The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 5, 1903, Page 1

One Cent THE “SK AT’ si nw, ete Bank Clearinys Today, 396,940 = j AR This Date a Year Ago, $498,228 bb Sad ® Gain... +.» » $98,702 =a No. 270 at = - CENTS PER MONTH le : SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, MONDAY, JANUARY i i | LAST EDITION GRAND JURY IS ITWO LIVES LOSTIN . _NOWIN SESSION Fifteen Householders Chesen to Act Are Instructed WH ITE RIVER - LO 0 D By Judge Bell to Investigate Gantbling, Er | was empanciled this ¢ ewdness and t ty hawt : |by Judge Hell of the superior court flagrant that t ‘The jury sw apecially instructed | jnowtriin of the é. J ° e | bringing along what stock me, were ewept down stream ng | investigate iegal gambling, prowl: | winirched the fa ne j rtin ummin Ss ea t ar baal * Rate toe came nome Wheel @6 mate tution and vice and the alleged cor + an Mice before the county h +] | thet hourenold The flood filled the valley from f city ofth erneettO® | ion gullly of & ae The greatest | 1 to the] bluffte bluff on Green river, cutting 1S te noi bog d Pp thene »f 80 talewmen mummoned nehers, wh ne-atory [innumerable new channels and find. |“ ded to ascertain all of the| int, or ng i tut alled, and ween, for whe ft thelr }ing tte way Into old ones che a with pov, A. egg to th eon with th facts concerning there evils during | the months past and, if possible, bring A suit is now pending ceourred, (the Rullty to justice court whereby the ¢ ang piling up with floating houses in eshiter. the Jary bad been 4s awh As | surety company to inextricable confusion demanded tte attention the read White river cut through its banks ing of the charge he t# required by banks wl debrin. ving in these Seitler, and a Farm Hand Named Shaughnessy | Drowned Near O’Brien--Were Rescuing toy | | This devriv “ and enteen ury box Heott the amount of exist im the funds urer's office, 1 sides, th small hounes very ra: bas . idly left their foundations, and with{@© the suburbs of place and|iaw to give. After dealing at length |‘ y fen f pmplement nd eWept away several rode of the|with the obligations and duties of | "vestigate the matter ¢ > legal ae a \ if Nn : Northern Pacific tracks, besides |all such inquisitorial bodies the | ese, to fix upon the person or perse 8 administer i SUSERSSSSSSREESEEEREEREE | hooting yevers! streets of thin piace | judge called attention to the matters | responsible for It, and return at ine | and the Jury wes com- to the} Judge named HL. C. Piggott ad carrying away the sidewalks, |with the investigation of which he| dictuent agninat } H of ex-|as foreman of the jury. ‘The Jury ‘The Rood further created havoc with! eclally charge th dle This last ch the Interurban at many _ pe OUTLOOK IS | Their Boat Overturned--Bodies While there ie jittie left at all of N past it has been a) ttlesey PF Peterson's hop ranch, There the! mon knowledge and re-| Judge Be urged the jur bern was carried awey end such|port that tilege! gambling has been | that it is ite duty to inquire inte the q 0 reote the ke e and perhaps the ap 1 all public officer ; bse aw aad White rivers by King county |broaght ab of corruption | imine! department room i foreman; nd} to be the m lamage di nee of all noe 1869. operty, cnr be calculated some | dayne erything port wan carried away by the water, The hop-fe awept al e accused | Thy Brew were lost last eventing | bull af- iptions, which the h wing this mor have been almost effaced prement the water runcing in the Shanneln of the two streams is about to exint fe ur arrived at whi evenly divided Not only must you Investiqate| convene. This depar Last night the water hewan subsid-| there charges and ascertain thelr | presided over by Judge Griffin. but lag and today many of truth or falsity, but you must use| will, tr re, be under Judge fe Andrew Blakistone. Seattle, ‘commenced — returning gen took sweaty on the| Frank PF. Frye, Ser ttle or to bring the gulity Both {hemes It ts impowstmle at this time Justion, wheth uring the subsequent) J. = Jockery, Santis. { tAdos by the treshet, for no word bas | cally conaulling bis ¢ Dehiy, Seattle | Come hack yet from the recurning | oF har been conducted judge when some question ot| Charles H. Pelle, Haliard [farmers aa to their individual losses | “I also wish a sees ncedure came up for cor ation.| Patrick €. Hoban. White River, ' on a barn, fence enal you with an in 1 Promec ~e Attorney Fulton wa a. L oley, Albin. lous eon an by, "the tele ja} Gition of lewdness and immorality | present in person, but took little « W. H. Bilin, Avondale clearly considerbie. that has existed and does still exint| ne part in the proceedings, Earlier] H, O, Hilton, Webster | —_—_—_—_—_——XXs**_= COMMISSION HTNG COUNTY HAS THE | im the Mood whieh Saturday night | fences have been swept away everwheimed the White river valtey.| stock > been drowned, and large burees, there in little pr of the floods, whieh the river val © olty He # Martin Cummings, a wealthy farmer | quantities of hay and other portable carried off by | thought to be co: Much injury) 1 ck of the Interurban f ed out in em and it in maid that it wil eral weeks to replace it bankments In many 4 away culverts have com of butlding nts in quite slow end & pioneer of King county, was |ohattels have }the rushing ene of the victions. A farm hand | has been waoehir a Bitward Shaughnessy was the other ~ veral days. » lands by The freshets are undoubtedly aused by the heavy snowfall of {two months. The sow ‘The tragedy occurred near O'Brien wast tong tr below Ken > than a nd it will require and ee ere the rise of lemperature warm rains of the last f to be all carried In ch melted the snow the raliroad, and it will probably | eat rapidity, This released the re & month to restore the track | foods Cummings and Shaughnessey were «i ‘ eat in & rowboat with Andy Eleon, He- | the | Ped engaxe: r ng Comm cat: | | ro that trains can aguin be operat All the weather Indications Aye 6 se yore allie ws | Il are that the high temperature ie from the Mood. In some manner ni 1@ win contin for several da fat this piace on| AUAURN, Jan. §.—The flood of thy with the frat! craft was upeet and the hat evening, on | Green, White and Stuck rivers ta the | course re of the anthractte com: hout of the track. | #reatest ever known. Never before ow and the Fi9a, John Mitchell and several ope See men thrown out into the turbid Reattic Mhave the three rivers risen simultan- |B abate sore and their attorneys have ar- . | pera were | eousty fo such hetehts, and there- | A stight fall in the tempera. tived here today to hold conferences ae Care ne Seonee by n Pacific re @ never before have they created | ture yesterday checked the Bbmgelianinary to reepening the antnra- , e and his he Hef train }euch havec to farma rail i" to} commission rin udge i ee ee ee Bey I ptock and farm buildings. Green | Gray anve that he exvecte that there doting, quickly drow ne: lo a n. he mont din- | rt the most violent of the | Will Be no session today, . quickly drowned. Shaugh-| BRIMN, Ja ‘The moat die-| river was the n ter ant verte 4 known in more | three. Saturday afternoon the) atery alto was unabie to save him- + haw swept the White|fanchers poured inte thie ° j the past 16 her EE £ two Hyes and | self, The third mai : Set Pomme “and, coparently | tien batt sebmerged. and the Seil- * dead. | ina wate: "carried away everything ‘The. news of the deplorable acct-|ingn huystncka. wagons and oth SEE ales Gukiby seweed, 004. scoren of | memes? one oxen liven ‘The ranchers on the bottom men and boys are now on the a He. .. SEATTLE’S STREET CARS ARE AFFECTE rive Kitt thie evening after a deaper- Fate of Railroad Commission Bill and Various Sena- torial Candidates Rests With its Delegation in the Coming Legislaturs--Preston Confident ~ touchstene In the election of a Unit. jdefest the ratire A basco sortbes the present condition of mind |@d States senator oe on ee Oe aren Tone ? aS ad i here of the | 2f this claim be true, and there are ences in the matter of « candidate SF A majority of the members of tbe l reasons fo believing it ts, there re-|for Lnlied States senator, King county legislative delegation. [imines but 19 Republican renators Comes as Confession With the Ankeny clatm agente whom to rely votes to be! The appearance of thie petition avowing ownership to at least four |@@ded to the Preston column. Of jcomesae-a confession from the rail. of thelr pumber—eames not men. | te later number 5 are members | road people that they believe the bo- from King county and are therefore (at ion to be hopeless: tioned--and an active and unecrey | numbered among the Preston follow: | Prep Seni eens Tecken to jour rafiroad influence seeking tojers, Of the 1) remaining Preston ‘stand or fall with the comminmton } “Discomfort” is the word that de- of whip them inte line in opposition to) cl §, Wilson 2 while the other | tut the railroads are thus eeeking to | the proposed railroad comminsion |{¥* are seid to be still unpledged| undermine bis strength in hing | An equal division of the two Wila®m | county by seeking to make the rail- bill contrary te their expremed oF men and the five unpledged Mem- road }égieiation « separate lene. + Implied pledges to the propie to| bere would stil give Ankeny @.m@-| Mr Preston's tnanagers are ems Seattic’s street car service has already been or: whem they Owe their election, their [JOFity of the Republican senatert., | phatic in the declaration that their sult of the White river floods. Washouts have caused « lives are anything but dream of candidate will be elected, if ceetad pension of traffic on both the Interurban Renton line and the padres Demiserates to Dictate iran by the xupporters of the rail. Columbia & Puget Sound railroad, over which a large - < Tt would appear from this that the road commiasion bill ‘The fact that they make dally vis-/nine Democrats in the senate are in| WwW. PD. Wood, president of the Bust- ite to the Previon headquarters » dictate terme fo either! nem Men's Sonaterial committee, has their assurances of continued | i oe gg = thie te say regarding the counter pe- ony oy eR, committee are ttt hart | “Some of the men who ate cireu- to relieve the situation so far as thes |St Work ciroulating the petition to tating the railroad petition ere rep- are concetned. The Ankeny boomers | King county legiviators to stand frm | resenting te prospective signers that continue to boom and the general veston and the conmission bill. the petition is in the interests of Mr. public im left to draw tte own con- | The Petition has received about 880 | Preston. They represent that the only clusions as to. whet their ultimate | slgnaturer and ith pected that the way for Mr. Preston to be elected is action way be. [number will reach 10,000 before the |for him to permit his delegation to ‘The state of mind of the King |/e@islature convenes. With such an oppose the commission. How his county legisiators notwithstanding, (expression of the will of theif con-|election could be accomplished in the fact remains that upon the atti. stituents the members of the King thie way with prectically all the tude of the. legislative delegation |COUDtY delegation are to be left with | ti-commiasion supporters tied up from this county rests the fortunes [2° excuse for stampeding to the'rail-{to Ankeny is hard to see foad camp. “We desire this much made pla jailroad at Work r" | That the petition that te being cir- commission bill, Harold Preston | Th raliread politica! machine t#/ culated by the rafiroads agents ie In claime that if they remain true to /S!#0 in the petition busines n to Mr. Preston. if the their pledges and their promises he |*#ents being b vderstand Uhat we feel that WH be elected United States senator | EPStUres pons con! consumed in the city fuel famine is imminent. The Seattle Electric Co. which owns and operates the street tar syetem, is, so far, the greatest sufferer. The shutting down of iy off its supply of coal from its aresult the street car service is already impaired. There is berely enough coal in the Electric company's power wi house to last two days longer, used in the most economical man- mer, The miners at Renton did littie werk dur the holidays, and as © consequence the reserve supply of coal was practically exhausted before the interurban road was put out of business by = water Saturday night. fe have barely enough coal to last two days,” Superintend- ent Kempster said this morning. “We have already cut down the Gar service of the city 25 per cent, in order to economize our © lerto get through teday and tomorrow | possible that it will be necessary to make @ still greater reduction in our service, in order to keep the care going two days. 8 "Ht is absolutely impossible to bring cos! from our Renton mines, and if we cannot get it within two days, | don't know what we may be forced to do.” N. H. Martin, agent of the Black Diamond Coal Co, states that on unt of the freshets, it impossible te get cost from the Biack Diamond mines to the city e SB a brogent to market, and a) jon is | there will be @ greater diffteulty im q and the raliroad comminsion will be- |@rected to the bers of the King | getting men to sign Une counter pe- aalie tavwe county delegation and urges them to | tition.” Their failure te do so will mean a heh the defeat of the comminston bil and @ the, King county idate for the Valted States senate. S e!}| Will Rally in Senate Tt is im the senate that the railroad forces expect to rally the strength Yoo Can Buy Any with which they hope to defeat the © mmission bill and elect Ankeny Walla Walla candidate lays r claim to 14 voter in the upper house, | with « promise of several “ railroad leginiation ts to be made the 9 ND “The railroad tracks are washed away,” he stated, “and we Searching for the two bodies. | rose in some Instances well above the necend floor In the dark we thy Mon t Coroner Hoye was notified of the | were utterly unable to encape on nen as ars ‘count of the lack of boats. At secident at 9:20 o'clock this morn-| ten on the higher lend waded to 7 if ing, and left for O'Brien at once. O’Brien station to send outs call for U Loan or t Cumming» had a large family and A uperintendent of ; lived on one of the finest farms In Northern Pacific, at Tacoma, in 3 saitibest of U'bridn. Seattle office of the read was ordered Or anything else tn oor large and varied stock to prepare a relief train at once ri At 7 o'clock yexterday morning a train carrying Sheriff Cudihee ( % Faas Property plore ip ha ie REATEN ED Ferme | owsnteauatty tiene _ : =| graph and Railroad Lines Are Destroyed and | Herbert s. Upper | COMMITTEE OFF Castro's Position Is Becoming Critical Ba San at LA GUAYRA, Jan, 6.—Three col-patood now that the Allies aré alding| full force of miners Is working in the umnn of rebels are within eight re Li reveolutioniats COlleries this morning 1S | of Caracas this morning. Ail tete-Htoday thet ‘Hnmlend and teracee | sraph lines and always leading tolany lect to malntein the Vanent THE GREEN A the capital are destroyed, Caracaa| 0lookade throughout the arbitration WHR running water. It is expected ued by the Seattle Safe Deposit Vaults Gives you every aecurity possible to obtain. Private artments for the fi by transaction of business, Open from 8:00 a, m. to 5:00 p, m, daily and Sat- urdays from 7:00 to 9.00 pam, SAFE DEPOSIT BUILDING 701 First Ave., Foot of Cherry St. in practically cut off from all other; °#OUAton. m LAKE PARK ; olties The inhatitants of th elty Chamber of Commerce Members Will Investi-|issuiter's% Surv. shoes ALL HANDS } Favorite ag Deygcods claim th ¢ allies are ig opel laim that the allies are giving open| Stone gate Moral Conditions atNavy Yard Town jezfioy s.siushtisthoune eo be bo: AT WORK Sari oreo ---State Law Remedy Proposed A hard-fought battle took place on : a Continuous Boulevard, | ut elght miles Bargain Store in which the revolutioniste! WILKE rom BARE, Ba. Jan. 6 ror | At a meeting of the council egm 11> emits nuccessful. It is well under? jhe firet time since the holidays @| mittee on parks and boulevards to eae “saz |day it was devided to report at the ‘ : The mittee appointed sis offered by Judge R. A. Ballinger Mecting of the count! tonight, rec ur ran emov 4 dent Clie of the Chamber of this city, ¥ po drafted « bj) Sa CeTS CSRS RS RRR ommending that the board of park L merce to investigate the matter of |to be presented to the coming legin- | aemmipgoioners be authorised to ne lhe controversy between the town |lature for passage. The bill pr 9 titkite with power to act with W.| Of Bremerton e officials at that it unlawful ¢ ), Wood for the dedication of ahore | the Puget sc yard, left for Intoxton th sore. or lihe property on'the shores of Green Bremer a ok this after-| without a He within one ot | lake for park hurfionés | hoo lany nay reservation of the United Mr. Wood originally agreed to give It is the intention of the commit-|States within the state, where such tuts property to the olty on condition | ‘ Continues Tuesday tee to spend the entire afternoon In|reservation i# used as m station for that the city seoute other prope e making ® personal investigation of |saliors, marines or soldiers lon the lake shore #0 as to fake h | S Conditions complained of and in list f the law is made pun complete parking strip extending ‘This t# a wonderfully good In the tore ce ening to personal statements by | inhn f of not less than! HIRMINGHAM, Als ta Alldredge, a well around the entire ta | town officiais and the officers of the |$100 or more than $1,008, or imprison- |B known beauty aged 20 years, the sheriff of Blount Tt is understood that the city has ortunity for you to secure a yard. ent for t less than six months county, released two priser ranty Jail hast night been unable to secure all of the nat is expected that the citizens will |or mare year, or by beth |f eloped with Mabren Murphy awaiting trial for sedwe other erty and negotintions are high grade $18, $20 or $25 Suit We are busy these days, Crowds are flocking to the Leader to he in ® poRition to give such assur-|such fine prinonment tion. The other prisoner, Lewis ( y, 18 a denperate character on to kecure the Wood strip under nhare in the extraordinary bargains offered during this Great Re- 4 Sees as will be matisfactory to the| This cit ordinance similar | who ed with murdering an aged woman tonditions other than Mr, Wood | oF Overcoat for $16. 1 Sale, and #0 far on who has come to buy, has Z Sovernment officials, If such t# the |in it# provisions to the bill drawn by | [ ded the feeding of the prisoners when her ptipulated a Talit waa pone away ed with the offerings from each de~ a py Will be the part of the Cham-| Judge Balliner, It provides that no|f father @ wheriff wast nway lant night pro. The committee also decided to se char ge + eng must continue. e mhean to make a clean 4 4 Per of Commerce to cause wuch rep liquor eh be nold longed abmenoe of the girl caused an invertigation, which dink recommend that the park board be : aweap of the entire can't for an Instart consider the pog- Kenentations to be made to the navy | mile of the Fort Lawton the fact that the two prisoners were gone also. Bearch uthorixed to negott | W B. Hutchinson Co kibility of removing any goods to our new preml and to make 4 oir ae, ft Washington as will | military reservat just outside of | ties were at once sent out. It is ex nea that this may areve an Bieler serv vabgd Yes ole our intention a certain fact, we have reduced ood to be moe a out a epeedy revocation of | Seattle's corporate limits othe ddie case, as both of the convicts are believed to be fully eure their services in laying ou! exter " ey w @ sure to go Come in to see us. We will m the resent order to send no more| A smilar wtate law prohibits the armedn extensive parking and oulevard || Cerner Seeend and Unien Cate tee oe ae 4 f | * #hID® to Bremerton nak | te now conte lated by the! : remerton ale of liquors within a half mile of nye mplated by — the A posible solution of the difficulty |the state university grounds. | Sammasenauaneeecersueses seecneserrenseenenesnenn board |