The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 5, 1905, Page 1

vee il beenesricscanermaseemapengemen. eed bb H The Seattle SEATTLE WASHINGTON PHURSDAY JANUARY 1905 tar Vol "NO The Only Paper in Seatile That Dares to Print the News CE NTS PER NM Knocks Bottom Out of Chief’s Report Enlivened By Battle Oi Words defens that Harmon wa breaking The lthe f mme of th n (eh future adm in th 9 KILLED held in the hall POLICEMAN ALLY ASSAU LTED IN PUBLIC DANCE HALL, The p ny are i alae AND WATERFRONT THORO UGHFARE MADE IMPASSABLE spe Taare Nom | EVERETT, Jan A hot fight BY UNTAINS OF DIRT AND FILTH pepe Ry snnrnrne er jof the State Federation ‘My Beripps News Aaw over 0 Young's BARLIN, Jar The aia | the refrigerator and brewery at ( ae sooses 4 onece - | burg today eaused the f @ In the general effort to give In the general effort to give + acceptance | Workman. Four were saad Sim an efficient adminis. @ @ the city an efficient adminis a» warm | fatally @ tration from a police stand. tration from a police stand. ne ng &| JURY 18 OUT @ point the ing results have @ ® point the following results have # (By Beripps News Ass'n) | @ been o shed Scatter. © © been accomplished Public @/ | back with a hot The jury in th cane f @ ing dirt on streets abated.— © ¢ dance halls abated.—Chief De- @ BAN PRANCISCO, Jas New accusing the lat- | agian Mee. ‘T n went , @ Chic @|@ laney's annual report 8 Bowed gy 2 morning that aturbing element, | 3 10 this afternoon, The ha Li a ie rifting fu t e * @ oi... ; Pees | eon had made the | cecupted the attent Poy HP | Coecsceesseesensesornees [1 Nly jewh tween was going to rum |for the Inst aya. It jiumboiet bay and Sea Pree n) way or he would jed taht the jury will return a In 5 Chief D otes It seems rather unfortunate he | The Lakme was towed out of the sanizing a rival | diet sometime this afternoon tat annua at the | light of recent events that Chief of | b#Y by the steamer North Fork, but ati | ecattering rt on the streets of | Police Delaney’s annual report se pro ed i in the storm an neldent was finally closed The nipper burglar has got r the city has be the ten- | plete with all rms accor 0d . ws wee @ to re acceptance of Young's re ants of the Cx k had for a|plished by the adininistration, | Cover her tow, which is badly wa-| yor Only eight votes were cast | 4 be docs not the ttle 5 number jays, last night, |should be published at this time. praia A tug hes left Gan Fran nt acceptance, four from Seat- | poe. 4 Gieent, for yeaterday af deen practica ft the In fact it almost looks as if the to search for the I ne tle and four from Spokane ——— i , wate world ne f dirt | fates were trying to rub it Into the } The afternoon onl was on-|terapon he turned a tr n broad and © that cove the space of the police department jlivened by a fight waged by Det det wee railroad ks and the aney claims that public dance | } gute Harmon, of Beattie, on the & | dagfight at the corner of Fifth ay dock. F days the ntrw at s have been abated, yet down at is utive o tee Harmon ac- | . ‘i work the waterfront have been |the Auditorium, on Fourth avenue used the committes negligence | Mb Gud Cedar street. The bo hauling earth an ha een |a place which ng time nas | vt following instructions r | of L Dixon ve the Cedar Street strewn along the route until was | borne an unsavory reputation—one t ccuring legislation at the | Grerery store, was entered and almost ix est ° ene beat laa session of the legislature tharoughly ransacke¢ ht by nken | sone ae siness men have Officer L. Mardin, wh (By 8 oN a) i to the con- jt sent to the Auditorium t ~ Cy uideroclg street department, | keep ©. had arrested G. H. Gl VIENNA, Jan Fiftee to mer etty coun but | man. had started @ small sizea |dren were drowned at Selabings fo relief has been afforded them rtot progress of the Bac- | Moravia, this afte failing even promised }chanalian festivities. through lee on ad. while rie t Yesterday afternoon a crowd of Hilman resisted and three of his | skating ; irate waterfront men procured a | is, also there for the ~ + bucket of paint and a number of evident purpose of making trouble, | 'N COUNTY HOSPITAL NOW ommeencntnighin. | signs, and decorated the grave-like | pitched into Hardin and beat him| Barbara Harrie half-Dreed kopjes with odd, fantas: signs | unmercifully an reeently convicted In| BAYS THAT THE VALIDITY OF MANY. MARRIAGES 16 AF « legends something like Not satisfied with pummeling the ft ertme of the wing officer with their fists, they rushed | S#ault wit to do bodily| FECTED BECAUSE MEMBERS OR FHE BAR FAIL TO FILE “Rreeted to the Memory of the |at him with and beat him} Derm. has ed trom th City Contractors.” about the head and f He jounty to a henpetas Bagnees “Mud Flat Cemetery.” probably have been beaten to death, | “here she will be kept under guar Cee “Port Arthur After She Felt’* had he not extrieated one hand and | The wore” bas born bere Pe “Bunker Hill.” reached his revolver, He fired once} SOUS! of @ painful abacwns on Tl ON " fuet 1 9 The signs decorated the w into the air and the cowardly thugs | #7" She war found guilty of stab-| Notwithstanding the that su-) Tracy ®ecured a divorce a 1894 an bing a man In a fratasen the sand-/| perior court judges have time and |soog after remarried. Her name is y for several but date [ran Ike rats, and, though witnesses Md . Spit a few months ago. | time again roundly scored the mem- | now Mre Helen Irwin She only re i afternoon contractor sent |of the fight gave chase, the desper- ———— | bers of the King county ber for} cently learned that her divorce de & pick and sh brigade to the | adoes escaped ‘The first lesson in the children's i 4 h had P Waterfront Wand by nightfall the| Hardin bh RET oe Gr the 5. WC. A. coming | crete en Cae ceanied thd lead te tor tom youre she hed bees giles of dirt had been heaved Into /and tanded ‘hi the city jail} ». will given Saturday, Ja vesatée tor 100 4 show oe the oa [sala Mana ones to nem on wa the bay. and there was much fee}This is the most Magrant disturd | yo, at 9:30 T ther | oy ‘ divorce | not legally married. Similar dis Joicing by the Alpine climbers, who | ance reported to the police from the ‘nm start th fottowing | *°* eoag of ora ally married. Simi classes & sults granted last year between 40} coveries have caused a great ¢ Bad been scaling the muddy heights | Agditotinm, but “rough-house” of | week, as the new ¥ c and G4 ree decrees, which should | of gofrow in many families dur for the aye few days to get to and | jone sort or apother invariably | completed in tine f t anaes eave buen pond agpnrngenti yet. placed: |thelplt year y ‘ : from wor’ lbreake loose whenewer a dance i] this week jon record, In some of these cases Superior Judge Tallman has bee j the attorneys bave held up the de | espepiaily energet in bie effort crees and notified their clients thet) do @@—y wit the ev He hear they we joing so to insure pay he Gefault divorce os and ab ment of Attorneys’ fees. In | tutedy eae to grant any divorce COMPTROLLER RIPLINGER JUGGLES WITH FIGURES other cares it ts simply neglect or reluctance te th pay the filing fees year there has During been at on people looking up thetr divorce r ords and finding that their lawyers had neglected to file decrees and any marriage they might hate con instances of | juni@ed the counsel for the plain jaball deposit $2 with the clerk, so that im case of the failure of the at torney to file the decree in a rea |somable time, he may have one of | the court employes do so. | When it is found that no dec }im an old divorce case has been fi tracted since the granting of the di-| and that the parties have been re vores would be illegal One old | married and have children, there is rippled woman, who bad been di-| only @ne possible way in which to | iniaaai F .|vorced for years and had remar- | validate the marriage and legitima MAKES A PATHETIC ATTEMPT TO EXPLAIN HOW THE WATER | Trin Waren DED EXPENSES OF | ried, earned a short time ago that | tixe the children, and that is the Myp + 560 Guthorists she is not entitled to the name/| filing of @ nune pro tunc decree. FUND HAS BEEN ROBBED OF $600,000 IN THE LAST TEN | eamsterstog’ ot , Mithorising tx. [which she bore. In this case the|Somo Of the superior court judges | YEARS FOR BENEFIT OF LAND OWNERS ie ba tee» Sea-ena failure to file the decree was due | refuse to-do this, saying that it Is pigee pay A crwntdigd Apacs amg fT carelessness of an at-|not lagal and that the only thing hard and the tax levy waa not suf- |tofey. who long ago left the state. r the parties to do is to file a __oOo ficient to pay the expenses of the | Th? Woman had paid him for filing | decrea in the suit and then, after | leity, because 60 per cent. of the |t2@ decree, but he had simply pock- | waiting six months, be remarried It will not now be necessary for The diversion of the $62,500 each | taxes became delinquent. The ordi. | ted her money 1 ¢annot express myself too | the chamber of commerce to care-, year out of the water fund ts of |nance was to provide for an emer Another aggravated inatance of 0 | Stremmy in this matter,” Supertor fully examine the books of the|course legal, but it amounts to & | gency, but the late administrations |‘@¥7°"'s Regelect in such matters | Judge Tallman said this morning comptroller’s department to learn | steal in that the transfers were not | have used it as a means of robbing | “84 °Siled to the attention of 1.5 Smicéoing all I can to do away beyond a do@bt that The Star's con- | made according to ordinance so that |the water consumers perior J Tallman recently, but | with the practice of leaving decrees tention that the water fund is more|the public has not been aware of | Thus, in 1895 and 1896 the diver- | *®* Te™ this morning by the|unfiled. Many lawyers say that than 36% short is correct manner in which the water con- ons from the water fund in ex. |COUrt's® agreeing that a new decree| they agn only be sure of tting At the instigation of the finanee|sumers have been. muicted, The 2,500 was 41.29 should be drawn up and entered ling up the eee | committee, Comptrotier Rip! | edure is technically legal, but : 1,918.1 respectively in 18 nunc pro tun rin plain language, true in some cases, | Yesterday afternoon handed to the | moral lite less than indirect | when with the Klondike rush pro dated back to the day on which the | but the method t* certainly against | Committee of the chamber of com-| thievery from citizens who pay wa- | perity came with a boom and every- | °"sinel divorce was granted | Public policy. In all other instances | Merce a statement of the financial | ter rents lbody was able to pay. taxes the |, The Suit was that of Mra. Helen | faitarg to file a decree is almply in | Condition of the water department,| This fact having been exposed, the | finance committee did not find it | T™@°% a” shes ‘recy, Mra Genie sagiect | in which he owned up to a diversion | finance committee is now attempt- {necessary to take even the $62,h0y | Samm aimed by The Star. |ing to justify itself from a business | legally authorized. It fatied to di- | It is this latter figure that Mr. Rip-Jowes Ix in the nature of tapiiit However, as a matter of formality, |standpoint. It is trying to show | vert 40.46, which it might linger ap with such mislead-|to the getors ex ' Secretary Meikle and other mem-|that the diversion is in conformity | gally have taken ing effect, the average reader not | *nell debt« | bers of the committee will tomor-| with the best “public policy"—that | In 1898 it failed to divert $61,7 taking the trouble to analyse the| Mayeof thes ' : tow go ov the comptroller’s |the wai department should of and in 1899, $58,214.48 method by which he arrived at the | "Uber of tors tn th books, “experting” them to see if|right pay a large share of the gen Thus from 1895 to 1899 the excess | result *~ | ctimtom,, have most of the his statements are authentic eral expenses of the city of diversions over § 0) was $27 He shows that the water depart jealary, os Ne nh t Mr. Riplinger does not own up to| THE FIGHT HAS NARROWED | 469.44, while the sum that the coun-| ment has not bee rived dur-| tempted to hid ' the monstrous steal in so many | DOWN TO ONE BETWEEN THE | cil failed to divert, so to speak, was| {ng the last 10 years of more than |" #ene t tors of t words, but he presents the same| REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |$141,271.6 the sseurese im of $52,500 an-| Plage ‘and ofte figures which The Star published |SMALL TAXPAYERS AND OF | Therefore, on January 1, 1900, ac-| nually. bu is forced to admit | mamitearo h " several days ago in such a skillful] THE LAND MONOPOLISTS IN |cording to the theory of Mr. Rip-|that sums running from $6,000 to| "St Manner that the «mooth system of | THE CITY COUNCIL. AS A PO- | linger, the water fund ed the | $47,000 annually excess of the|.. em that Mr. N faiding the wa artment that | LITICAL ISSUE, THE SUBJE |general fund $113,412. 1¢ ause of | $52,500 have been taken from it m hos t h wr e, but I Bas been in progress is not apparent |I8 DEAD. THE MANNER IN | the failure of preceding administra However is the opinion of all) sma tone s ah at firet glance. By presenting a|WHICH THE REPUBLICAN AD- |tions to make the full annual div business mien and taxpayers, with. Ride ee ore im the light of fecord of the relation between the |MINISTRATIONS HAVE KEPT | sion of $52 file theory, like that |the exception of the iand mence-|u ne t Water and general funds from 1896 |DOWN THE TAX LEVY BY US- lof the f omm is that | of that the eounci ie not teeret- | cenntiatns ees per to? 904, he formulates |ING THE IMMENSE EARNINGS |since an ordinance wa 1 in tified taking oven | ne wroneeets the misleac jeduction that the |OF THE CEDAR RIVER WATER | 1893 allowing a sum to taken | annually from the water re ace hes Water fund om November 1, in- |SYSTEM TO PAY GENERAL EX- |from the water fund not exceeding|ment. oe : debted $1.9 » general fund. | PENSES OF THE GOVERNMENT | $5 each year, while pre ss Te cer caer ; He arr this peculiar result |18 AT LAST KNOWN TO EVERY- | ec did not take this much. {t pore + Sawin de dhny by two sharp schemes. In cutting is the duty of later councils te |e tert wit opens, ; oft bh rd when mber 1is| THE REPUBLICANS THEM-|as much in excess of $52,500 ON ::. + Pebeagthclend . reach leaves out of considera LV AR NOW SHARPLY | year as the pre ng council 4] ' th ew ‘ oy tion the last loan of $50,000 made | DIVIDED UPON THE SUBJECT, | to printe ths Allens he 1648, At th nis by the water fund to the general |THE WEALTHY LAND MONOPO-| Consequently, during 1900 to 1902 EXPLAINS told! me that > hg egthan fund. It was made two weeks ago. | LISTS, WHO PAY HEAVY TAXES | in order that the republicans might | the (pees : He aiso has the audacity to count |BUT VAY NO MORE WATER | keep the tax levy down, the ral before ther ? the $52.500 annual interest on the |RENT THAN THE OWNERS OF | fund proceeded to ¢ wa | I M N Newton's frier 1 s ther Old Spring hill water bonds as a|THE HUMBLEST HOMES, WA ter fund an tis ‘eWo) wawa mistake in charging t ' legitimate charge against the water|WATER RATES TO REMAIN | nually, the total exce 48,-| ton, wife of R. C..N wrongdoing. Not? } ' fund. Because of the fact that pre- | WHERE THEY ARK, THE SUR- |7 leaving the ¢ i n " heard from nnd his f f Vious to 1909 the city council often- | PLUS EARNINGS OF THE WA- | debt to the water fund $35,234.21 on | *" 2" F et. | that he has Hu in rrow even as much | TER DEPARTMENT BEING USED | January 1, 1904 pet geodon g-ongetcrmpentinge: dyewneoel TY «ing | annually from the water|TO PAY GENERAL EXPENSES.| Since that date and up to Novem-| that Newton toch ene car ented | 2138 Wirst nts in the money that | THEY WANT EVERY MAN WHO| ber 1, 1904, the d ements of the | money i st during those years | DRINKS WATER TO PAY A POR- | general fund for the water fund, in- |; : Be eal Ghent? Cudihee and & t to make the sum in excess |TION OF THE TAXES ON THE |eluding a ge of one-half of |} eek t rng <td 0 hes ge A A . during + four years. He thus|LAND THEY KEEP VACANT, | $52,500 f nterest the old = + a any Oe ee : strikes showing that a|BUT WILL NOT LET THE POOR | bonds for half of the fiscal y« ° mal delicate tok goenis sum not « ng the aggregate of |MAN OCCUPY. THE SMALL, | has been sufficient to discharge t i. hes attend byes: Stagg $82,500 a t ears bas|TAXPAYERS ONLY DESIRE TO! debt besides ng the water f borr | caps akabe hotel beter t ' been taken t ter fund PAY SUFFICIENT RBNT TO PAY in debt to the general fund $ | los Btaioos chee TA} iS DON'T ANT TO FIGHT (By Bertpps News Avs'nd BALTIC FLEET WILL BE RECALLED BEFORE IT HAS HAD A BEI J A CHANCE TO HAVE A BRUSH WITH THE JAPANESE WAR- SHIPS EN ROUTE TO THE INDIAN OCEAN © wh or wher t 1 widiers, whe proce ‘ fl to we r t to the bitte full € Japa ruise MIKADO CELEBRATES " r rg! aye KI J The mikado toa " nit ! th Tok Hid that . m8 K GOOD ORDER AT PORT ARTHUR * t t yun rulerd 5 an a t t TOKIO, Jar A dinpatet Japar fleet, which ts reg to | Genera f utes that the Jap- | RUSSIAN BOATS DISARMED . : plen order at F Arthur, The CHEFOO, J The mae WAITING FOR RUSSIANS : are q medica . 0 ee oe hot ata will ma of 1 ne th ' to Ya T. PETERSBURG, Jan It iw t At ear Pig I The prisoners of te gh authority that avdes . we 8 w t 4 there int been od to the effec® ADE th y nt ed to Dalny |that the Russian second Pacifja . 2 ha and f t to Japan. The Jap juadron shall return to Kuropeag ed to enter, the answer was a neg- | free ni 4 ative he fused to statel T a great ‘ Seven.) NOT A SAFE PRACTICE rm t of taking Y « “ aff « x perte . ' { wt 1 ph t ging ! t f CHIEF OFFICER ROUSE, OF THE STEAMER TACOMA IS DIS« : hy pong CHARGED FROM SERVICE—HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ' " ¢ . . GROUNDING OF SHIP ik f the “nipper” | eres wares ort R who was in upon him. It {s further reporteG) the time she « of Captain Connauton, had sald Ww CONGRESS NGTON, D. ard today at Litth Klar Rhett lake a the t C., Jar ntro 1 etary ¢ irrigating ath lake, at dary between amation 1 fc } 8. fi HINC Dd town C., w tee of com { that after t rmed Crum w ation was filed it this 0 y. Het the h I First H Judge T R t the ho ck Wed anvassin Jar D. Crow he sena that he wished to go and exhibited unusual interest in this trip o} facoma. The report was al ireulation today that Rouse hag yeen influenced by the Japan esentatives in this countr an were of the opinion that the destination of the vessel’g argo, after leaving China, wap me Russian port | Consul Hizamidzu, representing! the Japanese government in th: city, stated to a Star reporter thig afternoon that so far as he knew! no Japanese subject had been ate! tempting to influence any of the of ficers of the Tacoma. The Tacoma will go out witht] First Officer Chipperfie'd, who rf to take ex-First Officer Rouse’ pl vessel was towed off thé sandbar at 3 o'clock this moral |The barges containing her freigh$ were towed to Salmon bay, wht the freight will again be loaded be the Tacoma, She will sail for the Orient ea: tomorrow morning. cy as oll “INNO CEN) or t » through his Jae the vensel's THE IDAHO SENATOR GETS)" F | { Rouse’s dis- WRATHY IN TALKING OF | miseal was 1 blic by Port Captatr f the Northwestern LAND FRAUDS INVESTIGA- x fs this afternoon, P w not discuse TION ler f th to say Us Captain ¢ ton has requent (Ry Seripps News Ass'n.) bangin - be a ct ‘ A stery has) sur- GREAT FALLS, Mont, Jan. 6—| rout t . siting im the to Montana t 11S oss whe 1 to be familiar wholes a tr a th with Rouse say that, owing to the - ne - prive Svices req danger to which the vessel might pe a, raed ate be exposed while on the voyage to Sag h#¢ the orient, Rouse was persuaded by racts of t ~ | Captain Connauton not to make the SHINGTON, Jan tor ‘iD. . . Bing idabe yesterday had a| ‘Tais was done by Captain Con- Se, Preaident Hoosevelt about nauton, it is said, owing to the fa land fraud cases in hie sta that Rouse had other dependent P 1h my bes > er I J att 1 nd int s sheriff and is 1 “= VOTED IT DOWN AGAIN 1 y Introd : ‘ ha . priating f 1 City I ' prot I M. Wood r f it id be ¥ ” Th ntiment f the r uch an Pre b t 7 for tt b th b the t y r ld be fully repaid by the result! om Thomson's trip. He thought that with the large number of pubs provements the city now cone templates, It behooved it to send it@ | engineer to other cities to see wha was being accomplished in this ling, SHE RIFFS FORM AN ASSOCIATION State ganized Sheriff's in Piles* tle hotel and nt. Le ted pres- of Walla Harry Re of Snohomish Andrew W surer. After \ greater visiting dinnem Maison ng Painter sident puty the iat an Qn e at lbe The object s to enable of= pt rty ation h other in keeping EXPECT BIG FIGHT MUKDEN, Jan Japar