The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 25, 1905, Page 1

ond One Cent--Last Edition” "The Seattle SEATTI WASHINGTON, MONDAY, DECE The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News star VOL NO. 2 25 CENTS P PER MONTH oman CHRISTMAS NINETEEN-HUNDRED-AND-FIVE | HOLOCAUST IN THE MONTANA STABLES incinerated, Two Gther xiated and ~ Animale Roasted to Boath GAMBLERS TO . LEAVE TOWN MANY INJURED IN COLORADO WRECK © pletely gutted the Washington, New | 5 OF " . Yer ging houses | of M A bles prope t and a boarding stables.) Matr w « oth aan en ‘an mutt testimony of the desperate] IN@ at [Georgetown Pool- Sy Gude Wace tie iaeenten & Feb scen efforts the dumb beasts had made Wee killed, and #1 horece and a cow | Immediately adjoining were serlo Ca ot ten torea ae S SO ON MOCK FrOM 1O-Uay jrio cranoe express train viTcHED BY BROKEN RAIL— wath ‘We each san. ee distance from the wrecked perished 4 ly 4 until the Names v bye Ren. gull wll By erg the| HERO SAVES WRECK FROM FIRE train prevented a conf ion, and Bare ates a ae see i* ee ovcmake | do sirDepel with a goon halt} O0® Week from today all gam- a little more than w week aKo, al me paseen from @ hame unknown, suffered from suf-| Starting as it did in the hay, the| W#Y across the threshold. The eyes bling Will be closed at Georgetown. | though the gamblers have main death : focation ta tesa ine hay, the) Wine burned from thelr sockets, and| TBAt, at least, in the rumor that] tained that lack of business was the! aii oe » train was derailed as it left Anderson, whose condition was erty ate ie ntana. lodging} ® policeman who wae standing 3 that went into cireulation last night, | real cmtne. RANGO, Col, Deo, 26.—Twen- Rogers, Silverton, badly br bridge. As the inet eonches ISS the more serious, sa to ean er ity | the entrance sent & bullet crashing| 884 Néveral of the poolroom touts) Prosecuting Attorney Mackintosh |‘¥ Persons are reported injured, collar bone broken; Baby Roi tge the whele train ote rere Ss tnt. Soe) Fae ieee snral's bras to end ie] are already preparing to leave the| has sigaified hie willingness to|#0me fatally, In the wreck of the (teeth knocked out and badly | {ume 1 plowed on its side for vali Bo oars ane aaper. | ititense suffering city | prosecute if the evidence Ix placed | ne Grande express train here bruised; Herrick, head and back 9° feet el «medical attention 18 livery and boarding horwes. Race Morse Destroy George Brown, defeated candidate! in his hands, and although the gar fty passengers aro imprisoned | badly ' bruised; Luciro, badly | _, Kate Porter was sitting across the was able to take care of himself. the fire raged ita flercest, and} Probably ene of th valuable! for mayor of Georgetown, Is sald to blers corisider this a joke, it is rum ge egeleong coaches. brulsed; Perino, cut and badly | se from Schofield and wus thrown Started in Hay. | firemen’ fought their hardest | bosses in the lot wh ‘ere roanted| D¢ responsible for the sudden moral! ored Gow that the word has gone hree will die as the result of bruised: Gonzales, badly bruised; | #7088 the train Her band ‘The fire, which started the hay | ja! ve was the road mare “Half Past) wave In the suburb, | out thas the games must cease their Injuries, . Laciro, badly bruised; Tom Acord,| Piunged through the opposite wine te the Montana stables. dtd damage| 80 Intense was the heat that/ Two,” the perty of Mrs. KE Bart It was he who was reported to} The’gamblers have been trying to They are Kate Porter, Silverton,| Durango, badly burned; Smart. | 40¥ 28 the coach toppled over She Catimated at $20,000. ‘The theory is| willing hands who endeavored to| “Half Past Two" was brought down) have been responsible for the clos-| placate Brown, but, it is now sald. ‘ol., whose arm was torn off at the | shoulder dislocated; Hugh Fergu.| ®* cauebt in a trap and her arm that tt started from a lighted cigar|rescue the frantic animals which|here from Alaska two weeks ago! ing of one of the gambling houses’ without buccess elbow; John Schofield, Durango, {n-| son, Silverton, back and head torn off by friction which was carelessly thrown into| had broken loose fram their halters|and was to have been shipped to ternally injured, and M. C. Harris, | ly injured. | ‘The train was bound for Denver fie building by o passerby and had headed for che exit found| Tacoma tomorrow morning for rac: | van = mail clerk, internally List of Injured, j and making up for lost time. At 2 o'clock, the time the fire|the task impossible. Repeated at-|!ng pOrposes, She held a road rec-| out of the bullding without 1 sseurtng! non Was Mra, Wa Sing, the wife of Hero Prevents Fi The accident was due to « broken broke out, the burned section was| tempts were inade by citiaens and | ord of his clothes, returned to secure his| the prepfletor of a restaurant in the| Others injure Mra. Steve} By seizing a red-hot stove in his rail practically deserted, and the biaze| the members of the department, but} A tedm of ponies which has) personal effects soon as he was| alley direetiy in the rear the] had gained great headway before it| each time they were driven to re- | attracted much attention in| revived by the fréeh air. Montana etabies. She wos awak | treat attle wde also burr to} Fights Threagh Flames, ened by the refiection of the fire was. discovered and the fire depart ment summoned in het Bedroom window, and jump- ing out Of bed ran to the nearest He returned to the building and death. Of the rematning t horses and one cow b Horrible Scene. 4 to} fought his way through the flames When the fire was discovered] The scene after the fire was ex-) tongues of flame were leaping high | tinguished was horrible, ‘The ent-|the propristers of the Montanalto his room and returned with his| fire drm box, at the intersection into the air from the rear end of | mals were piled four and five ¢ stables, and the other 18 to the| clothes and §50 in gold, represent-| of theenley and Washington. She the Duliding and threugh an open | from the doorway to the matr Berlin Dye Works, Marine laundry | ing his entire savings made dthtee unsuccessful attempts gate leading from the stables into | separating the stalls, « and varte infividuais. The lows to sotmd. the alarm, and when she sustained on the stables alone is es Try to Save Money. could: met accomplish It, ran to the timated at $15,000. The insurance) Similar narrow escapes were ex-| fire ttatlom, a biack and a half carried by Lynch @ Col pertenced fn the New York and! away, hot cover this amount, Montana houses, which are exclu-| Thewalue of the fast rond mare : fact that they had jaively occupied by Japanese. The] Half-PastTwo, which was burned down the amount of insurance in ac.| Unknown man who barely got to | le anid to be $500. It is also claimed cordance with & general cutting | place of safety before he collapsed,| that & team, valued at a like figure down of expenses. had gained the street once, when he| was burned, This morning Humane Officer Clark visited the scene of the con flagration, making & thorough |o vestigation. Later be made the fol lowing statement the ey and returned. | picked up, be was clutehing a $20 gold plece. The loss on the building alone, which te valued at $4,000, is extimat ed at half that amount, It is cov-| “The proprietors of the stables ered by ineurance. ought te be prosecuted for keeping The damage done to the furniture| horses in such @ death trap. There jand other effects at the Washington| was practically no possibility of out of the engine room in the base Six firemen wore injured, 110 quests| ment, and notifying the bell boy# parrowly escaped with their liver, jand porters, immediately aroused) The flames had crept into the) and one of the finest hotels in this! the guests. The corridors and rooms] lodging apartments leng before any ity, the Van Nuys, Broadway, lo-| were soon filled with dense smoke,| 0 n aroused. The ested in the center of the business/ and within 30 minutes after the first d as a remult , was destroyed in a fire at/alarm was turned in, the structure|many persons were rendered partly 9 o'clock last night. was a seething mass of flames. unconscious and had to be carried! ‘The collapse of a floor threw the} Many of the guests lost large sums! from the burning buildings, inte Suffocated. LOS ANGELES, Cal. Dec. 25 Oceu “firemen into the flaming masa and,| of money and considerable jewetry.| were numerous instances of | is > placed at $1,000, and the other! their escaping. What ls more, the although all escaped death, all were| while the majority lost thelr per | herote work, and several men of the) $2000 lows is suffered equally by| owner ‘of the building ought to be seriously injured. | sonal effec everal women, who] Washington owe their lives to the! the Japanese proprietor of the Mon-| prosecuted, too. He should not bave ‘The building was entirely destroy-| had fainted from fright, were car-| daring of C. T. Ontiand, who con: }tana and New York houses; also T.! rented the cellar of the buliding for ed, as was its contents. The esti-| ried out of the building. Jucts the establishment. "IN. Tallor, whe runs @ garment re.|otable pateecsa, realising the at mated loss ix $200,000. Thp fire threatened With no thought of bis personal] pairing shop at 413 Washington, and| tendaat gor in case of fire.” Almost every person tn the build-|the Angelus hotel in the rear of the} *afety Mr. Ostiand, who */n Japanese fruit dealer at 417% it! dats he «thas aroused from a sound sleep on burning building, but was fought could not be learned if they are pro-} Ing had to fight for life. The night The Olympic Foundry company MAIL VAN HELD UP! ' Guests Carried Out. 1 After Mr. Oxtinnd had roused « { nis quests , he returned to en jroom to see that its occupant had gotten oat, and in some caseq, where the men were physically unable to | make thelr escape, he assisted them | to the street. Last Person Out Anderson, who suffered from the 26—In. | with tremendous force into « Holl ‘ood car. , | 108 ANGELES, Dec Heved, were residents of this city a few days. steep hifl dashed into anothtr See 1 suburbs. | Alfred Carlson, street’ car and carried it A CHRISTMAS SURPRISE who barely got| chief over bis eyes and the other a/ without losing any of the mail mat newspaper. Several shots were exchanged be-| with Christinas goods. €allision of three stréet cars shortly | "“Aimost every passenxer on the |amoke, was the last person to be Safter $ o'clock last night 40 persons | cars was hurt, some receiving seri-| taken out of the building. He was ‘were injured and many more suf-|ous injuries. The majority were | carried to the Mikado lodging roome| . Driver Graham, of the West Se-)tween Graham and the highway severe shocks. | immediately removed to hospitals. rosa the way, where a doctor at 7 | men, several of which were embed Whe necident occurred at Second| The crows of the cars were also |tended him and ordered Anderson|*tile mall wagon, was held up al ded tm the mail bags After ex @¥. and Spring st. when o runaway | burt lremoved to a hospital. He will be} 9:20 this morning on the Spokane) nging shots with his would-be ‘West Second av. car tearing down All of the passengers, it is be- {able to leave the institution within | av. bridge by two masked highway-) | hota ups, Grabam immediately men, one wearing a red handker-| whipped @p his team and escape }ter, ‘Bhe wagon was heavily laden TOO MUCH XMAS AT TACOMA - AUSSUL MAY BECOME A LAND OF FREEDOM converted un sreanised attccs| United Efforts to be Made By Rebels for upon the troops at various points Is 4 ‘evolan fe cisco’ "| @ General Uprising Tonight, and for the Establishment of a Republic---Peas ants are Going Wild Christmas day. This is the crucial test which the government is to un dergo. Today Will Tell, Each side claims it is the stronger and the next 24 houre will determine whether Russia shall remain an ab- lnolute monarchy or become a re clerk discovered the blaze coming tank, {och by inch, by the firemen.[*econd floor by the suffocating | tated by insurance. amoke, gave the alarm throughout | Diesevered by Chinese Woman will, in the near future, move its! pubite. ‘ at the house. He made visits to each! rhe building Is a two-story free lant from South Eighth and Plum-| should the rebels succeed in un-|* Seneral uprising in this city to- now declared to be an invention om sf the rooms on the md 100r.| ..4 ie located on the Batt oo ar mor to Georgetown, where a $6,500! germining the strength of the gov night, and the authorities are taking the part of the revolutionists, | citing every quest, and then gave | Wephington between Fourth ana (Mite haw Ben purchased. jornment, it is more than probable|@xtraordinary precautions to pre- Peasants Gone Mad. hia attention to those on the ground) pie, tt ron -” a —- that @ republic will be established vent it One of the gravest fears felt by . floor, It was entirely due to bir Was cones some sears Word has been recelved that the! both revolutionists and royalists, is eer ib men who were housea|*#? 0¥ the owner, Mr. Kastley, for) The Chicago, Milwaukee @ St.| with headquarters in this city eneral strike is now in effect in| an uprising of the peasants, who are oe eee ROUKEE | three distinct lodging houses. | Paut will reach Seattle through the} In fact, a republican, although | 8 = os “ M “ under the Washington's roof inat Odessa. dally becoming more turbulent and ¥ The fi ion to discover the Natches | Provisional, form of government har pight escaped cert death |already been established in Livonia Socialists all over the empire are| ungovernable. In many Instances, and im several of the Baltic prov appealing for an armed rebellion,| these ignorant people, made mad by fnces, and the Polish people are also |#nd thousands are daily joining in/ the dangers of the times, héve turae i the clamor. ed upon detachments of rebels and fighting more now for a republic than for the rehabilitation of the old regime General Uprising Tonight. The message from General Line-| literally cut them to pieces. vitch last Saturday, in-which he ap-| Hunger and cold are wreaking pealed for help to the czar, stating| greater hardship among the pease jthat one-half of his army of ants than the horrors of the rebel« men in Manchuria had revolted is] lie re now in the making for GREAT DAY | FOR TARS turkey, elgars The gave every hand a and many other little presents. Pacific Coast, Northwestern, Alaska Commercial and every steamship company in the city did likewise }) In the sailor boarding houses | mreat high-jinks prevailed. Every- lbody felt good, which, to a great extent, was occasioned by a sump~ tuous free lunch served by the pro= |prietor. Some sailors just In were evidently playing ship-at-sea, for they rolled and lurched, port and starboard, fore ‘n aft, or blew down. the streets, “all-sail-set,”” bound for a day with this best girl and @ money-spending bee SAILORS OF ALL NATIONS CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS IN BAY Some are en route to the coast, others across the sea today California Christmas morning along the wa | ter front found many vessels of all and yet others in the waters eras TACOMA, Dec. 26.—Two men, saloony heaped vile language upon | rigs and nationalities anchored in| Pacific SKS Gib” Steel and Oscar Welfinger, | How@il, who at the time was drink-|the harbor of Seattle. Sailors hung/ Of Alaska, and will have to celebrate Ue were shot by William Howell at 4|ing at the bar, The two became|over the rail of thelr respective/on the foaming deep. WASHINGTON, D. 6. oclock this morning durty a| more abusive and when Howell did/|ships and smoked complacently, | Fishermen out. | drunken braw! which took place in| not ghow @ight, it is a’eged, they} while waiting for the welcome sum-| Ruddy and wind-tanned fish NEWS NOTES the Steamer saloon, a notorious re-| wanted (© whip him | mons to test the efforts of “cookee”| men, fresh fro he tcy hality SANTA CLAWS sort on Pacific av | Before they reached Howell he/in the big feed and “plum duff 1a ie eke Sees Weer saeoeas whos es /$ A FUNHY Both victims and Howell are in| pulled o¥t hie revolver and shot! Vessels there were which had not! to pe in port on Christmas day. haw-| Word received from. Shamghat ‘ the elty jail | dows tela would-be assailants. Both | been in this port in years, and vet-|nawed in gleeful hilarity at theithat the city ie quieter, but that LOOK/N' Neither Stecle nor Welfinger is| fell tor @e floor sad witnesses |acie, the crews of which had epentijucxiess fate of thelr companions| tints are expected tonight. Ameen in a serious condition. | rushesuat Bowell, preventing him|Christmes in almost every port in| wno were caught “outside without @| san British and German warines The altercation was the’ result of | from tilling them lthe world during past years. Old] catch” at Christmas tid eady to give pr auton a Christ celebration early last| The evietims were carried to a|sen-dogs, all dressed up in their) pobbing up and down among *? aaitataea stvonat caeeaeine evening. The trio separated at/| drug store ¢wo blocks away, where | “beach rig,” strutted up and down) gocks and slips, small fishing and ment of ‘Srano-math: inne especially, about midnight, it is said, Steel and | their tmjuries were dressed. They | the front, patting themselves on the| junk loops poured vol t/ for Chinese trade. ghee ‘ Welfinger leaving the place. They | were promptly taken into custody | back in hearty self-congratulation| piack amoke from the cabin cook Ship subsidy bill still has many, returned shortly be 4 o'clock | with Howell, who made no effort to|that they were not out on the bil-| stove, telling of sumptin’ doin Se eee ute sinstiness Ga # soon as they entered the! escape. Hows sides beans and bacon today passage this season: They Toot-Toot. 5 old and young stood and src Exports with China and Japam Steamships coming into port toot-|ed at their short amed “Irteh/ ¢igure largest in commercial statise P tooted a “Merry Christmas” to thelr] merchaums” in appreciation of ® tics of government brothers already in, bringing with| day of “soldiering.” 2 |them messages from those outside.| Dinners, cigars, turkeys ant) The Washington, Idaho & Moms , | Big tugs and little tuge, which had] geese are to ‘en on every hand | tana R has present+ duties to perform on Christmas| by the officials of the differer of Palouse with a |snapped sharp, angry messages of| companies to their employes. Th k for $10,179.90, * warning for everything to get out| Port Orchard Route this evening unt contributed lof their way gives a dinner to its officers, whicl minediate “Im s-o-o-r-0!” howled the tug|has a menu sufficient to load on the city for Doctor, as she blow a “port” signal] of the company’s vessels, and every, that road " at the Inland Flyer on her way! man-jack of that crowd will go hom Dr. George M. Freeman, of this CHARLES WILSON CAPSIZES .IN LAKE WASHINGTON AND | across sound j with a good cargo (or dinner city, and Miss Geneva Violet Lang, “-o-'m-m-m-m I-I-I-T!" snorted Many Presents. of Walla Walla, will wed at 6 SNS DEVORE: HALE. AY the passenger craft, kicking up her] In addit dinner, the) o'clock thls evening. Dr. Freeman | heels 1 don’t-want-work-on-| company presanted every ts| has been practicing dentistry in Se- Charles Wilson, 20, a greenhouse, shore gould reach, him, Wilson sank. | Crissm she yelped at the reve-| employes, from captain to de jattle for 10 years. employe, was drowned opposite! The body has not been recovered, | nue cutters in the stream, which with a box of cigars, A pun The Seattle Liderkrans will cele~ Leach! park yesterday afternoon.| ‘Tho youth leaves a father and/differently replied that “It didn’t) at the office for {ts pass Tuesday evening at Gere Wilson was paddling in his canoc| mother, Mr. and Mrs, A, T. Wilson, make no diffrence to ‘em, for they | patron almost made up nia hall, with an entertainment off Bellevue, when suddenly the/of 6702 Phinney ay. The police will didn’t work anyway.” this company’s celebration. tree. Special German Obriste Many Seattle vessels are out at The Alaska Steamship company mas songs will be sung. ‘ craft overturned, Before those on) attempt to recover the body.