The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 5, 1904, Page 1

_{ONE CENT Tonight and Tu ssday ors near coast; light to Steel King Involved MRS. CHADWICK HAD NOTES BEARING ANDREW CARNE GIE"S SIGNATURE ARE THE) FORGERIES?| BANKER BECKWITH WHO LOANED THE FAMOL FE MALE FINANCIER $342,000, IN JAIL CLEVELAND, Dec, 5.—The f tng of two note: t ture of Andrew Chadwick securit aid the ar dent C. T. B Spear of the Cith yesterday of Pre rested at yesterday tion of the nat! that the two Car have been me with the ( One note is for $500,000 s other for $520.0 i a signature of Andrew Carnegie The smaller note was fou the Oberlin bank and is now i session of the Unit ment authorities at Ch reads January 7, 1904 el promise ick or order $254 est at 5 per cent (Signed) “ADREW CARNE dat Ez.” ON BENDED KNEES HE BEGGED FOR HIS MONEY CLEVELAND, Dee fT. Beckwith, president of the © tens National bank, of Oberlin, one of the men now under arrest learned of the Newton suit against Mrs. Chadwick, he saw finan elal structure, which he bad spent & lifetime in rearing, crumbling te the ground. He saw a reputat’on,| founded on business integrity. « lapsing like a sosp bubble in a gale. Up to the time he had bely implicitly in Mrs. Chadwick. He had closed his ears to ruinors. He had believed that Mra. ( ick woul! pay both the money h him out of the bank's funds and that which he had given her out of bis private fortune. What, then, meant this snit of Newton's, the Boston banker, for $190,0007 Beckwith came to Cleveland th day before Thanksgiving. He pr sented himself at the Chadwick! mansion. Mrs. Chadwick recelved him. It was a moment moment in the life of the gray-haired bank er. Ruin or escape from ruin which? He would now learn from | the lips of this strange woman, wh held him in the gaze of her piercing eyes. The Newton sult—what of that? Mrs. Chadwick admitted it had been brought. There was no need to worry. She would meet all b obligations if given tim Beckwith had loane wick $80,000 of the t He had also loaned his own. Would Mrs, Chadwick pay back the bank's money? Mrs. Chadwick could not, she sald. Later she wo meet her obligations “Mrs. Chadwick,” said Beckwith “I do not eare for myself. I can wait for the money I loaned you out of my own forfune. It is not my fortune I am t but my honor. Surely ways by which you money. Su $80,000 1 funds, and put it where {t b rest go. But Mrs. nk's mon r $102,000 of Mrs. Chadwick wo’ Aga she said she could t Late all her obligations would be met Wait But the argume h “Your Mother Is Dying Come Home!” SUCH WAS THE MESSAGE EVANGELIST CALHOUN RECEIVED AS HE STOOD IN THE PULPIT OF THE FIRST METHODIST CHURCH YESTERDAY GOO6044 0641464004 400440% e * 1h @ “Your mother is dying. @ @ Come home.” > * 6 964442404066 444444140 ‘This was the telegram received yesterday afternoon by angelist Joseph Calhoun, of Ilinols, as he stood in the pulpit of the First Methodist church, about to deliver & sermon to a large audience. Dr. Francis L. Wharton, pastor WM the church, had just introduced Mae evangelist hed the pulpit and handed the low envelope contain the sad ne meusing himeclf, Mr. Calhoun ere open the envelope and read the | Your mother is dying. Come Words blurred before his (Be grasped the pulpit for sup- & fn the auditorium the except 5 utheast v A subpoena for 28 FORGED.” this morning on $10,000 ball > to jail now as they are Hable from five to administration there will be less restriction in the restricted dis- The bloom of prosperity haa! en have instructs affected red Neht r and rent for ite buildings ts got When C.|proven so pacitying before now only | frenzy of fear He fell on his knees before this ned over to the pleasure seekers Arcade « He bowed his gray head and fell on @ Persian rug an inch thick at How tnadequ rable means I acqui wife who leves I have neither the }larger resort. That the council will refuse to grant the license under the and trusts me, If you have any pity who after a life of ndeavor bas by one rash is reputation and the for an old n that he saw no part objections to granting the licen lifficulty which Mayor | au both tragic and grotesque ot polley that hes been * . asth aide of it. Ever | ® Stern Offi: , Chippendale uma Gs nals, began to en obligations of the tendertoin po there has been latter has become, Im the councilman, “the new silent witnesses of it The woman's eyes were 1 his shoulders and held his with an effort, | restricted district have become First avenue and Yesler Way th many of the ren stitution im ¢ to the floor in a faint arried him into a bed night he passed in the | ned . drinks in # fon. ‘Three-fourths of the The next morn a cab drove escorted to The cab drove to the depot went back to Oberlin. and still hug breast a hope and Beckwit led up from the bar | drinks in th e to carry on their vocatle plane of rest | stipulations. prohibiting women from #olicit- | Orchard. drinks, puts into the hands of | gi ciair strained silence on the part of the rig audience told the story of their to his compl With marvelous self-control the at's notice. his sermon nounced by a sermon pro-| Wharton to be one of the most impressive ever heard | allow wor in a Seattle church. claring that they would nat en to solicit drinks in the but they evidently do not During his ad-| ¢ 1 occasion to and he paid brought a suspl- s moisture to the eyes of many Yer th gregation intend to be too atr “one’s mother any tw time, ‘The disp ening to the who was to begin his | broken son to his dying mother; while they wended their way ress, when @ messenger boy ap- | home with light hearts and a pleas exceptionally The painte a livelihood on re@ort under the They are no longer allow- |toldea ed to congregate at the entran are the unwary stranger before aring to speed home thbed of his mother. in the day Mr. Ca Be | colved @ second telegram announc- his mother’s death. r. Cathoun is field secretary for Chapman, of Philadel- phia, a renowned evangelist, who will be in Seattle in April, an a chan f& glass of the refreshment. In keeping with the new WASHINGTON, MONDAY, BANKER ©. T. BECKWITH. Administration Adopts More Liberal Policy During the remainder of the Bal- sof things many stituted 1 extate, The Comique theater in| in full swing, and it will be] pergy but @ day or two before | order of adoned Arcade theater will | hin itking terworld Simply u he applicat! Ferguson, the local dance ynvey 2 | newal of the license of the Arcade. rly two weeks cold | a concert hall lice | 3 the seeming success with MY | which he in the com-|tatter has » he was given ¢ for the Com is able to mduct the ycouraged him to apply iviiege of opening the of the license and revenue stated this my about it, although he ad Chief Dela ed in cOntrolling crime north] ® W. Wald. Youthful Adam Aline is res for the the Ive officers, in their | @ eons, sree certain moral “ flocking of until Pike cuage northwar John C apposed to be ur police survell sn Pike | castors mony Ther though less of ight secth In » these streets rried on little lear ugh the women escape of fin Women sol stances on husband Way are located The beer is solicited na, be nd often im-| apid en-| Mffleult » check th ent which social parasites making upon the respe table the city. The most whole ‘ Dr. F # to allow freer reign in ywed to are to be dance halla, but t fro the tability than Humes regime. The M- | gentile 1 to the Comique | 0") as wed boxes and all other | asian ether with the state George ab with which he can | Mr. 1, control the conduct of such a resort] oo. hry satisfaction. He I*]a,4 Hubert 1 to close the place without 4) nodical department of the Univer- nnsylvania. yor and the chief have ed about ight- the wale of beer is at the after one of the been thrashed by the slow for the Half of| who cut have given up the task . of | chisels, | from cold taken to Repton con When DECEMBER 5, 3; PER MONTH VOL. 6. NO. 246. 25 C ATION IN THE CHADWICK MYSTE From a photograph taken at her home on Euclid avenue in 1902 tt ae Ee - ‘ Suty 4 was not present j be In the house, where 286 member@ . 2 + aera be was perhaps teas dignity ang| , > yeti “eo rnd (. , nd laughter than among’ , pe f the diplo ”) veterans of the senate. =" ges ¥ “ peak n’s room was bead rem, -_ ¥ on bin ced b ong procession of mem} ag oS the renee . E their ig |}CLAIM MADE THAT BALLARD aptcuour for ite vacancy wert hall license FRANCHISE | ne not to um ve powers on gentlemen Graft in an ugly form ha Into the city council of Ba new | the mayer and chief of pol have to get along with «| to the arrangement of the t the conduct ot lean percentage con-' thogght they desired en up before the li- |~you can see that under these and revenue committee this the grant hearing jternoon. It ts tween §5.000 and $6,000 has been| The officers are Pi ured in the Ballard The Ballard Electr struggling anufact which also Solar Plexus Blow same conditions thet it granted O°) g7emN OFFICIAL AT THE COURT HOUSE REFUSED TO GIVE A | for the Comique does not appear to able, Scott Benjamin, YOUTHFUL SWAIN A MARRIAGE LICENSE BECAUSE HIS Simpson, manager of the Ball Nectric company the part of members when voting (By Scriops News Ass'ny ' rning that LADY LOVE WAS TOO YOUNG he did not know what the committee —_—_ 2O4444464-4690008 to make out the which be would join in lock with a lady who has seen more ;summers and winters than himself dope rheet Benedict — James # | I told him | would let him know in Fiance — Edith # 24 hours. At that time I saw bin ageinat @ snag which could not I—John C. Par- # * overcome by |said I wanted to know just how {t| ing train hold | was to be used and also wanted as-| Santa Fe railroad surances that | would get my fran-| and Ludlow last night chine. He refused to go into d Me jtail under those copditic seemed to think I was too tive, and quickly brought the Inter-| get pounde jview to a clo |that I had 1 it myself, if I ttle of ite erin deoee 04-4-0-4-0-44-46-44-6-44-4-0-66 Young Mr. Wald, accompanied by also, of tender proached Clerk Parsons this after Col. Cupid received a solar plexus blow today from the hand of Clerk auditor's office Mr. Parsons officiates at the mar riage Me must come the trembling discty of Cupid himself and Miss Edith Adama franchise to one of the councilmen, | of blood voted | who came to ask me about it. T councilman wanted to learn fr me who was backing the franch and = several wher matters. He abe never asked me about the matter|/ and pushed it open, tearing the o again. He voted franchise point by using money not only ' fess Hicensen insued today whose fresh copper-hue Deauty proclaimed her recent arriv than in the restricted i*- | a1 trom the land of the mikado, was | authorized also a Japanese ster, just of legal age, arked for le gal permission Pike street. First | Sen years hie senior, and even A gentleman of more sedate years instructed Clerk Parsons anese girl this saved lots of trout being 40 1 can't get my girls gua give us the Wald tee The Star in San Francisco and I've been who tsa Ballard | i146) guardian doesn't think much of me and it’s @ case of have to get along withoat the I'm going to have to ehloroform the She will be on the to Vaneonver with me tonight don't you forget it!” With this parting shot Mr. his staunch court house Ballard Moness in her den MEMORIAL SERVICE “To our absent brothers.” The sentiments in the torst made famous by the Elks were fittingly observed yesterday afternoon in the First Presbyterian church when the local lodge of Elks held its annual | honor of the rs of the order attle’s best bed Sietriet Jat the family soll lteenth avenue, tenderloin thea: | vitier has n cancer past two weeks had not been at} his offic up to within a few weeks, gives the mayor the power | devoted his whole time to his pro rangements There | He leaves a wife and six children. Miller, attorney Herrick, San Francis Ketth, Seatth sity of F memorial # deceased mem} The church inte ed with American ing of purple and white, Elg colors. as well as striking floral arrange Elks in their regalia occu- auditorium omique at the} Maj. Newell's “industrial school,” ab of the jon Mercer island ‘erage does not proceed with the | other sensation which r dash and continuity that it once did, | chapter from a yellow-backed num The atmosphere of en-| ber, Two 13-year-old boys, William ed good behavior that character-| Kiger and Albert from the paddling across the water to They Were shackled to gether like thirdt-third degree crim damsels do not like It. |{nals and, when found by workmen has furnished an pled the body of vades the former ribald | mainiand -An unusually impres an address by Exalted unconscious | nicipal address by Rev and {and maltreatment, and be lodging house at 81 Virginia street to be returned. They were e to collect his wits.|food and clothing and allowed to ‘They,gnust be more refined and less|go. Maj. Newell states tit he has in persuading a customer |secured warrants for the arrest of the youngsters apd will do bis best order to apprehend them, United States Deputy keeping clothes belonging to Sap was bound over grand jury by Judge Kiefer. il was fixed at $250, tain O'Brien of “Down with autocracy!"” 00400404 0004000niers 208 ; . ve news, or the p i tures the greatest stor e fa © age » eat sentation. The attle in getting @ ° case, you will have @ (oer ee ee CONGRESS CONVENES GREAT CROWDS THRONG GALLERIES TO SEE LAST SESSION OF FIFTY EIGHTH CONGRESS CALLED TO ORDER—SENATOR FAIRBANKS CONSPICUOUS FIGURE fea ciicie wadny Berines News Ass'n) ' In for much attention HIN Kreme ke of th @ Senators Hoar an Cleveland, | convened 5 p on today for | Q; jraped in black. m oes { the Fifty-eight at of Kansas, w creme 1 I b 1 of a erimin t-rich-quick cond! irons he clerk's desk wi be 1 h bills for introduction. te adjourned at vk and the house at 12 COUNCILMEN HAVE BEEN ‘rrr _ ao Pros’ ‘tors In| o'clock, out of respect to the mem: ofl * craned their necks (0) ory of the late senators, Hoar BRIBED TO FAVOR LIGHTING fee ! | Quay j . chain loose. They struck the mess S senger twice on the head. He mad@ crept an effort to fight them and wag 4 and shot through the breast. will ORGANIZE The robbers then looted the saf@ y cor of drafts and money amounting tg Seattle Electric presented with a & uet fr unless KE. B. Cox, a ). The robbers left the tralg citizen * enetul in . as it was entering Daggett. Pron ent opficians of the ate a ax & netion to prevent rominent opfician the state “a heavy gale was blowing at the » ordinance in a| have incorporated into “the Wash- time and no sounds of the fight wag clans,” | } 1 by the other trainmen. Th@ mress.| wounded messenger was takem lent. through to Los Angeles. He is ume attle; first | conscious d will die. The meee said one of the robbers and the other a negro. @ ry, 1 posse has gone to the scene. i of th Judge Bell this af-/ington Association of Oy; eoly hinted that be-| for the purpose of mutua rsole uncil |Henry C. Ev § mpany, a| vice president, T. G. Redfield, Yak ing concern,|ima; second vice president, L. L. ght an electric light-| Bevens, Bellingham; s¢ ing franchise from the Ballard | ander Butt, Seattle; treas Ci oe = council being left out in the | Holcomb. ttle board of trus cold because its officers have re *, Alfred Butt, Tacoma | fused to use corrupt methods. Such.| Wilzinski, Seattle Herman jeast, in the statement made to| Lemke, Tacoma; Simon R The Star this morning, by Fred G.| and Lewis E. Clapp, of Seattle | There should be no hesitancy on A week before the Seattle E 2 westion to say “aye.” tric ath gehen Aaa nga Bl gc macen ~n | PORTLAND, Occ. 5.—Argumente said he this morning, “one of| tor the defense in the land frauda the men who has been man ulating | the Seatile tri company’s were this morning opened by L. Fy | franchise came to me and asked me | jif 1 really wanted to get mine. 1/ |Puter, of Eureka, Cal., brother of said I He informed me that} - one of the defendants. He was fole would procure it for me for a (By Scrinm< News Ans'n.) | lowed by O'Day. who in turn will price. He did not say how much _ | be followed by Heney In the closing SAN BERNARDINO, Cal., Dec argument for the prosecution. The r Roberts was ase will go to the jury tomorrow wounded in a dar- | forenoon ffected on the tween Daggett s Messer Before paying him any money || perhaps, fats made an able argument, sidering th character of th@ He assailed the government’¢ nger Roberts was shot be s and ridiculed the hands tt, on the| writing experts, He declared thi agent at Dag-| while they might be technical! on the for admit-| wrong, fully 99 per cent of the wand by informing me/| tance to the expr r he heard entries in Oregon had been madd r go ahead and get} no sound from within. The con-|in @ similar manner. J Juctor then entered the front door; O'Day opened thle ofanoes fot showed the Seattle) and foun nessenger in a pool| conclusion for the defense. He d gtr acta = lees is time to broadsides and spingly Roberts told him that | heavy vsm at Heney and Hall, two men, who had said they were| Judge Bellinger this oternegl agers nd wanted to get said instruction to the jury wou) be given before 11 rd the train, unlocked the door probably not k tomorrow forenoon. 2 He| tween Ludlow t. When the tt Later he for the other} t in many others, an It probably yuld hav paid But we | 4. pact Sor bate ante \ 2 hie offies, Lord | me 5. wanted. to greet emt wel ST—One County Treasurer; last seen at his office, Rees cont anaes — bd et eer Gel whereabouts will be ® *® knows when. Any informationas to his e worth getting wil ot men tion any names in the seas ha. |@ thankfully received by the Tax Payers of King County -3 < ause I do ne want to get into a| @ a svit. In all interviews in FOOSE GLEE DDOEOPSSSSSSS HEE HEE? -OF2OOSO which ft was mentioned there} wore myself and one other} man present | Where is J. M. McConnaughey? | Mr. McConnaughey is treasurer of King county OOP98O6 6-06 4-6060-860-046-0660 | And it's a rather important office which should necessitate on to business, for in his keeping are thousands upon . ®| strict atte CITY ELECTIONS @| thousands of dollars belonging to the people, and on his shoulders rests the heavy responsibility of prot ame. > Notwithstanding all this, the worthy county treasurer ‘has not i ° been near his office this week ‘ wing ° Last Monday a Star reporter was detailed to find Mr. McCon- naughey in his office and procure from him a statement. Seemed an t proved to be the hardest on the uth Park, ®/ easy assignemtn, didn’t it? But aC and @ paper. . For °| Mr. McConnaughey was not {n his office all day Monday. Ce ees ee Nor Tuesday o renee or Neither did he show up Wednesday He was absent Thugsday. Alao Friday r ‘And up to the time of going to press today the county treasurer was still “non est” officially If J. W. McConnaughey were a ¢ or in a grocery store and z stayed away from his work for an entire week without explanation (Ry Scripps News Ass'n) to anyone he would lose his job RAYMOND, Mont., Dec. 5.—Two | That's a mortal cinch. And yet Mr. McConnaughey has no qualms in deserting his im- ae : hildren met accidental! portant post for a week, without even letting his force know where deaths h this morning, one by} je can be found. For a week he has taken life easy here in Seattle being scalded and the other by fall-} —Las far as his public office is concerned—and has not even thought {ng from its brother's arms it worth while to at least drop into his office once or twice a day. The little 3-year-old daughter of} The Star is willing to wager that if Mr. J. W. McConnaughey John Lee was playing in the kitch owned a business in which so much money is involved as the county en at her parent’s home when, in treasurer's office handles, he would be on hand bright and early each somse unaccountable manner, she| morning and ATTEND TO BUSINESS. fell into a tub of scalding water. But it’s different in his case—the money doesn't belong to J. w. to the people—the humble follt The child's screams brought its] McConnaughey. It simply belon mother to its assistance, but not be-| who put up to pay officials’ salaries and who shauld not expect any, fore the child had been virtually! man they hire to keep his nose within striking distance of the grind: cooked to death | stone of routine . The three-months-old baby girl of Did we hear you say anything, Mr. McConnaughey? Hiram Chittenden fell from its} You hire competent deputies and clerks? " brother's arms, struck on {ts head Of courge you do. and was Instantly killed the average rocer has enough business acumen to hire good — "s clerks, Dut when he hires a cashfer he wants him to attend to Dust Want Reforms in Russia ness, too. ‘ LONDON, Dec A special dis-} And we—the people of King county—bappen to be ther®rocery- natch from St. Petersburg gives de-| man in this case; you the cashier : . tal a of a remarkable meeting of 3 ye please remember, Mr. McCamnaughey that this artiole fs more thana?00 of theteream of Rus not written in a spirit of personal phlegm Personally we adm! sia’s intelligent classes on Saturday) you, but in your official capactty we do 1 your conception night. Resolutions were passed de-| the duties of a county treasurer ‘ inasting constitutional reforms. Incidentally, will you be m your office for a minute or two at \ The meeting closed with shouts! week? a wis srrpaggson wrens