The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 17, 1906, Page 1

—-- THER ag ROBERT MORAN FORECAST.—Increasing cloudiness; tonight warder; ght south wind SE “One Cont~Last Edition” [Te seattl LATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1906. WHO TOLD THE TRUTH? Séallle Mar San 23 Jie Times San. 2¢ e Star _ TELLS OF PRRERRAR AAA AAA A AAA RARER AAR eRe *NEWSPAPER HISTORY + OF RECENT DATE last The Star announced that nego- On January 23 § tations were in progress with eastern parties for the & gale of the Moran Bros, Company shipbuilding plant. . On January 24, through the Post-Intelligencer and * the Times, Robert Moran, president of the Moran Bros, bs , made the statement that The Star story was © getrve and that negotiations for the sale of the plant , were not pending. On January 25 The Star made the statement that, spite of the denials of Robert Moran, its story of the e jons was true and that an announcement of the nt would be made in the near future. On February 16 The Star announced the receipt of Finfonmation from a reliable source that the last details the negotiations had been closed and that an official * announcement would probably be soon forthcoming. ; On February 18, through the Post-Intelligencer, “Robert Moran said: “I know nothing about any sale, e negotiations for the same, of the property. The con- rumors in this matter are very aggravating to us. can readily understand the harm that can be done business by baseless rumors of this kind. I can- do more than deny the rumers absolutely. They not true.” On Saturday, March 17, (this morning), Robert through the Post-Intelligencer, formally an- the sale of the Moran Bros, Company shipbuiid- to eastern parties, and the close of the nego- which have been in progress for two or three past. SEE EEE EEE EEE EEE ERE EERE EERE REE RE SPSS SEES ESHER EEE EEE RES ING HEALTH MADE IN THE STAR ON JANUARY 23 CONFIRMED Wh OFFICIAL SATEMENT ISSUED BY ROBERT MORAN. excomeenenssiiiitlinn he Mtiutement made in The Star} work despite the fact that his health 73 that the Moran | hae been constantly failing him. were actuated in the pro-| Determines to Sell. - @f their shipdullding Realtcing the absolutely necessity of retief from his labors and know- ing that this would be impossible while he and his brothers retained control of the business, negotiations were entered into about three months ago for the sale of the plant these negotiations finally eulminat ing tm the transfer of the property now announced by Mr, Moran It has long been Robert Moran's desire to retire to a quiet life. Be Soing with an investment ef $1,400 tm 1882 the business and property of the company now represents & value | of $3,500,000, making it possible for jell of the Moran brothers to retire with comfortable fortunes. Homes on Orcas Island. of the failing health is confirmed in Robd- Statement, issued last My announcing the sale of the company to the failing health of the Mr. Moran, “and the feet frem business Drothers bare sold « Hiterest in the Moran 7, aad have delivered Rew management the the company as a goin, Worked Hard, the president ot| has been the brains en since its evtab-| Several thousand acres of land tle im 1882. With ite| have been purchased by the Morans th Mr. Moran has | on Orcas island and here Robert and te shoulder greater | William Moran will build them z about three years | selves permanent homes. In addi WES compelled by bis phys! tien to building & home for himeelt i fe order to seek) William Moran will erect s small health. | beat building plant solely for his abroad enly a few own amusement, in which he will of the company | build pleasure boats. It fs his in Teturn. Since that/ tention to equip this plant with the el actively in cha) very finest machinery to be pur- Sod bas continued at | chased ORAN WORKED IN RESTAURANT W'S FIRST JJOB IN SEATTLE WAS IN AN EATING WOUSE RUN BY A NEGRO NAMED BILL GROSS. mill, which stood where Pioneer place now is. As his business grew he brought his brothers ot Seattle In 1889 he w ected mayor of Seattle and served with distinetic Babert Moran’s first job in Seat Mes tn a restaurant ron by a} - Bamed Billi Gross. That was bad arrived in this| pF WHR 16 cents in his pocket and yard at Bremerton at « price of $150,000. In 1900 the company se cured the contract for the building the lof the battleship Nebraska. Today the Moran plant covers 26 | res and is sald by experienced | ' nad | ot shipbullding men to be worth—in tnding good wi Moran hood of $3,50¢ f mathe Robert Moran, the founder and ing and| builder of this plant, was born in eattic in| New York on January 26, 1% and © shop in | retires from business with a fortune or's saw- lin his 49th your ~in the neighbor f | represe: tatives: ian Francisco all win the news of his ap hn G. Brady has been at ter, but | pointment to he went to W | confer with President Roosevelt SERRE * } BANK CLEARINGS. + * March 17, 1906 $1,773,028.90 # Homgatt, of Ainekn 4, Is expecto Hy early next March 17, 1906 1,009,749.76 Increase over rame ” When you see it in The Star, it's true. } LEADS TO SALE 0 go to work | during the trying times of the fire.| In the fire bis plant was burned | but within a year he had rebuilt and] was making more money than ever| before. Grows in Importance From that time m the Moran at grew mportar 18% the first steamer ¥ b 1892 Robert Moran desig e £ pumps and engin navy Governor Hoggatt | shington, D. C., to} SALE SHIPBUILDING CAPITAL FOR THE PURCHASE | SUPPLIED BY THE GRISCOMS OF PHILADELPHIA— TERMS eas The been purchased rp people. big shipbuilding plant with capital sup | plied by the Griscoms, phia, who will be represented in the | Joperaiion of the plant by J. V. | Patterson, for several years past aa } soctated as naval architect with the International Navigatic company, | and George HH Higbee, formerty | manager of the International Navi gation company and the Empire line. Retain an Interest. The Moran +t hers, heretofore fers of ail of the «# ot the is retain @ minority Interest t will not be with the new swever, on thetr own account, continue the work on! the battleship Nebraska, this being | carried on under the firm name of joran Broa. company Bome Weeks Age Tt te understood that the tlons for th ¢ the pla virtually completed some weeks ago and that the new owners of the| property had taken ft under their control prior to the announcement made by Mr. Moran yesterday The purchase price of the contrel! of the property is said to have been} based upon a valuation of the plant at about $3,500,000. Just how much a control of the stock has been purchased by the Griscom in terests Is not made public by Mr Moran, nor any of the other terms of the sale. Declines to Talk, more thar “1 have nothing to say beyond my statement made public this morn- ing.” sald Mobert Moran to The Btar this afternoon. “I am net able} to say at thie time what I will do tn} the future. I don't even bo pat | 1 will have any dinner t ai-} me 1 wilh” at of consideration for of Mr. Mere a4 net) recall the very many moet emphatic denials made by Mr. Moran to the truth ef The Star's stories regarding the negotiations for the sais ROBB 1S GOING RIGHT ANEAD WORK OF FITTING UP UNION DEPOT SALOON PROGRESGS-| jong to enable us to make any defl-| wince 1602 jnite plane im this regard, ING NICELY, DESPITE THE MAYOR'S ATTITUDE. Notwithstanding the fact Mayor Ballinger has refused to ap- prove his bond for a saloon license under the ordinance which the cor poration counsel has advised the comptrolier, has become effective despite the mayer's veto of a section of it. W. F. Robb te going ahead with the work of fitting up his a foon near the new Union depot Several workmen are at work In the place today Mayor Ballinger has announced that not only will he refuse to ap prove the bond of Robb, but that he! Will follow it up by refusing to ap prove the bonds of any saloon men having licenses under the same or other blanket licenses UNKNOWN. | | Robert Moran, president of the Moran Bros ny, last night ot the 8 the nale o! property of th mpany to | has of Phitadel | . : H | : | : |WHOLLY CONFIRMS STATE : | : | MENT EXCLUSIVELY MADE 4 | IN THE STAR OF SALE OF THE | : : | PLANT. } : : [3 : : H Robert and William Moran’to Retire Per-': manently From Business and. to Build Homes for Themselves on Orcas Island ---Negotiations for Sale Now Being Car-| ried on . oo 1» quired through the operation | ™ of the rhipbu plant, The} ’ p H ding tage an sale of indebtedness of the company, rhe] th interests of which are e rw +e: 18. ton ‘d at $4,500,000, is said to [ing. with the prospect of suc sressful termination within the % than $500,000, repre- in outstanding bonds is three years ago and were sold a? ear, At Negotiations aré HOW pends. hood of $4.000,0067 Al! of it acs) nieve eae A FAKE “The story that Moran Bros. Co. have sold out is an unqualified false- --Robert Moran. PI Jan. 24 - . . . . hood. MR. ROBERT MORAN MAKES A STATEMENT «the ship The statement WILL CONTINUE AS HERETOFORE eel MORAN PLANT BUGINESS TO BE CARRIED ON AS IT HAS BEEN CONDUCTED IN THE PAST BY MORAN BROTHERS, —— oe ‘That the business of the new) “BD will remain here in charge of Moran company is to be carried on |iM® DIANt and will have associated Sith mo Mr. Higbee, who will ar- Five in Beatthe nome time tn the near of the Moran brothers, is the state-Tigture. Mr. Higbee and myself have ment mate by J. V. Patterson, whe, photh severed our connections with oe it has been ander the guidance with Mr. George H. Higbee, wilt Bel fhe International Navigation com- in direct control of the plant pany.” Mr. Patterson baa been in Seattle | for some time eenducting the Grie- Griscoms of Philadelph com end of the negotiations with a - 4 the Moran brothers and has aided] the Grincome, of | Peteitat tor tn the @ettleon of all the purchase of the Moran plant, are Bmong the most widely known cap- Malinte of the east, Clement Acton Dirievom, Sr. is « iarge stockholder Along Same Lines, “Tt ts our intention,” sald Mr. Pat- terson when seen at the Washing-/ i Steametip, railroad, mercantile lon, “te continue the business along | Aid banking pani Clement the same lines as tt hae been cone; Acton Griecom, Jr. is sasoctated ducted by the Morans, As bust-/@ith bis father in nearly all of the fees warrants it the plant will bel iatter’s inter Lioyd Carpenter have not been in| firiscom, another son, Is now United nbassador to Brasil, having until recently, been United States minteter to Japan. enlarge’. We contre! of the property suffictently | Btetes SPOKANE’S. DOWIE | SUPREME COURT SAYS HE CANNOT SEPARATE CHURCH PROPERTY TO GAIN OWN SELFISH ENDS. (Special to The Star.) tpurse. The lower court dismissed OLYMPIA, March 17.--With hot / the suit, holding that Hendryx could KIDNAPPER 5 CAUGHT SAN LUIS OBISPO, Cal., Mare The steamer a arrived Port Harford rs )| Both are of office i the de hild who ¥ ENGAGE MIS EMMA MOFFAT Tho serv Emma Mof. j os of Mis have fatt, the well known sopra |been obtained by the Knights of | Pythias for their big min ow | which is to be given next W | day at the Grand opera house. Aside} from this attraction the show has arranged a very strong first part,| and eight separate acta for the olio. | The ¢ the opening will| | be very sive. The uniform lrank, F | occupy the back of the stage in fall uniform, with flashing swords and helmets. Sev |eral well known amateur comedians will be the end men Superintendent Walter A. Wood, 1s now on foot to by members of DODO fee EEE OE! date last + @ 763,270.14 © eee et eeenx of the Chicago Y. M. ©. A., will be la guest of the local organization|cial company freo dockage next Wednesday, .. shots for "the wily schemer wholngt bring sult as he had been ex lions the livery of heaven, to more | palied from the organization by the effectively earve the devil.” (6 bishop and that the civil courts state supreme court today reversed |pould not enter into a determination lthe Spokane superior court, which lof the eoclesiastical question ax to | had been in favor of Spokan@siqhe merit of the expulsion. This Dowle Bistiop” David N. Melti-)@as an error says the turf. of the Peoples’ United church. }¢gourt, which orders the Mclaturff statements that) get aside and evidence taken he could heal the sick and give)@apreme court says that while th happiness to t 4, organized the}isa divorcement in this country of chureh ed m congregation | @hurch or state, it not extend J to acquire consid | to thefts of the chu Mcinturff then sgi@). “Neither law nor ism lees The f property poliey public and used the fund@| sill permit a man or set of men or ymmmunist colony ta of a church org ryz and others for-| tien by chicanery eit and fr hareh sught thieitg divert the pro y of a chu sult to set aside the on the! organization to m0) entirely ground of fraud and to f Mcin- | foreign to the purpos he organ turff to account for large # * Of) ization for their ow eifich benefit moneys he had collected for the] whether by expulsion of members |chureh and put in his personaljor any other fraudulent manner er eer STRIKE AT THE TRUST DOUGLASS MERCHANTS OFFER FREE DOCKAGE AND WATER AS INDUCEMENT TO INDEPENDENT STEAMSHIP COMPANY, Douglas City merchants are still tas as a regular port of call after the two steamship companies} Ketchikan has also offered the operating on the southeastern Alasej *@ine company lockage, and kan route, on account of the comej Sithough It is denied at the local of bine formed raise the freight|flces of the Northwestern Steam rates, H. W. Elitott state this |*hip company that they have any In bat at}tention of placing steamers on the inside ran, a proposition has been Made to them by northern mer chants. Juneau merchants are ready to fall into ine with any thing that morning at the Butler hotel the Chamber of Commerce meeting, held last Tuesday night, at Dougiae, the city offered the Alaska Commer- and if they would include Doug+ MUST STAND TRIAL Douglas merchants do in the break ing of the combine, It was stated this morning that if satisfactory rates could not be arranged that Douglas merchants would ship all of their freight with the Treadwell shipments, This seems hardly pos sible in view of the contract that the Treadwell people have with the Pacific Coast Steamship company PANAMA JOURNAL IS SUPPRESSED | PANAMA, March 17.—The Pana- ma Journal, a liberal organ which recently published attacks upon the Amadore administration, charging irregularities: amownting to millions of dollars in connection with canal money, has been suppressed LOGGER DIES 1 WHIS BED A logger, whose name appears on | tne hotel books as William Carsten | was found dead in bed this morning }at the Empire house, 421 Main st There were no evidences of foul play or anything unuewal, and the deputy coroner who Investigated the cane gives {t hie belf#f that the | Man died « natnral death possession indicating that he had | Worked for the Port Blakeley Mill company. He had been staying at the Empire for the past two weeks. His body was discovered this morn |ing with his feet on the floor and his body on the bed. There was a considerable amount of medicine seattered around in the room, tending to show that the man had been doctoring himeelf for |pneumonta, It ts not Ikely that t will be held. The body any | is at the Bonney-Watson morgue supreme | Herman Geerds, an old man died at the Wayside hospital last night of sorosis of the liver, induced by th excessive f alco! man appeared at t terday afternoon bad shape and grew worse during the night, dying within a short time Nothing ts known of any relatives and the body { held at the Bonney-Watson QUIPUT 10 BE 0,000,000 A cor output f this sy the Tanana camp ing’s cleanup is made is placed at $10,000,000, This informa- tion is brought.in a letter recetved from J. H, Holme, of the Dawson firm of H Miller & Co. wh 2 ent of the Brunswick hotel Mr. Holme has just returned to Dawson from a business trip to Fairbanks, In the letter he writes reek alor 1 $6 Dumpe ox are thick as haycocks In a field All the claims in every new district jin the Tanana valley being } worked to a profit, and many new claims in each district are already ng. A good business feeling ex ists and prospectors are mining in all directions, Most of the miners have an advantege of years of ex- perience in the Klondike,” “Cleary e will yle 00,000 this ye are The deceased had papers in his| ALCOHOL FATAL ary | The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News VOL. 6, a5 CENTS PER MONTH LIQUOR MEN DEFY MAYOR \In Open Violation of Law Many Saloons Are Run- ning Without Licenses---Star Man Points Out | Infraction to Policemen, Who Even Thdn Do Not Report the Matter. NO. 18. Scattered around over the city of) by the elty comptroller, but in @ tle there are half a score of|number of cases where former |saloons running wide open without | licenses have expired new licenses | : have not been granted and saloons | ‘ity Heense to do #0, the ordinances | are being run without city Neenee |eranting them extensions to thelr in violation of state law and | present licenses having expired and | city ordinance no new ones having been issued Four of these were visited this ie ng by 4 Star reporter, The Your of these saloon w or t of these was that of Sab his morning by a reporter The | Jacobs, at 461 Main at, into which Star, three of them In com with he was @ panied by Offer different police officers, and all of | Jacobs was found in the viene the officers were so indifferent to |!t%-, Jacobs waa not in and the bats a ’ ' tenders only knowledge of the the open violations law point- |‘ ticense matter was that the Heense ed out to them that they proceded | fee had been paid by Jacobs to the on their beats without taking fur-| Io ndent Brewing company, The ther action towards mitigating the ‘ anges 4 a | Vetoes Three Ordinances. tents ieee ha tees | Doe oe ete ty ayer a icons | The next place visited was th ordinance granting a license to W mn of P. J. Moran, at 201 Seong F. Robb, near the union depot, the *Y he reporter was accompant mayor bas insisted, despite the|!nto that place by Officer Rya opiaion to the contrary of the cor-|The license posted on the w poration counsel, that the blanket | Showed that it expired March 9, saloon license ordinances which it| At the saloon of John Pattersom, has been customary to pass are nc at 114 First ay., the ense show valid, and has adopted the practice |that it had expired March 15, bey of vetoing all such ordinances |the proprietor had posted up em ¢ the old Meense his receipt for t passed by the council. In all three payment of bis $1,000 fee for a new such ordinances have been vetoed 1 by the mayor ffecting Neenses. ense. Taome of these lcenses have since| The reporter was accompeniel, been asked for In different form, | !mto the saloon’of Laan Bros, at 923 with but a single nse granted in each ordinance. But moxt of them have not been eo granted, and the applicants for the licenses stand in the relation towards the city of any other man who has made applica tion for the license and had the or dinance gran’ it vetoed by the | mayor. | Four Are Visited. First av., by Officer LeCount. Whi the officer's attention was caieg to the fact that the license post had expired March 6, he called J. Lunn, one of the proprietors, ani asked an explanation. Lunn spy peared in ignorance of the fact his application had been vetoed, ared that it was the @uty roper officials to notify him. the | In one of these cases did the lice officers offer to take any towards preventing further violatie@: cil and isened | of the law. In many, if not in all, of these cases these licenses will probably be |aranted by the « ROSENE IS TO BLAME ACCORDING TO GOV. M’GRAW, STEAMSHIP MAN 1S RESPONSI- BLE FOR FORMER’S INABILITY TO GET A GOVERNMENT GUARANTEE FOR THE CORDOVA RAILROAD—CONSTRUC- TION COMMENCES THIS SUMMER. ny railroad construction in Alege This move resulted tn the Cor dova Bay promoters striking out thé guarantee feature and simply ashe ing for @ federal charter, The was then reported favorably by senate committee and is now the calendar. The construction of the Cordova Bay railroad from tide water to point near Kagle City will be com menced this summer, according to | ex-Governor McGraw, who returned | | trom Washington early this morn- jing. Mr. MeGraw has been cast fc several months working in the in-| | torent of his rafiroad, having a bil! The Cordova Bay raliroad, before congress asking for a federal | Alaskans, seems the most feaall charter, under which it may lake up| of all other like projects. The coal lands, establish townsites and | per and coal deposits can be perform other necessary functions |ed quicker by that route and otherwise difficult or impracticable. | cost of construction materially de¢ ‘The government was asked for a | creased by reason of easy and aga guaranty of 4 per cent annual in- | cessible grades. It ts this road tha terest on the bonds of the company | M. J. Heney ts firmly belteved to at the rate of $30,000 a mile. The | hooked up with. Mr. Heney was government was to have the first| engineer who bullt the White Hen for any payment the company/ railway from Skagway to White might be called upon to make. horse. It is also said _ peg tendent J. P. Rogers, who has Mest Ponsihty Revie. | resigned from the White Pass, wi | To John Rosene, Mr. McGraw | be associated with Mr. Heney tn tt claims, lays the blocking of the pro-| undertaking. Other well kn ject. The former had a railroad | Seattle transportation men are f project and he stated that plenty of | cluded in the makeup of the organa, private capital could be secured for | ization. ' LIGHT BOND INTEREST PAID OUT OF PROCEEDS | . | Supe the, not exclusively, of money recetveg has|from the sale of bonds, this atat ‘ex of | ment shows that the interest on t that | bonds issued has been pald indirecte y out of the funds received from (By sale of the bonds. This has under the pretense of lendti intendent Youngs, of and lighting der | made a statement of the finan the lighting fund, h shows |the fund has loaned to the general fund for the of paying Ir terest on th water rtment purr lighting bonds the sur of $40,687.50, and has due it ,|the money to the general fund the eral fund for materials and| paying the Interest on the bo electric current furnished the sum | from that fund ¢ $44,402.74, making a total of $85, The statement shows that thi 090.24. Against this there is a| was received from taxes levied edit of $30,224.2 the payment of interest on th Inasmuch as the ng fund, | bonds and for running expenses I 1 8 the sum of $30,324.26. cose GR PUI oes) LONG DELAY terial changes among the hea | the officials of the Washington Na Itional bank were dispelled today pace President M. F. Backus de clared that he knew of no changes eg the immediate future “] know of absolutely no changes | While we will not pres: Jin the lst of officers of this bank : : be phe Be laaid Mr. Backus. “Many rumors are | chise b Seattle council fog roun that material > present preparing to bee plated, but you | ¢ astruction work tu imeeis shakeup’ {8 to] washington within @ very hed | take place “I am sure that I would be A Coast time,” said Jar the North Kerr, attorn railway, th! wa of any changes. The rumors are ain without foundation.” Robert MR. Steahern, preseihd . v in New York making the fin arrangements for the construetio: |G. R. REMER DIES | sere ssa Contec Wat be tet an onstruction will begin as goon returns to this state, which wil within two or three weeks, Our company has secured praoe tically all its right-of-way In Baate jern Washington, and it is In Bastert | he C. R. Remer, a native of New York tate and 65 years of age, died this morning at the residence of hi sis ter, Mrs. Hubbard, 1814 EKighth &v..) Washington that the construction of heart fatlu The remains are at | work will begin. We have been deg Butterworth & Son's morgue and] jayed a ittle on acc sorvices will be held |; ag gone | mitke a few changes In the rout | tomorrow after-|for the pur pose of reducing gradeq noon at 1 o'clock, interment in Mt.) and curvature, and etill have negos Pleasant cemetery, Mr, Remer has|tiations pending with two or thr {been visiting with his sister in Se-! parties for hight-of-way and attle and Jeaves a wife and children. privileges.” eo |the funeral from thelr cha SS ,