The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 21, 1904, Page 1

oday and Friday—Showers ; south winds, NiIGMT EDITION THE STAR'S NEW FICTION OFFERING, «IN THE GRASP OF SANTA ANWA,” WILL BEGIN NEXT MONDAY GAMBLING ONE CENT light to fresh * » Rc ieated 6 ER i ATT WA HOUSES WILL BE ALLOWED 10 REOPEN RUMOR WHICH BEARS ALL THE THE EFFECT THAT REPUBBL THEIR INFLUENCE WITH BA ORDER TO SECURE FIRST WARD SUPPORT be allowed to reopen im Seattlon. As a measure of political necessity the managers of the Great | Northern ra! ad wing of the Repub-/| Mean party, who brought about the nomination and election of Mayor Bal Gambling is t Meger. have resolved to take off the Hid and let the thing go wide open again. in order to retrieve their polit feal fortunes, | Thin, at least, Is the story that ts/ tm cireulation. throughout the under- | work! today, and statements made by Chief of Pollee Dela himself to Members of the gambling fraternity are quoted to substantiate the rumor. The echtef has stated that he is not op posed to gambling. co ducted fn a quiet, respectable man- ner, and is witting to take off ‘the brake whenever the powers that be Bay wo Neither are the pool rooma, which provided it The Star exposed yesterday, to be! closed. They are at this moment running full blast, secure in the knowledge of the fact that they have | g00d friends at court, who will pro- CRUSHED 0 DEATH Cuna Pahakka, a miner aged 7 yeors, waa instantly killed by a fall of slate in mine No. 1 at Franklin, yea terday afternoon about 4 o'clock. Pa- hakka and two other miners were working In Breast No. 62 and had two} shots ready to be fired. The first-boss was called and the shots fired. Two supports were blown out and after the) men went back to their work failed to sound the wails, This negiect cost one of their number his life A large slab of slate hing about two tons fell. catching Pahakka and crusb- | ing the life from his bedy. they |. ment would not arrive until after the EARMARKS OF TRUTH 18 TO fall election. ICAN MANAGERS HAVE USED low, however, tt in # that the ames are to be allowed to open May LLINGER ADMINISTRATION IN [10 or at least not later than May & | tne day after oming county con. | vention Prosecuting Attorney Boott, It Is claimed, was, for 4 time @ stum | bling block tm the way of the admin tect them In any emergency. The pool | lstration, but it le now sald that even room men have mood reason to know | he has been brought Into line and the strength of their pull, for it has| that, whether he Is renominated or been tested | not. he will not Interfere with the Before Mayor Ballinger had been In| Hoe In the work of failing to enforce office & fortnight the pool room evil | the law. ‘ was called to his attention, and acting | The only restriction that will be on the impulse of the moment he wan | pl upon the mambiers, it ts raid, te about to inmue the order that they be | that they conduct thelr games behind closed forthwith. closed doors and must not wo Then the Great Northern combina-| bucket brigade—that ts to say, must tion showed its hand and at the re-| prevent working men from losing quest of one of the prominent Repub- | money at the games, licans who are supporting Samuel M.| This will probably be done by cutting Piles for United States Senator, and | out the high percenmage side games by th ming to the front of other | and running only faro and roulette for r in prevented | citixens who are behind Mr his fleht. the order wi from going forth The same influences, it le said, are | now behind the move to reopen gam- players who will buy no than @ ®% stack of white chips before sitting down at the tables Although no official © the story that ambi nfirmation of mm 06 be ri bling. Rumors that the administra- | opened can be obtained, the facts he tion would ultimately come around to | «iven are vouched for by the leadin a right way of thinking on the | sporting men af the city, who seo in gambling question have been in cir | the move a patch of the long standin culation am: the gamblers them-| quarrel between the Great Norther wolves for weeks, but It wae generally | faction and the First ward leaders of conceded that the psyeh the Republican party. Quits on First avenue south and on| Atlantic street | Residents in the vietnity of Virginia { and Minor ave have 4 to the police that festive Younasters in large numbers are mak-| ina life m te for them by playing} ball fo their yards, breaking down shrubbery and tramp a plants and flowers In their mad revelry with | the horse-hide sphere. Severa! fences | and hedes have been broken down by} caieied kame Arrangements have just been com- pleted for 4 most important interur- An efficer was detailed to Investi-/ gave the damage done and keep a| San railway system, to run by direct tehful eye on the young offenders.| and continuous line from Seattle to _ nes — | Snohomish, a distance of 62 mile DEFEATED THE BILL passing through portions of Toit and MELBOURNE, April 21.—The| Skykomish, and through the Sno: Australian government today de- quaimie valley company t= to be incorporated feated by one vote the government} 0,000, Just w > the fin. bill. It te stated that the ministry will resign. backers of the new enterprise are ts _—nlesmrenetigtaronenmanarntee & matter that is at present kept #0- SENTENCED jeret, but the nominal rators ‘ | are W. H. Goldson, T. J. Farley and INDIANAPOLIS, April 21—Pres-| mawin & Gill Ident Broderick of the Elkhart! Articles of incorporation were filed bank was today sentenced to 18) this morn in the office of the years in the penitentiary, and/ county auditor and with the secre- ug the re from his bodys and men| “*sbler Collins to six years. dary 66 teh Gb Clpienin tar the fe. Quickly rushed to the scene, but too éi Be Sete atte, Renton @ Tolt Biectric ral late. for when they succeeded. tn re- way company, to run from Rentor moving the mass of fallen rock It was to Toit via Issaquah sid Falls City to remove the mangled and scarcely and capitalized at § and to recomnizable form of Pehakka pisuide ineetaiaatnn ees Coroner Hoye, who was at Black [filed for the Snob Cheer Diamond investigating the railroad l alieg haaerke haben os ry wreck which occurred Tuesday, wae (lrg corm gemeinnens tralbig sari notified and immediately went to the ~ Snohomish to via scene of the accident. lonroe and Cherry Valley, with @ No inauest will be held, as it was pike capitalia of $1,250,000 shown to be the fault of the men at " The two companies will operate work. Their instructions are very| Coroner Hoye, who arrived from the | Under two old franchises, the firet clear and they had evidently dis-| scene of the recent railroad wreck at of which was granted in January obeyed them. Black Diamond, this morning. says |iast to W. H. Lord and W. M. Ent | that It will not be necessary to hold | wiatle trustees, by King county WILL BUILD A TEMPLE | Home Camp, No. 286, Woodmen of | the World, has decided to take the intiative nging for the ere tion of a Woodmen's tempel. Tihs was decided upon at a meeting of the camp last night ‘The Woodmen have been give option on several pieces of valuab property, but as yet no selectior @ site for the proposed tempe been made. i Consul Morley, of the Home camp, last evening appointed a committee to confer with the other camps and to work in conjunction with them in | perfecting the arrangements for the | erection of the building. Members f of the committee are A. Meven, A. C. Dresbach, F. H. Frew, L. E. Ch nut and J. W. Ha Haigh. LITTLE HAPPENINGS of $1,000 Miss Filla Kiantch was awar: da en against the Palace Laundry In the # rh court this afternoon for @ chushed hand. She sued for 1.00 | James Smith 4 guilty to « charne of burel in the superior} court this morning. He was sentenced by Jodge man t years in the ve y He broke int the} North acith daing house March 13 ‘The Seattle wing & Malt com- pany sec 4 writ of attachment against the rty of Mike Riley, manager of the defunct Arcade theater, in # court this after- noon. Henry Watterson, the gifted editor of the Louleville Courler-Journal, ar rived in Seattle this morning 1 is A guest at the Washington hotel. He is on @ lecture tour of the West Betweeh 200 and 250 property owr 2 of Rainier Beach and along the | enton car line waited upon tife| mmissioners this afternton for the purpose of urging the estab lishment of a boulevard to run along | the car track to Rainier Beach. The county commissioners have agreed » take the matter up and comply h the request if posstble In order t arge its system in the southern part of the city the In- terday filed with the board of pub- Yeo works a petition for permission to extend thelr underground con- | obey Mr an Inquest ove rthe remains of Sean- lon, the dead engineer, as it was piain- ly an unavoidable acedent. Dr. Hoye ~ taht trucks from the shattered Jcars were driven out of sight In the j earth, and block and tackié had to be | used to get them out. KEEPS 'EM GUESSING ‘What can be done with a boy who | and the towns of Insaquah and Ren ton, and the second of which was granted some time ago to W. M Snyder and J. EB. Hall, as trustees. The route wil! be through of | the richest agricultural, timber and coal districts in th i. MERELY A TALKFEST is toc good to be sent to the reform| As The Star predicted, the er school and too mischievous to be at yesterday aft er large i# a question which confronts ‘ob Furth, the pr Judge Bell every month or so when | county candidate f Harry Thompson, aged 12, ts brought ¢ supporters of ni into court by his discouraged and | and John L. Wilmon name of widowed mother. fice, had no result worth mention Two months ago Judge Hell | ing. thought he had disposed of Harry The statement of one of the con by turning him over to Rev. T. P. | fer that we just got together | Revelle, pastor of the First Prot-|end threw boquets at each other estant church, who is much inter- | expresses f what was accom- ested in the boy. Today, however, | plished. Harry was brought into court again “The situation, so far as I by Deputy Prosecuting Attorney | concerned, is not changed in the mover, who stated that all at-|least,” said Mr. Furth this after tempts to make him go to schoo! had |noon. Practically nojthing was done falled. at hte conference. “| hate the idea of sending the boy to the reform school, because he is not bad, but simply full of life and spirits,” Mr. Conover said. Mr. Hevelle also told the court that he thought it would be the ruin of the lad to place him in an inetitu- tion where he would associa with bad boys and be deprived of his lib- erty. Judge Bell finally ¢ STRIKE 1S OFF NEW YORK, April 2.—One thou- sand lthographers throughout the country. who have been on a strike sines March 15, returned to work this morning, as the result of an agree ided to place Harry absolutely in th ands of Sone embracing concessions by both Mr. Revele, to go. to school or not # the minster should nee fit. Harry | was called before the bench and eee eee eine dite EARLY BOOM IN severest tones. He was told Rev to the reform Harry later REGISTRATION Registration that If he failed to se he would be sent achool In two months. 4 in slonce and didn’t for the fall election ommit himself as to what his In-|!% commencing to Ward tentlons were. workers ere out in for bringing Mr. Revelle has decided to teach out voters and th registration the boy himaelf instead of forcing clerks are busy. The registration ‘ote | for the last city tion wae 19,404) him to go to school and will several hours a week to his self-im- posed tank. and 260 names have since that time The registration is heaviest in the been registered HINGTON, THURS DAY, APRIL a1, 1904 SHE'S A WINSOME MISS GOV, PARDEE'S DAUGHTER WILL CHRISTEN THE NEW CRUIS- ER CALIFORNIA SACRAMENTO, Cal, Aprti 21 Mins Florence Purdee ,who has been | chosen by ber father, Gov. Pardes, | to christen the new cruiser Califo: nia, is a winsome, pretty mins of 16, She recetvez in Oakland, wh: is now a momber of ¢ clase in the Sacramen | Miss Pardee, inclinations, ie rather tall | moat of her education | age and decidedly graceful. NO HOPE FOR _—— CHICAGO, April 1.—Governor Yates; ‘Three guards are with each of the this morning affirmed the recommen-| Men. two doctors reinforce Neide ation of the state board of pardons] meters guards. One guard ties on hin! in ard to interfering with the sen-| bad: the others sit by him, one on each tence imposed on Carbarner Vandine,| elds, He ix permitted to put his and all three of the bandits will be! hands under the covers. The wound hanged rrow morning: Nelder-| he infileted tn an attempt to commit meter alone, and Marx and Vandine | mulcide is still open. The bandit smiles | tomether with pleased vanity when the guard | ‘The sheriff of Cook cotteliments him on his shrewdness pleted all arra in having cheated the searches for execution. It will be COferaied weapons, A priest was that more than two m with Neidermeier three hours this hanged at once In Chi since morning, without apparently convine- xecution of the Haymarket anarch-|fm& the condemned man. Vandine, tate. > sheriffn ice has been /gifter the receipt of a telegram from flooded with requests for tickets to! Ri mother at Springfield, notifying | witness the execution, but all of th film of her failure to ercure guber have been refused. The Only witneare to the triple hanging will be those who attend In an official cnpactty, | Orin! clemency, called for a pric Boores of evangeliats visited the she was born, but! sophomore | who is of strong home! for her) BANDITS NOW THE TRIO OF CAR BARNERS WILL BE HANGED IN THE COOK } COUNTY JAIL AT AN EARLY MOUR TOMORROW MORNING wt jail to afer prayers and bring flowers. AR WINS FIGHT FOR FIRE ALARM eesti’ | COUNCIL THE PROVISIONS OF LONG NEGLECTED ORDINANCE signals at all str prevent such car crossings to dents as rewulted in the death of Anna Omley a week ago. This was informally decided upon at the meeting of the fire and water committee of the council last night. At the meeting of the counct! Mon- day night Counciiman Crichton will » ordinance providing ‘viding for the installation of | signals at all street car crossings. completed by the Miles & Piper to be able to present the mode! the committee for approval in a days. Chairman Zbinden | introduce stated WALTHAM, Mass, April 2%.—The| waterfront precinct, in the First and case of Charles 1. Tucker, the ac |gecong precinct of the e First and) tor the placing of @ steam siren on | night that he was determined to 4 murderer of Mabel Page "Td the Post street power house of the} that the ordinance was carried and in the Fifth ward, It i# in _ Sie teataaeed tab working jand tn the itth ward It ls i] seattle Electric company, which will fama. the Seattle Electric comp was a great crush of people, The | these . 7 e anti-’Te®) be blown whenever a fire alarm is | com) t Tuthoe of the murdered ‘girl told of |lemislative candidates are making| ternea in. oes poe. 2 share finding her body. [their fights, As a direct result of The Star'sy— The board of works is to be Agitation of the matter the city is] @tructed, and in fact has aire: to have @ steam siren for a fire | Been informally directed to spec: alarm, a8 well a# flluminated fre |@arry out the provisions of the ) COMMITTEE INFORMALLY DECIDES TO CARRY OUT in- ady daily or- Pdinance passed two years ago pro- fire A model of the signal devised is being Co. and City Electrician Joslyn expects 1 to few last nee out any | the The Seattle Star HELD UP BY A DUSKY AMAZO While on his way home shortly after midnight, last night, Fred Piper, treasurer of the Beattie th ater, was accosted by a colored woman near the corner of Columbia w a y. pt at counting m anti-American feeling prevalent there, endangering the lives of |those who failed to flee before the hostilities were thoroughly under way. Four Americans have been detained at Mukden on a charge of espionage on behalf of the Japanese. An Englishman arrested at Port hrter on a charge of be- ing a spy, has been hanged at *Mukden, the Jews i s also ) vigorous. COMPANY WAS KIND AFTER CAUSING THE DEATH OF MRS, MENDENHALL’S HUS- BAND SEATTLE ELECTRIC COMPANY PAYS HER EX- PENSES BACK TO INDIANA Mra, Re ow of J. Mi ena Mendenhall, the wid ndenhall, who died April 17 from injures sistained by falling off a street car, was awarded $400 | by Superior Judge Morris this morn- ing as darmages against the Seattle Electric company. The amount of damages was agreed upon by the parties to the suit out of court Judge Morris told Mra, that she could not legally recover damages from the company without its consent, as ber husband had lost | the damage suit he brought shortly | before nis death | Mrs. Mendenhall is in very deati- tute circumstances, however, and the Seattle to furnish her enough money to re- turn to her home in Indiana. The officers of the company preferred to have the money go through the court, so that it would prove a bar to any further action of a similar nature which Mrs, Mendenhall might bring. |PUT THEM ON THE CARPET ‘The three lawyers who constitute the | special committes that ts investigating the candidates for prosecuting attor- to make a report to the executive com- mittee of the Civic unfon for s days vet. Every single candidate for the posl- | tion has been put on the witness stand and made to tell the whole stor? of his life to the committee, or will be, W. T. Soott. Col. C. C. I » and Ken- neth MoIntosh are three of the men who have already been placed on the carpet. eral The persecution of) Mendennan | Electric company agreed | ney are still busy and will not be able | pt me naps cn a nadrptpatipenbil Qe eroreeeenes sensrencenes sommassnesesseensessceseesoe VOL. 6. NO. 52. AND ROBBED FRED PIPER, TREASURER OF THE SEATTLE THEATER, WAS GIVEN A TRONG-ARM” BY A COLORED WOMAN AND Lost ry aw street and Fourth avenue, and this oe m ne 6 Fred te lamenting the | atrange dixappearance of $96 in good | lance that of the $126 In gold that satlant was Just dietppearinge hard gold |wae in the purse when he started! around the corner, Piper then be=* When the woman met Piper she for home, only $40 remained. gan to leok for the woman who he& aaid, “Howdy, Mr. Piper. Whi are| “I'm robbed. muttered Fred! robbed him, but she, too, had vane you going, honey | through his teeth and he started for | ished. “Home id Piper, startied at) | the wgman w had picked herseif Piper reported the hold-up to the bein 4 by his own name up and started to walk hurriedly police and was given the consoling Well, Mr. Pt I'm going to|away. Piper setzed her by the a information that the woman waa walk a little way with you. jand told to give him bh one whom the officers had bee fearcely had they half a|money or he'd take her to the shadowing for some time and t block when the dusky Amazon | station she would probably be run to earth turned quickly and threw both arms Hain't got yo’ money, Mr.| before 24 hours had elapned. about Piper's neck and gave him a| Piper.” When Piper appeared at the stam! regular good old-fashioned hug and “Yen you have, and give it up, and) tion he was covered with mud fromm hearty choked him to death. Me |be 4 quick about it,” protested head to foot and he was clench! struggled to free himeelf, but the | Fred. his remaining wealth tightly in bi sn was too strong in “strong-| Sbe protested innocence again and| hand, fedring lest it might go the play and she said effustvely,| Piper threw down and proceeded to| way of his missing ducats ing her hold Now,|search her. She screamed and two ‘There seems to be a strange fatale Mr, Piper, don't you get fussy.” men, evidently cor rat who | ity following the treasurers of the’ Finally Piper flume the woman|aaw the scuffle, came running up.| Seattle theater, Mr. Piper's prede~ from him and she f He hastily |One of them pounced into Piper and| cessor, Eimer E. Dewey, was held felt in his pocket where had nestled |struck him a stunning blow in the) up on Queen Anne hill one night hie fat little puree, which felt| face, knocking him to his hands and) about six weeks ago and after a dese aely thin, Now Fred, being| knees in the mud. Piper got up to| perate battle with the highwayman coeeded im beating him off. ri) the his male as HE TELLS A SAD STOR STANLEY RUTTER WANTS HIS WIFE'S DECREE OF DIVORCE renew ROMM, April 81.—A Cheefoo tele- SET ASIDE—A STAR-BOARDER RUINED THEIR HAPPINESS gram thie morning states that Ad miral Togo has had @ special boat} pore prepared and will mm: another at- tempt mpletely bottle the Port] An application to have a Gecree of covers’ mente 5 eotwel a u or h @ivoree ante ulme Rutte rom her, in which she asl Arthur harbor tonight en ree granted to Mra. Loulse F Ker | eee hee tsvere ie Wasoad } jim this city last November set ar remarry. 1 refused to do 90. but of | YANKEES filed tn the superior court thit | fered co forgive her for everything if morning by her ex-husband, Stanley | she would come back to me and to her Rutter He claims that the divoree| boy, who was pining for her. was scoured by fraud, and in affi-| “I promised not to reproach her for tells @ most Interesting story |un I always had one, and sent her He states that he never knew his| baby’s picture, but still she would not wife had nec & @ivorce pntil «| come. ‘ BERLIN, “keels: 21.—The| (ow weeks ago when he happened to| "I learned that she was living wer eee some mention or her sult in an | Hawkins in Dawsen as his wife Frankfurter Zeitung prints a) 00 titouper. He had never been| that he had had the nerve to assume dispatch from its Manchuria) pop..4 ‘go he alleses, with any notice|my name. ‘They were known im! 0 high school. | correspondent reporting bitter| whatever that whe had sued him. al-| Alaska and Seattle as Mr. and Mra. though he says she w ways kept | Rutter. “My wife wrote me again and besged! and when I | informed by him as t whereabouts and knew bis exact ‘dress The di-| me to send her the beby vorce was obtained on ground of non-| refused to give bim up, said I wee poort selfish. I saw her when she ret My wife and I were married In/to Wisconsin to visit her egy Hs | 1880 In Janeny w Rutter relates | beaeed her to relinquish her in hin affidavit, “and moved at once |and her lover and come back to mée to Oreson. We lived together very | but she would not She seemed to Be Hiv until several years r our) very unhappy, and signed her letters child was born, when I began to no- | ‘Your wreck of a wife, Louise.” tice a «rowing infatuation on the part| “I have always been able and ens | cf my wife for a man named Morris {fous to support her, but she will not Hawkins, who boarded with ux. They | return to me and to her little boy.” | were constantly together, but I trust- | had not heard from her for some time (ed my wife and sald nothing about it | when I saw in the papers that she ha@ | One afternoon she pretended to be| gotten a divorce fram me by telling golne to the dentist to have an aching | the fudge that I would not support bes; and had deserted her, and that she tid not know where I was.” Mra, Rutter, who ix living in Seattle, will resist the setting aside of the decree and ft has been arranged thee tooth pulled, and agreed to meet m and go out to dinner at 6 o'clock that evening | When I grew restless waiting for her and found th went to her room rea is te in which she told me to wait no|a hearing in the matter shall be had longer. She never returned and I] as soon as possible, Rutter is repree found that had eloped with Hawk-| sented here by the law firm of Me ine and go Alaska. I took my | Clure & McClure, and Mrs, Rutter hap child and went back to Janesville. In| retained Andrew Ballet. and had probably been imposed upom by Weidert and Hess. Mr. and Mrs. Weidert had been rried only two months when the mer secured the divorce. OBTAINED DIVORCE BY FRAUD | DECREE IN WIEDERT CASE SET ASIDE BY JUDGE BELL m: foi SmooT TRAL isa. WASHINGTON, April 21.—Brige A decree of divorce obtained by | ham Roberts was again on the stan@ John Weidert in the superior when the Smoot hearing was ree last June, was set aside by Superior | sumed this morning, before the sen- | Judge Bell, it having been proven| ate committee. He testified in |that Weldert deceived his wife, | Smoot’s behalf. Amelia Weidert, in regard to the} He was examined regarding his statement to the effect that eleq@ tions ih Utah oscillated between the Democratic and Republican parties, and said the only time when the Democrats had elected their candi- dates was in 189 and 1898, when the silver question wad principally the only one discussed, and that since Republicans had been successful, Witness identified an interview pubs lished {n Utah during his candidacy for congress in which he admitted the right of the church to discipline matter in @ most shameful way Mrs, Weildert is a German and can understand only « few words of English. According to the evidence, her husband secured a divorce from her on trumped-up grounds by ab- solutely misrepresenting to her the nature of the action. George Hess, Weildert’s son-in-law, was also found by Judge Bell to have taken a hand in the plot to defraud the woman of her rights Mra, Weider't’s suit to haye the decree of divorce set aside has been} members when they entered politics on trial in Judge Bell’s court for} without first securing permission, several days. The nature of the case | He also admitted that after having: it was held behind] been ejected from congress and on his return to Utah he had been, in 1900, again prosecuted for plural ¢o- habitation. was such that closed doors. As far as T can see, said, in rendering hs de Judge Rell ision in the case, “the awful treatment this} He was not convicted. | woman has received at the hands of Calvin Cobb, proprietor of the her husband and his relatives is] Boise Statesman, was then called. simply the result of thetr meanness and penuriousness.” He then went on to seo! the two men soundly for the deception they had practiced Attorneys Richard Gowan and |Fred Burch were charged by Mrs. Weldert with complicity, but Judge Bell said this morning that so far He said he had no knowledge © by hearsay of persons livin, polygamy in Idaho, One-third of the members of the legisiature were Mormons and leaders of both Rew publicans and Democrats, and ca= tered to the Mormon element, When= ever the Mormon church wanted as he could derive from’ the test!-| anything it was given by either par- mony which had been before him! ty, without regard to the wishes of the lawyara had acted in mood faith the neaple, 4