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AN EIGHT PAGE PAPER (8 BIG ENOUGH TO TELL ALL THE News YOU WANT TO READ. WHY THEN WADE THROUGH 20 To ar The, Pioneer One Cent Paper of the Northwest | SEATTI __NIGHT EDITION. WASHINGTON, ° JOHN HILDEBRAND, .DESPER ATE PRISONER WHO AT PITY THE POOR FARMER ——~. MNAY Pack WOSE ROTTEN APPLMG IN A Pan, STRONG BRR EL AN’ wets. TAKE ec DOWN. CARRY THOSe RED APPLES 7! lcarees petal AN WHEN THAT CYTY FELLER MUSHY Ones “fg TR POTATOES Gyre yA TH! Al A New mn GONE! TOWN Fay T° Lo0K W MAE OF AN AUTOMOBILE AND Vou TEMPTED JAIL-BREAK, TELLS THE STAR HOW HE NEARLY FOUGHT HIS WAY TO LIBER TY—COLLECTION OF FILES,| SAWS, ETC, FOUND IN HIS) CELL WEDNESDAY NIGHT i RON ALONG, Weare, AnD Give ar BUTTER LA To i WA Ho. t F 1 P eS Svar PLATED Roth water rates will be reduced) THE FIXED RATE WALL BE REDUCED FIFTEEN PER CENT, mains, $125,000; redemption Cedar “You can cut the rest of my | January 1, ‘The fire and water| AND THE METER RATE FIFTEEN AND A HALF PER CENT,| thew meters §) $100,000; | pareioee arm off, inch by inch, but I'l never | a ); elty’s, portion S08 Who brought me the gun! j committe, after a session extend: | THE CHANGE TO GO INTO EFFECT JANUARY 1, 1906—ONLY laying new mains, $143,000; Such was fhe declaration of John ing to midnight, Wednesd , servoir (probably at Wood ' {he dectara ot | ed to reduce fixed rate per | ONE MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL COMMITTEE OBJECTED TO park 0,000 interest Hilidebrand, after three hours of meter rates | cet ater bonda, 500; strenuous “sweating” at the hands ing: ' — wg tnt per ; | THE DECREASE hill” water bor da, $52,600; 4 Of jail officials and deputy sheriffs urnett was the ly counciiman * phureday morvihe. ‘The lat were wha opposed the t e | water receipte next year are endenyoring by every lawful means The committ t could . ated at present rates at $629,- to draw from the one-armed pris- make the reducti upon | FOE EEE EEE RRR hhh The » balance in the water TU ae. on tha pereon or } while paying the $ nual in-| # acetal cas aoe 3 * 1, 1905, was $228,000, persons who @mnugsied Hildebrand }terest on the Spring Hill water| * REDUCTIONS MADE IN FIXED RATE * total amount of cash h | bonds, whieh ought to, 1 tiee | ® * xt year, $757,000. As the donen odd files with which the | to the “ , 4 & Preseut Rate New Rat + Spang , Fs er atténipted to fite through 0 water 1 paid ou a) , . “ eo reduce 000 on r bars of his cell, and the qun with j Of, thejgene fund $ wie nt of the cut, the amount real- whieh he Wedn day af - aed te Tha Peduction was made on ae * 0 vd e will be only $eeneee, “rifled the | tthe jail, held comm the fight made for it by| * | el et ow steeun os he ook corny Shard glemargy vernal} popular and the net! Averan reentage of decrease in fixed rates er cent © | per eaves a surplus of $92,000 eo | mem Ong unable to excu he & Average centage in meter rates pe * committee discussed the mat- _Corsom in the left chee | | selves longer * * x the granting of free eee wething was drawn Tt js estimate at RR RR a e schools and of eradl- Bee Tac ebm by the three will diminioh « yea ale | Hk bf On jcating the free list satel and lye s ae oe coipts $75,000. | | later £0 he injustice Meciarea that they mig@t cut off The water department expenses | perintend Young New #tandpipe giv away water has been fre- aged a Bag! a for meat year, as estimated 1- | mittee be $54,500 perating o quently pointed out by The Star. and yet fail to Induce to give up to the law the “old u who had tried to help him to eis Cie Tesr end, at ‘ “l x the deputies ceased their On Thursday morn the car ran © * a] © meeine and sent him back to his own A. Mathiat r b do at, proprietor of t Zz a TD ! x Cas “Te | Lion lodging house, 218% Columb f a Star reporter Hildebrand) pn Bee ae : concise account of the affalt | The farmer of this country does not enjoy the good things that are at his hand. He sends his best — op re ing bo t and = thls own standpoint. and of the| products to the city and is content to keep the Infertor ones for which he could not #0 easily find a ready ee he wing & be e ~" P whic! up to tt market, and for which he would be compelled to take a lower price.—From a@ government report Passer nery boas a = ; vagy dg e fret and ansisted him to his home 2 bad been planning this : tons | ‘here it was learned that his shoul . sg aang ee ae 2the| Kill me 1 obtiged him, 1 want to : ‘ ° den had been seriously wrenched : land the files ever since two|*Y ‘ight now that I would sooner How Long Did Hildebrand pee ea end ogg “the care DESPERAT TEMPT OF HALF-CRAZED WOMAN TO KILL ; and physicli have been killed myself than to eae, entirely due to the care — aT and physicians. ago Saturday. They were i % |! ; ; have killed anyone an ry , eagness of the motorman. Louis Johnson, who is the wo- fe me through the bars by | have Milled suyor dnd Have His Gun and Tools HERSELF—WHEN KNIFE FAILED SHE TRIED FMT mana secohd hasbasd, stetet Gaal | pal whose name I wouldn't | ™ meant to use my gun excep PRR 4 to frighten Wise into giving up the she Was but recently discharged Sea were te be drawn and} ng Raggy tars » bed from the county hospital, where she eye and to prevent int nce} * RUT + CASE A DIS o co! ¥ ae the bare put} Hd my plane NEARLY THREE WRERA' MESS. named int RUTH RAY CASE A DIS: #1) Because of the abuse she fancied [with herself and the world, but) had been confined almost six mouths When asked how he had cor 1mPO 8 Insists ‘ ‘ . 4 j hardly bad the door closed upon|for insanity. Since then, however, ia very hard, and tt was ® Afi.r the dingrace of Wed- & 1 b by T could work qaly at|trived to provide himself with the F sqnseaetnusumnt poten tet. 9°. upon ber only- son | ihe men, before she decided to.take| it is said by both busband ‘and. 1 always play a lone| formidable array of tools which| All manner of remodelling and;nonsense, There's no need of it;]# Quarters have assumed the #| his stepfather, Mrs. Louls Johnson her own life. neighbors, she has evinced signs of re het want to take anyone | tre found hie coll We aday what we really need ts a visiting | @ Sermal quiet and only vague @ Lying down upon the bed, the insanity. They say that her one » y ight, Hildebrand said he man-| pfisoner-proof improvements have “ r } 128 N. First, early Thursday morn-| woman, tightly clasping a dull table| thought has been for ber boy, a tall, Penfidence. I filed away in room. into which each, prisoner} @ Pumors of the release of Ruth # i . FY _|ufactured the two long kniv ut) been suggested © the attempted | ¢ ‘ Rey, ¢ } t * ling attempted suicide by first gash-| knife, cut her throat twice, making| strapping fellow of perhaps 22, em- Dut there are onty 26 min ae « attemp »uld be put while being vietted, and ¥, the colored inmate of the * » ~~ . ae De iene when of nome large files, using smaller | jall-break he could be searched afterward. The|Miiew Waals Roves, who escaped # | '0S ber throst with 8 case-kalfe, and} two long gashes reaching from ear! ployed at Cannell's wood. yard. han paces by the celi,|fle# to grind them down with; he) Sheriff Smith states that only one| public, always the first to jump on] @'tonviction for lack of evidence # than entting five te ber chethgs }to ear. The wounds were merely| When questioned as to his mothers only work a few min-|"@d made a small knife from althing is needed to insure agalust | us and criticizr, ig as much to blame| # on a charge of grand larceny *| lgmbore aieor her soon| superficial, however, and realizing| reasons for attempting to make way Pile, tt took tote of pa. |*2rinx taken from his shoe, and the/such an affalr ax Wednesday, but | for this sort of thing as anybody | @ oan be heard #| Sifter the deed was vox mitted, and| that she would not dis, the woman with herself, the boy refused to talk, T lost lots of sleep and|'*® Marae clubs he had made by | this, he says, he cannot induce the! The public howls if we keep visit-|@ A hush has fallen like a man- #/ the police were notifie The police|then poured kerosene over ber) and hastened away from the bleod- Giscouraged, but 1, *t"!Ps of rope and bedding from his/ county commissioners to attend to./ors out; it howls if we don't; it)@ tle upon the principals in a ® o| conveyed the burned and} ¢ and set fire to them. stained threshold of his home to De enw through one bap| Ot. Weighting tt with tron nute If we had @ coarere wire screen |howls whatever we do. We have|@ gam that was undoubtedly #|Uiceding woman to the Ways LS Som: seinten See. Nae © eee a father and to ROLY Sra iam encther filed from the bars of his cell. He/all around the tanks over the bars.” |t our discretion, and whatever} ® fixed by. Lisette smith, who # jon hospital, where she now les. of flames and while she was rapid-| his mother’s act. a ad worked nightly, he said, for t id the she { mid prevent | we do t : * The husband, a longshoreman em-/ly losing consciousness, neighbors} Mrs. Johnson is 43, and has for had to saw through t e sald the sheriff, “it would prevent | we do there rmplaint ®& Hood good for the needs of the #} ,) ¢ i El tare pices, and I caw t two ke getting his outfit}any one passing packages through! All the officials tnaist that. Hilde-| ® eccasion | ployed on Broad street docks, | discovered the blaze, rushed into the/a long time lived in the little home ss od the’ hard work | "to shape. 4, as he had feared|the bars. We ¢ keep out at-| brand 414 hot. as he sage have thal®. What became of the, $710 @| V2! ‘Bformed of the rash act of his] house and saved the woman from/on N. First. In a braye attempt to to do it Then I heard |‘ Graw tion to himeelf by tor who > access to their| gun ead thé files im his possension| #iolew: from Menry Krinke &| "82 St Once burried to the) death cast the stain of suicide from: the - is sleeping much the daytime, had ots un the law 4 | tor J | * hospital. He told the physician At the hospit the physicians| family, the son said on Thursday committed and was to law, and for over two ks. They claim! ® Would make interesting read- @/ MS Guuecdiately, ond 1 wn weak and from lose of | we cannot deny relat thar vezht |i’ Gene have best” tenn diag ofjustice trampled beneath {tat late on Wednesday night bis/ siated that, while her condition was| morning that his mother had se 1 out that I had to take the | *eep. to visit the prisoners. Wb would be|stnce frequent ‘frisks have n| @ the feet of municipal grafters. # wife had arisen from her bed and|extremely critical, she had some) cured possession of a bottle of wine, wg Z could and work with| The story of the st poverely criticized Mf we did, and lemde. Tt tho fact romaine that the| Min tha book could be readily a | Wandered out into the night, clad/chances for.complete recovery. Shejwhich had beea brought. tate the ‘ , Jatler Wise § She an we minutely search | spect temper rs of Hil-| @ explained the high-handed * only in her nightcloth: She seem-|is suffering more from shock thau! house by the son, and that she had Be was out to see the dgctor | tiffers little from Hild visitor, particularty ‘the we: | debrand ra Necply saw.|# methods of “shyster” lawyers #| St overwrought, he sald, and ré-|{rom her injuries, although she is/drank the entire contents early this Se three times before, but 1/COUNt. Wise was taker men. So long as packages can beled into-—a work requiring nightly| ® Who @bsolutely command the #| Muted fo be quieted terribly burned on the shoulders and| morning. The effects of the liquor, sick, I had an eye|©Y surprise, but when passed from to er wel labor of at least a week. The tem-| # disposition of Aaeity at &|, The Woman was finally persuaded | breast. Upon her arrival at the his-|he said, were responsible for his fer @ good chance | # b for -h are ng chances, and the wire | per of th is quaranteed to| ® criminal matters that fall into #| ‘2 return to her and 8 regained consciousness,/ mother’s deed. Physicians state, E Go not care to any | COMPrehen t t nereen is the only thing that will| block the m Justrious prison? ® the hands of the police | mained quiet for the remainder “ot; but refused to give any reasons for| however, that the woman was suf Eibeat that attempt at sut-| tantly and stop this. But the wire screen would and n with Hildebrand’s fine|® Meads of depart ® fieure #| the Bight. When the husband and’ her rash attempt at self-destruc fering from temporary abberation of ee he bad Ghetane to | in the mouth cost $300 and the county commis {it of files and the heating lamp} # With no lens degree The w S| son left for work early Thursday |She seemed perfectly rational, and] the mind when she attempted to kill © pane. jing the gun. The t sionera think it would be an un-|which he ed from a piace of] @ #92 accomplished with « *| morning, she still seemed at talked intelligently to the nurses] herself. i Wednesday my ulcerated | *ruaried rate hecesnary expense n and the coal ofl e upon] # tonch and justice crumbled be | = _ are ates Hs me terribly, and I asked | COMridor towards the County Commiasi Abrams | which the py allowed to] ® Meath the weight of greedy #1404 break wh E When Wire came to|the time keeping cl was interviews » wire! heat t sid hardly| & pressure brought to bear. That #| 4 pa ned - 2 loaned Sime the tank and told me | prand and seeking t¢ a have made lid tn] @iPolice Judge Gordon acted for «| Aimetiyne #0 Wedn was waiting for me, 1| from him. ‘Oh, pshaw aid he. “That's alli less than a week en Gay ® the best ts not 4 J, but he w] aren he . ee ze Pthe gun under my sweater | es swe me bad ingle * al ed tt] and pay the money t a ? Would take the | *"S 4s far a0 the door lending into * ¥ Da * t| ce left me. | the matr e desperate ‘ ,] eee ee eee ee eee : . Matepped out of the tank fertminal was for divide hin 1 ed he Ui th corridor, Wise lifted up | “ttentior i keep Trusty Kle 1 | ria ss Whe tank door shut, and 1/ Wise sow his r ¢ | ays, | ahs | BA pocket. I had to do this with | ther fre ‘ the gun. He | aa -—~- \* cabins ¥ _ hand. If I had had two)’ a gps = — J - r be P 4 \* * EUREKA, Cal. ¢ A te quently impossible to see anything Z would have covered him|? i Ret ond, mae ¢ . FPontTLaNd, ore t aaai-|* — TOKIO * jof the damaged steamer. It te Ahe gun with one hand and} eg pe aBico ace Ssh | son 1 k t J * Minister O' *| pt ssage elved at 9 this |thought. that it is possible» the the keys with the other. | Bad non EERE ER ee em | Ome is * * oF la, 50 miles| Wrecked steamer Is at breakwater, docked my arm up and struck " a : . ~ | Ctheas " wr ‘ * ’ Bureke stes |It was learned from the Ocean dhe face. He started to back ~ aie alsed his! — We will save souls and whenever the spirit calls, in %& | tified he had tab he | * debt will be § ye ern ias ger steamer,| House hotel, séven miles north, that the door and I tripped him p mit spite of the eo of Seattle. Adjutant James *& | Siletx + v u n as *® urged the business men to re- *& nee St. Paul, | the Petrolia is the steamer on the Be also. slipped on the door b and|® Wolfe * *& [ment ue Uhey: Ged t tha | ® double their efforts to advance * ech ms nih te | rocks. fell, and Trusty Kiein and wan to f Hilel@ The wil to congregate ir tain & | Jones i fraud this t | % commerce * | Portiand, t own and was arift- | — ecame a part of t . triets, « te € ye wy pe ” . * e ke down and was ¢ ee ; oe eee teu SB pop dee | Proem rid 1. ’ st.—Mayor ®. A. E Ker * | ing nH 1 t w {RRA RAARAHKRAEEKKE) Point Gordia. Many| SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 6. Ate Soci . aye [Giilioway left tt — on the decks}Agents for the San Francisco & 3 r o harm e. ke eh ' te ee . a at b r Bot intended ¢ 3 ie fah ee RHKKHERRAKKKKKAHHHE AK | Chem” r f ‘LOST MONEY from ne of the/| Portland Steamship company con= Andon we f v Foi : - = ” ieee je bef steamer w t thick | firm the report from. Eureka that a eye 1 ew . : e ot mpt st " ed.| their steamer, the St. Paul is “ er t o be . ‘ : | \¢ ” As ure h amer, St. 9 Mhat the bullet struck D ie e will ha » stay ;their meetings and ¢ with the! t making f 1 ' ‘SOAKED NER * t and the life sav ew |ashore on Poin! Gorda’ Thero are Before 4. I did not mean sso : ~ ire, if the recent gen- | #8ving--Of lost #0 anee awerp being | Hleft fo 1100 wengers aboar The com- — eee’ ; up wd apden Mayor Ball pro- | ® i. a be conf Wade, 1 t h fale | The Roanob | pany has 6rdered tugs from Eureka co, ware : c x of , | Ghateve | as te nf ly | Point arly this rn t © to the assistance of the 4 stip out the aide fone to be up with m ee or Thore’s trouble ahead tor the Sal- | #9 * Racrantied San errr ae . E y te wae Paine, | to- Go.ame te assistance. Of | © got & good atart | Wise wh vbr downtown atr ‘ ed by iat -Atiairons why *| ith a it ty by | mile > wea, 1 it was con 85 euls bi wered|I hit Hildeb 1 and | the p it, and #0 do the 5 But the| #2 WH NEVER RESIGN—WE # | J ' r , and ce hidden |! think k at} The meetings | soldiers of the Lord will not hang| * Di * dogs dees i had 1/™. a9 w . ¢ keys. He | shall be he o back, and, if necessary, will suffer! * zw YORK, « ' * ; : ; way-| Put up ful t fight, and} dental or-any other street 1 the} imprisonment and d grace in ne # ident M f the d York ® y M t me with money tc ed m-# p of his tno by Dy eee Of mee 6 eyes of the public rather than giyg, hits, wheg iif inte wy sens a. I gg Oa Sy town with. a Ht wan up to me | ae *ba held in. Planeer square, |, the work cut out for and by sp Mh, ‘ =o ~<a We ar Sheriff Smith spoiled it) '° eet ‘ beyond t t, | ay in 1 at t th * 4 \ a 6 , ine ne I by law | Forteon square of Washington |W eral st * ‘ at th d the drop on me from his 4 “ | The army say there are man: tof > my the staita outaide. He{ te carry o gun, I had to do the beat uyrt® , Ea et 5 of religions workers, now Heiser ' ¥ eid gg gy a” Per- | A T tan ¢ ; : Adjutant amen ‘olfe, of the Aled camen—th t 1 b ed ey flatly hidden from me by the |! could and © get out of Hilde- |. Sy yion Army, states that be-wa ling fo n the defined % reaign—t * pd i | ; nid screen of the Jail door, yet brand's rang e he was)’ es em . #, but that thet articular | ® — He y tint the #/° ; ‘ ‘8 at! BUTTE, Mont Oct. 5.—Pat; the Omaha affair, the kidnaping waa Sete Secmeee i nee Kone, nna |aasured personally by Mayor Hal pe a “ i Nebada, Mt : her {tention and i Keon for | candor ® perfect chance to shoot linger, sorhe two months ago, that d of salvation must be offered ji oe the death {Rome time. Be , A under | ¢. situa me's mont pee DPeople were gatherthy outside 1 am sure would an soon have | PDE, te co-workers would be | 12 places where it will not clash | ® stale comminalons a been cade , ler Crowe this morning minde a ag S Bedeor and when Smith fired at) Killed me as nok if bys & he| Molested, wherever they choase to| With the other brands held out to)® byoInjunction, He declares he & ©, police headquart consational confession in which he| Nicholas Birk, a Russian laborer, ; Rwice I saw I had no hope left.) °°w'? 7 meet. . The mayor denies this state- | the lost public an ' | who was discovered lying flat om. | }® Jegal, prove f * ee Thad got the keys « then J ment pointblank i say that en . * Drs. and 8S. F. Wilt-| stated that he had arranged a plot} his back in Beacon” Hill Thave scooted out the ide OVERDUE members of the vation Army} eave Thur screaming and singing and ay per and given ther # run for their | will be arrested if they hold their STRUCK BY CAR [eee eek eek eA RAH day night at an extender kidnap John D. Rockefeller ing up into the sky, a few da, : © but I kne ith “ | meetings In thé prohibited districts, | | trip throughout the east. They will We were going to plant the old) w Th ay morning com whot ar t me if 1 The steamer Ohio, nine days out} But the Salvation Army men and] end the a&nual meeting of the|gentleman until John D.. Jr ad to the insane asylum’ at Stetl: } 1 : 4rop th had got! of ¢ and one day overdue, has| women tell the mayor and the po American Surgical society at Chi-| coughed up $1,000,000," said Crowe. He hes had no rational inj the hompita Sah the have’ nor vet n reported. Her dolay ts! Hee to go abead and arrest them While the motormar a Lake go and later intend taking a post The plot was arranged after th I en into custody, ant [3 Shaw, wo when Smith st ff) storme end réugh that in spite of all this, as théy| Union car near Second Col an Daven ar t ar-|graduate course in surgery and Guadahy affair, state rwe not known whether or not b Mo drop the gun or he p f the north. term It, persecution, they will hold | bia, watched a pai t al o, mH «| medical science New York due to the hot chase result re es. - « ——— P ted cmphatically Friday. that Tonore die ia issu truth “bh mayor had assured. them Jess-tham) Dy truth oti Blo Me was Big Cut Will Be Made In Water Rate NO NEWSPAPER CAN PUBLISH NEWS WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOR THAT CHAMPIONS THE CAUCE OF ANY POLITICAL PARTY The Seattle Star THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1905. ‘© WO started out for the train ee “YOU FELLOWS GAN CUT OFF THE REST OF MY RIGHT ARM, INCH BY INGH, BUT | WILL NEVER TELL YOU WHO GAVE ME THE REVOLVER” THE STAR 16 THE ONLY PAPER IN SRATTLE THAT 18 INDEPENDENT IN EVERYTHING, INCLUDING POLITICS. The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News VOL NO NTS PER MONTH 7 190. John Hildebrand AU, gre MTeENye