The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 28, 1904, Page 1

ONE CENT Tonight and Friday—Showers; fresh south to weet NIGHT EDITION ~ SEATTLE, WASHIMGTON,THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1904 ‘CORPORATIONS BEHIND INFAMOUS SCHEME TO A ‘The Seattle Star VOL (8 SEATTLE EWS : THE ONLY PAPER : THAT DARES TO PRINT THE 1 NTS PER MONTH 6. NO. 56 as CE EMOVE THE TENDERLOIN DISTRICT TO NORTH SEATTLE. Alleged Plan is to Ask Council to Move Abodes of Vice and Crime to Water: Front District North of Virginia Street: Mayor Ballinger, However, Denies all Knowledge of the Matter and Says Present Location Has His Approval North Seattle was thrown into a} ight district and are acceptabt, men and young Ww i. Think of of tie fon last eve x by | the oblef and me We intend the ree of sort of F ation of @ sensational] all fallen women within this ¢ colony In the © wart of tee story n evening paper to the ef- I never heard of the scheme to| ci fect that the city council will the district to Western av-| “I notice that a part of the scheme in « short time be asked pue until I read about it last night/ is to buy the p rty of the ¢ a the present red leht distri in an evening per, and that’s all) Northe T t would « th Of Jackson street and re-establish it]I know L have never| taxpayers of th the purchase on the wa nt betw Virginia | thought of position ar of § » we of fp rt " reet and Denny way in North Se- e has © * me about it.” | ‘atthe | Undombtedly ree of time | Fortu: y for the peace and hap- } the rediight dt t will be mov law-abiding and self. | but when tt moves fh will go further itizens of North Seattle | south and not bh. This is the] ne hill, Ballard jew of busine en who are fa-| thern suburbs to the north litlons below Yesler| ty the plan exists only tn tid minds of certain the The site the rediight district now ffictals of certain large cor pies is wanted by the rations whose greed knows no} Northern asa part of depot and ath as mitt, and stands no chance what-| ™ grounds King street, and} rad wed to the proje ever of even coming befa: tt n rally th pany would like! it had ever been seriously const council to be rej It {itus-| to buy the tas cheaply as pos-|ered by « < trates, however, th adent dis- sibly, may have Ince th regard of the corporations men With the proposal tioned for the rights of the pub’ trict northward. The e i paper says. the land ent should Proposed tor be acquired belongs to! move the restrict~ | the Great Northern Ratlway Com its present location Pany and the Pacific Coast Com- t will succeed tn pany and lies along the bluff be-|créating more excitement than trveen Railroad avenue and Western| Would throwing a hornets nest In avenue. It has for years been oc-| wd. People in that Albert Wilton, president cupied only by squatters who rent} city are unqualifiedly op- | North Seattle Improvement from the owners and whose cabins any such movement and | sald give the district the name of ak out in good| “I do not belleve that anyone has “shantytown.” | pla 4 States when the sub-/ever seriously contedered such 2 In its present condition It ts prac project, and if the city offict tically worthiess, being in the same wever, that the prop- | should try anything of the kind &: district as the gat pasture which | osition nreasonable and so/ the people In that section wouk' o- the board of county commissioners! preposterous that no sane minded | up in arma at once. We would not few months ago purchased of the| man should consider it seriously permit thix under any condition, and Pacific Coast Company asa site for| “I not talked with anyone |I do not believe the city officials the new National Guard armory, | about it,” said John W. Roberts, | ever had euch an idea.” ‘The evening organ of the Jim Hilt! president of the Queen Anne Hill] BE. Shorr president of the interests states, however, that the| Improvement ctub, to a reporter of | Nozthwestern Trust and Safe De corporations would be willing to| The Star this morning, “because 1 | postt company, was most emphat! }in hie declaration that he waa un- have not taken the matter seriously |qualifiedly opposed to such a step sell it to the city for a mere baga-| and do not know how other people telle—only $155,000. ‘This its the price fof which the Great Northern | look at It. It is sheer idiocy to ewen | being taken would, it is claimed, be willing to/ think of placing this restricted 4 vs “It is unreasonable and entirely #ell the York hotel property on the) trict in the residence section of the | uncalled for. I would oppose it and corner of First avenue and Pike! city. | believe that all the people in the street, which would be the nucleus} “Another objection. If one Is look- | district as well as thore who would Of the new abode of debauchery and| ing for objections, is the travel | have to pass through would de the |aame. I do not believe the city of- fictals have such a plan.” 3. W. Cl heavy property owner said trage to torn that clase of people loone tn a resident sen. jon of the cit 1 do not think - Of the people’ voming tm from the | (oe of the city. I do not think ony. suburban sections would have to| move, and know that if the city of- pase through or close to the abodes | fictals should attempt to do It, there of vice and sin. | 4 be trouble. “Docks are fast being built in that | “The change would be diea through this part of the city. The Ballard cars would have to pass dl- rectly through thie district In case it were moved and the Queen Anne and Kinnear park cars would pass | close by, #0 one can see that many crime. The fact that the new city ad- ministration has dealt sternly with the present restricted district dur- ing the first month of its rule and has made no particular effort to cleanse other parts of the city which fully as richly deserved cleansing cited in support of the theory that Mayor Ballinger is secretly in eym- pathy with the corporation grab. j strous te N This theory was promptly] part of-the city and @ protection em Bquelched by the mayor this morn-| to the travelers and those who [re- in eS ae oe we ee ing, however. quent the public landings, this malnenes cosseunty Oy anyon ° . A and, if it Is, It ts the project of some eae Deeanay One EL” te sat {cnan6 should not be made. The | one who has some object in view for “agreed upon the limits of the re- t Btricted district at the beginning of the month. Those limits are prac- Bically the limits of the present red- people that inh the restricted | the dixposal of property. 1 do not care districts of all c are of the most | to say why. but the people can draw vicious type and they are constantly | their own Infere: on watch for the unwary, the young “The project wou not recetve the DOINA HID mupport of any resident or falr-mintted | property owner in the section, and if] rn should come up, there would | be overwhelming opposition by the! people residing in the sections af fected.” PERISHED — | ANGUS M'DONALD AND F. CRAIG , DROWNEO IN UPPER LAKES Ss ¥, T., April 28,—Several }y een lost through the eg within the last few days. ‘Angus MacDonald, en route to Dawson, , ugh the bee Lake La we and was drowned, The px eman, who warned him of his | dang but could render A teamater, was h two t I Tag © At " 2 ‘ the Yukon ts ex . thin the mext twe horae Wednesd nd th ae are tak- to Pair- animals t Yukon which point them over king the or ment He wilt i the wi and it a | wi iT ing in 150 banka. He over the Wh route to Da he will attempt to theh treat Wilson mals in aa an in j hold them | when me [does in th ine states tha «crass for {men cattle the @ party head of will mbt ite Pass ari ae wayr he ex 1 Wilson of 0 reasonable pr there is the cattle the Cost of fee small, If the wuc Wilson number of cattle, next y A party and ape Alwek ager plenty Sing { ens, w of 2% Individual are Bound for y T C Mew the Pilar Buy Pac od States miners t res ON YUKON) = On 7 HUE ‘Transport at the Kobe wharf receiving « cargo of Japanese cavalry horses, provisions und equipment for to the front. SUAS ee APS LOADING HORSES AND EQUIPMENT TUL TOT OO SUNK HER REPORT OF DESTRUCTION OF JAPANESE TRANSPORT CON- FIRMED (By Scripps News Ass'n.) 8T. PE offictal dispa Mh two Kk enue cutter service, Was a passenger for Sitka, wh business. Asacargothe Cottage City carried {0 tone of freight, consisting of | mining machinery, supplies and gen- eral mercahndise. SIGHTED THE FLEET (By Beripps News Asn) PORT ARTHUR, April 28.—fever al Japanese torpedo boats were ighted thie morning, protected by squadron of cruisers. A few in effectual #b were fired and then the ships disappeared DEFEATED GOVERNOR'S FORCES LOSE OUT AT WALLA WALLA ‘ sre he goes on official (Special to The Star) WALLA WALLA, April %The Sride forces were overwhelthing- ly defeated in the primaries last e ning, electing only 26 of 127 dele gates to the county convention. Of eight precincts in the city the "Bo: ers” carried only Steptoe, but tled with the “Holy Rollers” in Fremont, Everything passed off smoothly Owing to some questionable tactios on the part of the Holy Kollers” tn requiring @ test oath, encouraging registration frauds and shutting the Boxers” out of caucuses, the latter talk of contesting the delegation. to the sta comy jon Th it tihe: Bride slate for county offices will be nominated from top to bottein, laint was @worn int court this morn+ of Seuth | srlous morphine fiend. 1 to have recently become ery violent and to have threatened | kill his father and mother. Me- | will be examined before ion lomerrow mern- ing againeat Dan McM " Park He is n t Millan an torpedo boats bie up a Japanese tran Korea. The tra TERSBURG, April 2&—An tch reports that on the rt at Gen San t carried @ car w WILL APPEAL FRIENDS OF MURDERER CHAM- go Of 40 tons of rice, military stores, 1,500 tone of coal, four Hotch- | POUX TRYING TO SAVE HIS kies guns, 17 officers, 20 men, 5% cooites, 6 sailors, which were cap-| LIFE tuted. Other officers and men, re- sisting capture, were sunk with the transport. ‘The mneport sunk was the Kin- Relatives of Zennon Champoux, shiu Maru of 4,000 téhs burden. Ad-| the French murderer, whose execu miral Yersens’ official report fails| tion is set for May 6 at Walia Wal to wtate the number of drowned, The | '@ petitentiary, have decided to ap- ship y have cargied troops, in| peal his case to the supreme court which event several hundred were | Of the United State if possible Champoux’ attorney, A. J. Speckert, lost. ‘The Kinshia formerly plied on the and wan the Hongkong-Seattle run of cane to the property of the Nippon Yunen Kaisha company. Local Manager| Champoux Fart of the N. Y. K. told a Star | county more man this morning that the destroyed | murder of bi vearc] wae one of the finest ships Brace. The im thetr fleet. She arrived in Seattle | state upheld ‘the last time on January 16 of Inst| court and © fie§ on January 27. She) taken to amand of Captain F. L.|/ to a wait his Champoux ngth was 374 feet over all depth of hold 19.3, draft| taken before 25.2, gross tonnage net ton-| preme court, Her ep 16 knota. @he had accommodations for 180) gmasengers, 12 first-class, § second- dass'and 110 third-c WANTED TO nishing the money for his cane t "FRISCO SCANDAL applied today in the supreme court this state for a writ which will enable him to carry the of error, higher court was convicted in this than a year ago of the is sweetheart, Lottie supreme court of the the verdict of the lower hampoux was recently Walla Walla penitentiary execution. relatives, who are fur. be d States su- the Unit live In Canada, KILL NUNEZ." TENOR PLAYS PART IN DIVORCE PROCEEDINGS CRAZY CUBAN ATTEMPTED) 44. praxcisco, April 2&—DI THE CIVIL GOVERNOR'S LIFE | vorce proceedings were begun this |} morning by Mrs. Mary Edwards, husband, Laurie Edwards, land Dominico Russo, an Italian (By Scripps News Ass'n.) Itenor, figured in a sensational af. TANA, A 4.—An anarchiat | fray at Fairfax, Marin county, Tues- Governor Nunes. he would-be as- | provide, neglect, extreme cruelty aastin fs a Cuban named Villatonga, | 94 of being falsely aceused of adul apd ig believed to be insane. He tery with Russo. am elaimét he bad orders from Presi EVERETT, April Work has aes ‘Revsevelt to intervene in the been started on the new Catholl paverament of Cut Jchurch to be built for the Bayside | @oT AN OVATION PURLAN, April 28 and Queen Alexandra were given to the Royal College of Su’ lunacy commili low. lghere the cornerstone was laid, King Bdward tion In the streets today en route |parish, The building will be a frame Jone, with concrete foundations WASHINGTON, D. C,, April 28 an| David M. Eykel has been appointed regular, and OG stitute rural at Prosser, Lawrence C. Lee sub free delivery carriers Wash, the land forces already sent THE JAPANESE HAVE SURROU NDED THE RU: THE YALU ON THREE SIDES (By Scripps News Ass'n.) LONDON, April 28. — Reuter’s | Russian forces on the Yalu hemmed in on three sides. In front would be Cheefoo correspondent wires t the main force of the Japanese the Japanesehave occupied Kulleng- | army, to the east and on the northe cheng, on the right bank of the| west the forces of Japanese thag Yalu, to the south of Antung. crossed the Yalu Monday and y Such a move is highly {mportant from a strategic standpoint, as it would mean they would have the day, and on the west the forces ¢ are now reported as occupying Kue Mengcheng. - JAPS REPULSED (By Beripps News Aas’n.) “Ny Tuerencheng, encountered the Russia forces and that the Japs recetved a hot fire from the Russians, the Japs givii but a slight response, then retreat! back to the next village In great dise LONDON, April News correspondent says that there has been no fighting on the Yalu since Tuesday. A supplementary dispatch tn regard %—The Central at Liao Yang to the engagement on that day says order, the soldiers taking refuge in thd that the Japanese, while advancing on | houses. penis fled. On Tuesday 100 Russian cava alrymen attacked a Japanese launch, One of our torpedo boats replied ang the enemy fled to the mountains, & WILL BURN UNDER WATER’ (By Beripvs ST. PETERSBURG, April 28.—A Port Arthur dispatch to the Russki Invalid says that the Japanese hay BROKEN FLANGE CAUSED WRECK Sows Ass'n.) (By Scripps News Ass'n.) invented a new combustible, which fe inextinguish They tried to| SALT LAKE, April 2.—The weste burn the batt tzivan by set-| bound Oregon Short Line passenges! ting adrift 4 with the | train was wrecked near Topas, Idaho, burning material e battleship! this “morning. The engine, baggage sank the rafts, but the combustible | car and two coaches were piled up im continued to burn under water the ditch. No one was seriously ine jured. A broken flange caused thé wreck, Washouts north of Ogden will CLAIMS THE ™ RUSSIANS FLED WILL CALL OFF STRIKE SALT LAKE, Utah, April 28—& be | private dispatch was received here y from Indianapolis to the effect the executive board of the temporarily tle up the system, Yewspaper Enterprise Ass'n. TOKIO, A 28.—Admiral Ho-| United Mine Workers yesterday de~ soya, in command of the third/cided to call off the strike in the squadron, in re ting the opera-| Fifteenth district in Colorado, New tions of the torpedo fleet up ¢ Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. Presl« Yalu Monday an Tuesday 2 dent John Mitebell leaves for Bagy The enemy's field g pened on 1 next week and when he us without effect. T e of the! turns he wishes to resign the enemy on an island in midstream dency of the United Miners, J