The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 20, 1904, Page 1

ONE CENT Fair Tonight, and Tuesday Warmer; Light to Fresh Winds NIGHT EoIrT ION The Seattle SEATTLE, WASHINGTON,MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1904 Ef. TARRIMAN (0 BUYING SEATTLE pocrosrvem eoeocennnnere — ta Cr : THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE ; THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS VOL. 6. NO. 103 CENTS PER MO TIDE LAND PROPERTY darllen Union Pacific Magnate is STEAMER SLOCUM DISASTER RTARIFF REVISION THE Secretly Securing Ter- minals For His Railroad in This City Mystery of the Feverish Movements in Real Estate in the Southern Part of the City is Explained “Great ra northern lines to such an exte north w Solution of the merger places } eral years ago, wh He can now enter the Northe Awaiting b Western Wash the statement is openty rgade tide land values can be fnid af’ coer A local real ost riman ts “‘Wtying Se and Southe Pacift he is securing the right of way for a road from the ( Dia to the sound. T positively what is THE PROPOSED MOVR railroads in this city, and nly this ar’s informant is in a better position to state > MR. HARRIMAN than any other in the city, and he is positive In hig axsertions Ha an t to have « half dosen 1 in th vy * buyig up ti for t inal grounds and right « the city. He is dome ints quietly in o t event a | ab ease in the prices of such property that would follow th | hbouncement that he was making the purchases himself. The | ot Mr. Harré man are working quietly and securing the ne property before the great move te made in which he mush a show his hand. : Several of who are buying tide lands are strangers in | ; the.city. Theré is no special reason why they should buy up dig | | Blocks of land at high prices unless there were something tn the wind. ‘This land is said to have been purchased for Mr, Marrimar and, while bis name does not attach to the deals at the the property will ultimately be transferred to him. Those who are sdiling the prop The purchasers are partic ‘ AND INCLUDED 125 MORE BODIES ANE OF DEAD BODIES EXTENDED ALONG THE SHORE 60 YA THE BOAT CONTAINS FIREMEN GOING ty are as much at sea as other + s warty secretive as to the real | Feason for their purchases and seem to be willing that people should | CONSIDER IT A SPECULATIVE PROPOSITION ‘These men are supposed to have been sent here by Mr. Harriman, and | & few days more are expected to positively explain the mystery As told In The Star recently, the Union Pacifi the field from the Columbia river to Olym has surveyors in ia, going over a proposed line from Portland to Seattle, This line cross the Columbia at | Vancouver, where the Union Pacific spent a big bit of m y in Sbetments to an immense bridge at the time it made the rth- Ward move, before the line went into the hands of a rec From this point the proposed road will traverse Clark ec g0- tng through to the headwaters of theh Cowllts river, touching one of the finest fields in the west. Here it will reach one of the rich- eet undeveloped valleys in the world. Skirting the foothii Cascades it will have an easy grade to tide water near Olympia One of the sound termin Harriman, where are to be est Beattie is the present objectiv ot the is of the road will be the new town of ed the shops of the con point of the road and the entrance to ounds, must be secured in secret. This ts this city, with the terminal THE REASON GIVEN FOR THE MYSTE that surrounds the purchase of perty on the tide lands seach pet ener i — » } Two strips and ex ng north and south on the fats are con- trotied by the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern, r peetively. Between ¢ two strips is another controlled by private individuals This strip is the sce local real estate men so of the present movement that ts causing the ach uneasiness, In this strip strangers are paying big prices for t { land and the purchases are not in small lots, but in entire t ke. mong the heavy p hasers J. F. Woodward pr a to have come here from no one k *w and has plenty of money te scatter a eity in . t for deeds to tide lands. He | THIS IS A PICTURE OF THE SLOCUM TAKEN WHILE THE FLAMESIWBRE AT THEIR WORST has succeeded in getting « firm hold block 336 and gobbled up a | WITH FIREBOATS PLAYING 8T REAMS OF WATER ON THE BURNING VESSEL good part of 829. These two lots r to # and are | adjacent / Mr, Woodward gives no reason f eT Ad consider it is none of their b ss 0 long as b s ah at somewhat 1s The . 4 me t know wth a « b ‘ t nd re ® | THEY WILL BE L T THE I TUK | « jl « a, 7 . | ‘ yt ‘ A few mer incline the nate H . h : H. HLT + t . ‘ - its PUTTING THE lit ih Ui OM OTIM Pitt i HROK INTO He i I Page §) i WAGON, WHICH CONVEYED THM TO THE MORGUR TALK OF THE HOUR CHICAGO, June 20.—Tariff revi QUESTION BOBS UP THE DAY BEFORE BIG GO. O, P. GATHER. sion talk is bobbing up to worry the ING—UNCLE JOE TELLS HIS FRIENDS WHAT'S WHAT IN platform makers among the Reput lican leaders, and now and then ru EMPHATIC TERMS mors of stampedes being planned for Uncle Joe Cannon for presidency and vice-presidency, are the feat-| matter wan f . neidered. It man and the senator declares he ures of the day preceding the gath-|'* ®*pected that lowa w arte Yates says nay. The ering of the clans at the ( eum | support Fairbank A & meeting of the national com- Without 2 3 mittee t morning the ways and@ Ber the chairmanship of the| Around t nte fie ng into the ® a him are t assed. It was national campaign committee and hc th hing 1 Governor La the vice-presidency be the plat | tt " m out F t & his contest before form that will be adopted ts a sub- | of ness. But th the t if he can obtain @ ject that is being discussed with empha " tion t 1 rity report from the comm lconsiderable Intérest today. While| A we fine cretary Bhaw and others of the | effect that w rinta. nistration are apparently try- |“ and Per ania dele to head off the talk of se gates are preparing t n, |LAUNCH A PRESIDENTIAL BOOM with the tariff q s that the question of tariff the speaker ar the revisb will not down ocretary at the pey on t Shaw said this morning at namber f is on the } “In my judgment the tariff ques head of a process af |tlon will come first. The declare-| \elrgst . oe oo tion on that subject will practically t of « A Peahene | follow the one of four years ago and it is the usual thing at Th tions, and t re has & en no change in condt-| ever nee of the par ke the talk t ead of M vent nominate Roosevelt utte ty will be reiterated. The lowa| Kinley at Philadelphia r yea | idea has been shelved by Iowa it-| 060 and similar talk of nominating j “ Hill instead of Bryan at Kansas self, and although there will be no City » the effect that th Cannon sent f Cong | will be nb «revision in the tariff sherman. of New York. th gchedule, neither will there be any ing and for 10 minutes there was e | promise of a revision in the near) liv ® min Uncle J room | future or later He Sherman he nderstood “ur delegation that wa nepiring aider the au The ad mpede in the convention for LESLIE M. SHAW. ministration’s policy will be @p-/Cannon for vice-president F of the Treasury, who to- | pr but there w eno decla 1 want this blank nonsense stor day said there would be no dec- | rat al.ing om congress for riot aid Cannon emphatically. “I| tarationin favor of tariff revision. ous act Th uy ably be nldn't @ _~ * % phe eit it were the committee, however, i that ¢ tariff be remov ‘ | mm articles on which there ts | poig A vice presidential boom for Sec- ympetition tn trade, but I don't | think it will go further than that In the platform there w Philippine plank promis! sort of autonomy to the Filipinos but conditions will be attached de- | Yates. of Iilinols. are | Hitt Is Still Sick manding high standards of clviliza AT IT HAMMER AND TONGS tion from the brown men before today for contro! of this delegation WASHINGTON, D. C., June 20. this step is taken and ultimate seats In the conven- Congressman Hitt ts still confined Gov. Cummins. of Iowa, sent| tion. At @ seasion this afternoon to his room, but he is somm better to the mvention as a delegate at the delegation will-select a chair-this m . large by the “stand pat” conven es tion, says there ts « big change of ty. He also has a knowledge sentiment since the adoption of that { slum politics which makes bim convention's platform, “We believe an undesirable character to an ale tariff should not be so high as to eged reform administration. afterwards that t'n-| retary of War Taft was started this m the worst cooking | afternoon by Charles Emory Smith in hie life and he prom-|and ex-Governor Crane of Massae chusetts. ’ “Oom Shelby” Cullom and Gov —— be a some ised blood ° home producers to 0 2 pine Angered, 56 to Gell goods Victoria Won Ball Game at profits that may be called unusu } ally large | VICTORIA, June 20.--Victoria Senator Hansbrough of North Da-| won the opening baseball game of kota is also making @ fight for tar-| the Puget Sound league with Seattle iff revision. at this place yesterday by a score Other subjects of the platform will - of 10 There was a large crowd oe =f | attending the game, and in spite of } (By Scripps News Ass'n.) the fact that Seattle was in @ crip- ] wing to her having ven bod « of girls |. NEW YORK, June 2 fe of her best players, sh fea, three of women t i ° land one of a boy ms of the | Sauitte Rithet, of General Slocum disaster, were pick- | Victoria. im > run fp the ed up on Long Islana sound this BELLINGHAM McLeod, the ex-ch “ won his match with , were made with crotch and halt- between Fred. Gunderson and Law- ; af ee ‘ er, G arm was the Vico-Preside " ; tb ter) 2 se "a platter of g ~" tamer Weaaaas me, Sends FIGHTING DOGS Sracnauh. atte SOI Sek and the exhibits Incla DISTURBED COURT nai, tt tt th al st I t beneath - b MRS. GRONLUNO'S -Sork Re t ‘troom is t m n and A be \ ce Hanford Y « W t f nd f he f ni. t aria t ht . ( Se ai “ an at y at La g b the re that k P an . I SONG FEST AT THE PARK , fow ' > th " { t Ma h e art te t versity of anne “ot the “ the com- I ' JOE YOUNG M T Go Judge sensational Alaska, against nnesota t nie Thaye rhe ant i \ 1 and ta Jeu \ gation meet! thie e ng the|b f a general nuisa ent \ seta asi.