The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 1, 1905, Page 1

~ i Cent e Pioneer One Sayer of the Northwest qiGHT EDITION ———) ERATE DESTITUTION OF A POOR OLD GERMAN ol WOMAN AND HER TWO CHILDREN, WHO SAT FOR HOURS TING FOR THE COUNTY POOR COMMISSIONER, WHO N'T BE FOUND—GER MAN CONSUL GAVE HER TEM- AN EXAMPLE OF A COUNTY OFFICIAL'S wal couLo’ pORARY RELIEF WEGLECT OF DUTY founty Poor Commissio- {the German inscription “Ich Dien” Peauee County Poor Comm paris Beckingham was not at-/ underneath, and tt was a little e ess for which |sereech of joy, followed by a yard to the bu t oe nays him $100 a month, jor #o of German eon ot German woman, who! In a few minutes the old Indy was ~ ike, with flapping shoes and | eating a savory hot meal in the rat wal fconsul’s own dining room and her The Seattle Star SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1905. amily Lived on Garbage Refuse to Keep From Starving to Death CITIZENS’ ALLIANCE TRIES — TO PLAY GAME ON UNIONS there to ee that interfered with The work of unloading the ie progressing rapidly, and it is ox Peeted that she will not he delayed materially in discharging her cargo. The reported attempt on life the work is not REPORTS TO POLICE THAT LONGSHOREMEN HAD ATTEMPT- ED TO MURDER CAPTAIN EYRNE, OF THE GERMAN SHIP NESAID vessel gkirts, all the way from/ of the captain of the Nesaia is om Geattle on Saturday morning, | Wory wasr at an end, for ara ge - phatically deniea by the officers of two hours in vain on a/ments bad been made for her over # # ARR AR A RRA AA eH HI dock unloading her cargo, On Ac-|ihe Longaporemen's, Stevedorer’ and the county commisiosner’s | Sunday, and after that she ww * pe ® | count of the strike it has been n@-| Riggers’ union. They assert that dane i he $6 allowed her month-| promised neither she nor her chil-|® “No attempt was made upon # | essary to draft the crew Into serv-lthe only action taken by the mem ‘ Or ie port of herself and her |dren need go hungry so long as the |# my life, and T do not know {ice and employ non-union men tol pers.cf the union was to watch the hoonggeeled then, had it not! kaiser had subjects on American | ® where such a malicious ramor #/ do the work dock to see who the non-union men - he kindness of two news- | Soil | ® could have started. The strik- #| Thursday night a delegation of! were who worked in unloading the wre for ¢ oe, would have drag “Mother” Ryther, when informed |® ers came to me simply to con- #| three members of the union inter | hio eee e pungry and hopeless, | Of the case over the telephone, of- | # sult over the situation. ‘They # | viewed Captain Kyme on board the) “The whole ..1ng comes from the grvatt offeprin. to withstand a/| fered shelter for the whole family.|# told me that they wanted me *| Yeasel and attempted to solicit his | Gitizens’ alliance,” sald an officer mie coer that must have| “We are all out of salt, and the | * to stop my crew from working #|aid ip their behalf in the present] when aslted Saturday morning. “The ae ot matt! Monday noon. | boys are out selling papers to get) @ In unloading the ship. Cap- # | difficulty, He said be must unload) giiagea@ ts trying to do everything ae duty of the county poor} money to buy @ sack with,” said |} ® tain Byme, or the Nesaia * his vessel, and in order to do #0,/ in ite yower to inju the cause of cooker to distribute the char-|ahe, “hut we've got plenty of po- | # %| must use whatever mon he could! uniostwm in the city, and turn the funds of King county to King tatoes and beans, and We can keep BERR REE RE EE EE BB eH KOt minds of the people against our or me cording to the al-|them from going hungry, Give Sein aud 0 H > ow the! their number and I will send them onth. If he neg-| some food pag cong county's poor| The family has been living at 1416 hungry and sheltrriess | retghtn avenue south, South Seattle. because the first day of Avrit| The struggles of the woman and ‘a Saturday, which nobody | ber two children were inquired into, is regarded MADE DOUBLY HARD, holiday, or at least} according to her story, by an inct by most of the county’s/ dent which might, by the way, bear Beckinghom was @ little explanation for Coupty Poor NOT IN HIS OFFICE. |}Commissioner Beckinghaf. After wt was Clerk French, nor any of | her application had been heard and county commissioners, The|her January allowance given her, dosed and/she was told by Becktngham that door, | it would be unnecessary for her to by the janitor, gave hope to/call in February as he would mail poor on King county's charity her the check when they lined up for their| but failed to address it properly land she did not receive it. She Beckingham was away fishing, of | went to inquire about it, but was Wing something cise ot as little{told that it would reach her, If it jmeemt to King county, all day long. | bad sot already done so, in a few Aslephone cal! at his home brought days. After a couple of weeks, ihe response: “Out of town until| during which the family somehow morrow it {= to live, the letter strayed Meanwhile King county's hungry | back to the commissioner's office, goaths went without food with a request by the postal clork Barly in the morning the old Ger-| for better address. By this time it woman spoken of, Mrs. Kaupa,| was about time for the March al- Boticed by County Auditor Ag-| lowance, and, according to the old who spoke to her kindly in| woman, this same check was made ‘and tried to tell her that | to do duty for the March allowance, ‘Bwould be no use waiting, but | February having sipped away into much depended on her little $6 al- the past and the check being still Jowance, and a couple of hours later} untouched. In this way %% was iteo reporters found her ali alone in| made to cover both months, she commissioner's office. waiting | says, although she had been al- and cry-| lowed $6 for each month. * a2 te ee ez i j | aonlier der vay by Sout” Seat-} . “und I haf no eat he no eat, too. I makes jee, but four days been | now since my boy he get commee FRUM DER DUMP. very veak dis morgen I drink der ft make no strength. | to get the money, vile to look RIOT! ST. PETERSBURG Peasants in the Werra district of Lithuania are marching through the taquiry, city’s gar-|country pillaging estates and de tage heaps, and while the old wo- | molishing the houses of landowners. MBs, Sick, enfeebled and hungry, | The police are powertess and troops walked into town to get the $6) have been called for. Se THEY WRECK BANK OF FOOD THAT MIGHT April 1 discovered AIN LIFE FOR HIMSELF. MOTHER AND HIS LITTLE SISTER. The “dumps,” the old wo | Man said, had yielded enovgh to Keep them alive when King county found that $6 was all it could allow be, and when the Charity Orgat!- tition society had said it could ¢ Sething except take her children her and send her to the poor (By Seripps News Ass'n. LORAINE, 0., Apri! 1.—E. F. Kan i attempts were made by | en D. Walker, assistant to discover the where the poor commissioner, of | @9d D. commissioner, BUT THE SEASON HAD OPENED, r FOUND. Woman was white and Was worrying about her who would be expecting said her landlord had de- his rent and ufiless she got Saturday her little fam- be shelteriess as well as Her boy has continually work, but because he little of size for being Isaee B. Robody had given bit /for the second time Friday on « cashier; E. Hi Walker, bookkeeper, of the Citizens’ Savings bank, which failed yesterday because of a defalcation of $90,000, were arrested this morn ing. Kanen was charged with em | bezalement, and the Walkers with | complicity. All are young men ACQUITTED hie 5 E allt He did so, she says, | Griffith, who was tried | The committee of the union then went to the members of the crew d asked them to stop doing the ganizations, This whole report seems fo come from that body and they rare trying to make the most out OFM to wake people think we are @ blood-thirety lot “We have heard the report The Citizens’ alliance, the enemy of organized labor, attempted to make capital for its crusade against | work that really belonged to the the Longshoremen's, Stevedore’s | longshoremen, The committee then | and Riggers’ union by sproading the| wept away that report that an attempt had been| Captain Eyme said that bis crew] am attempt was made on the life of made upon the life of Captain) had no fear of violence, He sald| the eaptain of the ship and hav , Adoitph Eyme, of the rman ship| that the non-unton men working In| empBaifeaily denied it. edo not Nesala, by the members of the|the places of the strikers might | unton suffer harin when they left the ship | Barly Saturday morning an agent | but be did not expect it, as the mon | of the alliance appeared at the po-|tried to use argument and never | Hee headquarters and reported that | violence with him when they were members of the union had attempt-| aboard the vessel. ed to kill the captain of the Nesaia. A special police officer has been which ts in the present /placed at the dock to prevent the abe & Hamilton, | strikers from attempting to board | by samieone else than members of the local atevedoring company. It|the vessel for the purpose of In-| the union. Our people do not carry Waa reported that the lify of the! fuencing the non-union men to quit|on strikes in that way tain was in constant danger and wrk. Saturday night the Nesala “This is simply a business mat police were necessary to prevent | will be taken to plier 4, where the|ter between the stevedoreing com believe that a sing ember of the anion am possibly have any feeling agaipst the captain, for the strike ts not Wik fault, Our grievance ts McCabe @ Hamilton, because they tried to reduce our wages. “T believe that, If the life of the captain was threatened it was done The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News 25 CENTS PER MON F| WAR WILL 6 UN FOR YEARG VESTERDAY'S DISPATCHES PREDICTING PEACE VOL. 7. NO. 33. RAP RKRERHARARARH The Weather + Spotter SEED Beer FIASCO 16 xe RRRKS VERIFIED TODAY—“SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST” IS WHAT ~£ Partly ° Tonight and Sunday: JAPS DEMANO—OTHER WAR NEWS | | ive, With Showers; Fresh West | ea My Boripps News Ase’n.t ] surprise that Japan's plans had been ' you | TOKIO, April 1.—Yesterday'n din-) rade public, aonedn ; That's the patches exclusively predicting anin-| (0 %0ur correspondent way the weath definite continuance of the Russian~ / Ti! Qe M ee er mixer has Japanese war are being conclusive ‘as eae i He final) de the ollor been handing lly verified by ‘ater developmen Piers rippedaincca ore t the sun | The situ now completely |" Mr sen, —d : : ; I tell you explicitly that there shine all day change n in every ure no peace negotiations, or pree a A: a me ’ hat Ub t ay war wi * | itminaries for Initiating peace nego- z ay bh on. tations, in progress at this times | so far as 1 am aware, and I bellew | Japanese minister to France, he sre . ¢ rr pvconepllipgreependl fh semoes Rg am not desirous of discussing the | 4 «ram general questions of peace, for, ow= would give us | Yesterday fr Tokio that the peace ing to the complete absence of ne« rain today, but prospects have irely faded 4n4 | gotiations or preliminaries towards we he has that Japan looks forward to a long, | negotiations, that question can only, kept) up an April fool joke. by en “on ca —_ , bis Ibe a mic, and without political tot xhibited considerable | ty, ring. The statements that I have cone ferred with M. Deleasme at his reals ‘ and are calculated 1 situation which is per= There is no represent« of Japan authorized at this to discuss peace or foreshadow, what ¢ are fale to confum fectly plain. ath n the least er if the practical Js a military resolutely proceed with portant work,” It can be added that the introdue- tion of the foregoing dispatch, as well aa the portion quoted, was sub- mitted to Dr. Motono, who approved every word. ~ THE STAR'S-—— WORLD'S FAIR CONTEST The Greatest Voting Contest Ever Insti- the ce waged in campaign ntrary, conducting and she will that Ime i “y &T. PETERSBURG, April 1—Ae- ing to the peace reports circus MORE PEACE PRATTLE bloodshed. work of unloading will be con-| pany and ourselves and not a mat d b A P W | The Nesala is lying at Or! mtal|tinued. An officer will be placed | ter of murder of innocent men. tute y ny aper est on the bourse today Russia i cede the southern inland of | ~ ~ ~ — —- f Chi ig Sakhalien to Japan and agree that | . fortunate man's lege was severed 0 ca! 0 Mane ig and Korea shall be per- and the body was badly crushed The Star witli send the five most popt nol teachers manently outside the sphere of | e aod sted in caring for the man. will pay every cent of their expenses for one week, including ‘ hinese raliroad to be turned over Smith fe about 25 years of age and railroad fares, hotel bills, entrance fares to the grounds, etc to Japan for cession to China or —-. to an international syndicate upom GARONNE DEPARTS How He Became Great deration of $126,000,000, which n will accept im lieu of indem~ The Contest Starts Today MORE MONEY FOR WAR eee nie on th frank h coupen cut nd ae o ne food for one : : wn or “aaron, ot: tH re nk ore upon cut out and sent to The Star is good for on: | LONDON, April 1—A alepatett THE GENIAL EDITOR OF THE TIMES GIVES AN INTBRESTING | | ucct nes trannpor! to carry fun ach coupon sent with 25 cents for one month's subscrip- etek Beiectbert: ears. tanc Ss 6 Np terete yin s0004 tion or @ renewal of an old subscription for three months 1 other internal loan of $100,000,000 INTERVIEW TO A SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE LIT. | Nas yarvled prisoners and refugees good tor 80 VOTES. wie: will be issued shortly. - 2 | Each coupon accompanied by 56 ts for : —— wring m ise 85 accompa nie cents for a new subscrip- Fy ERARY DIGEST | natied for Hequimait Saturday. Hl tion for two months, or a renewal of an old subscription, is {| ANOTHER, BOMB victim ~ f- vy 125 VOTES, placed on the dry dock for a ¢ i ‘eonsed ‘ee mii Cer OR etesta 0 , LOL April 1—Poelice commis< ing and painting. She will then =~ Fh os eer py k 200 vorne months’ sioner Szarbolovicz, of the second | (Bpecial to The Star) one’s thumb that {n falling it will| return to Seattle, after which This contest Will run during April, May and June j district was seriously injured today, LOS ANGELES, April 1.—Col, A.| turn a complete t and! will gall for the Orient Gis Bie tenders having the lncenet member of vet by a bomb thrown at him. J. Blethen, editor of the Seattio! stick tm the turf i# not easily ac r when the contest will be the tec abate od tind dices — ——— Evening Times, t nh converen-| quired and takes a good deal of in-| AIMED AT PACKERS Stir cha ard eee ke Deny seaet ape rhe Soattes MOREE REE RH tién with the special correspondent | telligence. | {COLN, Neb, April 1—Both | larke exponitior * Jot the Literary Digest, sent to Los| “Yes, I Bave two sons, Clarence—| ,cANCOM: Nate Ape teed the | Remeniber— % SAILS FOR ORIENT WITH | | Angeles for the express purpose of| I believe be spells it C-l-a-r-a-n-c-e, | yunkin anti-trust bill aimed at the That each coupon countsfor 1 vote. CARGO. * getting an Interview with the fa- but I don’t know-~and Jomepb. | iackers who seck to destroy com-| That 26 cents for one month means 60 votes. 4 PORTLAND, Ore, March 31. mous publisher, is said to have| have already decided that Clarence | tition by cutting prices in certain That 66 cents for two months me 5 votes. —The steamship Arabia sajled # said shall be the greatest editorial writer | jcalitles. ‘The governor will si« | That 76 cents for three months means 200 votes, ® for the Orient yesterday with & “The art of conducting a great of the age-—of course, after I have}. pin *% the most valuable cargo that % | metropolitan newspaper is not | retired—and that Joseph shall lead | “ ako aaa ® ever left this port, carrying ® learned; it t#, Mke all greataces, in the field of fiction writers. | “SWIPED” THE ALL Who i* your favorite teacher? ee more than $600,000 worth of ® born in a man | “In conclusion you may say that} y Does she want to see the Portland Pair? merchandise. The leading % | “] felt from the very days of my |Colone! Alden J. Blethen advises TANCOLN, avrn s-~The cléar- | De you want to help send her there? * shipment consists of tobacco, * boyhood that I was cut out to be a‘ all young men who desire to be-| ette bi which passed both houses | . * comprising 1,200 hogsheads, © great journalist, and hove never come famous journalists to read his| he* @isappeared from the desk of _ ¥y Lg ny _eieoees coupon with her name and *% 20,000 barrels of flour, 620 % | swerved an jota from this belief. editorials and circulation state-| the clerk of the senate. It ts charg at na * crates of printing paper. The # i " r | ed that the t © trust is at the] ve a subscription or renewal of subscription to ® balance of the freight is made *& | My wonderful success in the ments tn the Seatle Times. I can-} that | fill out Coupon “B" and send ft in with the remit- | newspaper world has been achieved didly believe that by following | bottom of the dis arenes wrt up of cotton, nails, machinery, % by always printing the truth, but « these editorials and state James A. Murray, president of the| rs on “ }especially by my editorials which | ments any young man may become Savings rust com |1 believe are as good examples of |a very good writer.” aarp Tibeeunces that bhi epeabanathnannaeeeneeee | rhetorical art and finesse as may be The great man abstracted a 50-| j ofd buildings at} (Coupon “A".) seen anywhere. cent perfecto from his pocket ond avenue and : Napoleon did not learn to be a gracefully chewed off the end and Madisoa street, where they are to +» Wash. April . | great warrior; it was born in him. | tossed it away with careless aban-| (0) S wiyvecraper, will start Mon I, too, felt the spark of genius flick- don. The Literary Digest man | G29 mpening mitract for the | | ering in my soul when a mere picked it up as he left the hotel and gradi will be let late Saturday | hool, City of mae babe. saved it as a memento. | after and the contractor get ; I can well remember those child hood days when, with a stub of pen cil and @ slate I used to write as well as iiatured newspaper men do nowadays. | ting the job will have to start a buildings that have so long occu pied that corner. A Bunday morning service will be GOT LIFE | “I had as my example Horace 4} peld jm the Grand opera house April Greeley in those days, and I can| John King was sentenced this} }\9{ 41 o'clock. in behalf of the |point with pride to the fact that | morning under the cumulative #en-| Wayside Emergency hospital, Mrs jeven his wonderful ability as an | tence law to life imprisonment | Mariba B. Baxter, president of the editorial writer has been eclipsed | jnatitution and a writer and lec by myself. tusee-of high repute, will have CLAY WORKS SOLD Of course, the one great draw « of the meeting and will de back in my life has been my natural bereeof th liver the address, The Columbia Col bd Galy scoldings for not. “belng | charge of forgery, was acquitted by | modesty. I believe that every man | - igeof Music has charge of the mu bP; boks in the school.” She her-|the jury and set free. It hax been |Should be modest to a certain de The Degny Clay words, situated |sicah part of the program and the had been commanded by the | tive months since the alleged com-|sree, but with me it has been 4a: Renton, has been sold. The new beervices promise to be of unusual (tors “to go only in chair mit | mission of the crime and during this |controlling factor Which has kept company will incsense their capital- hiaberhet bo and every time she found period Griffith has been confined in| my light under a bushel. W it {nation to $300,000. The new com The freight department “of the the bec sick again the county jail. At the trial it ap-| mot for this trait of my character, pany has several stockholders that | Great Northern moved into the new ao, Door, old woman had | peared that he was an innocent |! would be glad to tell you of so were In the old concern and it is} qgarters In the Starr-Boyd buiding ‘ont Story the reporters sét| man, who passed a check which had | of the thing» I have done to m their int n to enlarge and build | where it will remain until the new on ing her; both turned their | been forged by another man and|™my name the most famous one in yp the p making it one of the’ office on First avenue are com Pockets inside out, but fennd| which he had come into possession | the world of newspaper letters. finest on the coast pleted, there but wads of copy-pa- | of in good faith, on the Eggert Shoe | What are my favorite authors? - The ern for the sale of the And it was finally, upon the | company, asking at the time, if the of Auditor Agnew to|clerk to whom he € 0 h gave it thought the ir (0 German Consul Geissler, |\t was all right ie ie the Adrian flats, that) Griffith said the check was writ m was solved ten by a man named Jackson, who gan lady was escorted,| was afterwards arrested on anoth- ng on either side/er charge. Griffith did not divulge tad jer ¢ « 3 ni vulg 0 Wenn’ her, for she was | bis name until the trial, preferring nee AND § EEBLED |to be known as Jackson, that being alked on with difficul-|the name which was signed to the check, Griffith says when he was As the trio brought u the | arrested he was cn hls way to the Of the consul, the Co Who had found such | but that aie five months’ man alien country, fell| ment has left him out of both posl- then te (he Gorman coat-of-arms and tion and money, p at eye of the | north for eastern mining interests, ;ing ping-pong apd mumble-peg. The imprison-/ latter game is a real education of | Well, all great men, as you know, TRAINMAN KIL Dilfer hot signed Friday aft have their eecentricities. .Mine are LE ernoan, H. Steph. and jon the subject of favorite authors. art A a Senator Clapp took charge of the I have always loved the works of Anderso Gulliver, jand Jules Verne. T! hotel Saturday morning. ward Hendircksen was arrest aught! eq in the vicinity of Madrona Munchausen ir wonderful Smith, wotrte an employe of the Se company, was K imagination has always appealed to P two gravel cars shortly | Friday afternoon by City Detect |me, and I wish they were living after 7 o'clock Friday evening and|ive Wasson on a charge of insa now #o that I uid offer them ived injuries from which he| Mrs, Gerget Selstad and he positions on some of my prog | sive papers. “My favorite recreation 2 o'clock Saturday morning. | Henry wer rs are used for removing | $2,480 damages by Federal Jude nd dirt from the Second av-| Hanford, before whom they regrade, near First avenue suit against the Sunset Telephon In switching company for the death of her hus band, who was killed on the 26th of January. yesterday awarde is play-| enue and Virginia street. them back and forth Smith in some diversion. The art of betng able to #0 skillfully balance @ jackkmife on way was caught. One of the un- crew of nen to tearing down the lod ag the most popular teacher in the State of Wash- ington. [Signed) TEODY AND THE ROUGH RID- | ERS TO HAVE A_ RIPPING (Coupon “B". TIME IN TEXAS » Wash. April Enclosed + find fin cents for ription to The Seattle Star. Subscrip- in name of (By Scripps News Ass'n.) ASHINGTON, D. C., April L— President Roosevelt spent today clearing off his desk getting ready to start southwest on # trip. Hi special train leaves at 9 o'clock on |Monday morning. It is understood he will not return with the distin- ae sae party until about May 28. Address County State SAN ANTONIO, Tex., April 1.— Arangements for the president's | visit bere on April 7, for the reunion lof the Rough Riders are complete | Features of the program will be two | sessions of the Rough Riders, from vhich all outsiders will be exclud- In the morning there will be a | parade and in the afternoon a bust- |ness men’s banquet for the pres- |ident. Two hundred Rough Riders Jare expected Please credit ... + Votes for the most popu- lar teacher in the State of Washington to . +10 Of sees , County of [Signed] .. at th subscription ts IMMENSE PLANT DESTROYED CLEVELAND, April 1.—The im- mense plant of the National Refin- ing company was totally destroyed by fire this afternoon. The loss ig $200,000, Ten thousand barrela of Send all coupons to Manager, Teachers’ Contest, Seattle h, Star, Seattle, W ash. ‘The Fair to the Fair, The Star Sends Them There.”