The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 8, 1904, Page 3

FOOD WAS BAD AND THEY HAD NO WORK MANY SEATTLE MEN DEPRECATE TH ECONDITIONS FOUND AT SEWARD AND THREATEN LEGAL ACTION AGAINST THE! ALASKA CENTRAL RAILWAY H. HM. True and about 14 of thom Who recently returned from Seward, The first night T went f ny bank bh nen who went up at the othe Meresten to bring sult against the [iis We had applied for work and Alaska Central Ratiroad Company | peceived a promise of It right away OH account of the Misrepresentation | Just before we got to sleep that made to them before they left for | night one of the company men came © of work. / around a }to pay 26 Jaleep there “The next morning the boss sald they had ne tools, but we would be put to work within a few days, They had plenty of tools in the Warehouse but would net put many men at work at one time, When we did get work they would lay us off every few da and put ether crews at Work, #0 a8 to keep ue with about enough to live on. There never was the north for the pur ing on the road, Their clatms have been placed in the hands of an at ferney and = they y it wit be Pushed to a bitter end Th an interview this morning Mr ‘True said “Before I lett Seattle Mr. Swan ita, Ghiet engineer of the company there wae plenty of Seward for mechantes at the rate of 60 cents an hour, He told me that men were needed there! 4 told us we would have conte before we could dedly and i was on this represen jany complaint, as far as I know tien that I left Beattie and went| about the inability of the men to to Beward. As soon as I arrived| work. They probably did not want | there I went to the timekeeper and aaked for work. He did not hay any fer me. “I finally secured a few days Werk around the city tn repairing and buliding stores and places about to rush the men an the food they were giving them. “I stopped at the company board- ing house and the food was some- territ| The meat was bad and the oleomargartne they used for there, but that did not last long. | butter was emeliing awful. We One day I met Mr. Swanite and] peatedly complained to Mr. Dicki: asked him about work. He sald he/*on about the conditions, but he id not have any at that time. id he did not have anything to de Finally they put me to work bulld-| about it.” ing @ desk in the office. The time- “The meat they served on the heeper told me I would get tables was over a month old,” sald hour. I then asked ©. Concannon, “and it had not been ‘Was not going to pay 60 cents per hour and he told me no, and that the company did not have money throw away. He + im net going to pay Seattle wages. “They promised the men who went | up there that plenty of work wae awaiting them, but when we got! there, work waa awful scarce. They employ about $0 men at a time on the road and when a new bunch! comes along they turn the olf men eff, thue giving them abeut enough te pay their beard with A man could not get anything ahead. The men get on an average of four days'| Work each week and that just about Keeps them going. “They always moved the saloon " it the beard. I 4i4 not stop | with the camp and placed it so the at the Company boarding house, for|men would have to pass It when T got & emell of the place and ft | they went in to their meals That ‘was too much for me. I never could | was & sort of an appetizer for them.” have stood it and do any work. A. Benson, of Beattie, was one of “People who have been acquaint. | the carpenters whe went up. @4 with the conditions there for) “ was promised plenty of work at years say that this road is a big| 50 cents per hour at the company's fake. The letter recently wrote by | office in this city before I went up Mr. Bwanits to people here about /I wes there two weeks and did not in eeid storage all the time, either One day we objected to the meat and the cook came out with a bie knife and was gotng to kill anyon whe objected to the stuff. happened te be fortunate enough to get two slices of bread and the door- | keeper was going to choke him for it “When they moved the camp they hung the meat up on the limb of « tree and we could plainly see it. It war all colors of the rainbow and infested. For breakfast we had mush and con@ensed milk, without sugar, and the quantity furnished was small. the 4 conditions is false) get & day's work because th: wee to the core, He talks of the men | none there to do Being saloon bums, which is wholly, “The average ie about §§ men at watrue” work on the road all the time. I can John MeEtroy, another who re-/ verify all the stories told by the turned from Seward, says jother men who have come out and no one cam tell it half enough.” strong ‘of plenty of work on reaching there PROTEST AGAINST LIQUOR AT PARKS “I believe the people here are unanimously opposed to this li- cense, and if they had been con sulted they would have been found E and out against it. For my- j | self, | cannot see why it was done. city where men. can get drink, and 1 am opposed to opening the public parks to such a thing. It brings to the park an element that is an- wholesome to the better people who this purpose that the| have been in the habit of coming ber will probably appoint a/ here, and to those who reside here ittee to await upon the mayor | it will be a source of continual an- urge such an action on bis part. noyance. ia feared that opening @ liquor! “You can put me down as em- at Madison Park by one! phatically opposed to the sale of of the city will necessitate | liquor of any kind tn any of the biishment of other saloons public parks of the city or any of purpose of sales of other |the private parks that are used by of beer. |the public,” said Oliver C. MeGilvra, will also open the way for) “A park ought to be « place where tm other parks and, within |@ny man can take his wife time, every park in the city | family. or where any wife or me me the resort of all sorts ber of her family can go without .|the danger of being insulted. who go there for the pur | eewyitntn. my heat ste HH : [. i there pose of drinking. was a time when blind hi pige were Madison Park license was duly ap- | Lake Washington and the people proved by the mayor before it was asked for in the council, The people who near Madison iving at the lake were frequently jembarrassed by being compelled to listen to vile language used by peo- ple who had already imbibed and Park are up in arms over the action y 416 going to the lake for the pur- of the city council. It came 48 & Jose of imbibing further. This con- surprise to them and, bad they been | dition will surely exist at Madison given « warning that anything Of | park and at othere parks if the the kind, was going to be done, they | council permits places where liquor would have appeared at the meeting ts sold to be run there. gad protested most strenuously; “1 do not believe that the people een ss auling the license. | were expecting the license to be Charles L. Denny, who owns & | granted. I was not. I do not be- beautiful home and grounds on the Jieve that any of the people there take front just south of the park, knew a thing about it. I bellew said ferterday: |that ff the people were given an “1 am surprised that the council | opportunity to be heard, it would should have allowed a saloon to be be demonstrated that a large per established at Madison park. It is cent. of the tax payers of the city & disgrace that respectable people are opposed to the establishment cannot have a place to spend thelr of a saloon at or near any ot the Sundays and holidays without be- parka ing thrown into the association of “Speaking for myself, I will say people who are intoxicated. The | that I did not know that any appll- park has been an ideal place for | cation had been made to the coun the working people to take their cil for @ license at Madison park families on Sundays and at other and if I had, I would have appear- times when they could get an out-|ed before the council] and joined ing, but now the place is injured | Dr. Kilborn in urging the council for that. | Rot to grant the license.” “The public parks of the city} ©. W. Kitchen, who owns a should be open to all classes of home within a few blocks of the people and no objectionable fea-| park, on Madison street, is one of like @ saloon, should be per-| the oldest residents of the section Iam openly od to and i# opposed to the sale of liquor le of liquors of any kind at of any kind at the park the parks and do not believe the| “The condition at the park has council should permit it. It i# @/ been changing some, but this is the dangerous practice to introduce, ! last blow,” sald he. “Il can remem and no one can tell where it will ber when Madison park waa the ond. resort of the finest people of the There are plenty of pinces in the! city, ‘The respectable residents of the city with thelr families have been making thin their Hunday out ing place for many years, but the introduction of @ galoon here will] keep them away. respectable lpeople will come here when they | will be submitted naults of peo |ple who have been drinking. “They ay the license te only for the sale of beor, but that ts} opening the way for other kinds |Mquor and just as soon as the beer iw placed on sale, the other kinds Will be also at the disposal of thone who want them, It has always been the result that when one thing ts permitted the people always go CITY W further, If they permit places for the sale of beer, the olty officials | at prevent the sale of other liquors, and the reputation of Mad iwc rk will be destroyed,” | The Washington Anti-Saloon League today began its active cam | paign against the saloon Hoense at | © | Madison park, and petitions jbeing clroulated throughout the city. It is hoped to get at least 26,000 signers to the petitions that Will be placed im the hands of Mayor Rallinger protesting against jthe Itcense, A committee of the |Anti-Saloon League, headed by | Rev. O. MH. McGill, held a confer ence with the mayor yeseterday and he promised to hold ¢ hance without signing it wntll he could get a free expression of the | |people of the city regarding the |saloon at Madison and other parks | The committee of the league re | Quests that every person interested jin the matter to sign a petition | Against the license. For this pur | powe they have drafted a petition for exclusive publication in The | Star. which It {* desired that the |people sign and forward to the league headquarters The Epworth League, tn ite con. |vention this forenoon, passed « resolution in which it emphatically opposed the action of the councit and asked the mayor to veto the | ordinance Similar om wan taken by the Good Templars lant} | pight and the W. © T. UL today. |The Kast Union Street Improve | ment Club at ite meeting last night passed a resc om condemning the jaetion of the council in granting | the license. WAL SHOOT DOM CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo, June §| }~-Major Naylor and a squad of cav alry left at noon for Stratton Moun- | tain. to arrest a union miner named Fridley, who, with a several com | Panions, is barieaded in a cabin there. Fridley is charged by a num. ber of unionists with being the man |whe shot McGee Gen. Bell states further pero tions will occur this afternoon, and | those who resist will be shot down, “We don't propose to parley trom now on,” said Bell | | Further resignations of public of-| ficialn have been demanded by the committee of the Mine Owners sociation. VICTOR, June &—Talk of tyneh-| ing or violence has subsided mark-| edly, though if the man who ploded the mine at Independence were to be caught and brought bere, | it te doubtful if any force would be sufficient to protect him The man who killed Motiee at a mans meeting Monday has been pos- itively identified, but has not been captured. | The Record, the organ of the | Western Federation of Miners,| | prints an editorial today urging the miners to call off the strike inaug- urated ten months ago. No further deaths are reported among the| wounded today, ‘THEY BROKE THE WIRES Because Walter Friend, aged 14, | used the Seattle Cataract Com-| | pany’s transmission wires to make | fireworks he t# now languishing in the county jail A rancher named Evans, living near Christopher, ts |aleo under arrest because be em- ployed two Japs who broke down the company’s wires by blowing stumps across them. | | » ‘The arrests are the result of the! j determination of the officers of }the Seattle Cataract Company to do away with the practice of some persons of deliberately breaking the wires of the company between the plant at Snoqualmie and the *sub-station at Renton. The pen- alty for the offense is one year's imprisonment or a fine of $500. The! breaking of the wires in this man-| [ner has been a great inconvenience | |to the customers of the company in Seattle and Tacoma. Until the damage could be repaired street lamps have been put out of buat ness, elevators have been stopped jand large manufacturing establish- | | ments have been deprived of their | electric power. |_It was on May Friend decided he would have 4 14 that young} Fourth of July celebration of his own. He secured a plece of bi wire and threw it across the com |pany’s high-volted wires, short etreaiting — them. There was a startling display of electric flashes for a while, but Friend was discov ered by an employe of the company | before he had gotten through with | his fun and placed under arrest Evans employed two Japs, who used dynamite to blow out the stumps on his ranch. Apparently they used a little too much of the! | explosive and one of the stumps | was blown across the wires, break jing them. ie LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 8 | Kentucky state Democratic conven. | tion i in session here today. An uninatrueted delegation will prob ably go to St. Louis. The fight in j over the control of the atate cen-| ‘A! commVtee. The | countermanding a prey STAR--WE DNESDAY, ANOTHER STRIKE ON CHAIN GANG CALL® THE ATTENTION OF CHIEF OF POLICE DELANEY TO THE POOR QUALITY OF FOOD GBERVED UNDER PRESENT CONTRACT Twelve miombera of the chatr wang struck this morning, refusing to work again until thelr rations had been increased and the quality of their food improved ‘ ye, fellers, two spoonfuls apudae, a plece of rancid hunk of bread as big as oubled fists and coffe thin that you ean see your futur eh it, ain't enough for a m king on the chain gang even, aimed the ring leader of the mutinows) Joren ‘Tain't cause It's not enough #o much ae tt tan't ft for even the likes o’ us,” claimed in another watery }eyed member of the striking jail birds :! reporter personally inves the remains of the morning's and nibbled at the stale, dried tried to taste what coffer there was in the thin brown mene handed to him in a@ cup by on of the gang, and w vin the Justice of the strike. The ¢ backed up even by th who have repatdiy the meal now furnished prisoners is not what it should JURY IS thy NOW OUT Up to a late hour this afternoon. the jury had failed to agree upon a verdict in the ease of the against “Mysterious Kid" Presto charged with robbery. The trial was begun and concluded yesterday aft €rnoon, and the jury deliberated all night Preston, ho is a notorious Uleman crook,” te charged with hav- | ing broken inte the home of the Rev, John B. Goddard, and robbing him of $380. The defense was sensetional in the extreme, as evidence to dis credit Preacher Goddard in the eyes of the Jury was introduced. The defense attempted to prove that Goddard had several timer been involved In unsavory seandal, and that he had been accused re peatedly of undue familiarity with women in his congregation. Mr. Goddard did not deny that on one occa: in California, he was surrounded by men with Winchester rifles. LANDED WASHINGTON, D. C., June &—/ Admiral Chadwick cables that he hes landed a force of marines at Tangier to protect the Belmi gation at the request of the con mul general. He aleo cables that the British consul at Fee under- stands that the sultan of Morocco demands of the Perdl- hae granted the brigands for the release caries and Varley. WILL USE THE BLACK SEA FLEET DON, June &—A Bt Peters dispatch says Grand Duke commander-in-chief of the has wecured the czars permia to form another Pacific ron by taking the Black fea fleet to the far « It in stated that permins already been secured from to take the Black feet through the Dar * on condition the the I men nel out the ips will not be returned to ack sea he British eelved no request from either foreign office has re- ur key or Rusia for Great Britain's netion of the » we of the Ri an ships through the Dardan LT AND BATON ORDERED VACATED A general order was lasued yes terday by Chief of Police De to the effect that day patrolmen should wear belts and lmtona. The officers themselves are very much pleased over this action of the chief, esp ctally those whose portly forms find the tight clasp of the belt discom forting Others have it in for the batons, saying that they are more for show than blow, anyway Between June 10 and up to September 10 the new order will be effective. The Northern Pacific Ratlroad ce ny filed plans for its new freight sheds today with the bulld ing inspector. They are to be on King street between Firat and Sec ond avenues foot in size. ‘They will be 60 by 100 ILL BOARD PRISONERS IN JAIL ion, hen he a preaching | that} UNE 8, t not a# agreed upon in the contract BR. Bartels, the} has with the board of pub lic works. | ing to put ling jail prisoners just ax nfer with thi | of publig works and w lovatin can be | decided upon,” eatd Chief of Police} | Delaney this morning have my sympathy t like trouble which h daily between 1m officers ail along, that them human beings, and nery time breaking the law they should east be fed properly, empecially the men who work on the chatn gang, | There t n no complaint] filed with me regarding they do and Iam of the opinion th earn thelr board and should fed accordingly Hartel stated to a Star repe this morning that he did not chat the people atwe Jail thought y¢ did, but anwerted that the trouble J and verbal in aterer } “Tm ae up boar # for the an Tecan ome urrence prisonera are | while they for at j the work t BENDER NOT A WAIF | Frank Bender, 13 years of age. whom the humane officer claims ts ja runaway and waif, was picked up ny Officer Liner yesterday and sent to jail, where he was found to be suffering from « mild attack of diphtheria and was sent to the Waynide Mission hospital. Hils parents live at 884 Thirty. | first avenue north and are very in | dignant at the treatment of their child, They say the boy is able to take care of bimeelf in every way | and resent the tnsinuation that he ina waif, He bas been missing from his home for the past few days, but bis parents did pot sue pect that he had been arrested did they know he was sick. nor | | WILL OBEY LAW a etific C. Clift of the Northern Pa Railroad Company yesterday notified the board of public works that the orainance prohibiting the | blocking of street intersections with | cars would be obeyed to the letter | hereafter At tte last meeting the board ordered the railroad compa- | jules to live up to the ordinance Water front business men have mplatned continually againset the nuisance, both to the railroad offi clals and the board of works, but t no avail | MARRIAGE LICENSES Albert Granville, Plumbe, 24, and | Laura Netson, 21, both of Seattle. Harry Sheffield Shippee, 27, and Lalu A. Moline, 22, both of Seattle Jobo Lawrence McCartney, 25, and Elisabeth Ravers, 34, both of Seat Ue } | MUMBODLT ARRiVes | | } The steamer Humb< port from Skagway Bhe carried 30 pam : o of freight Heid, | the Republican | accompanied | hie wife and daughter, was a National « by pansonger. Mr, Heid will rematn in theh city for a few days before teav- | ing for the east | Eli Guetie, a deckhand on the Arizona, while assi®ing in dis |chating freight from the hold of | that vernel, was struck by « fall ing bale of oakum and severely in Jured shortly before noon today. He was taken to the Wayside Mission j hospital, It is not yet kn serious his injuries are. | D. W. Pries, David Beaudry, C. Clark, John Manning, Joe L. Rock [and Frank Fifield, | the federal urt | indictments for selling liquor to In- Mans. pleaded gotity tr this afternoon to The schooner Jeante Mbeled for $10,000 today by Cha arisen a an, who clatme dar tor personal injuries. FINE FORESTS IN MANCHURIA HONOLULU, June 8.—-Professor John Muir, California's millionaire champion of the forest preservation movement, geologist and all-around nature lover, has just retur vie this elt yfrom a year's exploring jour through Siberia, India, Korea and Australia. He says that the popular impres-| sion to the effect that the Trane Stherian railroad is a poor road is a mistake. “The Siberian railroad fe a good road,” #ald he In a lec ture at Oahu college, “carefully bullt and being improved all the time. We traveled over it several times while the war clouds were just gathering In Russia. We were there to study forestry, however and did not stay to see the road put to the test of general transpor tation, Manchuria has many fine forests and much fertile land. Many | species of trees make up the for ests. I have never seen a more ideal country for farmers. From Viadivostok we went down through Korea, It {8 a most interesting country and we can well coderstand the reluctancy of a claimant to give }it up.” | Mr. Muir while here was a guert at Oahu college, The famous geol ogist entertained college audiences on several ocoasions with his Inter! esting experiences, I hold now, | 5 for | none; MUNYON' WITCH HAZEL Makes the skin soft an velvet Hest shampoo made Prevents dandruff tops hair from failing Cu He wkin erupt thing than ¢ Me fying than @ if te tng gob trout w- Paw ATER IS BAD That the water of Green lake tn Absolutely unfit for drinking pur- poses and that its inued use might breed typhoid fever, is the verdict of City Chemist Smith, after making an analysts of it Suspecting that the Green lake water was unsafe, Sanitary Inepect or Coombe had a sample of the wa examined by the city chemist yes terday. On learning of its danger- ous charteeer, he immediately noti fied those perm in the vicinity of the take ho have been using it drinking purposes to stop its use, It is thought by the health officers t the lake has been a fruitful source of typhoid fever in the past In his report Dr. Smith says The ater is of low purity, Or ganic matter of vegetable origin is abundant, It is unsafe for drinking purposes. The total solids are 160 Chiorin, 5.64; nitrogen as nitrates nitrogen a# nitrites, none ammonia, 0548, nitro uminoid, 16; oxygen “a” JAIL BREAK (Continued from Page One) through the bare of the outer win dows of the tank All the other prisoners claim not to have known of the plot to break Big Reduc- tions All Over the Store Lovely Summer Weaists Your Choice of Our Elegant Assortment AtPrices Away Below The Ordinary LADIES LAWN WAISTS, plain white with small black polka dots, COMPLETE OFFICE EQUIPMENTS wr ything the business man needs for furnishing off floor covering show Rugs Cork and Ol Cloth, Here are some prices on office furnitur Roll Top Dt Fiat Top Desks from $21.60 Standing Desk from $18 up Typewriter Desks, best quality, rom $25 up Office Chairs, inn from §4.50 up Monarch Malleable Iron ail fully have on f we up. quarter-rawed polished oak, merable styles; the finest in the North- went and Steel guaranteed Ranges $20 up. Acorn Ranges $6 down and $6 We Offer $30 Cash for Any Monarch Range Gold by Us, No Matter How Long Used. G. L. Holmes Furniture Co. 1101-1103-1105 Second Ave. tly convicted |killed a woman and served five of bu coll mate of years there. On bis release he was Marshall and Allison. It seems im-| brought back to be tried for his possible that his story of not know- | Seattle crime. ing when the men left the cell can| He was formerly a Seattle news- be true. However, he had every | boy opportunity to make a dash for| Hberty himself had he cared to do| on | John Thornton. county jail, was of men who assi of the prisoners, and “Bunko,” the while bull terrier belonging to the jail, played a@ leading part. It w the dog's barking that aroused the trusties in time to prevent Alli son's escape J Allison fs a mulatto and ts un- A. B. Cox, r jatl IDENTIFIED janitor capture) ‘The decomposed body of a mam found in the bay Sunday was to- day identified as that of Henry Dupont, by means of papers found im the clothing. Dupont was a log~ ger and is thought to have come from Kitsap county. The body is at der sentence of tewnty years for|™* Bonney-Watson morgue, complicity in the Villard saloon robbery last fall. He is « notort-| ous criminal and ex-convict, and is| one of the gang of “yege” men who murdered Policeman Schane- man a few days hold-up Edgar Marshall, better known as | “Blackie.” is also a notorious char. |acter. He ts awaiting trial for «i sault with a deadly weape (Dy Beripps News Ass'n.) PARIS, June &—A Sebastopol telegram states that a serious ex- plosion has occurred aboard the after the Villard | com-| Russian cruiser Smolensk. mitted in Seattle six years veo | oe —-- | He sawed his way ont of the Swagger Young Men P ‘county jall in 1898 and fied Later Puy their * of B N. 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