The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 2, 1903, Page 6

4 - w The Natioanl Congress of Mothers’ will be handed to Senator Burrows, clubs, assembles in conventgon here of Michigan, who is chairman of the today for the avowed purpose of « mittee on privileges and elec- making a bitter fight against allow- | tions ing Reed Smooth of Utah to n| Mra. Schoff, of Phila a, the ee] FIERGE FIGHTING IN PHILIPPINES CONSTABULARY FORCE I8 ATTACKED BY IN CENTRAL LUZON, P, I HEAD-HUNTERS WASHINGTON, D. CG, Dev. 1 nwas, ‘The latter again retreated ' i by mail news of a fight; On OQotober & the white men were between the ¢ abul 1 heads | again acked by a force of 300 va Visca von, th tter losing which ‘ ' wounded as which was) ularies » without food, Thy ’ t Lieut, Val was in t abt w adamen ‘ i) by 1 Me “ a kitted six and fin y 1 the # ad-ane hile seized from ot Jaling nd the Joath of t n . Th withdraw A great quantity of ammunition, 190 October 7 th y * had alt wand a pile of bolo The running fight th sted two and ally made tte BATTLE OF GOPPER KINGS IS NOW ON SPECIAL SESSION OF MONTANA STATE LEGISLATURE CON- VENEO AT HELENA, THIS MORNING HELENA, Mont special session of ¢ Dec, 2 state legis The in- hasing HE STAR WILL WANT A COP) LIKE FINDING MONEY ture convened today > enact new com laws covering mining Gov. | pany the Amal was a result of the big fown| The aim of nession is to pans by the Amalgamated Copper com-/a law where mining cases may be pany, recently taken 1 other The present legiatattve = when art | pr to be the arena for a ts shown - Other fatorial combat aa fierce and jegisiation of like chara has also} tensely interesting as the » been promined. A * Pate | several year ago, which wt od | Trial bill of the charact pro- | the Titanic struggle between Cop-|pored, was passed by th per King William A. Clarke and but wae decided b Marcus Daly for a seat in the United t to be States senate. In the present in- technical groun¢ atance thes results are far more m —— mentous than in the case of the) PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Deo 1—A struggte for the senatorsh!p ic subsertption was started toda Arrayed against the gigantic fight Heinze of the Me one another tn is F. Augustus tana Ore Pur- fever-ridden town of Butier © Mote trained nurses start © tonight MOTHERS’. CLUBS ARE AFTER SENATOR SMOOT CONVENTION MEETS TODAY IN WASHINGTON .TO PROTEST i AGAINST MORMON’S RETAINING HIS SEAT Wares a= This woman, Senator Reed 6m i to bear his name. In othe and never had more than that SEWOPAPER EXTERFEAE ASTM) is the ye claims he has >t deciares, words, he legally but one WASHINGTON, D. Dec. 1.—(he is a polygamist. The m mortal | was learned ROCKEFELLER: “I NEED THESE IN MY BUSINESS.” WOOD TRUST APPLIES THE THUMB SCREWS FUEL MAGNATE! IGN AN AGREEMENT TO BOOST PRICES TO $3.25 A LOAD—ONE DEALER DENOUNCES ACTION AS UN- JUST, AND REFUSES TO ENTER. INTO SCHEME ___ ‘The cold weather has revived the|prices, Teameters’ wages since the local foct trust. At a meeting of Be- | strike of the teamsters union b at * wood magnates, heid Satur day night in the New York block, stove wood was made a luxury at/|are employed. The matter of feed $4.25 @ load and the coal dealers|for the horses, however, is not as were, @ result, given | premature | represented. Oats can be procured Christmas present. In other words, | how eaper than & year ago and the price of wood was boosted so | hay has eed but « few dollars high by the avaricious dealers that} @ tor » e with fat purses will buy coal! The principal item to be fured is A measure of economy the price of the wood delivered by Since the last boost in wood the|the carfond in Seattle Today it Is ROOSEVELT HAS MADE ‘EM MAD NO CAMPAIGN FUND FOR THE PRESIDENT UNLESS HE PROM- SES TO CALL DOGS OFF BIG COMBINATIONS OF CAPITAL NEW YORK, Dec, 1.—Through) President Roosevelt is nominated prominent bankers this morning it| they will not contribute to his cam that financiers, whose | Palgn fund unless some word in ox his seat in the senate. ‘The first | president, will preside. ‘ad action taken will probably be a me- | den, a Presbyterian div tnievente ‘a woctated etre. | acted from him to the effect t portal petitioning congress not to Lake, hae signified hia intention of| "t*ret? are associated in thet re Ise will go slow tn seveiligations at seat the Mormon senator, not on ac-|being present and taking an activel cent railway merge: 14 trusts, | combinations of capital. Corne count of his religion, but because| part in the fight, j . ane. eS Bilsa. this pn nate have let 1t become known that if! discuss the matter, PRESIDENT Of CITY COUNCIL TAKES UP STAR'S FIGHT AND INTRODUCES A REGOLUTION TO B6USPEND ALL NEW STREET IMPROVEMENTS UNTIL MARCH 1—TELL6 HOW THE PEOPLE ARE BEING PLUNDERED AND ABUSED 4 The fight which the Star lone has, sewer pipe, and in awe th | bron making for the ametiorat | board of public works DitKe the shameful condition of th |to mubstitute tron pipe iner 1 | while other looal dailies we { to complete a sewer wo that th peak, bore frult in the city | atre yuld be opened ant wight when Prosident Parry There is, 1 belt r | ed @ resglution declaring it] searelty of curbatones to be the intention of that body not Under such conditions the to order any more improvements un-| public tmg nents is ewnarily Ul March L. The resolutt t prac>| muoh in excess of what it should be |Ucatly no opposition and was re-| The price of iron and at , | ferred to the stroet committee, with| down so that it would be advisab Crichton, Gill and Parry added, to be| to put off using that material f rted on next Monday night awhile, Mc er, the money mark & pointed speech Mr, Parry | is in such tractors are called attention to the disgraceful | obliged ofen t manner in which public Improve: | ment bonds at nt, for ments at present are being prosecut-| the elty m pay ed, laying particular stress upon the The break-neck pace at wh existence of @ contractors’ ring| we bi been going for which is keeping up prices for work. | thre ary should be sla maid in part has been a heavy bur © are at present 66 public tm-| eral fund, and t ents under way which are| proven Jebt a the city about $1,000,000, | 1 have respondec t There are besides 13 improvements in| call for taxes, BUT IT 18 TIME the engineer's departinent ready to| THAT THIA THRKIBLE kM | bid up 1 arge tmprove-| BARGO TO TRAFFIC ON TORN ments which the engineer's art-| UP STREETS BE HEMEDLED ment has not been able to reach and| Gill sald that he thought the reso % more upon which the council has| lution was ail right in the main but ieclared it® intention to act and|saw no reason why important im Jothers upon which but preliminary | provements, several of wt estimates have ti made coded in his ward mhould be put Today the contractors are only | off, while others were ordered abla to perform b half of the| “Con ors should satiafy the work which they have undertaken. | 1 of public works before they Aw a result they have gotten into @| take a Job that they th Jhatt of jumping one contract material,” he said, “instead r « or after toartng up th reet|ing up with Chat excuse after a whenever there has been an urgent|«trest has been torn up and mavie ii from the public to do It te a] impassibie, McClellan is crying ow Joondition of affairs w out-| that jack of brick is what prevent raged public in my opinion will not| him fr npleting the p |tolerate much longer. The couneti| t et. If be reapy | Should have called a hait months] the brick could send t }ngo, but I realise that it ha» been | for ther compelled to continue ordering the| In thin connection Cha work on account of the heavy pres-|len of the streets committe sure of the property owners who! duced a resolution, pass axked for it Jously, instructing the bo The engineering and clerteal| works either accept the brtch forces of the city have not been Union street #o that they large enough to cope with the In-| aid, or reject them and get creared work d there has been | them out of the way haate, waste and errors, THERE 18] Criehton objected to the resolution A BELIEF IN THE MINDS OF | slightly on the «re that ok THE PEOPLE, WHICH I8 GAIN-| ought to be ordered at this we NG GROUND. THAT THE CON-|of the year in order to insure its g “TORS HAVR FORMED Al completion in the season @OMBINATION WHICH PRE-| He also said that wh reality VENTS THAT COMPETITION | street work was in p ‘ WHICH ALLOWS PUBLIC WORK | months in the year peo to RE DONE AT MINIMUM COST TO THE PROPERTY OWNER “Tt in my belief that the board of | a it was only being done in time because It caused ce in the rainy seasot | ment the cost of which Is to be a |nensed against the property bene- | fitted (except in case of great emer gency affecting the public health) uniers ho in ment is peti tioned for by a majority of the pro perty owners affected thereby with the work now tn progres “Besides, contractors make an al leged shortage of material an for their delinquency. 1 und: that the brick manufacturers are $2,000,000 bricks behind on thelr or ders, There is a like shortage of! CONDITIONS ARE FAST public works has done ite utmost to| James aid that there was too secure fair competition, RUT UN-| much truth in the argument made DER PRESENT CONDITIONS IT] by Parry and favored ite efoption 18 IMPOSSIBLE TO T BUCH) with possibly a reduction in the] COME ION with © con-| time limit to February. The resolu tractor already loaded with work. It| tion follows is enny for the contractors to tecetve| Resolved. that for the pericd of a bonue when work must be per | ninety days from December 1, 190 formed, Fatr competition is impos-| it is the intention of the city cour sible until the contractors catch up| to initiate no new public impr | BECOMING UNGEARAGLE price has been #2 & load measuring | not a cent higher than it was a year| MERCHANTS TELL HOW IMPASSABLE STREETS ARE AFFECT- a* rouch jews than half a cord as the | ago. Wood can be procured in 1,000. dealer's conscience will permit. It | cord an 4 ING RETAIL BUSINESS—-COSTS FROM 10 TO 20 PER CENT. | was argued by those who wanted to| same aa in last make money a little faster that the|the Seattle dealers are getting thetr| , MORE TO DELIVER GOODS T HAN IT DID A YEAR AGO | pes e a bor i) and wood at| wood at this price and there ts an | wh had gone up. These were Opportunity for all to do the, same, | thelr reasons for signing the agree- he following la the resolution that! jiand in hand with the Team (pected to be delivered the same day ' yout the price again. was paseed at the meeting of the cannot now be taken after 1 o'clock. j eption the wood deal-| wood dealers and which wes signed |QWRet® association and the Dray a } | ity signed the new agree-|by ali of the dealers with the ex-|inen's association the Seattle merch-/ W. H. Wea president of the ment. The eneeption was grad seh ot Marser Een serge against, the} @obe laundry, said: “The cost of Harvey & Sons, whose woody Termes os cee of aberente- (en the delivery of goods in Seattle ix | at the corner of Second aven wood has advanced bout one-half | Snamerul condition of the strecis ~ Wig apna origi acer reet. They protested ¢ @oliar per cord, and hay and other| They are down tn their] citles whe : have been, It takes he price of wood would be to! feed has advanced che eve day to for the of the groes earnings of foree the public to wee coal and. tn last year: and ne on ee eee ey the’ comractore, who to pay for delivering the end force themseeives out of the Whereas, Wages have been ad-|are receiving fat prices, for keeping | 5 COSTING 35 PER | wood business, They are #till selting| vanced from % to 80 cents in the| the strects in everlasting mud pud MORE TO DELIVER wood at the old scale. The other | last year more than before blige ag “hile |GOODS TODAY THAN IT DID siere did not listen to the arew Renolved, T the wood | FROM 10 TO 2 ~NT MoRE| TWO YEARS AGO. REPAIRS TO mis of Mr. Harvey, or at least did| dealers of the city of Seattie, find it| THIS F TO DELIVER Goons |GUR SEVEN WAGONS | ARE t heed them. necessary, in order to make wages | THAN IT EVER HAS BEFORE | COSTING PER CENT MORE Led on by J, D. Jones, whose wood | for ourselves and teams, to advance | and conditions are becoming more] THAN THEY WOULD UNDER yard ia at the corner of Elghth avy-| the price per load of forest wood| unbearable every day. ORDINARY CIRCUMSTAD | Gnue and Madison street. the other | from $3 to $2.25, and slab wood from| The burden fails expecially hard on] | “Instead of running dou dealers In the city signed up the | $2.36 to $2.60 per load. We and each |ati establishments in which hauling| with light loads, as at | ae e Jof us hereby agree, one with the|goods is an important factor In the| the streets were in decent shape we is in favor of the | other, to sell at the atove/Susiness, such as lau |could use single horses with full and dry goods stores. loaded agona, Ulider present con Aitions it takes more time to deliver Representative business n by @ Star man « it is more difficult to keep 4 ex- | goods, neon today pressed themaelves tn str terms | good drivers, and we have to pay Against the shameful condition of] them more. Seattio’s the ughfares, J. A. Ball Horses are picking up nails con largeon said tinually so that they have to be! “THE MUDDY CONDITION OF | laid off and wagons are constantly THE STREETS 18 COSTING US| in the shop for repairs MORE THAN A HUNDRED DOL-| One of the proprietors of the Ron Marohe said ‘The bad condition of the streets is not only a detriment to our business in that it LARS A MONTH IN CASH, not to peak of the great annoyance it ts to our customers. A few weeks ago the comp y which dellve: our! more for the deli goods raised its price 2 cents on| because IT KEE ery package delivered. This in- | FRC COMING TC MAKE PURCHASES. crease amounts to a large sum when | more or less unwilling to leave their hundreds of packages are delivered every day. homes when the car service is ertp: Hesides, we have been obliged to} pled on account of the torn-up condt hire extra boys to deliver goods| tion of the streets, and the latter are extremely muddy, Customers do not WHERE TEAMS CANNOT GO at/ get to the store as early in the morn- all on account of the bad condition of the streets. Ing as betc the rainy season “The annoyance to our customers] started, but come in Increased num is one of the most distressing feat-| bers. in. the afternoon, making It more diffioult to walt on them. “We are now employing 18 teams which is FIVE MORE THAN WAS NECRSSARY BEFORD THE STRENTS BECAME LMPASSABLE at the beainning of the rainy season. Instead of making three deliveries a ures of the matter. A year ago we could make three and four deliveries of goods a day while now we can only make two. Forinerly we could take orders aa late as 4 o'clock tn the afternoon and insure thetr de- livery, whereas orders that are ex- {against the | seme | SPECIAL KISS CONTEST EDITUi--«. PARRY CALLS [1 ON CONTRACTORS oe 2 jay t t | the # h t ja 7 rk Ruse 6 ft } . r | a DOUBLE f ALTOG RTH , mmenced we hi h y a the t toh f " out of es and three ha me day, I ® h have t if f ft t on r r bu t one of for at h i t jon the ex f r , | nee } need te Pe Pidduck the ¥ nh is t | ie “ THEY WILL WAIT IN VAIN FOR WINTER SUNSHINE A r , t , Tage thr ' x that ¢ the ground is ai saf * of * For tt “4 sh h ' ber of : ed tt ae boos “Weis * t st hile th i f y operations, but they during th has so far taken no bon county, today backed by the Nation tate nikon at: thea « notice of eviction th Men who desire to work teat” cases by pelzing the he mines, thos 1 with notices A new fangled “slotiess slot machin named Jones, at Scho w xhit in a Firet avenue a Mother Jones”) ts ex-|“* the cigar men dis- em 20 veennin. oust pla great eagerness to atir ting it was cod | the animals by 5 other ma ae A The “slotiess” on ed to I the only one of militia zt Indefinite pert tumbera of “Pros ie nares to Attorney” Scott seem te except ¢ n" sturbed ne a of the Prewide ¢ an | “stot althoush oy Presta Fuel company , the Krlete is quietly looking for new, mines for ten yours if necessary pe in the law bookm PLANNED TO )N TRIAL ASSASSINATE MARQUIS ITO LONDON, Deo A okohana says a Japancse FOR LIFE DAN MCAULEY BROUGHT BE- FORE SUPERIOR COURT JURY dispatch from med dent was arrented today on susp . cnnsin cton of planning to assassinate Mar- quis Ito, He was discovered in the} The trial of Dan McAuley, wha _- marquis’ villa with cealed beneath his kimona. PROTESTS JUDGE EMORY TELLS COUNCIL THAT SECOND AVENUE RE- & dagor con: ] fatally shot James Clark and Wil- liam McLaughlin in the O. K. saloon [last April, was begun in the superior court this morning before Judge Rudkin. It is thought the trial will only Jast two or three days, as both |the state and defense have few wit- nesses, The shooting is said to have been brutal and entirely unprovoked. Me= | Auley will plead insanity as a de« GRADE ASSESSMENT 18 ABS-/fense. He is represented by Attore ney A. J peckert. SUREOLY UNJUST The morning was spent in the se- curing of a jury. Emory appeared 1 last night on be- F, 8. DeWoilf and to protest “pp the assess: for the regrading of Sec- He argued that the as- ary and not the north ment roll ond avenue. ent were arbit unirorm, ‘The fact that ; end of Second avenue has already | been graded was clted why the property ho a district should not be es uniform price of $808 per lot, as they 3 auld not receive so much benefit |BIG TUGS MEET IN NEW YORM FO eeectioned as an ex-| HARBOR—ONE 18 CUT IN TWO iV ample of the ingus e that al any BUNK lot at the corner street and Second avenue. at $12,000, — would be worth $50,000 when the Im-| vans Deo 1—The te oveme completed, whereas | | NE ORK, —The Lg er no Me Mn 2 ow fercules and Idlewild collided a a triangular p' ce of ground owned | by him on Sec ‘nd avenue near} o'clock this morning off Liberty Denny way, assessed at $1,000, would| land. The Idlewild was cut in twa hot be worth more than three times |and sank, drowning three of het that amount. In fact, he said that | ore to make t property useable he would have to élulce a large amount of earth into the Bay. His protest was referred to the street committee. Several countil- BULOGIES IN COUNCIL NEWPORT NEWS, Deo. 1.—The resolu- battleship Missourl was placed im ting last commission today, MISSOURI IN President Parry introdu tions at the council m THE STAR IS THE BIGGEST ONE CENT PAPER IN NORTHWEST —- |