The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 23, 1905, Page 1

"ECOC SPAPER wy NEW - FAMO at qué STAR EDITION <oHT as ———— News teached Seattle rd gn of the total dew jon t gr of the business district of the em of White Horse y Yukon ter mary. fhe fire started at an early hour ‘Qeday morning & was soon be- | pal control, the voluntary fire de- periment being ent! unable to oq the sweep of the conflagra- ga eatil It had burned itself out. fie or six hotels were laid in Y ea gap ball a dozen stores, the local gaed of tho Canadian Bank of Qmmerce, the railroad depot and a fem residences were all destroyed Me cante of the fire is unknown. ore Will reach $200,000. There ‘2 fnsarance. “fie baildings destroyed so far as Row are the following Wacosver hotel, run by B. J. tee: Merchants’ hotel, J. B. Me- proprietor; Windsor, three- fey structure and finest in White Tame, Jackson & Johnson. proprie- & Regina hotel, fison, proprietors; Commercial Wil, Peter Richan. proprietor Mie depot is located at the end ii Main street, which ts the main Johnson & of the city. Ranged iiimg the street from the depot are Rifores of Whitney & Co. Wh Martin, Arctic rest ‘Wee drug store, WM More, Havre cafe and Sefirt’s fore They ar The most serious aspect Meller io the destruction of large! of provisions not only | for supp x the town of Cap- ant, La- Dr. Nicholson's in rut a of the Hose itself. but for t mining entirely sur-| which de- e Horse a upon fo the meager {nformation | Bo steps for relieving the Batreds of sufferers in the strick town hi taken yet most urgent MM aid will probably forth from Skagway. the southern | be oe, & the White Pass & Yu- foad, about 121 es away White Horse was founded in the fie of 1898 and 1599. It is @ whole Alsek rom 2,000 to per mines EXTRA! RUS: ALL THE NEWS TILL NOON IN THE NOON EDITION, Th HE TOWN OF WHITEHORSE N WIPED OF MAP BY CONFLAGRATION | WHEN THE GIRGUS IS lili ul Mons, SpANGELETT) MMLE. GeRevi THE KID: GEE, THATS WHAT I'M GOIN e Seattl SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, MAY Ieport Reaches Seattle That Entire Business District Is Laid in Ashes by Fire of Unknown Origin=The Loss Will Reach $300,000 —AQUESTVENSKY JAN ADMIRAL SAID TO HAVE SUCCUMBED TO RAVAGES REPORTED DEAD | SALT eration down to business t of ‘IN TOWN TER BE WHEN I'M GROWED UP. LAKE {ing semion was speeches showing discontent among the delegates Miners FRICTION crry ay from May ee characterized ‘IN SESSION | Friction as to the votes each dele- jaate is entitled to cast prevented | | the convention of the Western Fed tting The morn- by Reports and appoint are ts the OF DREAD DISEASE—LOCATION OF RUSS|*N FLEET UN ment of eommits are expected omorrow. te fown was built as a terminal —_—_—_—_—_—e— ; the White Pass & Yukon rail KNOWN 4 Wl and is 230 miles £ | Soa ke population of w Borne fo sent Woximately 1.000 jamance PARIS, May 23.—A report was] ‘The rated @ sensation : At the offices of the White Pass | here rallway it was stated that |Cireulated here to the effect that - : tis run to wi rain® | ‘atormation was received by the ad ST. PETERSBURG, May 2%.—A} ; , D Wh from | dispatch from the front states that ‘ P “There are plent miralty from Saigon that Admiral | ¢ sl Kaulbars, commander of SAN FRANCISCO, M : ime on the outskirts tt on.” \Rotestvensky ta Gent the second Manchurian army, will | wa Smith, fan F $M one of the railroa rte 4 het scag j Feturn to Russia iting tax colle tod , the barracks of n spon The report i# to the effect that It is announced today that Ad-|4 pion of guilty m nt Mitnted police a. ‘orthwes miral Parenget has been appointed | cnarging § be ft fom town, "Th ar mile | oa a were received by a well! to command the fourth Baltic fleet, | 315,000. He was sentenced to 10 iiierereoss. num which is under orders to sail fof | yours’ imprisonment in the penite ov | ier firm of French bankers from | the far east June 14 Yeas fs slight Fine tian is t ol sh clini er ed a plea of guilty to . - the tment charging the embex HFFERSON ARRIVES Petersburg, #tating that Admtsat | SOKIO, May. 18—Gen. . Oyama |slemont of $98.00; on which he was | reports that the Russian ¢ Iry,|aiso sentenced to 10 urs, but, as sa, tear Jett ¥ Hed of dysente and | which detoured towards Fzkomen | both sentences will rent : fiom Souter! : ; [from the right bank of the Liao |ly, the actual tin have to - Reta mtern A Admiral Nebagotoff has a8-) 1110 was frequently de ed by |xerve willbe #ix years and four a t sa 5 of the entire | the Japane ear guard, The Ros- | months, allowing for good behavior ond = P force retreated north in dis- | Smith's total peculatic were order $100,000. ° e Sta 23, 1905, vor STAR'S TEACHERS’ CONTEST 16 THE TALK OF THE ENTIRE CITY The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News NO. 77. a5 CENTS PER MONTH EARLY PEACE IS CHICAGO EXPRESS COMPANIES STAND BY THEIR GUNS AND INSIST THAT THEY WILL NOT REINSTATE STRIKING DRIV- ERSG-4INIONS STAND PAT AND WILL STAY OUT wr CHICAGO. employed bq 18 lumber fir May 23.—Teameters; uties for this duty | President Berry, of the express drivers, failed to appear at the ap | pointed conference with the express * struck this morning, makin pects | - oo ae managers this aftérnoon, Until he of @ eettlement more remote than|!* heard from ali negotiations are oft. It is reported on good author ever. ity that the express companies are 111 atiff-necked and will make ab- at solutely no concessions, if was called in the office of Attor- | true. there is little hope of any set At 9:30 this morning « conference tude of the express companies to- | 494 the teamsters | Judge Kohieaat, in the federal wards their teameters on strike. | court this afternoon, cited 48 labor The companies have maintained | ™en to appear and tell why they that they could not take the men |Tefused to answer questions in the back who had violated their con-| bearing on injunctional cases tracts with them | Uniess some provision is made for the @xpress drivers the unions claim they wili make no settlement | of the strike. At the conclusion of the confer- jence Mayor ed that the @upress companies were etill un willing to grant concessions, An- other meeting has been arranged for thie afternoen when President Par- ry, of the expre @rivers; the ex- press managers and the alderman committee will make « final effort to get together. Mayor Du Whl SUE STANDARD MAYSVILLE, Ky Dunne annour May 23.—Five Chief df Polige O'Nell and the sher iff held a canference this morning on the strike situation. They decid suite were filed against the Stand | Jard Ol} company for selling oil ed to send A large force of police | ty ME deputy OS the lumber istrict, | Without @ license in thi aunty where geveral hundred men went on ithe penalty of each offense is strike thie morning. Sheriff Be rett wil] awear in 200 additional dep- ' $6 Nome Threat THREE THOUSAND MEN WILL DESERT FAIRBANKS AND RE- TURN TO NOME, IN WHICH CITY THERE ARE ALREADY 1000 UNEMPLOYED-—-METROPOLIS FACES A DANGEROUS crisis C2, Pee eee eee ee eee eee eee ee os Nome is facing a serious criria. With 1,000 idle men in its ® * precincts, it must harbor an additional army of 3,000 unem- * *% ployed, who are waiting at Fairbanks for the opening of the * * tiver. * * * ERE oo There will be 1,000 idle men at; What will become of the men at ome is a question. The lurid re rte of the wonderful wealth of the Nome this season Three thousand prospectors, busi ness men, miners and laborers are|Tanana country has drawn pros now at Fairbanks awaiting the|pectors and mining men from all opentng of the river to return to| parts of Alaska to the Fairbanks the Ne district Unable to & district Like an army of ante the work or find the yellow metal in| tramp prospectors have b wan the Tagana country these men, like| dering all over the country, enticed a herd of sheep, will flock to the|by the “bill posters” sent out by Bering sea gold fields to seek work. | the trading houses of the new El Walter King, of Dawson, who has| dorado (1?) been traveling through the Tanana| That Nome is not a poor man's district, in a letter to The Star,|country is evinced by the reports says that there is an army of men|which have been received from| fally 8,000 strong whip-sawing” | t ¢ during the past few days timber with which to make small] The men in the Tanana country boats to transport their outfits from|however, have to do something the Tanana to St. Micha In his|'They are going to Nome! It has letter Mr. King states that many of| been pointed out upon excellent au these men will have but littl mor thority that but little than than enough money to pay for their! $1,500,000 will be expended in the J passage from St. Michacls to Nome. Nome districts by the large oper FAR OFF! this is | tlement ney Mayer for the purpose of find-| President Shea went into confer ence with the joint lumbermen’s | ing some solution, If possible, to|association this afternoon to en deavor to ad r et the pedblem involved in the ates- | Sever to adjust the differences ex j isting between the lumber dealers | Sensational Charges by Striking Brewers UNION MEN ACCUSE BREWERY OWNERS OF DELIBERATELY ATTEMPTING TO INCITE RIOTS THROUGH SECRET AGENTS —FILE COMPLAINTS AT GEORGETOWN COUNCIL MEETING —TWO STRIKERS ARRESTED WITHOUT REASON Secret agents of the Seattle Brew- (ran trandbringer, two union | men, who claim to have been mig- ing & Malting company and the|trenied by two deputies Monday Citizens’ alliance and deputy sher-|™0rning in @ manner that would | driven any but union men ffa employed by the company are edged to keep out of trouble to fight deliberately working to incite riots The two men were returning at 1 o'clock im the morning from @ in peaceable Gec own, headquar- | ¢ se abl rgetown, headquar-| German picnic at Germania park. Only one of them could speak Eng- |lish. As they passed by the res! of Mayor Miller, who is also ntendent of the Rainier ters for the striking brewery men and to provoke the union totlers to ce acts of violence | brewery, two deputies stepped out 7 of the darkness and demanded to They are following the strikers | know who the men were and where around like bloodhounds, vainly | ey were going. The astonished strikers did their seeking for an opportunity to fan | best to make satisfactory explana- tions, it is claimed, but they were 4 fight and make arrests. The dep-| summarily ordered to “shut up,” ah " sneer | and hustled off to a Georgetown sa- sheriffs, their jobs in danger, | 1,5 ¢, fortunately, the two are trying to earn their salaries. men were identified by Nate Mc- Natt, a well known business man. | Such at least are the allegations| When the complaint was read in |the council Monday night there made by the leaders of the brew-| came pretty nearly being @ scene, strike, who filed a sensational | Mayor Miller was about to jump to his feet, but restrained himself, an@ | the petition was referred to the po- lice committee One of the councilmen states that the reason for searching the men is that at the time of the last jery | protest against the alleged tactica |that are being used against them | with the Georgetown council Mon la night |strike union men threatened to Lan. ee viow up the residences of strike | ‘The immediate cause of the ap-| breakers, The union men claim, however, that there has been ni peal to the council was the alleged | cause for apprehension during the persecution of Herman Sieppel and | present trouble. y TERMINUS To PUBLIC WASHINGTON, May 23—The te committee on Interstate com- © closed ite hearing on the rate CTO B. C., May 23.—A today. Mere cocie at Spencer, of the South- special dispatch from Ottawa | « wiiatnets aukethe | surprising declaration before the states that the minister of railway8| -ommittee that the railroads even- tually will have to mdopt the policy lthat the public demands. He said |the railroads did not oppose regula tion, but merely resisted attempts to enact legislation that would de« prive them of resort to courts. has approved the selection of the |terminus for the Grand Trank Pa- {s ifie at 10 Kaien island, about miles southwest of Port Simpson eC a Siege of Suffering of;suffering which will ensue as the | result of hundreds of men being un- able to earn enough money to pay ators this season. Nearly all that sum goes into machinery. With each piece of machinery coming {nto the country it means|their passage out of Nome in the that just so many men will be) fall. Men can not live on fresh air. will be no means whereby. The companies | There can earn money during the [that intend to open up new ditches | they have practically engaged all of the| winter, It is predicted that if the new hands they plan putting on|men from the Tanana carry out during the summer. their intention of going to Nome, forced out of work Where will the 3,000 from the/that district will be the scene of Tanana get off at? | suffering unparalleled in the history Along with the men who tntend|0f Alaska and almost beyond com~- to seek for gold, or work in the} prehension mines, will be the wandering thuk’| ggg pQanaaanr RRRRRE and gamblers—men who follow the} g 2 honest toilers wherever he goes): THe Weather % That means trouble for some one.| » * Those who will have the money at-| ter that army arrives gn Nome will| * Spotter * be the commercial houses, secret gambling dens, saloons or, in fact, any one but the men who are bring- SEER EERE EE EE Tonight and W ednesday ing it in. When his money is all partly coludy fe gone, what is the miner going to with — showers do? fresh to brisk Where will the food and shelter south to west for the prospector come from? And winds. jthen there is the gambler, but last Jand by no means the least is tie welfare of the thug to be taken into | conside ‘ation. | The Tanana country is already under the ban of the highway rob ber. No prospector or miner in that istrict can with safety travel along the creeks with his gold withow fear of being held up and relieved AT 2:30 of his treasure Local men fear that the same 3.—Doug- conditions will prevail in the Nome 8 son, brother-in-law of district when the hard times ar-| Presid Roosevelt, has been ap- rive, Another circumstance whict nted receiver for the de@enct is pointed out is the hardshin a New York Trust company