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

ALL THE NEWS THAT'S RELIA WILL BE FOUND IN THE STAR. The Pioneer One Cont Paper of the Northwest eLe ce ene 1] __ NIGHT E SDITION. PIRGT ON THE STRERT WITH THRE LATEST NEWS _!8 ONE OF THE STAR'S POLICIES, Seattle INESDAY AUGUST HINGTON, W Star THE STAR PRINTS THE news, iT DOES NOT SUPPRESS IT, The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News 25 CENTS PER MONTH DAN DEAN TAKES MAYOR BALLINGER AND CHIEF OF POLICE DELANEY FOR ALITTLE STROLL AROUND TOWN BIG SCANDAL BREWING AT BREMERTCN WHOLESALE GRAFT AT THE NAVY YARD SPECIAL AGENT PICKERELL OF THE NAVY DEPARTMENT HAS FORWARDED A REPORT TO ASSISTANT SECRETARY DAR LING, WHICH 18 SAID TO CONTAIN SOME SENSATIONAL CHARGES OF CORRUPTION—MANY EMPLOYES BELIEVED TO BE INVOLVED A scandal at Bremerton! Among the charged preferred, one is that certain employes at the yard le grafting in the varlou®| have perfected a fine working sys ts of the navy yard! tem of smuggling government suy The former ts brewing and the lat-| plies out of the yard by means of ter condition is said to have exist-/an “underground railway,” that one ed for many months, if the informa-/of the government launches has tion gathered at the navy yard for|been used for months for the pur the past few weeks by R. P. Pick-| pose of removing the stolen suppites | erell, a special agent of the navy | from their cache outside of the yard department from Washington, prove|and distributing them to safer reliable. potnts In-the vicinity of Bremerton. Pickerell has been at work quietly | Charleston and Sydney, and that for the past two months and is sald | “private parties,” acting as accom to Rave unearthed a state of affairs | Pilees, take care of the further dis that will rival in corruption the post | position of the stolen supplies. office department scandal and the| Another charge is that navy yard exposures in the land offices of the jeiployes are compelled to live in west. | certain lodging houses and that they It is said that nearly every depart-|are forced to pay exorbitant prices ment has felt the taint of corrup-|for board and lodging. They dare tlon and that the graft has become | not move, it is said, for fear of los. #0 strong in some departments that | ing their jobs Mt Is the common talk of the yard.| The employment of alien labor tn ‘The trouble hag been to catch the | the yard t# also a charge embodied Grafters “with the goods on. rm ~|in Pickerell's report and one which erell believes he has done so and has | the department at Washington will forwarded huge documents, long af- | look into. fidavits and statements to Aswist- Tt te said that a number of fugit ant Secretary Darling of the navy |tives from justice in other states Gepartment in support of his| have been employed tn the yard. charges. It ie anticipated that a big “shake- If the charges are deemed strong | up” will be made as soon an Cap- enough, and the evidence is suffi- | tain Burwell, who relieves Admiral tent to take such action, an investi- | Barclay as commandant of the yard gation will de undertaken directly |on September §, assumes official by the attorney general's depart-| charge of the yard. ment and prosecutions instituted. It will be remembered that some Wille the specific charges and the | weeks ago a grip belonging to Spe- Names of those who are implicated | cial Agent Pickerell and containing wilt not be made public until the/a lot of documents compiled during charges have been carefully gone | bis investigations of affairs at the ever by the navy department at/ yards was stolen from his — » Washington, it can be said on ood | his hotel and was never four authority that foremen tm nearty|erell believes that he had oo every department at the yard are | shadowed and that some one, inter~ mentioned in the affidavits and | ested in hushing up any prospective statement! scandal, stole the grip. DESPONDENT JAP ; HANGS HIMSELF {a vest pocket. Since the discovery of the suicide a Japanese lodging ‘was found hanging to a beam of the | house keeper identified the remains Grant street bri at the intersec- | at the Bonney-Wateon morgue. He tion of South Fourth and Lane, at| last saw Morimoto alive at § o'clock 20 o'clock Wednesday morning by | on Wednesday morning and stated boys playing tn that vicinity }to the coroner that Morimoto had ‘The police are attempting to solve @ mysterious cutting affray which eccurred on South Fifth between King ond Jackson at midnight o a Japanese, Tuemtay. Tasaburo Morimoto, They are holding in the city jail three suspects, one of whom bears sears of the confilct, though he pro feases entire ignorance of the bloody fight In the disreputable house. The Patrolman Martin discovered the | been in straightened circumstances | Vit now lies apparer on his body of Morimoto with the lower] for the past two weeks, He had| sth bed at the Washington house. limbs drawn up and the trunk rest-/ helped him and given him so K. Urikamy a ¥. Kitama are ing lightly on the ground. He had| money. The man was suffering |P*#*ved to be the amsatiants of the been dead about two hours. Core e. ner Carroll was notified of the Srewsome find and dispatched Dep- | uty Coroner Austin to investigate the case. No money wag found In the pock- ets and a cheap watch, still running, i= an incurable dtm The dead man left a letter thank ing the lodging house keeper for hin kindness and telling him where his bod d be found. When landlord read the letter he foll the directions and the @angied from a chatn hanging from after the body had been cut down. | Many Killed in Fierce Race War men offered flerce resistance and after two hours’ battle still held the post. Reinforced, the whites re- sumed the battle on the following HAS UNOFFICIALLY BURIED E MAGNATES CARRY OUT TH ITS OWN TRACKS ON WES SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23.—Re- The unsavory franchises for ex elusive street car privileges on Westlake and Second avenues ports of a fierce race war between Chinese, Italian and American fish- will “= COUNCIL CALLS FURTH'S BLUFF WHIP BEHIND! Mysterious Cutting Affray Puzzles the Local Police dying Jap. T. Miteul is also held, and is suffering from a bad cut in the head. Patrolmen ‘The three Japanese will be held pending the outcome of the knife wounds. Brafford, Zimmerman! The mystery about the woun jand Mayou hurried up the stairs in| Japanese increased on Wedne: enawer aea | @iscovered that little WHY DON’ OBEY (BY DAN DEAN.) | evening, Mayor Ballinger! ening, Chief of Police De Good ev laney Beautiful weather we are having, and a pretty night for a walk | # stroll about town a bit and nee how the good citizens above Yes ler Way are behaving themsalves I noticed in the papers something | about that order of yours, Mr. Bal linger, in which the police were in structed to see that all curtains and doors were removed from the boxes in public drinking places That's a mighty good order, Mayor If properly the saving of Mr enforced it will mean! many @ young gir! 2 T THEY ALL MAYOR'S ORDERS SOME PUBLIC DRINKING PLACES FORCED TO REMOVE DOORS AND CURTAINS FROM BOXES, WHILE OTHERS DISREGARD STRICT ORDERS and the preservation of scores of) hand if she is with her husband ov home tier. | brother or father This practice of drinking bebind| Those doors and curtains were closed doors and curtains ought to| not igned to sereen from view be stopped. No man ought to be| men with their wives or family pare ashamed of the open when he sips] ties his beer or enjoys his highball, and| T were planned to hide from he generally isn't os he has with| gaze the man with another man's | him some one with whom he has no/ wife, and the much-to-be-pitied business to be foolish young girl who thinks 1t* No woman need shrink from be — ing seen with @ wine glass in her (Continued on Page Seven.) “SHE STOLE MY CHILD BUT | (BY NAN BYXBEE.) Where is pretty little Gladys Mickelson, aged & years, of Bal- lard? That's what her father, Adolph Mickelson, wants to know. He be- Hevea she was kidnapped by her own mother, his divorced wife. little Gladys was living with Mickelson's sister, at Ballard, and Tuesday morning was playing about in the yard with ber big rag doll and her little wool sheep with shoe- button eyes Somebody noticed a buggy drive swiftly up to the gate and quickly roll away again. but no one thought to look out o the yard to see if the Metle girl was still driving her| wool sheep to pasture or punishing her doll for being naughty More than an hour later it was! Gladys had | disappeared, together with her rag) dolly and the sheep with the shoe-| to repeated blasts of a }afternoon when the police were un lice whistle and found the narrow |atle t© find the victim, and. hie/Dutton eyes, There was left only | hallways jammed with fighting Jap. |fri¢n@e formally announce that the(® Miniature sheep pasture, fash- anese. Upon the floor weltering in| weoyeded man af the city jall is fonel out of Corneoks from the own blood lay one man, @ the gniy one hurt in the fight luncheon “roasting ears,” and neverai others were engaged in| Willems the Japanese friends of the | Worm little slipper with a broken teadly combat atridkep man come to the front ana|*t™8P. Which had probably fallen | | The officers routed them, and ar-jaf¥e up the wounded man, th }from the foot of the baby when rested the ring } unable to le ters, They were | chatge will have to be made that of m the name of the vie~|aimple asmault upon the person tim, ah hie countrymen T. Miteul, who disciaims any con tell anything about the affair nectlon whatever with the row. He the arrest lin not badly burt PLUMBERS ARE UGLY With the journeymen plumbers srampy and ugty and their employ aft sore over the alleged breaking - af ® contract, the indications stil strong that there will be a gen XCLUSIVE FRANCHISES AND IF | arg strike of plumbers before REAT, CITY MAY HAVE TO LAY trogble on the Masonic building FIRH and Pike, is settled TLAKE The journeymen, seeming to feel that they are unable to excuse (h@mmelves, will not talk. A year @ contract wi made between erring members wherein they were] “8? mistaken. His missionary work| ‘ne @Mon and the association that as been very succensful, It Is the | 2M@8 Plumbers should not refuse to ermen at Nushagak, Alaska, were day, with pronpects of success, when first time in recent years that # brought to this city this morning by |a body of Italians appeared and an-|® Slven their quietus at the meet-| member of the councli has made a{M@@wwion men were employed, the emall salmon schooner Salvator.| sisted the Chinese to drive the|ing of the corporations committee|single-handed and determined ef-| WM#R Practically meant that they On June 20 the white fishermen | whites beyond the hills. Wednesday afternoon. fort to prevent the encroachments| “@u@ ge out on a sympathetic were driven from their bunk houses| It Is reported that a considerable] It will be the first time In the) of the electric octopus. otrtke. a that was the im by en armed body of Chinamen. The | number of dead and injured whites| history of the council that Jacob| The diplomatic representative of palpate at the time, although some Americans joined hands with the) were left on the field. On the day| Furth and the Seattle Electric com-| the Ninth ward approached each of a union men won't admit it white settlement across the hills, re- | of the Salvator’s departure the bat-| pany have been coolly and decisive-|the wayward solons separately and |" mo in ie aeleed « turned and gave battle. Behind their) tle was resumed. The fighting is/ly turned down patiently pointed out the mistakes ; (gat th «ft _ : —_ barricade of bunk houses the China- the result of an old feud. Wednesday morning's roll call of | they were making. He 9 wwerm ms eg ne asonic = = —- the council showed that Mullen and| It now remains to be seen how|warmge, on, Widen beer Sper Benjamin were the only members| Furth will squirm out of the trouble sdidiion parting het ao bpd a who favored the franchises, and|in which he has gotten himself. He|}eaue tie( atvent mey <uereny they will probably not try to make|has stated positively that he will "L do not believe,” sald See ry a serious fight not accept a franchiae with the com-lpeel. Of the Citisens’ rit 7 Those members who were wob-|mon use clause in it Siubbay melninn’? “that the | “December and May again! window were the third that had/ bling ha at last gotten on the The council is just as positive th wfitike of the plumbers on that ‘The words were spoken in a stage |application on Wednesday morning. | right track, and there is no prospect | he will have to if he wants one at Daliding has the sanction of a ma whisper, and Charity Commissioner | The pre tive bridegroom's hair|of the franchises being granted in|all. If Furth stands by his word be] souty of the members of the union Chas. Beckingham nudged “Cpid”|was white and his hand was not|the near future unless there is a| Will refuse to lay tracks on West ies i wea calles we omae Hoennah tmder the third rib. “Cu-|as steady aw it once was, ax he hes-| wholesale change of heart lake avenue, forcing the Green Lake! walking delegate paid to represent pid” Hanna, presides over the mar-|itatingly wrote down his age at 62.| When The Star began its fight|and Fremont-Ballard cars to cover! ihe union, but who has instead in Flage license“window at the county | The bride-to-be was pink and pretty | most of the members were in favor|the distance between Pike street | iwedin it an uncalled for dispute auditor's office, “Cupid” did not 4 looked bardly more than but|of granting the franchises, Mulien|and Denny way over the tortuous), an who would commit pee “ gmile. He was only recently mar- | said she was 2% and stuck to it | being the chief objector. Since that| zig-zag route that haw existed for)cijte against a union cannat be pF ried himself and he knows It's a » The pair were uncommunicative|time, however, there has been a| years GeAdenmed'too much. Relations be j rious business. He therefore very|and the curtosity of the interestea|complete change, and Mullen is| But he has not much time inliwedn the association and the union gravely took his pen from behind |clerks and newspaper reporters | about th only member who is will-| which to make up his mind. West-liave previously been most friend his ear, adjusted hin eye-sha nd |nbout the window went unappeased.|ing to vote for them. His filp-flop| lake will, in a few weeks, be ready] iy made a preliminary flourish over the |The old gentleman gallantly offered |1s inexpli ble. for paving and the tracks must be tnfilied apaces in the next marriage | his girl-fiancee hix arm without a| Councilman Murphy is largely re-|laid at that time if great expenve| PARIS Upon the fa Heense blank in the Kink county b wd when the Heense had been pro.| sponsible for the improvement. For| 1s to be avolded. If he doesn't lay] yerabl tion of news from trouble book. ou an they left the|the last four days he has been /|the tracks t municipality and ¢ Ports th ny Russian securi The couple who stood before the ‘court house, working night and day to show the| property owners may do so, tles rose 40 centimes, | werk on a buliding on which other! jher agitated mother picked her up. smothered her with kisses and made off with her to the waiting buggy. Gladys {s willing to give the child up, and the father frankly admits | that he would be as reckless of a) legal decree as was the mother, if| such decree commanded him to re linquish his claim “I do not blame the mother,” sald Mickelson day. How could 1? But rest wntil I have found them both and got my baby back again, She has been legally awarded to me. I am sorry for the mother, but I be eve it best that I have the child, and I am supported by the court I will spare no trouble or expense in tracing them down.” Meanwhile little Gladys, child's Wetnes T will not minus jea till two this afternoon. | Profs DON'T BLAME HER” ADOLPH MICHELSON LITTLE GIRL KIDNAPED BY MOTHER—THOUGH THE SEPARAT~ ED PARENTS CENTER LvvwE ON PRETTY CHILD, AND THE FATHER 1S HEART-KROKEN o —— one slipper and snuggled costly; hiding place, with her rag doll une down beside her mother in a plush|der one arm and her wool sheep covered seat, is probably speeding | with shoe-button eyes, under the jaway over the country towards a! other. ROOSVEELT APPEALS TO CZAR OF RUSSIA kee k ke RR ee HH) president sent a long message te * | Ambassador Meyer at St. Peterse * PORTSMOUTH, Aug. 23.— %| burg Monday afternoon. * An unofficial report from the #| * navy yard says the conference #| PORTSMOUTH, N. H., Aug. 23— * bas adjourned until Saturday. *) From the fact that Ambassador * * | Meyer saw the czar today and that RHRKHRHRRARK AHHH | advices from Oyster Bay say the president sent a long message Minister Witte announced that nel ren it in believed that 1t t= ene protocols had been read and cor-) tain the president has made a per rected at this morning's session,| sonal appeal to the czar in the ine after which the conference adjourn-| terest of peace | | PORTSMOUTH, Aug. Adolph Mickelson spent a sleep % 23.—Korose less night |,, PORTSMOUTH, N. H., Aug tovitz telephoned from the navy “I know the child is with her) H. W. Denison, legal advisor for the! yard that the conference has signed mother,” said he, “and that she will | Japanese envoys, and Pokotiloff of| protocols and adjourned until Sat- come to no harm, for if my former |the Russian suite, remained at the) urday wife loved her well enough to kid-| Wentworth hotel watching for news| — aig nap her she will surely take care | from the conference room reedy to} ¥ Teer eer ere e rT ) e But # an awful thing | COmvey to the envoys any develop. ‘e nave a anile ons ‘cnateneg out ‘of ments that might arise there. The, * TRIED TO EAT 'EM ALIVE. ¥ one’s household like that. There's | Russians left the hotel first bowing | * _ Constantine Amassio, a* a great big vacancy that nothing | 4nd smiling to the many salutations | * Greek boatswain on the steam- # else will fill, and if I don’t succeed | With which the crowd greeted them.|* ¢r Queen, is apparently out for w in finding the child it seems to me|The Japanese for the first time * honors in man-eating contests, # | go crazy.” since their arrival acknowledged the * according to the statements % Mickelson presented himself at|sreetings of the crowd. While wait-|* made by John M. Bell. stew- % Prosecuting Attorney Mackintosh's |ing for their automobile Baron Ko-|* ard; W. E. Ward, Bell's as- © are (office Tuesday afternoon and swore |™ura and Minister Takahira bowed | * sistant, and Jack Hanson, cab- & lout a warrant for the arrest of his|®nd smiled. Heretofore they have|* in boy, all of the crew of the # the|former wife. The officers are now j looked neither to right or left, leav-| ® Queen, to Prosecuting Attor- & eking for Mra. Mickelson, who |!ng to Minister Sato the duty of re-|* new Mackintosh, who was ask- # is probably speeding away by train | turning salutations, The first busi-|# ed to issue a warrant against lwith her little daughter hugged | ness of the session was the reading|* Amassio for assault and bat- # lelose to her breast. She formerly |for comparison and signatures the|* tery Wednesday * lived with her parents at Fourth|minutes of the previous meetings.|* . Amassio went after his three # northwest and Sixty-second street,| This formality consumed most of) * shipmates as a result of a little # but was not there Wednesday morn. | this morning's session, | altercation between Amassio # ing. It is understood that ever ]® and Steward Bell on board the # since the court awarded the custody | PORTSMOUTH, N, H., Aug. 23.—|% ship Tuesday morning, and * of the little girl to the busband the| The meetings of the peace envoys|* instead of using his fists in # child's mother has been grieving| Were resumed at 9 o'clock this|* the affray, Amassio folded bis ® deeply, and few who know her | morning after an interval of four *® arms and, with wide open #® |would be surprised to learn that | days st they adjourned last Fri-|% mouth, pitched {nto first ont # her maternal love had driven her | day, almost ho; sly divide | and then the other, and bit ® to the extremity of kidnapping the| Many things have happened in the | *® each of them several times. * child | int im, i much has been accom-|% They thought Amassio had # There have been differences be-| plished which leads to the belief that | * gone crazy and fle@ in terror. ; tween Adolph Mickelson and his | today’s sessions may result in some- | ¥ wife that have separated them in| thing definite [eee ake Ee iciclietataalel ** everything else, but both are the} Special naements have been| Suave tn their dep affection for the|made to keep President: Roveevelt K DNAPED © little girl brought to them by the | Informed of the latest developments. stork In the happier days of their | A telegraph wire has been placed di- early wedded life. Neither the|rectly in connection with the aevyl WALLA WALLA, Aug. 23.—No father nor the mother of little| yard and Oyster Bay and Secretary/|trace has been found of 7-year-old Pierce ha nm provided with a cipher which only he and the prest- | teriously dent understand. Mark Bade, of Freewater, who mys= disappeared from a Ger- {man Lutheran picnic on Mill creek, jnear this city, The water in the creek is too low to admit of the ompa-| theory of drowning and kidnaping is 8ST. PET sor M RSBURG, tens, Aug. who ac nied Envoy Witte to Portsmouth as| now believed to be the explanation advisor, has been recalled and or-| of the boy's disappearance. dered to return to this city Angee ee Bs see He 31. Cee eee eee eee eee | ae |* * ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 23.—|% KILLS HIS BRIDE. * |Amertcan Ambassador Meyer was|% KANSAS CITY, Mo,, Aug. 23. # received today by the emperor, It js! # --William Maley, 20, shot and © believed that Meyer's visit concerns * killed his bride of eight # the pending peace negotiations * months and attempted suicide. # * * OYSTER BAY, Aug. 2%. NOG ARERR RR RE ER