The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 7, 1905, Page 1

One Cent-Last Edition” [She Seattle DECEMBER SEATTLI WASHINGTON THU DAY The Only Paper in Seattls That Dares to Print the News tar 1905 vol NO. 243 as CENTS PE MONTH SECRETARY METCALF CUTS DOWN EXPENSES, ‘TM THINKING WHETHER fund of bi atingent 1h] WASHINGTON, D. C,, Dec, Z—-[neer and naval gecretarion of the } lighthouse board H. Metcalf, secretary of com-| Big Reduction merce and labor, in his annual re-| timates submitted for the | port of the fiscal year, ending Jv year ending June 30, 1907, fe | 1905, which was submitted to the! general salary account and for ¢ |president today, gives an Memtzed | Unggnt and miscella ex pense j |statement of expenditures from the| sho® a Xotal redu 40.19 | department fover the year bef REV. M. A, MATTHEWS BD. Dy! sep osiseins rine' in| sar etre wing the ® '. ®/ cal year and the balances of appro nber of regular or perma priations available July 1 1004 n n the department n | K P | which amounted to a total of $15,-| hows a total of 9414 1 839.43, the um of $11 2.59.4 of which 5. 0 are unde Wants More Time 10 4 was expended by the engl-ment on eee Before Deciding on His Run for Council Against Hi Gill COLE GETS — SENTENCE © pastor of ebureh, re Rey. M. A. Matthews. the First Presbytertan turned from Por last night be and refuses te deny his reported n to ; run against Hi Gill for the council 1 haven't given the matter suf nl ieee ficient consideration yet,” sald Dr ape j Matthews to The Star, “and won't CHICAGO, Dec, To Wilbur Cole, it qpénee that Cole secured se nay t c e for several 1 a a (ining buminess, but later ait th whid, he later held over Ar 1 don’t know whether I cc pee rc 2 here In an Re magne of “ do the most good im using my in ses in Bae Pe: gah } SIRE IES: aS fluence b oe oe ‘ + Bn | Armour, head of the beef trust, and | were loutered and searched by 1 paign = ’ bet A L K. oh as his alleged partner in crime, Wii- | specter Lavin without a search r at it ag much the duty 20 ' ie im stated cas the enen had taker | ge airy. ngage yo Cole had ¥ od as a pte- | stenomraph view of the letters, litical reform among the voters as | nographer t nd when the lestroyed the and then late in th " ALL KINDS OF MONE Y COMP: ROLLER OF CURRENCY'S REPORT SHOWS THAT BANKS ARE STILL ABLE TO JOG ALONG COMFORTABLY ome Sensation The exclusiv announcement ip yesterday's Star regarding Dr Matthews’ possible candidacy creat WASHINGTON, D. C,, Dee. T--[ ton of Vanks with capital of leo } During the period beginaing Novem. | than §50,000, ber 10, 1904, and ending August 25.) One hundred and forty-four na 1905, 280 new national banks were|tidual banks, with capital stock of started in the United States, accord | $26,744,500 were cloned during the ing to the annual report of William | year ended October 81, of which 6 B. Ridgely, comptroller of the cur-| with capital etock of $18,840,000 were |rency, which was tranamitted to/ closed by Voluntary liqul 31 conarees today | with capital stock of $5, ) by The paid in capital stock of na-| expiration. of corporate existence. tional banks on August 25 was ep-/and 22 with caplial stock of 135, proximately $400,000,00, and be: kia by failure. earnings were $620, 200,000 Very Few Failures, ‘On the same day the banks held! ‘The Bistory of the national bank $97,000,000 In gold, and $98,000,000) ing system has been marked by in ativer. | very few failures, The deposits on which reserve is/ of the total number of banks char required—that is, individual de-/tared from 1863 to October 31, 1906, posite and net bank bi | having been closed. The failures: amounted to §4,735,000,000, | with few exceptions, were due to @4 & sensation in local political et ——_—~_ a Small Net Inorease. | fraudulent man agement a is admitted by even Gill's| | In the past year there wax a gross| Theetotal mumber of state and Ba the minister would be| laddition to the horized capital | private bank failures during the & formidable opponent against the of national banks of $89,336,240. The ae June, 1906, was 57, with den: council it. | net Increase. > : 5 pili gg le net incr however, wax but $30, ‘of $6,970,345, and the liabilt to make the run, the campaign Would undoubtedly prove one of the unique of its kind ever chron- in polities! history, as, aside the directly antagonistic po- Hitieal opinions of the two men, a Mriking personal difference exists. Spoke in vd. Yesterday Dr. Matthews address- & large audience in the First chureh, of Portland, Ore.,/ OH, HO! LITTLE MAN, PEpHAps rLL HAVE TO TAKE YOUR JOR DK. MATTHEWS TO HI GILt. The average capital of 3,617 na-| monéy tn the United States amount tional banks in 1900 was $170,000. jed te $3,885,100.864, of which $2,051 On October 21, 1995, the average of | 286,042 was in coin, including bul 18 PASSED AFTER BEING REOUCED TO $11000000—-THE SENATE [ny 5.458 banks then in eperation| lion In the treasury, and $851,819,822 ALSO PASSES RESOLUTION had n reduced to $138,000, the re-| United States and national bank duction being due to the organiza-| sotes, om the 60th anniversary of that{ WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 7; WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. ehurch. The house this morning tmmediate-| The senate today confirmed the ly took up the Hepburn canal bill.) pointments of Bonaparte and New- Williame offered an amendment,| berry as secretary and assistant sec IN JAIL AND cutting it to 96,858,259. Prince retary of the na’ T moved to make it $10,000,000. | - —- | It f announced that Senator Mit- WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec cholt’s request to the vice president ss Representative Humphreys yester-| to be relieved from service as chair Friends of Charles Carlson, the) day introduced a bill In the house) man of the tnter-oceanic canals Pews agent-who is now languishing | permitting the hearing of appeals! committee goes further, and asks] iin jail, are indignant because they | trom Alaskan courts in Seattle, Rep-| that he be relieved from all com q@annot afford to ball him out. The|resentative Cushman introduced a! mittee assignments pending final night $as sentenced to die in the electriqebair, in the week beginning January 22 NO MORE PASSES p PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 7.—George . president of the Philadel- phan Reading Railroad company. has afihounced that his road would iseue an anti-pase order similar to ithe ofe made public yesterday by LIKEWISE BANG WENT JUDGE ae omewrivesie railroad. He fur er stated that he would, as a nears Cargeuce punt have $200 to/ pill authorizing the Alaska railroad] action of the courts om his case GLASGOW'S FIST AGAINST! iret of the Lehigh Valley rail- PUEPOSENSS 8! ¢ On-\ company to build a railroad from — jroad, nee his influence with the coming trial. the Gulf of Alaska, near the head of| ‘The house today passed the appro-| CNARLES M. BAXTER'S PHYS | crticers of that road to have that He is charged with making &/ Cordova bay, to Eagle City on the! priation of $11,000,000 for the Pan-| 1OGNOMY company follow a similar course (brutal assavit upen Dr. Owens, who Was at the time escorting a young | yWwoman home. The doctor objected | to the foul languace used by Carl- son and several compantons, when, | the claims, the young toughs set upon shim. The polleeare anxious to find | the others impiiented. but on | refuses to “#ntteh, ying that he ‘Will stay in the jail forever first Yukon. Jama canal. have confirmed, and with this slight Becaw clew they hope to unravel the mur-|torney, filed papers in the \y of Gagnon. court recently Involving the name of Criticise Neglect. | Judge J. M, Glasgow, the latte The police department look with 1 Baxter's office, on the lame upon the methods of the| teenth floor of the Alaska building, | management of the hosteiry for two| shortly after noon te |AFFLED. made of the affair for so jafter it had been discover erlor > sons, because no repo: d to wipe the a ks WATER SHUT OFF ‘mode of the affair for some time|after, insisting. that MADISON, Wis. Dec. 1A reo sna |withérawn and the svit s luflgn| to compel Governor Lafol oer] eaeae, 46 bl aniened ue ty lette to resign his office #0 that he | patroimen were close at hand, and |that no care was exercised in the| nesses, was started by the registrat guests. who formerly preaided in the munic The Star has exposed such prac-| {pal court about eight years tices repeatedly and the police rec-| “Fly Bob” Appear ommend a law compelling keepers) After the fight had of hotels and lodgings to register) WY for & few minute th their guests. coma has taken this b of City’ De Water will be shut off tomorrow | from # a. m. to 5 p. m. in districts between Boston and Lewis, and be-| tween Hermann uorth and Minor north. judge, |C&R become a senator, was intro ‘| duced fn the legisiature today, but was summarily killed j SENECA HOTEL AND SANDSPIT | MURDERS PROMISE TO RE- MAIN UNSOLVED RR tk! * been under sppear-\@ GIRARD, Kan., Dec. 7.—The * from | w relatives of Mrs. Berry have FIGHTERS FINED ‘The fight between Charles F. Mc- nly 6.5 per cent) 899,740, as there was a lows of| thes §10,272,023. Five of these fail $28,496,500 as a result of voluntary Ures oecurred in the Pacific states | |itquidations, faituree and. reduce} At the close of the fiscal year tions of capital jended June 30, 1905, the stock of TO RESIGN ... * | this instance MANY DIE | JN WRECK | Running a Mile a Minute Passenger Crash- Be Pn rode ‘eae es Into Freight---Scores Killed or in- rhe tiie! was vaveiine smiles) JUR@G-**Gars Burn and Many Are In- net sccu are the engineer) ©lN@rated---Wrong Order Causes Coll- ductor, the head brakeman of the| FSIOMN of the pase were de outright nerated . ead aret wkernan Busbeny enbaum, “ k; John 6 t e his assinte ‘ Four ¢ train was making it pansenge k: F I U. A. Peterson, erk, Chey-| E Wyo., Dec. 7.4 1 that nine were killed between passengel Pacific today, FORWARD $500 10 ROCK SPRINGS, Union royed @ shack ling on the Battery st. would be fire In e Cat h of th mth Admundsen These t ete Seated dl a ¢ Lines Down, unsanitary by the board of City a, the te American govermnent cable Seattle 4 are down between Valdez and |" re? Poe ar , | ingness to honor of Captain! Eagle City, which necessitates the aheoHan’ af tha’ i . Jiet | Admunsen's for Be V r for | message be ng cent from Skagway Lcmeeration €f. the Knights 9 which the navigator asl his | over the Canadian lines. ry y h opened here tod ret menaage | 1 Major Giassford, in charge of the noe attracted shout 15,000 delegate The mess, was sent local signal corps office, stated this | Of the order from all parts of the| Dawson via the government cable, | morning that were the United States be to this « is expected i js as follaws: “We will be pleased! lines in working order, he had reme pat fully 1.100 new members w to immediately honor your draft for $600, pending arrival of your fund from Nor ndinavia delighted at your achievement and| mei iki send heartiest felicitations Awaits Word From Nansen, =” | The cablegram was signed by A.) Capt. Admunsen ctle explorer, EMAINS A H. Solberg, cashier of the State) who recently arrived at Begle City, Bank of I | Alaska, after having satle@ from Baffin’s bay to the Mackensle river, | Will Come to Seattle. jand thence over the tratl, beltig: the YSTERY The action of the successfully mallee Andrew Chilberg, president of the} ply | ATTORNEY KERR DOES NOT DI- | Scandinavian-American bank, and Norwegian consul, stated this morn VULGE BACKERS OF NORTH | ing that it was a pretty risky son to believe the matter of sendin; message would have been e this Senator jubilee be initiated in the or | Beveridge will e8n deliver the local bank will| we Captain first navigator t Admunsen, | the north passage, is now awaiting as it is understood he was in urgent | advi from of. Nansen, for heed of funds. The explorer will at | who: & 1,080-word he has compiled once leave for this city on receiving | the funds wired him. z time may elapse before a res secured, as the message if being held for toll, and Prof. Nansen thought to be now on his England. In addition to is also COAST RAILWAY BEFORE “¢rtaking to guarantee payment of| making the north passage, Capt. the message which is now being beld| Amundsen claims to have located CORPORATIONS COMMITTEE /|by the signal corps, to Professor) the north magnetic pole Nansen. The message contains 1,080 | words, The rate from Eagle to S *t railway is to attle is 30 cents per word, and the! Local Norwegians last night held -| meeting and sent a congratulatory, message to Amunsen, requesting “The North © Ibe the Pacific 4 rate from this city to Christianial him to make Seattle his home om ¢ Pacific division of a trans- iis 59 cents, making a total of 80| arriving in the states. Capt, Ade continental line that Intends to make | °t®t Per word for the message to| munsen will arrive In Dawson j be sent from Eagle City to its pro-| saturday. ite terminus here.” This is the only statement made }by Attorney James A. Kerr, and Then Passed Away afternoon, He said that the name of repre- the road would not be made pubiic for four weeks The attorneys for the Pacific rail- way reaffirmed the an already made to the effect that the neement | Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul in- | tended to reach this city oved their] # "an | tracks Representatives for both asked id that haste be used in considering | Ae” ca fa j thelr applications, as they would) professor Frederick W. Schulze, sician leaves five grown children, {like to commence the construction | ¢s master of the violin and a teach.| Three sons and a daughter live im of terminal yards and depots &t/ oy of music for the past eight years| this ¢ity, Mrs, 8. A. D. Schenck, @ | om : Jin this city, died at his t 1814| married daughter, resides at Frul | ee -euneiiins, were: Samearen 66 ler way, shortly after the mid-| ville, Cal. | City Engineer Thomson, the chalr- | nigne nour from an affection of the| No funeral arrangements have j man of the committee, and the en- rt | been made and the body lies at the sineers of the roads Interented, Shortly before his death the pro-| home, pending telegraphic communte | fessor picked up his favorite instru-| cations with friends in the East, for an hour or more ran| Expected Death. -time airs that appealed to| The professor had been complain« ‘ot long after he had reti ing of weakness for the past few days and, though he did not tell CONNORS ‘SOAKED’ tie was awakened by a gure ling noise, Her husband dying of his friends, {t seems that Ryding and John Sundu,| Doctors were called, but e pro- lized that death was close @& hand. For itwo victimes of Bert Connor the} fessor had many months previous lodging house swindler who was re Came From Saxony. to the night of his death, the must- cently convicted of criminally jug-| In 1851 fan had not touched a musical ins gling with fraudulent land deeds,/ this country strument, and it ts believed that this morning secured judgment! m D1 derstanding impelled him to against Connor for $626.10, which | ed 1 to the instrument tha® amount Connor had promised to pay| Besides a w forted him throughout life. for the furniture in a lodging ho conducted by Sundu and Ryding A promissory note for $50, which the plaintiffs had been unable to collect, was all that Connor gave in to secure the transfer 10 DOLEAN coma “investigators” asking for the ling of a grand jury to expose the municipal grafts which they al+ lege are going on. Judge Sneil will Ginty and Gilbert Cameron, rivals} The Seneca hotel murder mystery! preeaution and a city ordinance! P« auarters dampened the| % arrived to take her to the home #| of the property. eee eee ee naes betertar Gta for a woman's affection, cost them | deepens. there makes it unlawful to fat! to|®T4or of the combatants, and the! 4 of her father in Oklahoma, | qmnouneed that 403 tp Suttiaenaaall $100 each in police court this morn-| Now that Bell or ~ proved an aii do 80. Ke lee judwe 7 Some a to the | al NEW YORK, bec. 7.—Senator De- grand jury will be-called. : the police are up in the air, unless ndspi rder, WEF IOGT ONE SHIRES Hee Hy Tae kama ew today arrived in the eclty and % : a fight oceurred in the Oriental |they succeed in learning further in- a eee | detective, after promising not to go| * * * *** RS te ee, therewas bo trath tm the re Several points have been brought billiard hall, on upper Third, and!formation from a Japanese porter! The sandspit murder ts baffling} back and kill Baxter, Baxter swears Although roomers at the Oregon port that he would resign from the up by the opposition—friends of wes a bloody affair. Both used/and A. M. Palmer, the clerk, whose| the police as well, but the cireum-|to get even and will charge the | house on North First av. saw a thief! senate. the officials—that the investigating, Knives and billiard cues. Camer-| information so far has been discreet] stances surrounding it are vague) Judge with assault and battery rob several rooms early thie morn- | eran vee citinens had pot taken 100. “~ face wan swathed with ban-|and plausible, The police intend to| and there is some excuse for their ing, they waited nearly an hour be-| | WINFIELD, . Dec. 7 he | 0 ese c ne tes seoneg Wonnie Me.|have both informants upon the car bility to locate the murderer, | ELECTRIC CHAIR ae wim | fore they ventured forth to report| Chicago & | Northwestern “train! p,coMA, Dec, 7—Judge Huston| ey, in this city aggregating $12.- Ginty hung onto the arm of Me-|pet at headquarters again The police are still holding two| NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—After mak- the occurrence to Patrolman Jacobs. | jumped the track this morning en 000,000, announce, however, that the Ginty, who was pale, but looked lit-| That robbery was not the motive,| suspects in that case, but unlees|ing @ final personal plea to the} An investigation showed that the|route from Chicago and killed En- has turned over to Judge Snell, of fight will be carried Jo Oe bitter tle the worse for the umbrella jab | detectives say, is a certainty something ¢ ypa to fasten the\court In his own behalf, Albert T.| room-worker looted several rooms gineer G. W. Warner and injure _ fend and despite all obstactes, they in bis neck. Both men have met The fact that & woman was mixed|crime upon them they must be /Patrick, the lawyer convicted of the | on the second floor, securing cloth- the fireman. The passengers es- the criminal department of the su-|will have Tacoma thoroughly up in the tragic affalr the police’ turned loose. ‘murder of William Marsh Rice, last’ ing, watches and money. caped. perlor court, the petition of the Ta-' cleaned of all grafting. twice Lefore and Sought.