The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 7, 1904, Page 1

THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS iy eT 6— es Thee Seattle Star NIGHT EDITION SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 19 04 VOL. 6, NO. 40. ‘a5 CENTS PER MONTH MANY KILLED TEE OVERLOOKED A DEATHTRAP AND INJURED 100 men and boys} FIRE CHIEF COOK GAYS THAT THE STANDARD POOLROOM I@ big Not leas than 6 court death daily in one of pool rooms of Beuttle is to LIABLE TO COLLAPSE AT ANY MOMENT UNDER THE GREAT information in the hands of Chi Cook Of the fire department. The WEIGHT OF THE CROWDS WHO VISIT IT EVERY DAY ssienstaaeshiobceniamsitesitsiaaniteabianmiiinn | betting rewort conducted by «e | Labbe and several other well] ome known sporting men on the second TWO RAILROAD COLLISIONS RESULT IN SEVERAL FATALI- , Thorndale we injured floor of the old Blandard theater beams beneat ! m | ing patched In many places where | Ergincer Schaefer, Fireman Beane building, at the southeast ¢ {| floor, BUT THERE NOT it his been shaken down by the TIES, WHILE SCORES ARE MORE OR LESS HURT and one passenger were seriously | Oveidental avenue and Washington CH OR THE ‘ trembling of the building and It cam Jinjured. Several passengers were street, is the place which ( found in all but er| bet the floors of the | slightly hurt | Cook's attention has been called as| Moors of whict to wup-| tw re ARPED AND | | & member of the “fire trap” inspec-| port great weight | THROWN IN BILLOWS by the My Seripps News Ass'n) * pe to join a show, A « the] ANOTHER ON THE B. & ton committee appointed hy the city| A® @ matter of fact the Standard] « CHICAGO, April rhr Ne-| dead are Chief Thom Chief] BALTIMORE, Md, April T—a] council a few months ag theater building WAS NEVER IN tandard theater bullding was iron Tail. The party y ond k occurred the Bal Btrange to say this building was| TENDED TO BE USED FoR PUR by John Cort in 1890 and wae braska I: s were k 23 in- | Chief High Bear and f hio raitrow day. It not included in the list inspected by| POBES BUCH AS THOSE TO y constructed, as were most a che et hortly before noon in the the committee, but If half what has| WHICH IT I8 NOW DEVOTED. f the business blocks erected after Jured, three of them fatally, and En- | | rn Mat og been reported to the members of t was built FOURTEEN YEARS ‘ fire of 1889, It was buil§ gineer Soreman was slightly hurt! a ewitoh ¢ ¢ crashed | committer is true the | an a vaudeville theater, the| on grow ed from F. M. Guye, - ger tr just pul STANDARD POOL ROOM auditorium of which was the roor ell known t of the city, in @ rear-end collision on the Ch 3 s jew veritable man trap in which| now pied by the betting resort, | s the property 7 poee 2 Dee, Sere. Bt of the passen cores of human lives are risked | Sir partit boxes,| It is Chief Cook's off-hand opinion Melrose Park, a suburb of Chicago. ] p | - early this morning. The Omaha ex killed and each day a a result of the failure] Oa aie 5g ea : press was 20 minutes Iate and was of s were per = ie ie Aige s Roge get eng wg | z stopped by a block. It was run int - ] ee fF 8 ee ae | ie fy sage irsae Make . by the fast mail tn a dense fox MET IN A TUNNEL | ANOTHER FATAL WRECK | ee en See Pm ORR! CE wan tabeaide or . : engine plowed into the rear coach} PARKERSBURG, W. Va, Aprit 7.|“SQhieeny 4 RECK | eae BIG POOL ROOM, WITH Al 400 persor t a wate She Tadians wv ey a La fe GROUND FLOOR AREA OF 6,400 THREE THAT NARROW ESCAPE ne henley i, with Saat freights coll « SQUARE FEET, 18 EACH AFTER. | NUMBER are to the big aocident ir York, es whe ‘a | .* killing Fires NOON CROWDED TO IT# FULL-| bare t i. tea as tes lees . EST CAPACITY, AND PRACTI oe re | be | Breey er! CALLY THRE#-FOURTHS OF | of 1,000 lovers of e bined made canadien? i Fireman | ¢ L—CITADEL OF » DOM INGO, THE FLOOR 18 LITERALLY| eat in the poolr } Of tt Sun | 2—CASA DEL SANTO DOMINGO. WITHOL SUPPOR CONSID: | te naid editorially at the time ERED FROM A BTANDPOINT OF| Yet nearly TEN YEARS AGO With the racing on now MODERN BUILDING CONSTRUC- | THI STANDA THEATER | nearing its height there should be Charles William ¢ the 1 TION BUILDING WAS CONDEMNE ach inspection by the police year-e not Mr. and cw It ine on good authority that I "ECT | buildings in which these races \« 2, 4 at the fa eaiGence n the night of the recent Britt-« | or er , k gambling exchanges are con« tus Bevent sth more bett fight in San Francisco not less | OWI v YESS OF | ducted. Ordinary gambling games, ing of diphtherta. than £800 men and » gathered | 1 4 UN "7 o be sure, may be carried on iq in th dard poolroom to make a ended witt rters which need not be so rigide | beta 6 read the returns from | the ry © nd y examined as to their floor supe | | NEARLY TWO HUNDRED | WERE PATCHED UP 1 r that t © naturally smalles 8 OF HUMANITY were on that] the upper oor might r. But in the more popue | night sustained by the frail floor of| gambling house, but it is ad. Sree-teeed? powironss Gam | | BWAYED KENKATH THE ENOR-| BD OF QUICKSAND, an t ar how pas they ay Oe fee MOUS WHIGHT, and when the! little stream that in pion , to very great strain. we crowd began moving down the rick-| flowed down Washington street & naturally, is at those short Alexander Barg was struck and jety stairway THE PLASTERING | continues « subterranean course r is of the business Gay whe Instantly killed by @ falling tree at| ry Ie gL cercenle gr Lape iri rer ypbind ss Sow gib Soo a Fir, in Ska in sentereiae.| THE SALOONS BELOW AND THE) foundations of the structure and commercial houses, who oftem : facts to |are the poolrooms’ most enthusiase The body w axht to the Bon WALIA COULD ALMOST BE) Fire Chief Cook gave these HE NEXT BATTLE WILL PROBABLY BE FOUGHT ON THE | ney-wa om this eity.| SEEN TO MOVE in rhythm with| Star man yesterday. He said that | tic patrons, have an opportunity to Barg w of the Finnish | pA SAE the wteady tramp of lundreds of| the minute the matter was calied t ary the routine of their regular eme 4 NORTH SIDE OF THE RIVER aes Be ote Nag ony Reodbeg Ropar yr ‘ane | hia attention he realized that the | ployment by wagering the doliar® afety of | which for them so lightly come an@ t regarding the ifr m tne, setertaking chapel at 2] scapnip, April t—An thts Dik: nina ae floor did not give ws a eae am > lett (By Scripps News Ass'n.) The battle on the Yalu, which ts] — - —- | dispatch from Barcelona rep mice Mure. and War Minister Linares | “HE ENORMOUS STRAIN | PROBABLY WELL FOUNDED nly poolroom proprietors TOKIO, April 7—Word has been| regarded as inevitable, will probably jexplonion of @ petard as King Al-| started BB ® o'clock this morning 19/1, uttle leas than miraculous when|and DETERMINED TO INVESTI- | ners of buildings rented received here that several transports! be fought on the north side of the | fons was leaving © bul whose tp Gated with te the factories, | | is considered that it is sustained,| GATE. He will attend to the matter pm purposes, but also-tae loaded with Japanese troops have| river, probably near An-tung, since | which « labor exhibition was betng | ™™ Tedeas tees, be » all intents and purposes, merely | forthwith. fail to report and the entered the estuary of the Yalu river] the Russians holding Wiju, on the sep: f excitement was caused | o1, o¢ tis greatest desires | by one partition running lengthwise] For that matter an investigation * who fail to In- and tMat the troops are rapidly } Korean side, were thrown Into panic by the belief that It was an attempt | ioc: Waging men. of the ground floor and another run-| fe scarcely needed to satisfy a Iny held to a rigid ace embarking. The belief {# strength-| and flight by the rapid advance of made on the king's life. | ing crommwise a few feet from the| man that there is some ground for | countability im case of a disaster ened that an tmportant land bat the Japanese, kaving behind them Wh matters quigted down two - “ {the complaint against the buflding. | such as was so narrowly averted @ will be fought within a few days. many pleces of artill persons had been injured in the! nosem april 7 or misjudged) jt je sald that there are a few! The plastering on the walle and cell- | day or two ago.” Another fleet of 49 transports are} Another engage pt between the panic A man thought to know! ,oute, there's no excuse for their} now in the vicinity of Haiju, about! Japanese cavairy and Russian Cos- ng about the cause of the ex-| crime,” femaried Pope Pius, when in- | & miles north of Chemuipo. | eacks has been fought at Sonchong. | plosion was arr The patch | formed af the alleged attempt on King ‘These transports are carrying a}The latter were cut the jadds that the reception granted to! Alfonsd's life. He instructed bis sec ante es part of the second Japanese army,/ Japanese infantry when reinforce-| } the king. trary to expectations, | retary to tlegrap’ congratulations to} wnat he King on hin escape eRe ork 24 EL waresce | the first three divisions of which are| ments arrived and the Cossacks were | ee was mm said to be destined for Yongampo,| forced to retire. The losses w rs] although it is likely that their des-| slight on both sides. (Special to The Star 1 tination will be changed since the| Soncho 28 miles north of Ping-|_ SPOKANE April "1. Mrs, Jos Townsend for « period of fifteen years destruction of that settlement a few| yang anc nouthweet of | Kelly was bound, gagged and at a price that will more than pay the days ago by the advance detachment | Chongju, where Monday's battle wax |Choked nearly to th this morn- |} ae tmea-siendandias of the Japanese troops. | rougnt jing by a robber who visited her| beaut | pm... . home when she was alone ame | The Chamber of Commerce yestor and away on a bicycl 1 was day afternoon passed a resolution Greased an a laborer. .sking the counell and county com- AM | Mrs Kelly had $290 nidd r missioners to make provision for bookcase in house which r | sending & proper exhibit to the 8t just drawn from the bank, for w Louis fair. . [it seemed to be looking. He | ' Major Millis has recetve: etruc- TOR TT 3 . to find it and took nothing. | PROCRASTINATOR SCOTT FELL | 6 tn advertice for lease the mill- vd Kelly was badly bru DOWN AGAIN IN A ROBBERY | tary reservation at Washington har- struggle with the robber CASE bor, Clallaun county, which contains os | 473 acret rina | MRS. J. W. NORRIS DIES OF BURNS AFTER MANY HOURS OF BE TTER | oe SUFFERING—HUSBAND IS VERY LOW | | | Pr ting Attorney Scott fell down | | age in Judge Taliman's court th ' After many hours of suffering Mrs. ; Eighth avenue and Lenora street by against John McGinnla was called for | ‘is me 43. W. Norris died at Providence | her husband after she had been ter [trial It developed that Mr, Sdott's NURSES READY TO LEAVE 8ST, PETERSBURG FOR THE FAR BAST. a ribly burned in a fire that had evi — office had allowed the only | ing hospital at 1 o'clock this afternoon | {my Pulm. ‘o lhe ope : to the robbery to be spirited | “7 from burns and other injuries re-| Mr. Norris was ordered by Pire| wali? ScrippeNews Assen. ay, and on that account the state! WILL DISCUSS Ade || ceived during « fire in her home last | Chief Cook to remain in the window | ‘rho house comm Nie Pong Bar 4 se hanteeed aii tation tte a aac Sunday morning. Her husband,| until a ladder could be put up to! aay au: “ee A ge cer: i ccee Clenatlen Une viet ofthe vob: St El James W. Norrie, 1s still in the hoe-| him. Before he could be reached he| tne Mi vill son ater Oe On ee cinder crdinary. ‘circumstances, {°T: PETERSBURG PAPER SAYS HOSPITAL PLAN | ne Hill bill to prove currency | bery. under ordinary circ ance mars pital, ignorant of his wife's death.| was badly burned lconditions. It authorizes a depomit| Mould have been the best witness for] §HE 18 RUSSIA'S REAL ENEMY —__— city. His condition is critical and there is| Robert Norri lead! oe customs receipts in national| te? defense. Unfortunately Consign | The Reaitle Red Cros Soctety will to but little hope for his recovery. | woman, t# a member of the fire 1e-| hanks, and repeaix the $3,000.00 lim. | W2%_ 80 drunk that he didn't know ov ‘dh Caaaial Geakines bt the Lin. a Mra. Norris was dropped from a! partment. No funeral arranger Vetoes, weiss pire - lim | hat was going on when he was rob- ee Sena catecn as ts oe cating 20 Reuter m8 Pr ' 1 wal from cirewlation in| poy ue gras tn arvana : ‘ coin ne ‘ednesday afternoon to nty, | Second-story window of her homo at | have beeni mad any one month, It dbdlishes tha | De of $140 in & tenderloin saloon Gdtbatens Mews Aav'n) Recut tenaamccaes tetation ine ee = | limit of colnage of mrbsidiary coir ST. PETERSBURG, April 7.—The |!" 8B emergency bospital tn this | city ite of the and permits the insue of gold cer-| ade + yo Pang ag tifica c " vations of $10. foreign office, today reproves its os aie Mocat contemporaries for their bitter AND THE UNITED RAILWAYS WON'T GIVE IT Rusia has. 8AN FRANCISCO, April 7.—The peo-, terday » on all students were ree tion and so reported to PUT WOMAN £960 MONEY I IRONS IS DEAD orate with the order of Bano Btan- ple f ny oy oy Roore by the the aitrct super a eae ee AFLOAT SYSTEM = ond rettnth fra actare sua |e carmee receive commen the next few days, The carmen's union During the trial of Mra e| known young men of the city yiied at] PORT TOWNSEND WANTS TO He by i va pram = i to Se | fusul of the men to instruct students, rif efore udge Ca rater- Capta 3. ell of the nited #. = pening at the am pi odo te. meee © r Me 0 effo < or Griffin before Judg nn, lee met in B. W f the United) ty residence, 18 University street ISSUE BONDS FOR THAT PUR- wervice, and that no more “stu ents | No effort was made this morning as fternoom, it developed that|States secret service has informa d by pneumonia, after | be engaged to broken in” to the | force the United Railways’ train~ t ten days, Mr. Mil- POSE an wort | EMPLOYES DEMAND A FIXED SCALE OF 27), CENTS AN HOUR, Marshal Blagg of Georgetown had/ tion that leads to belleve that a ate an of b men to break in the imperted men in brought the prisofer into the city at| *purtous silver coin is being made jer was % years of age ‘The first clase cruiser Albany and| It ts over this second demand that} opposition to the ultimatum handed the time of her arr ¢|in the Orient and shipped into this| Mr. Miller was the son of the late —_— the gunboats Annapolis and Vicksburg | the present crisis bas arisen. ‘The em-| the company by the union Wednes- There! W. W. Miller of Olympia, who died in have been ordered to Bremerton to| Ployes assert that the company has| day and which led to the fear that weeks ago in iron country in large quantities. He was born in Olympia and| PORT TOWNSEND, April 7.—Mayor| AUBURN CITIZENS FAIL TO AN-| undergo extensive repaira this sum. | Deen bringing in many mon from other) q strike would be precipitated al+ nt the greater part of his life on of this elty, accompanied by a Ree ee eee cre tt the torea at | cities witth the understanding tRat| most any moment ‘The big handcuffs of the George-|are several things which lead the Bound. His grandfather, Ove entative of the quartermaster’a| NUL LIGHTING CONTRACT we y will remain steadfast during a| 7 town marshal bound the wrists of offi to believe the China theory t ipation, however, of troub ken at the navy yard by about a the tittle wornan together. The mar-|and a rigid investigation will be «| f | shal 414 not intend to lose his prie-| starte D fen, was once chiet ut Worden a the) 1.000 men. | sesthes 3e ts aloo charged that although | when the wage scale is taken Om joner and was i omaglieniinag pags Rage cell ball WEP nner pet fed his mother, and Winlock W board of state land commi 5 they have no sympathy with the union. | M&¥ 1 — naif ene vi = ‘ould try to make her escape } s und National Ba his brother, survive him. Olympia yesterday, in an| oy It is claimed that there are now more | ™ >: have imported e After the testimony reiative to the| learned that a large quantity of sil-|" puneral services will be held in thie | effort to seoure a bid for $20,000 water |, The town of Auburn will continue new men on the company’s rolls than| broken in by its train dispatchers, woman’s alleged assault on W. W. coin which they had shipped to| city Sunday, before the ln ship. | bonds that the city of Port Townsend |t0 be Hghted by the Puget Bound present conditions call for, so the| department — superintendents and Gilman wan all in ce Cann dis-| San Fr » was counterfeit. Th » Olympia. The be has decided t mre \® ctrie Company, Judge Bell, in pwr men demanded that no more appren-| other employes who! positions do Missed the case. | money Is almost as pure as the| of the Bonney-Watson co While there is not sufficlent money | the stperior court this morning, re- be engaged until the new wage/ not compel them to belong to the aaa Jgenuine and #0 closely resemb! in the state funds at prosent to take | fused to grant the Injunction prayed! City Engineer R. Ki, Thomson ad-| dispute ix settled. | union {tects | ‘The officiatn of the com The Pacific Cos 1 are! any refuse wire ser “TIM” CAMPBELL DEAD Lab tndaag that no the entire issue, the board agreed to| for by H L. Tanner on behalf of| dressed a meeting of loc s are being » but an ex-| Miner Saou. acct ¥ : | pert would detect the difference. | Pany’s steamer Cottage City a |make @ bid for the bonds, agreeing | himself and other citizens, prohibit-| yesterday afternoon on the necessity | to grant the demands and formulated oe cat Walh Seindened. cae anna ne AD 1—Former |": is this coin that the secret ser-|1n port from Skagwa therein to take the bonds in install-|ing the town officers from carrying| of revising the present antiquated | @ statement defining Its attitude and s and bunks are being put her "3 ers rt ya arr I ®) vice believe ame from| canal points this morning feces gaa ing over @ period of one! out thet contract with the company, | building ordinances to conform with | itentions. As @ result the w ton lead , » nha waniabaneeeal epithet — china and for which a clone watch aught $9,800 In treasure from the] 7eer oe tm put ine It was Tanner’s claim that the| modern building methods in a city of a cig 4 a = ing a are : taken in — mt ; Ban of Commerce o e ¢ propone put In @ ATAY-| town officers had - ~ a” ean ae data || men immediate efuse to give fur- in in APS AT PORT ARTHUR is being kept. Canadian Bank of Cor fl ity ayatem with the head at a m town. offtesrs had violated the Jaw) this size. The architects decided to/ ther instructions to students, It w oe Sere Fac ss hal ee | Dawson, consigned to the same in-| iy ola Tuilen from: the |in letting the contract without mak-| appoint a committee which will £0] undorstood that the moment an em-| Mr. Cecil HT. Clegm, lcense collector & ; The| James Co: aged 26 years, a| nti nm here. Beside this the ver ing a public call for bids, Judge Rell| over the present ordinances’ with a ‘ . h Japanese s r “ elty ment has t ter ploye was discharged for ining to| for Third judicial division of —ogrend 1 is cruising off] men of the al ¥ A. M,,|¥el carried several smaller consign-| into with the government for aupply-| held that the law did not require| the board of public works and sub-| act as tutor to an apprentice & general | Alosk A passenger on the Robert it eat ety rding to a ality 1 at the Seattle Gene hospital ments of treasure. She had 40 pas-!ing Fort Worden and Fort Flagler and ¢ Aitive bidding on the lighting! mit proposed amendments to the] meeting would be called to consider I ir from Valdes, Alaska, last eves vices received thie even: this morning. The b« at the sengers, Other government institutions in Port contract, council for consideration, the question of dectaring # strike, Yes ning. ,