The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 14, 1904, Page 1

”, —— — warmer Wednesday except near coast; NIGHT EDITION SEATTLE, WASHING TON, TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1904 Greer eens sree a nenccer smmerenenese ft tntees crenees contenu : THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE = VOL. 6. NO. 98. ower Lhe Seattle Star [== 25 CENTS PER MONTH CITY DAD'S HAVE STRUCK A BIG SNAG CALLED PUBLIC OPINION---BEER LICENSE PRACTICALL} DEAD BEER GARDEN BILL LATONA VISITED VIRTUALLY KILLED Overawed By Public Indignation Ex- pressed in Gigantic Petition, Council Refers Beck License Back to Com- mittee Which Will Call Upon Mayor to Explain-=-Star's Story Confirmed At the close of one of the most) der those conditions he would sup-; ciate the task that has been under Suciting seasions in ite history, the | port the license, if Beck could set | taken by the mayor and chief and city counci! last night practically | seven of the counctimen to sign it.|| BELIEVE THEY THOUGHT Killed the Beck license for a beer | want to remark here that the} THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE @arden at Madison park, which members who voted for the license! PEER GARDEN WOULD BE THE came up for final passa This |@re willing to bear their full re-| BEST MEANS OF ERADICATING was done by indirectly passing the | sponsibility, but they demand that |THE ‘BLIND PIOK’ If they thought oposition up to the mayor, the | the city’s chief executive accept bisigo THEY MUST SINCE HAVE . ordinance being again re-| ‘!! share also LEARNED THAT THE TEMPER ferred to the license and revenue I then saw the mayor personally OF THE PEOPLE 18 DECIDED committe. Th only dissenting |*¢ told him what Beck had told) Ly AGAINST SUCH AN INNOVA Yote om the motion to refer back|™* 89d he admitted that what) Ton 1 do not believe that the the license was made by Council-| Beck Said was correct. He and || Germans of the city want any spe man Conway, of the First ward. |'*8 discussed the protests that privileges. There are 260 or The underlying motive in the | Youd aries. The mayor said that cone men whe A ay to bave beer gardens, mentioning St. Louls, | endangered from tnability to obtain Soted originally for the license un.|cimetunat!, Rochester and New| spirits Ger the impreasion that it, had| Yor. and that he knew that Beck| “I have lived nine years on the Mayor Balinger®s approval, a chance|®®* ® man who would rum such &| Lake Washington shore and I have to Vindicate. themselves and to|?M<e im an orderly fashion ~ oa | aia . ae = improvement. I believe it ts de make the mayor show his col ae ASKED PLAIN QUESTION | tmoro to become the finest real-/ ‘The license is now “up to’ e | dence section of the city, but if this mayor, It is known that the lat 1 then sald, ‘Mr ——— lam ter is now opposed to the granting supporting your policy he license of the Soem but just how be will and revenue committee has been explain the statements he is said giving you such support as no like to have made to the councilmen committee of the council has ever may not be known until the next © & mayor before. Now, I wat tne mayor to put you to any test or meeting of the license and revenue to Know if you want me to sup-| 04 to put him to the teat. He committee. It is claimed by some port this thing? should not try to put you tn a hole that at that time he intends to vin He then said that I was putting | 4+ you to put him there. If he hae Gicate himself also, and that he is it pretty strong and said he wanted waa 9 mistake, do not try to keep Hable to spring some very sensa-| more time, asking me if I could re-\}im in the hole” tional explanations. jturn at noon. 1 had seen him at) judge Alfred Battle, Mayor Nal It ts claimed by his friends that 9:20 o'clock in the morning. I said jinger's law partner, also spoke he has no intention of remaining |! did not know that I could, but against the measure. Mayor Ballin- q@uletly in the position in which he |could see him before the commit-| ger by the way. was not present has been placed by certain council-| tee met in the afternoon. He said Judge Rattle nald he was not ap- men. he wanted to consult some business pearing in behalf of anybody else. OVERAWED BY NUMBERS. men, mentioning J. J. Smith, BE. C. hut thought it was a mistake to sell Hughes and James Goldsmith liquor anywhere slong the lake. He Had it not been for the unani-| “1 later went up to his office and, thought the princip wrong Mous showing of disapproval made jas he was mot there, I got his sec- He sald that he sometimes thought Jest night by 200 representative cit-\ retary to telephone him. 1 asked the council had teo much power. fzens, many of whom were not able him how he felt about the matter but thought that it wished to carry to find room in the lobby. -t i§| now. He said ‘the same as in the out the desires of the people He highly probable that the license Dill) worming’ and to ‘let it go. 1 then | said he could eastly understand how would have been passed. In order! went into the committee and #0 the council might have made a mis- to let his friends in the councl! out) voreq the mayor's views to the | take, as in this case, In disposing of of a bed anole Beck agreed last) bers of the committee the multitode of matters that come Saturday evening to withdraw his|" --rnee evening in the council 1 before tt application. Yesterday, however, the | 1.4 my position and | admit that) John H. Powell formally entered councilmen who originally voted - the protest of the Civic Unio a for the license decided they would |! Informing the members of the/ the protest of the Civic Union, am _ etit: f the m: I influenced Setick” and prevailed upon Beck to ae enees'| “TL happen to live two blocks from “stand pat. fram “I have been informed through | Madison street and two blocks The frame-up at the time the|‘The tar that the mayor denies trom the lake, From my door 1 was to pass the license and | that the Beck license ever came be- | Son ook tate the rear exit of the allow the mayor to veto it, if he|fore him or the chief offictally. 1 a rao ahem 1 know wished. Thé councilmen who voted | KNOW AND CAN PROVE THAT | [ist other neople around there be for the license hed intended | to| THE APPLICATION WAS, PRE-| ere Th Suction’ “You know “ 3 ty in case | SED J 4 Figricbeey the bill, bet aa P-4 pre-| LICE, WHO ACTED FAVORABLY | poy _ ee Ses gubenleted when the citi-| UPON IT. 3. 7 " nga a toby demonstrated| “In making this explanation I | reg ted down. The peopl their feeling in the matter so plain- | Want to say again that the members ly that the solons apparently could | who have been porting this bear the suspense no longer. easure are willing to take a full Burnett showed himself to be a|share of responsibility, We want NOT AN EXCUSE good deal of as diplomat by|to shelve none. The matter bas) sons _— f making a motion to give the coun-| been thoroughly discussed pro and! ont ANNOT Bu DOTPREND climen a five-minute recess when | con by us and we now want to find 18 NO EXCUSE 1 pod ao the vote was ready to be sehen }out what the chief wants. eo bélnd that the police ennmer flea The dragged on for 20 min- 1 i. bolt tutes, but It gave the “solid seven” a PITIES THE MAYOR. them they cannot do very m chance to talk over the matter once more and to decide upon @ course of action BOWEN’S HARD TASK. Neense is granted even at one park it will depreciate the value of every foot of property along the shore 1 do not think that under the cireumatances ft would be right for willing to go down town to get my liquor or else to bring it home “We want to know if he has the | liquor at the pavilion to beer it | courage of his convictic not want to say anything 4etri- of liquor at the park is wrong mental to the city’s chief executive. | There seems to be an impression explanatory speech and the motion |If there is anything the people of | through.” reve the license back. He deliv- | this city admire, it is backbone. The} J. D. Jones, repre ting rest ered every word of it as ordered | council wants to find out where the | dents of Renton hill, said that the} and with emphasis, creating a sen-| city’s mayor and chief stand people there needed protection from sation in the lobby. Daulton spoke against the grant-| such conditions as would be tm He bad previously declared, when | ing of the license. He said that| posed by the establishment of the! Cole made a motion to indefinitely | four-fifths of the councilmen had beer garden. He said the Renton postpone the measure, that the | pledged themselves prior to the last | hill people opposed the measure o Hicense and revenue committee had | election not to vote for the esta-| the grounds chiefly that patrons o had no misunderstanding with the | lishment of saloons in the parks. | the line would be obliged to come in| Mayor or pollee chief in recom-| He said that he and Johnston had | contact with Intoxicated and pro-| mending it, having acted in har-| opposed the project in the Ucense | fane men mony with them. He sald | and revenue committee and Lelieved | Richard Mansfield White, of the Mr. Beck approached me a week |that the argument that the beer | clty counci! committee of the Civic ago this morning and asked me tf} garden would bring m re revenue | Union, also entered a protest in be 1 could support the Heense. I told |into the city would not hold good. | half of other members. although he} him that I could not unless it was| In a speech that E. F. Blaine, of | stated that he was no “ant!-aaloon approved by the mayor and chief.|/the city park board, made from | man I told him that I did not think the|the lobby the first public intima-| Rev. F. L. Wharton of the First} mayor would support it. He then |t of the iit feel that has | M. KE. church, and Coroner Corwin | told-me that he had seen the | sprang up between the may 4|8. Shank also spoke. The latter mayor, telling him that he wanted | certain councilmen was made, represented, he said, the 18,000 who had protested against the| Only a malt liquor license, and that | ae . ip the whole matter 7 Nis A, PLAIN TRUTHS. license, and part ularly the pe cussed pro and con 1 t if the members of the | living close to Lake Washington He said Mayor Ballin had | council,’ he said, “understood how| Dr, Taoma presented The Star told him that a beer garden well r ” it would be when they | on againat the licen The regulated, as he knew Pe would | voted for the license, and that they ndle was so bulky th the run ft, would be better than the! were under the (mpreasion that the | ant-at-arme slung It «hii 1 pigs.’ Beck said that ths r 1 chief thought it would shoulder to carry it to the commit mw had then told him that un- pe best to grant it. I fully appre- tee clerk. As Corwin & Shank| next Monday 270 saloons in the city, and I do| ity had well regulated! not believe that anybody's health ts| pent ® good deal of money in ite] NO. 2~THE STAR EQUESTRIAN AND THE ELEPHANT IN THEIR GREAT ACT TOOK OME LIFE 10 PROTECT ANOTHER MAS. HARRIS ADMITS STRANGLING CHILD TO PROTECT THE NAME OF HER DAUGHTER. societies and churches in the city Seven-eighths of Star and distributed by people every section of the city. n behalf of League and Anti-Saloon nizations af filiated with it, 1 want to thank The Star for the great work it has done amount of space it has given the able arguments and Inter. views published, and the unlimited way in which it entered the fight, has won for it friends in every sec- ER LITTLE GRAND- manager of the league to- “The work of The (Special to The Star) plainly showed their horror of the told how she had taken one life in a crazed effort to It wae a situation awfal situation ple of the erty protect another it. Who does? 1 am/ dramatic and duntfounding with « string, and it's there on his the league could not have w ry Slowly and with much difficulty, but with @ lack of feeling abnormal in & woman and a mother, wife of D. B. Harris, living on 10-acre plat one mile out of North Yakima, ad ted the murder of her infant grand Saturday with the intention of plac ing the babe in the Home for the Priendiess, but those in charge this destitution refused to take the child Because of its extreme youth ‘Tee Mrs. Harris went from place vi © find ome |son—e murder done tae shocking | Calman, *7!Rg tn vain to find some AG last she wandered out into the with murder in her heart there dione she took the life of the | of the dawn | etdidaind hid the body in the weeds Sie war about to return home when the was arrested The police t feaplieated in the murder ch#id, But his identity is not known. ee men Will make an attempt to force! the mayor to show his hand and to admit that he originally expressed er of the organtzatt apprectation 01440400 ba es A KNIGHT OF COLUMBIA 8 two days after birth Id the character of her daugh Pear! Harris, aged 19 years. the chill gray under the shelf) Bowen was delegated to make the | I have only feelings of pity for him. that half a saloon can squeeze| of @ pane one b ngthen weeds, murdered infant, Mre harm. In restricting the sale of | A story of the civil war, 't is full of charm and ro- 1 do | admitted that the free dispensation | t is m story of war happily blended. lieve there fs a man intricate and Harris, urged The historic scenes of bat tle are carefully drawn. The hero is a college sol ‘IT WAS ABOUT TWO The signatures BLOCKS LONG.” were too numerous to count, js extimated that there were 20,000. Thoms said NUMBER 0) 50,000 IF HE WERE The heroine cultured and tinuous interest run through every chapter The true story about the Chanecelloraville i told by the author, much-abused enth corps and Siegel's old not at fault in this NATURES T¢ PRAISES THE STAR The officers leaghe announced thaf petitions measuring 916 feet in| | length and with dc ‘i a o the citize whosare opponed loons in the parks of the city presented to the Separate petitions from the reat dents around Lake Washington a and placed on file Bowen's motion was then put and passed by a vote of 12 to No soldier should miss th to Heensing sa-| MAYOR KEEPS MUM full of stir- ting incidents, vivid d Saloon league was day counting the had not yet | busy all day yeate | signers and at the last hour reachec | the last one on the | tions, Making dividual pett Star in serial form. installnvent will SOOSPSSESOSSEOOSSOSS SSS SE SESOSORESOORIBOD ¢ individual petitions. ommittee- | there Were several from the various SPOEPOHEDDFEDOLDDO G1 0908 BY $18,000 FIRE THE NEW G. 0. P. ONE-RING CIRCUS Business Section of North- ern Suburb Practically Wiped Out--Flames De- stroyed Four Buildings Before Department Ar- rived---Broken Water Main Handicapped Fire- Fighters lestroyed fully $18,000 worth of property early this morning at Latona, and for a time it looked as | hou the eptire business section of the seul b would be destroyed. The started shortly after 2 | o'clock and had burned for half and hour before the fire apparatus from Fremont and the city arrived on the acene The fire started in the rear of the grocery store of M. Finkelstein and butcher shop of Frank Seller. The exact wee cannot be ascertained Men at a lumber mili a short dis | tance away saw the fire and gave the alarm. Before the town was thoroughly aroused to the danger the grocery store and butcher shop | were a mass of flames, and the other stores on the east side of the | street railway track were beginning to burn The flames spread rapidly to the bulldings on the east side of the ® | buildings on the west side under the }end of the trestle that forms the orth end of the bridge. The water main was on the east side of the bridge and was soon burned off, completely shutting off the water supply. The fire fighters then had to resort to the lake for water. Before the fire department from Fremont had arrived, the fire had eaten its way under the brige and communicated with the big two- story building on the west side of the track. This was quickly en veloped in fh , and it looked as and quickly reached the} though the north end of the bridge and the buildings on that side of the lake would be wholly de=| stroyed. The arrival of assistance! |from the neighboring towns was! the salvation of the Paysee Hard- ware store and several smaller | buildings near by. | The department had a hard tight/ for the fire had « eds great headway before efficient work could! be done. No fire house is looat at Latona, and it was due te thie | that the fire spread so rapidly ana jecaused the great loss. The blaze: virtually wiped out the greater part! | of the business section of the town. | The individual losses on the wi | side of the track were as follows:+ Excelsior Laundry, loss $3,000, in- surance $1,000; D. Farrar, grocery, |loms $1,500, insurance $600; Frank! Seller, lodging house, loss $200; W.! | M. Cowley, building, loss $3,000, in- surance $1,500 Losses on the east side of the, | street: M. Finkelstein, grocery, lose, $5,000, insurance $8,000; Frank Sell- er, butcher, loss $500; R. B. Emes, | barber, loss $150; 8. Paysee, build- ings, loss $2,000, insurance $1,009. attle Blectric company, Lake | Union bridge, §750. : City of Seattle, bridges and side- walks, loss $1,000. The telephones in Brooklyn an@ Latona were put out of business temporarily by the cutting of sev- eral of the trunk cables and for sev- eral hours service on the University, lear line was suspended. BIG MINE EXPLODES JAPANESE OFFICERS AND ME N ABOARD TRANSPORT KILLED WHILE LAYING MINES AT ENTRANCE OF PORT ARTHUR HARBOR By Beripps News Assent . CHP FOO, June 14.—While the Japanese transport Tal-Hoka Maru was laying mines at the entrance of Port Arthur harbor Mone day eve one of the mines exploded, ng officers and eighteen men and wounding two offi privates, PETERSBURG, June 14 rted that a naval battle be« tween the fleets of the Japanese on the and the Russian fleet and shore batteries on the o the ed off Port Arthur an June 10, The naval battle was a by the advance of the Japanese troops to the rear of the Port defenses, Thi Russian forces wi the fortress were tr nd of General Btoessel, who, it is reported, is wounded. It was necessary to ama putate his leg at the knee. TOKIO, June 14,—It is offic ially announced that the transport Tal Hoka Maru was aged by the explosion of a mine at the en- trance of Port Arthur yesterday, One officer and 19 men were killed, Two officers and seven men were wounded. The damage to the ship is unimportant ST. PETERSBURG, June 14.—R @s in the mill« tury districts of Kieff, Moscow 1 1 called out to ROME, June 14.—The Tol rrespondent of Corriers Dellasora says foreign attaches are leaving the Japanese capital for Kwang T peninsula, in the hope of reaching there Friday, aa the des ve attack om Port Arthur by Japanese will begin on that day,