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

| The councilmen present stated | | that the construction of a new city | } hall was not only a necessity, in or | der to p © more room, but also | | to protect the public records, which are valued at $2,000,000, | The board of works and the build ing inspector yesterday afternoon “ oneneand decided, after an inspection of the SISTS IN OBSTRUCTING STREETS ON WATERFRONT AND SAYS THE CITY IS $10,000,000 1N DEST AND THE COUNCIL at the corner of Pine Par t avenue, not to con SNVENIENCES ALL BUSINESS MEN IN THE DISTRICT WOULD PLUNGE IT INTO BANKRUPTCY |demn it until the owner, Sam Fer shat ore nandes, had been given an oppor ty ——__—__—— tunity to put it In safe condition | * There is a large crack in the rear | 4 on ii en wall. ‘This will have to be repaired | ‘The merchants along the water@yofmuch annoyance and delay, and Tn attempt show why the (unless it was done with the inten-| and the foundation must be adjust | tront again kicking over the tne] Coehran # the city should take 3 ¢ity hall bond should be v« Hon of making @ sweeping reduc-| 64 to prevent the building from slid j Sgasures to have it stopped 4 ioe F. ¢ vke on for political reasons prior to| jag over the bluff conveniences suffered by then] "ter rw of. wa roel w@epicy Hs n at the t t- | the next munietpal election thr » the blocking of Rallrowh] gp od to considerable danger frc ing of the Queen Anne 1 North 1 that me of the ¢ 2 NOT Mo STED venue by th: oe the bres, Dood cars blocking the driveway in Beattio Improvement clut A particularly in the water part LE rthern raliroad he i front of the cantile establish e night. After ass jment, had been rung tn twice, and} ay thet fer a shert ep tim@.] ments in the Colman dock 3 ae Rlready in d that the fractions of a mill provid whieh occurs about twice a ment, | Gwing to the work of repairing 4 remarked that it “s: if ne the est on the The Nippon Yusen Kaisha’s Tyo | the ratiroad officials will keep (lm) te trestle, which ts going on to the fhg Would prevent t ty coun vari were each a trifle) Maru arrived in t yout y,|thoroughfares clear, but after ®ludrth of the building, and th men from. plunging e eity into | larger than w necessary, so that/ having made a ié-day run acrops | brief period will again lapse 100) ging of cars in front, teamsters bankfuptey, but the limit of bond. | they 1 an aggregate exce the Pacific ffom Yokohama to | carelesn ean. jare compelled to drive their wag ed Ip@edtedness and the walls of| of $57,000 attle carried ? passengers | The merchants have applied (jon over a portion of condemned the Penitentiary The $10. 00,000 debt that Cotter-/and 3,500 tons of merchandise, |the city officials in vain for #0 | ¢restle, This trestle shakes in a That assertion uncil-} il figured the city po Among the passengers were Rich- | @batement of this nulsa but &0/ alarming manner every time a team man Frank FP. Mullen was} made up of its own debt ard Barry and W. G..Q@. Morgan, | far it has aval . them notping | goes over it and the merchants fear present, to his feet | proportion of the unty war correspondents direct from The business houses whieh have / that unless an opening is kept clear Want to tell the members of this | dis and st debt it bea Manchuria Morgan represented | trucks hauling freight datly for the the trestle is sound « r he trestle te sound club that I am afraid of going | did not take up questio' the Now York ‘Times 1 Barry was | different steamers along the front) y result ary he retorted. | city hall site, except as to]in the Orient as a free lance. Capt. |also have a kick coming. RB | erchan@®. operating bust a five-cent plece|the pu ¢ the ren jer of J. G. Parsons, the com. |edly these drivers are held uy 4 ats eloug the water vote a © bond ts-| the lock for $ He | mander of the ship ed that he|the trains for 10 to 16 minutes a to pay their taxes just w gues down or not. Still, I would|said that the price was exorbitant| saw no Russian craft and that his » lone @ boat as a result. Tomleveryone else does,’ said Cochran personally like to see the jail nd the site a poor one. He ight |ship was not molested tn any way, |Cochran, manager of the Morgan| “and it seems to me that we show emergency hospital built. I am not | $500,000 h money to expend Oyater pany, states that the|/have some consideration shown us Airaid of being lodged there. I} on a bul p the present site. | business of company i* many/|in this matter by the city. I have Would also like to see that lighting} E. Shorrock thought that the city] NEEDS 40 MEN times gr hampered by the] personally implored the city coun plant bond issue carried was not in danger of assuming too} trains h says that every |et! to enforce the law as regards the am glad that Mr. Cotte large a general debt. The taxpay-| night at about 6 o'clock # long train| blocking of highways by railroad mitted that the city was ers, he thought, should pull in on| Fe will be needed to run |of freight cars is strung for blocks|trains, but without ayail, Trains bed when it paid $48,000 for the/ local improvements, instead. It the al lighting plant and on the far track, and it ts impossible |are allowed but 4 minutes to ob Street lighting system of the Seat-| was the latter, he thought, that were | distributing system, according to 1. {for wagons to get to and from his|struct a thoroughfare, but here @ #le Blectric company. With City| becoming a burden. Figures which |B. Youngs, superintendent of lights |eatablishment without being com-jtrain is kept standing at times for Engineer Thomson I negotiated| he had collect showed that the | and water. He has asked this nu pelled to drive a great distarce out | fully 15 minutes that deal. This is the first time| debt outstanding against the city | ber from the council of their way | A lady became so exarperated & that I ever knew Mr. Cotterill to| for local improv®ments in 1899 was| probably will not use Im addition to this there are other | few days ago, aft ing held for ay @ kind word for me or any| $40,000, while last month {t had| «ining half that number. Ax soon | trains standing on the track and | nearly inutes, that she finally other councilman crept up to the astonishing amount | as the jew upon the | wagons have to first drive around | phoned the police. This is only Crichton, councilman from | of $1,500,000. These taxes. sald. tation that will /one and then drive for perhaps half of many incidents that occur Hhe Bighth ward, also took occa-| affected nearly every taxpayer fn ons will be held|@ block to get around the other. | here daily and something should be Bion to refute the statements m: the city and were enormous. for applicants for the positions This rig-rag pr « is the oteasion | done to remedy the stiuation by Mr. Cotterill. He admitted that,| . Bithough he was a member of the finance committee, he was not | fiuancier. Still he thought common | fense would show that the increase | Tin the tax levy was justified. He ‘thought that the fact that the city ‘was paying so much for public im provements, having paid 40 per cent fof the cost of paving Queen Anne| Griveway, for instance; that 26 men/| [Bad been hired for the police de-| mt, entailing an additional | ture of $34,000; that the| ing of the new fire stations} the increased expenditures in} fire department amounted to 0, and that $19,000 had been fopriated for a garbage collec-| © tion system, were ample reasons for | ‘the Increase in the tax levy | He admitted that the finance “eommittee had been obliged to pro Wide for the payment out of the y fand of $47,000 interest on} Sthe Cedar river water works, which Shad in previous years been {legally Wtaken out of the water fund. He) hovl that the committee had not ‘ d for paying the total at of judgment warrants out GManding against the city. He tht such action was justified b the judgments had been| fendered in making great cuts and P street improvements that would be Benefit for 20 years, and he saw PRG reason why it should all be paid Dy present taxpayers this year | | The club had already voted down the city ball and jail bond Issues, | hind the city jail issue, so there was nothing left but the plant issue. This was en- with a whoop. } © The most unusual feature of Mr. Cotteriil’'s address was the asser P tion he made that the report which Bs the finance comm! made on Which it based the tax levy was " Why it was that the Zommittee should “pad” the budget. © thus increasing the size of the levy p pee Someething he could o n oxpls ain Have Y Your Nails a Per Quart Bottle for f/m ee DEWAR’S SCOTCH ; _ WHISKY ee 0 ag A full line of all the leading acked furtous ar brands of Imported Whiskeys. — was b as well as all American Whis ane tonne tg keys at the right prices. These r All at the cane had ut to ft th et, offering ¥ 104—First Ave. S.—104 FREE DELIVERY 3. » the Ja tion. single barbed wire, placed ground. PETTIT’S LAKE WASHING- TON WATER FRONT (West Side of Lake) $100 to $150 Per Acre Have platted into acre tracts, with streets, one-half mile of qwater front, all with a perfect view of Lake Washington, Nearly one-half cleared, with a stream of water running through the cen ter. This land has a gentle easterly slope to a beautiful beach. ‘The best of soll. Three miles from the city limits, on a good coun- ty road, planked and graveled, One-half mile from depot ana a ‘Wharf soon to be bullt. This has long been a favorite camping {ground for Seattle people and is considered the finest tract on Lake Washington for summer homes. Any amount to sult and on terms, Boat will leave Johnson Boathouse at Madison Park Sunday, December 4, at 11 a. m., to look over the property. Come and nee it. PETTIT & SON, Arcade Block jin an ‘s| =| Routing Russians No Child’s Play for the Japs THE SEATTLE STAR—SATURDAY, DEC. 3, 1904 WHERE 3,000 JAPANESE LOST THEIR LIVE = of » t poh gun ff t ' exit was prot A by hevaux fou ¢ rows ecorded. The fight t k night, and hur kers w tt ee the exit, into trenches, T mach «un fi PLAN A WESTLAKE PROVEMENT CLUB TO HOLD ROUSING MEETING ON CITY HALL QUESTION BOULEVARD IM Under the es of the West ausp |lake Houlevard Improvement club a meeting will be held at § p.m. Sat December 3, in Boulevard ourth, Pine and West ate the city hall bonds t the city hall of the The high grade f Yeu has epread to Pike th of the residence district utable logic of grades and rade prove busin of Seatt ill centralize on the el district where conv Pike stree Union and Pine, W d West ern, and all the numbered nues from First to Seventh, Here alone tle is found a reasonably large a level both ways, conven fent to the residence districts, at trative to the purchasing classes and sultable for high grade business. Don't imagine that bolier shops freight yards, warehouses, or n unton de make high values, In every city genteel business mo’ up town, away from the amok clang, fumes and unsightliness of the manufactnring and rallway district ‘The United Stutes knew a thing or two when It chose its permanent location, Let the city hall also be placed, not in the rear of the city’s growth, but at the center of high grade development, the real center of population, the present center of lenlightened investment, the recog | nized center of prosperity, the inev |itable center of the Seattle of the fu- ture. | "RUS ON "Painkiller BOOMER | ‘LITTLE TALES TERSELY TOLD id at Mow University of Idaho ‘LIEBARTH In the anntal Idaho, the | won out over the Walla Walla hig cow | SAYS HE DID NOT APPEAR ON FIELD BECAUSE WOULD NOT PLAY HIM school. The question discussed wa: the wisdom of admitting Chinese la borers into the Philippine KNIGHT | Two boys, Emil Wahiman and W Glen Oliver, who claim to be stu-! nts of the Seattle high schoc Zebarth, the varsity guard, who under arrest at Tacoma, charged | was severely criticised owing to his with stealing gloves from a store Washington The boys say they ran away from communic |home. They will probably | » sporting editor of The home without any punishment Star says that the criticlams were Sasa svorett | MAJust, and the real cause of his Mra. Etha Walters, an Everett! not appearing at the game was not woman suspected of being the for-| nade known | tune teller accused of securing mon-| Ziebarth his cor unt py and chattels fro women om mated — - anes: te paar telagty aD chbees Oy “The statement that I refused to| | Bolice yesterday afternoon Pity because I could not have a cer | fortune teller claimed she could 6t/ tain number of tickets, is not only read the palms of the ladi unless adicrous, but entirely false. The she was given some og | a refison for my not appearing on the enough to properly awe > Base field was due to the fact that Coach ets, She ured $30 and » KGight did not intend to play me. | | articles of furniture, but never Well atere has ben hard feeling between back to tell the fortunes | Conch Knight and myself for a long| ~_ |time. We were never friends and Howard Frisble, a boy 18 year (hi 4 a squabble before even ¢ old, was yesterday arrested in Wal-] md had a aquabble befor thane | terfng e ia Walla on the charge of forgery, |ver™®, ‘h Frinble had nine checks, amounting | fy) of Washing-| T had it on excellent author to $400. pefore the game that Knight in tended to place me on the side line ward McGuire, suspected ot] |“T knew that Knight would uso having stolen the $500 which wae{@¥ opportunity that came in his taken from a Maple Falls salooh|W8¥ to humiliate m), and I felt last Sunday morning, was taken to|/*Ure that he, in attempting to do} Bellingham yesterday and lodged in| ®, Would deprive me «¢ the privil jail. He claims that he found the|®®¢ of playing in the California money under a bridge and that he | me. The fact that I wis refused is innocent and will give up the rest |e tickets had nothing to do with |the matter. I simply did not care of it. | Pfs to stand by and seo another man Sele ddimate, whe the|Play in my place. After che gar Northern Lumber company, of Ev-| 1 recelved further information that crett, for $25,000 damages ‘because| Knight had told Manayer Segrist of the death of her husband, who|that he did not intend to play me was accidentally killed in the de-|"Uless injuries to otter players fendant’s mill last summer, was|™#de It absolutely necissary given $10,000 by the jury. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Dee. 3 Alex Anderson is escused of mur-! After a canvass of the members of derously assaulting O. P. Loney in|the legislature, Harry 8. New and Bellingham, |Charles D. Landis have withdrawn Loney received two ugly cuts with|from the race for Vice President @ knife, one of which narrowly | elect Fairbanks’ seat in the United missed his heart. Both men were|States senate, conceding the elecs Jutoxicated at the time. tion of Congressman Hemenway. a drunken row at ANSWERS : LUTELY FREE Hears Again After 60 Mr. Charles oneer mining Mont Beh THE REMARKABLE EF FECTS of the Columbian ent in the restoratior ing and the rem tin tracting head npines, saying lam now 68 years of age and ha suffered from ear Ainenwe e 1 was @ child of &. The first indication of the troub A SEVERE INFLAMMATION Followed by disch from the ears, which, after continu « for some years, finally coased, leaving me totally deaf in the left ear, and with BADLY IMPAIRED HEAR ING Of the other. Bome y er I began to ha . nolses tn head, like the constant ringing o” bells, changls ing and sing sional long These nolees were terribly ANNOYING AND DISA GREEABLE And seemed to fill my head t the exclunt ° er me to b ar y Vermat 1 4 on do #o when r eur was ned to the # have « od t f doll £ . t specks atitut nd in many of th ithes of the country ABSOLUTELY NO BENEFIT Unt I went to the M t F ¢ hange the conditions if ' hes Indorsing ments of the mayor of the party were Todd, W. BI and Ausborne Wilsor ing alled to orde Andrews. The Rev. John Oval, prest Ider of the Swedinh | Method hurch = in hwe rived home will prea at the in Fremont next Sunday morning and eve Mr. Ovall has visited Portland and Southern Whaashingtor points and pes for the future of Mr. Chartes Schonfeldt, Elgin Hotel, & Hope for the Sick Lie: ttle. Experience Points OUR WORK Is the Cure of Chronic Dis- ease in Every Form The most obstinate cases yield to the mastery of the Columbian Treatment, furnished to every sufferer at the trifling cost of $5.00 a month, with ALL MEDICINES AND APPLIANCES AB6O the Way A Rheumatic Victim Freed From Pain Dis- cards His Crutches ©. HL Graham, of Athot was in A Badly Crippled Condition When I commenced the Co mbian Home Treatment. For years I had been « vic tim of rheumatiem in @ m ere form. ‘The Giseane was tracted during the civil war nd my sufferings had been the power of any of mine to fittingly de The Columbian Treatment “Worked a Mighty Change In my ndition. IT am en- tirely from for the firet in year and the stiffness of my joints has @f#- appeared, together with the swelling of my feet. I have “Discarded My Crutches and Walk About With Per- in This Skill feet hens Mra. T. Malm, Old Towr All rheumatic sufi FP a should profit by my exper- ‘acoma lence For 1 than a etlorel with wench ir earavated f Bet ent was pra cae Rente t Consultation, exandnation > in weight ane araw os 1 diagnosis, with practical ek ili i cea ae ke e from a medical ex without assistance. Me free of charge 1 no & 1 om Microscoph examinations a ae ae AE... free of charge | Plas- ters 10c The QUAKER DRUG CO. 1013-1015 FIRST AVE Both Phones 1240. te Elgin w tham Watches, in year ‘gold filled this month, $12.00. HOUGHTON & HUNTER. | (7) trustees to serve during the al en | | medicinal COLUMBIA MEDICAL INSTITUTE WM. M’HARRIE, M. D., sulting Physician. Suites 320-322 Arcade Build- ing, Seattle, Wash. Con- Phone Main 4111 < Hours—#:30 a. m. to 1 2 to & p. m.; evenings, T Ye and Fridays, 6:80 to & Sundays, 10 a. m. to and transact such othér = year at may properly come meeting. The transfer be closed from Novesh- t cember 5, 1904, both in- M. PASCHALL, Secy. 26. 28, Dec. 2 MANICURING BUTLER BUTLER BARBER 50c BARBER SHOP SHOP SHREWSBURY’ 8 Than mere flavor im a beverage of nden quality—full of health and strength. able prescription tonic in Thoroughly Excels any properties. beneficail and enjoyable 2 dozen half pints, delivered, for | OTIC Office Seattle and Lake Washing ton Waterway Co., Nov 1004. | he annual meeting of stock holders of the Seattle and Lake Washington Waterway Co. wilt be held December 5, 1904, at 2 o'clock p.m the office of the company, | 408 Bailey building, Seattle, Wash. for the purposd of electing seven | 90c "hone, Ex. 2 THE Great Land Sale AT MEADOWDALE BEACH Of Five and Ten Acre Tracts Is Still Going On For the Following Reasons CAUSE Meng CAUSE peop! CAUSE BECAUSE BECAUSE BECAUSE fs no standin, money ever CAUSE and about one-fourth of what $200, some at 8 the Great Northern train at § and restaurant on the grou Ten acres for Tal poate 09 conta Offi WEST & WHEELER Tand & Ynlon Blok je are wakiny gities ike SEATTLE and EVERE BEC. the Great Northern R. R } new Steamboat the Seattle @ Everett Interurban is bein, pushe ° let much of this land is level, Berge cle a ee timber or brush. SE, considerin, offered in the t ; aay 4 and ever inoreasing Alaska trade. BECAUSE WHY? Dock is location eattle m: equq re always in grent 0 4 quality of soll, yo 560, some at jowdale is nicely located on the Sound. up to the fact tthat land between two It wing is bound to increase in value. ene has just established a Station on the land, nearly finished first class soil, u pay terms and easily it is the best land for the least demand etter place than Meadowdale to raise them the price ts less than half of what ou pay at Richmond Beach, o: 00, on easy ound trip ticket te To a. ROBERT MALTBY 409 and 410 New York Blook, at high prices for the for adjoining property across Lake Washington, Hi round ug | r ad O@rede-wseon @y wewdewewe «& ced