 432 names were added to’ the rolls, Yoters of both sexes are registered. Most of the registration was the re- fult of netive work by the rival can- didates and their friends yesterday, SURGICAL MIRACLES SALT LAKE, Nov. 1.-—-Doctor Adolph Lorena and his agsiatant, the famous Vienna surgeons who caime to this country to operate on the child of Millionaire Armour of Chi cago, Will leave here for San Fran cisco this afternoon, They per- formed four successful operations for congenital hip disease in this city. Pathetic scenes took place at Holy Cros# hospital where dozens of anxious parents besieged the physt- cians, begging them to remain and make the little ones of the sup- plicants walk. SHOWS BIG _ INCREASE The monthly report of the butiding inspector shows that during the month of October 644 permits were |insued for the uction of build ings, aggregating in value $444,087 This is inorease In value’ of | $114,205 over the aggregate value of | butiaing tn October, A notable fact is that of the per- mite issued last month none were \for large business buildings, bat Press akroctations will be allowed to | The | COMMISSIONERS ARE IN AGGRESSIVE MOOD. spaper Correspondents and Reject Favors From Operators hands. sight ther Mit ermation penises! ou formed the latter he thia region are largely filled with deep shafts in which coal is mined at a very «mall margin and that if any increase of wages should be | made many contractors leasing them ould be compelled to go out Oo! sinems, The commissioners did no king. Shortly after their arrival they started for the mines. SCRANTON, Nov. 1.—The arbitra- nm commission will return here at Yelock this evening and remain over Sunday Spalding will celebrate m Peters cathe ral t mem ft |eomn: ve been given a ape }ial invite On Sunday morning the » for Hazleton, ELECTROCUTED It was determined by a coroner's $7, yesterday-evening that och, whose dead body was under the Seattle Electric . pany’s power house several days ago, was electrocuted. There was no mark of violence on the boy's body and al) the vital organs were found tn a normal condition MUST BE CITY COUNCILMEN NOW OP- POSED TO USE OF WOODEN LATH IN FIRE LIMITS The fire and water cftnmittes last Might decided to report at the next meeting of the council that the new iding ordinance be passed which provides that metallic jath be used Uhroughout buildings constructed in . dtatrict, in all of the Bodice portion “atthe “city "ane most of the old first fire district. ‘The old ordinance provides that metallic lath she be used in the halls and stairways of all bulidings in the first and second fire districts, ‘The provisions of this Ordinance will re- main as beretortfore in all except the hamed in the pro- posed new ordinance. The Arcade, Lamber Exchange and Curtis ‘are tn the all- metafile Jath t through special dispensation 6f the council, since refused to others, wooden lath was used throughout those build- ings. Other property owners in the district must now toe the mark. ‘One builder, Hana Pederson, who: had not the influence exerted by J. A. Moore, the owner of the Arcade, was arrested and fined $19 and costs for doing what Mr. Moore has done. In regard to the proposed $20,000 water main extending through the jreen Lake district, the committee decided to refer the matter back to the city engineer for more detalied informath LIGHT VOTE LIKELY CAST TODAY HE SCHOOL ELECTION—MR. SHORROCK SAID TO BE IN THE LEAD ¥, C. Hughes, B. Shorrock and J. P. Wilson are the three candidates, Mr. Hughes ts running for re-clec- tion and i admitted to stand no |chance of defeat. The big fight ts between Mr. Shorrock and Mr. Wil- son for the other vacancy on the school board, At 3 o'clock @ very light vote was reported all over the city, running from 20 ta 70 votes to a’ prectnet. The indications at that time were that Mr. Shorrock was in the lead. ‘The vote for the kindergarten levy Was nearly unanimous. were principally for private resl- dences and mostly tenement houses, RYAN WINS OVER BROAD CHICAGO, Nov. Buddy Ryan won over “Kid” Broad in a six-roun contest last night. The decision wi given on pointe, YOUTHFUL NEOPHYTES NEW YORK, Nov. L—Among the passengers on the steamship Oriza- ba, from Santiago this morning, were 11 children averaging 10 years of age, in charge of Dr. Gertrude Van Pelt, who will take them to Point Lom: Cal, where they will enter the Ting ley Buddhist colony. KILLED AND ~ INJURED CHICAGO, Nov. Ine collided with rly this morn’ electric ca man, fat ing Henry Yager and seriously , Ana Grant and ek. Several other passengers slightly hurt. ly inj@ METALLIC A switoh en- | killing Richard | STA —A Pres | ——eeFy Pres One Cent 26 CENTSA CONT H NDER ADDITION LIgUINOD Best and Most Convenient Residence Section The Stander addition ie minutes’ ride from Pioneer widewalks easy terme. ing w Tl all over the addition, nished to each purchaser, > he prices are marked on the cash, balance in monthly ag t F. In the City contrally located, on the Madrona Park tine, amd is onl: *quare—no need of iiving without car service, ¢ity water, gusd f nd other conveniences when you can get them ali in the Stander addition on such Many of the people who have Dought lots are already building homes. Newsnouses are go- iat and the terms are within the reach at, and $10.00, An abstract showing a perfect title tus: perfect title fur- M. JORDAN 2 and 3 Colonial Block, N. E. Cor. 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