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

sis of i } 4 ~ FIRE ONE CENT Tonight and Wednesday—Fai r; Warmer, Wednesday, Light Northwes t Winds NIGHT EDITION JUNE 0: roreenenes (ese rencene teewens ener e| The Seattle Star [=s=2] VOL. 6, NO. 9a eee J as CENTS PER MONTH “A KNIGHT OF COLUMBIA” IS THE TITLE OF GENERAL GHARLES KING'S STORY WHICH WILL SOON BEGIN IN THE STAR DOLLAR GAS COMPANY IS GIVEN IT’S FRANCHISE BY THE CITY COUNCIL THE STAR'S BIG “BEAT” WINS A SWEEPING VICTORY IN CITY COUNCIL, WHICH PASSES NECESSARY ORDINANCE BY A VOTE OF 9 TO 4—MAJORITY REPORT OF CORPORATIONS COMMITTEE RECOMMENDING THAT THE MEASURE BE TABLED VOTED DOWN AND MINORITY REPORT ADOPTED-—RUDE AND MULLEN RE TRIEVE THEMSELVES (The P.-1., Tuesday, WORK FOR June 7.) By « decisive vote of 9 to 4 the; for easions from the company American Improvement Company's | sprung a pleasant surpr $1 gas franchise was pas by the/ing in the minority r council last night he pora nding the passage the ordi-| a | tions committee brought in a ma ° ° y nority report, being u here wana # sifie F pal Sis to saren Sao canteres tessrt| coneerasrrety be Pacific Fleet to Repair | TOR FLEET ve cae TO BREMERTON June 4.) DERE. Saturday aturda Tecommended the indefinite post by th | Siiledd af the erdtannen, and the panation se ot a] at Bremerton minority that it be po As soot ADMIRAL GLASS WILL BRING PACIFIC SQUADRON TO PUGET Sena the eréinance. buh ealte:the torkemaaoes commute silt SOUND NAVY YARD BY JULY 1—MEANS LOTS OF WORK te first, second and nat wore eft the chair lont DUE HERE JUNE” 30 vTesae and passed with a rush. The vote/enough to declare that he was in | a “QYS_KURNETT. RUDE, COLE | ee eo tras ise only If it @ | Im epite of the oft-repeated and) as ft is the intention of the depart CRICHTON, DAULTON JOHN-|t> r } Two Vessels Already Ordered to | unfounded knocks certain| ment to overhaul the warships SM > Nb . j . local paper sditehing here It also means t estrete src TY AND | thought that it was not » re —— ee megs cig bye pe Puget Sound and Seven inet the y yard |of thousands of dollars will be put GILL > insure this end, but when NO—RENIAMIN, BOWEN, CON- | covered the ov WAY AND ZHINDEN ent of the counct! in fave » Benjamin and Zbinden | ordinance he fell into line gracefully fm the majority report of) and voted for it thO committer. Rude and Mullen, | - mone Whe had been loud tn holding out « wed on Page 3) JAPO AGGAUL | More Will Follow a rwhelming M ME foreqotne Giepaten fr Jones of the ot eelt, It beare out the the by officials of the navy REPORTS RECEIVED AT CHEFOO AR ETO THE EFFECT THAT THE FINAL EFFORT OF THE JAPS TO TAKE HE RUS: STRONGHOLD WAS PRECIPITATED LAST NIGHT—ATTACK ON LAND AND SEA STILL IN PROGRESS An attack from land and sea on Port Arthur a the yards by is now saw gest fleets of warships that has « been at the Puget sound navy yard will be there wi two monthe This morning a was received Washington stating tha partment in command de Glass sadron pentetiy given within (© | dirty Thi Neged ot hin the next spectal dtepagch \ Star from the navy Admira to proceed to Bremerton. The dispatch adds the expected at the yard not Admiral first-class Concord the fleet may be uiget sound navy later than Glee the gun- Bennington the fingship of | cruiser Marble: | boats With these big sea-fighters will be | the collier Nero. be work for « big force 6 ‘the navy yard for many months, order means that there will of men The Star scored one of the biggest newspaper beats in months on its contemporaries | tan | the fact that the Pacific fleet would soon come to Bremerton for repairs The good old conservative P.-I. comes along with the same story today—only three days late—while the Times has not said a word about the good news for Bremerton yet It is a big beat because it means a big boom for the navy yard town and puts to rest the unfounded rumors per- sistently published by a local paper that the navy department was discriminating against the Puget Sound navy yard. the department, it t the inte cirevlation at Bremerton Im addition to this fleet the armored cruiser Albany is now on her way to Bremerton and more extensive repairs will be made on her than on any vessel in Pacific waters Gonsiderable work will also be dome at Bremerton on the gunboat Wheeling and a number of othér smaller Vessels All this work will keep the men employed at the navy yard busy for many monthe and indica leurly that the policy of the ga department ix from anything Ike discrimination against the lo- cal yard The aaeregate tonn vessels which will be eof the erhauled and repaired at Bremerton this amer is 18.478, divided aa tol . Piaeehip New York, $200: jeruiner Marblehead, 2.089; gunboat Concord, 1 gunboat Benning 1.710; cruiser Albany, 3,769; te gunboat Wheeling, 1,000 qoureyasicaaeemestetmnmns | PICTURES TAKEN AT THE FRONT gng*here. A Chinese junk was the first to bring the news, reporting the Japanese soldiers tried to advance by land, and that the fleet (was helping their movements. A remnant of the Russian Port Ar- tur fleet came out of the harbor in an attempt to repel the Japanese pea warships. Other repor' tend to confirm the story browght by the junk. Rumors are current indicating that a naval battle has been fought tn ‘hi-l. Steamers passing Lal Shan Cheng say that the guif of Pe~ Reavy firing was heard there between 11 p.m. and 2 a. m. Veaseis from the Mai Tao islands confirms these reports while the hills near here state that they saw Mashes tn the dis- MINES DESTROYED tral Togo reports that 41 mines have been ing the past two days in Talienwan bay. of the Russians, assisted in TOKIO, June 7 Gestroyed and « Chinese Gestroying the mine: LONDON, June 7.—A Ch Dattleship, which was re Been sunk by « mine in T ‘The Cheefoo dispatch is not credited here failed to mention the loss of any ship in hin rep: struction of the mines in Talienwan bay in the employ foo dispatch te that the Japanese & yeaterday by the Russians to have jenwan bay, was the Yashima as Admiral t today Togo the de nyed, and three ck was wiped were made for ANOTHER ayye L075 OF WORK FOR BREMERTON A FLEET OF NINE WARGHIPS WILL BE OVERHAULED AT THE A GREAT CONFLAGRATION THREATENS WIDE DESTRUC. THIRD BLAZE AT LEAVE WORTH WITHIN THREE! TION AT MANCHESTER, ENG- PUGET SOUND NAVY YARD MONTHS RESULTS IN $7,000) LaNno Loss — The Pacific squadron under Rear be (By Boripps News Ass'n.) (Special to The Star) . ; o ; as great conflagration, originating ‘ PVERETT June 1.—Karly|in Lee Company's printing ware:| Saturday for a cruise among the this morning t Leavenworth| house, which i in the center of the| Aleutian islands. While there the destroyed Da drug store, the! business diatrict, i# burning and| squadron will pick up the destroyers Laavenworth Mercantile Company's! threatens wide destruction Potrel and Saturn and touch at warehouse, the Tumwater saloon, Kiska, where plana are now under restaurant and barber shop, and the| MANCHESTER, Juno 7- oad’ tot the odineiblaaak of oak er A Hilt hotel. ‘The fire is und trol. ‘The blaze is supposed to have ia $800,000. — portant coaling sation. originated from the exploding of chemieals in the drug store, The] The ing ¢ contents of all the buildings except! Union t Club will be] riviag there the last of this month. the érug store we saved. The lo held tonight at Finnish hall, corner ably be $7,000, covered by| Second avenue and Kast Pine street mount of Insurance. | Fire and protection and other | the Lest week a livery stable and local ques Later The loms cruiser Albany will already be | ¢ a From Kiska, the seven ships will) more or I the Bast] proceed at once to Bremerton, ar-|@l! of them, | The flagship New York ts to have By the time the squadron arrives | a now battery Installed and will re- ive @ complete overhauling. An ne will be brought up, at the local navy yard, and the gun- } tce machine 1 to be installed on the Admiral Glass, which will arrive at Samoa, where she has be MANCHESTER, Engiand, June 7.| premerton June 30, left Honolulu (® ‘ining ship, about July 1, ! hinted that the cruiser Tacoma will | also be sent to Bremerton later to | have some work done on her wire- | less telegraph apparatus. At any rate, the of nine warships at the Bremerton yards within the t Wheeling should arrive from n used as will be a fleet next month and work will be done on It ts} | RUSSIAN PRISONERS ABOUT TO START FOR JAPAN. |improvement of Ch ny 5 Benniagton and minor repaira made The largest amount of work ts to| be done on the cruiser Albany, now at Honolulu, on her way to Brem- erton, She will arrive next week | She is to be copper sl 7 it Saturday when it published COUNCIL GRANTS A BEER LICENSE FOR MADISON PARK [ 17 18 THE OPENING WEDGE To } RESIDENCE DISTRICTS—PL APPROVAL The first blow on the wedge | (The Times Story.) | which may open saloons the | parks and res.uence sections of the |city was struck at the meeting of |the council last night, when the | | ation of Henry Beck for a Ii o well malt liquors at the Madison park pavilion was granted & maj of but one vote hen ar 1 seven vote cast port of the li ense and reve mmittee, whieh had recommended the gr of | / ense, 1 ix against, as fo | lows | - Ayes—Benja Rowen Burnett Conway, Mul Zbinden and Gill Noes—Cole, Crichton, Daulton | Johnston, Murphy and Rude The iilictt selling of Nquor at ource of | Madison park has beer Jcontinual trouble to the police for | the past ten years, an |have been matntaix blind pigw every ors of the Meense com j mittee nay that they voted | |Heense because the pavilion was to |be ru ntly and the license was not « tionable to Mayor Ba ger or Chief Delaney The latter this morning. 1 have not told anybody that I thought Beck should be gt 2 a license to sell liquor in the Ma son park pavilion, but I have said that I did not see any objection to allowing the sale of beer to go or there so long as the place is run PERMITTING SALOONS IN THE AN MEETS CHIEF DELANEY’S properly A properly conducted beer garden is not objectionable ag far as | know of Cole and Dauiton strongly op- posed the granting of the ns@ last night, but in vain. I think this council would show bad grace in beginning such a pol- ley at this tim sald Cole, “In view of the mises that most of the membe made to the Ctvie Union against granting licenses for aloons in parks and residence secs tlons of the city prior to the last election. If we « this Heense it will mean that we will have to grant them at all other parks. It wo 1 be a disgrace If women mn could no! being ins jronkards. Th ment is mace th egitimate beer rdens at h places are prefere an” I way that sa joons are not necessary We have a police force that ts supposed to suppress such things If it does not ft is a reflection om official honesty.” James Harriott, who runs a fruf® and chi parks witho noyed le to *t stand at Madison Park, today, aw soon as he leared taht a license had been 1 to Beck, requested his attorney to take steps immediately, to secure a similar privilege for him “It Reck can have one, I'll ge@ one, too, or know the reason why!” said Harriott to a Star man this afternoon. LOST SUT i | COURT REFUSED DAMAGES TO BRAKEMAN ELLIOTT | ] Superior Judge Griffin yesterday | | eranted the defendant's motion for ja non-sult In the damage suit of Emil Elliott against the Northern | Pacific Railroad company cillott sued to recover $20,000 for injuries sustained when attempting to warn a number of children not to cross in front of a train. to show negligence on company NOT WITH ie JOHNSTON 17 was N07 HODGE'S EAR Deputy Sheriff R. T. Hodge of | Franklin, wants pec to know }that it was not his ear that was bitten off by Pat Curtiss as one edtinen nston of the & Seattle newspaper has stated, but ond ward declared a boyeott on the that of Harry Baker. Hodge re- rest of the council at its meeting | celved a letter from Harry Baker last night. He said ho would not @t Cedar Mountain this morning vote for any street improvements | stating that the latter does not wish thereafter where an appropriation to prosecute Curtiss, who is accus from the general fund was neces liclous mayhem, and is now sary, The other councilmen refused | in the city jail awaiting trial to take him seriously, but if the} A bench warrant will be swo Second ward man chooses to carry | Out for Baker, who states in his let out his threat, it will mean that no | ter that he intends to leave the more street work can be ordered. | country to avoid testifying. j It takes the unanimous vote of the ~ a9 | coumell to allow such work ordered In one of its fits of economy the | SUPREME COUNCIL street committee informed John Second Ward Councilman Will Block Street Work es street by | |erading and the construction of «| | bridge, because {t would require too much money from the general fund, | *F ston that it would not stand for the | IN SESSION ' ISVILLE, Ky. June f of the Kn Now, it so happens that Johnston | Columbus, a Catholi is very anxious to see the improve- | | society, bega ment made, In substance he told /Se*sion at the Galt hoase today the other members last night that|TeT are about 100 delegates in athed and|if they did not treat the Second |*''rniance § representing 400.000 reeelve a new battery consisting of| Ward generously, he would tie up| {)"" + orl the society throughout | | fifteen. 5-inch guns, in place of her| present battery of five 6-inch, one 6-inch and four 4.7-Inch guns. Minor repairs will be made on the Other hips. Aside from the work on the war- ships, Improvements and new con- struc at the yards calling for appropriations aggregating $71,600 are planned for, including extension of the quay wall west of the dry | dock, new warrant officers’ quar- | ters, coal pockets on the water | front and improved lighting, heat- jing and water systems for the yards, The local officials of the Canadian Pacific railroad announce that ar- rangements have been completed for runuing the trains of the company directly into New York over the New York, Ontario & Western rall- road. This will afford a through service from Seattle to the m olis of the East over the shortest with his one vote improvements in every other ward. And here the matter rests. WATERSPOUT SCHOOL BOARD The matter of annual supplies for the city schools for the coming year will be taken up by the Seattle| school board at the meeting this evening. The question of calling for bids for supplying text books UNRULY ELEMENTS CAUSE) decks and other things necessary MORE TROUBLE AND PROP.| for the school work will probably be decided, ERTY LOSS IN NORTHERN — TEXAS LITTLE HAPPENINGS . Y. Me ol FORT WORTH, Tex. June 7—Al who after packing up his eftects, waterspout struck Enloe today.| cuadenty lett home ay mol Half « mile of the Texas Midland |ing, causing his friends to think. Ne railroad track was washed away.|was going to commit suicide, re- Hundreds of acres of cotton land | turned home yesterday. He ts still © inundated, The residents in| despondent and ts being buss: the flooded district were forced to! closely by his friends. seek refuge in tree tops. The live- Peter Peterson alleges that he ne between the two points, stock lows is heavy, was robbed of $5 on the waterfront | enue Jed tre weeks ago by Frank Nelson, esterday Nelson wae bound over jor court on @ charge of y from the person. suse Elain Coffman was a few days behind hand paying her room re W. H. Merchant, a lodg- Ing house keeper of 610% Third av« said to have become angry, 4 threatened her with a hammer, fore the blow fell a patroimma peared on the scene and prevente ble. Yesterday a warrant was sworn ut for the arrest of Mere chant on a charge of assauit The federal grand jury convened at 2 o'clock this afternoon with @ good deal of work before. The organization of the jury and a few minor cases will be taken up today and it is expected that the Stevens smuggling case will be taken up to- morrow. BOY MAIMED BY EXPLOSION Y to the su a ' (Special to The Star.) CENTRALIA, June 7.—Last Sate urday afternoon Kenneth Sewell, the 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mre, K. Sewell, was frightfully burt by the accidental cartridge Mrs. Sewell was away from home at the time, giving a music lesson, Kenneth was playing on the graag front of the house by bimself, had got hold explosion of @ means of some gunpowder and a blank rifle rtridge, and, filling the car- tridge with powder, he touched @ hted match to it >» one was in sight at the time, but a man fn a neighboring house, hearing the explosion, ran ow, and lying on the ground. into the house 1 then summoned stor Dumon made an examina- tlon and fe that one of the boy's eyes aws gone and the othes badly injured. Three fingers on his right hand were torn so as to probably necessitate amputation, His left hand was badly cut: and his breast was br and lacer= ated. The doctor said that unless the injured eye was removed the other could not be saved, and the wounded boy was accordingly re- moved to St. Joseph's hospical im Tacoma, where his injuries are be- ing dressed and attended to. RUSH TO ST. LOUIS al Excursion tickets to St. Louis are in great demand today, For several days the railroad men have been busy preparing for the advance sales, which have been much larger than was expected. The agents did not expect a great rush on account of the short time in which the rate has been in extstence, but many people are taking advantage of the opportunity to visit the fair in early, June. ‘ON, D, ©, June 7.— & Co, of Port Townsend erday awarded the con- ract for the repairing of the Port Townsend quarantine station, af $4,484,