The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 16, 1906, Page 1

PAY ONLY ONE CENT DEMAND YOUR CHANGE ST EDITIO THE SEATTLE STAR WEATHER FORECAST—Faly Tonight and Friday; Light Northwest Winds — SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1906 VOL. 8. NO. 148 a5 CENTS PER MONTH S to Print the News ttle That D, © The Only Paper mm A ———] MORE ROTTENNESS DEVELOPES IN THE ~ RECOUNT OF VOTES IN CITY ELECTION HIS TIME RIPLINGER WAS , ; ROBBED OF cota THE POOR MAN PAYS THE RICH MAN'S TAXES DEMANDS PROSECUTION ei Figures to Show That the Actual Valua- tion of Property Really Has Nothing to Do Moore Was Given 21 Votes More Than Were Cast for Him---Hones Returns From Second Precinct of Fifth Ward Would Have Made ; Riplinger Mayor. WATER SHUT OFF & Water will be shut off F & day from @ a, m. to 5p. m. over # all the high districts merth of & Fifty-ninth of * se dnd tintin tatiana adie _# teeters eee ere we ee ee eee eee ee aeaeeeeeeee * TD chances SHOWN BY THE RECOUNT IN THE SECOND &# | With the Assessed Valuation---Wide Dis- CINCT OF THE FIFTH WARD. * 4 PRE * Bae ae as : _..; erepancy in Average Assessments. g* Repud Candidates. * e Vole 4 ‘ poe | : Actual No Official Cast and * POST-INTELLIGENCER, THE RE-| bie, and sho punt as ; * Votes © at. bape iy, Ceunies + | WUBLICAN ORGAN, CALLS ON | count of . at an ¢ SHEKKAAAEAAERAAOEEEELER EE HS EERE ’ wae qeaneenee tos o " . | PROGECUTING ATTORNEY TO) have no sea ye Mea FOUR SAMPLE $2,000 ASSESSMENTS. f este ‘ 109 . . | once t n te Bow... * TAKE ACTION ON DISCLOS |" ” pe p+ ool “ The Poor Man's Home. M. 0. Candidates. * | cuted a Actual No Official Returned but @ URES MADE BY STAR. - o sly prosecuted and Pct. Votes Cast Returns. Not Cast. « po . John M. Martin, house and lot 6, block 8, Central Seattic, ~ a3 ™ < cla P.1. Editorial. purchased in April, 1906, for $1,900, assessed at $2,000, 42 67... o * Leading republicans as w ‘| ‘The Post-Inte TT or 106 . dom nd municipal owner: | ots! si = 7 » eine J. 8 Thornton, house and lot & block 4, Law's Second Paaeataaat ee eater ee ee eee eeeveyes Jship advocates sre allke indignant | repul party, in itn leading ed war Rene tre vee aenee ee. ae — secmsiiinbaie icin at th clomures made exclusively [tral this morning, dema that ; The Well-to-Do Man's Home. Joan Riptinger > Riplinger was robbed of 19 votes in The Star that an effort « { and, if proven uilty, sen Beattie « (jin the ond of the Fifth, but giv : . : mys cle » the Sixth pre jtenced to the penitentiary. The < Wet Sel ic be ol ch Sewanee wien sia mot bene te Odessa Police Killed Dynamite Car Explodes °°: ieee Evelyn L. Hutching, house and tot 12, block 8 fen bonest count in the See |bim in the Sixth of the First. The —pteallbe tang ine | “The prosoe see pees re ased in May for $6,000, assessed at i returns from other 4 ‘of the elty show Hshonest | have been to reduce his total vote heh "1 The Wealthy Man's Investment. ng to take steps immec in the ety by 16 votes of Anarchists. And Mexicans within « very few votes of being |! waiting further 4 pec te rack get Sie le Sears] While Repelling Band | Shattering Americans |)» sponsible position which he The north 50 feet of lot 7, block 32, S. A. Bell's Second AARSAAS SAHARA AA SAAR SRE SL ed eee ee eo ie tact developed this morning| The net result to Moore's plude’ velopments MStount of the votes in that {tty of an honest return in the two| tor the proonoution of these geil Add. purchased in April, 1906, for $16,000, a ed at fs the Dow-Mullen counci} | precinets would have been to in a8 ats ‘ it fe a Guty whieh $2,050, or : : 12.5 crease that plurality to 28 tnstead | seit sea NI a ry « public on one sid Drimging thix fa aaith ta cman ae POPP PPP Pee ee eee eee ee eS lot 15 as shown by the false count EA. Woodin, a janitor in the Or-| ODESSA, Aug. 16—Anarchiete) Texas, Aug. 16.—my [apemmnd that the mer ao fig the fraudulent licen to purge the —— of an entire " © relentless prosec pheum theater, was the inspector in . } x | ality Of 15 the Second precinct of the Fifth have begun a reign of terror im this 4 o'clock yesterday, at Peremnct be prosecute of ve itte Two years ago N. & Soper, a|Washington there are valuable a bag Pao ward, and C. J. Munger, clerk tin the |elty and vicinity the Me Bulatin mines vatten | Crime Ag it People. oxlene mde » | blackemith, de that having ot ncreage held out of use eB! Arlington betel, and W. L. Pair rom Chihuahua, Me 2 people] A crime against the ballot box | tectio ns pind ade for more ! off the market by real estat oo, woe an | ivan. a lawyer, 1203 Third av, the| Th local depot wae attacked thie! were Killed outright and two score es & crime against the whole peo- |tensit van he had dor culators, property which canno® for him. At ¢ oe tims | judge ‘The precinct in question iIs|merning and « quantity of | Were iijared #0 thet many may die oe it { hard work purchased for less than from Feturned for Riplinger 19 | th. one in which the Arlington and The deed were frightfutly mvmn~ ittle 00 to $5, an acre, and muc thas were actually cast | nile hotels are located jleot was ahen. aiod The warehouse 004 Aweiling, t 4 lead the is {6 assessed at from $300 t As bonest return in this/ The local police inspector and| ear the oat were demolished and | n acre, seldom any of it a ey have changed the! Selected by Republicans. | “t netables, white interfering, | 2ont all the windows in the @ j ! « valuations. An Instance o| ey. Moore inte 8 ah | ‘Thene election officiate were ee-j* O"e sas * | ttre camp were broken. ‘Twe Aw | s lots 1, 4 and were killed. whose hames are as yet | 9, township 24, r. & « 1 tor Riplienrs lected by the republican majority in in the three tracts Second Discovery the city council, on the presumption! The thieves stele 60,000 roub 4 are among the killed ¢ © ba . ‘This fe the second eciact In| at lewat that they would give the re and managed their eecape., \ we Of the explow! * not amithing. ert held by tt evidence of grows fraud in| publican candidates a square deal fefinitety & but the finding of He t en Assessor Peter for alt | 0 $40,000, and bh count by the election; Many of the ballots in this pre | More Policemen Killed. j the of a boy with « 2 rifle lof his trouble to have veen offere been discovered. The ctnet were found by Commisatoner | ts. 16—Five emen| Amare tbe dead. believed to fur- | Bought Acreage. ‘ nd at $240 3 J sh « . t ts thought he fred wh , urned to the simple life 4 gh ‘was the Sixth pre | Raine, who has charge of the re papal . 4 ae ea} : rh, the Firet ward. in that pre count, to have been improperly a and two & ere i he car or box of dy «| ISoper purchas two and one-half | Meadows, worth §3,0 $4,000 an “anet the fran Seated was in the | marked on counciimanatlarge, so | morning the te ate ausing the . _— |ncres of tt park @ asseesed & an — / taterest of Ripiinger. The judges | that 17 of them were held up to be je ea}. + ae EER Mes 7p on % ‘i $100 a built » ie r y on the theory th thd} that precinct retu 1 Riplinger passed on by Judge Griffin before Soldiere Fire on Crowd. f s one abor= fi te co six ol le home : St ‘ association if a «he Sate ¥eles than were cast for|being counted. When these are| WARSAW, Aug. 16—Revolution | or “* the lars tor ene Ye ps Bre nro 5 athe enterprise deserving of encouraged] Ge end feturned Moore 28 leas|counted the discrepancy developed |ists and the organized police were | ' urre ar oats: 6 & —s 4 pen perso canag eR " : ‘ ere cast for bin jmay be found to be even greater engaged in many sanguinary com] (Bagdad rg age ‘"- . his prope ox it has been the was robbed of 28 votes by |than is shown by the votes already |fiicts today pl el Dials ad nadia taal R obeal sMaliad 4 wah .* “ yen og“ 4 # - 6 to assess im (fedges In the Sixth of the First, counted. All of these were found | were killed a volley |g BANK CLEARINGS. ig ol Ronn Uae Beans pesbins. | . w at at @ Gren Bl more votes than were (to be regularly marked on mayor | into a crowd and wound @ W rs ateae Tar teen Rania Ouest gy oe ig. go . k? uch I portion of it. mary eet fer him in the Second of the |and all were counted on that office. |ing 12¢ 1904 : ng M4 oA ne . pom : - t the worst ia yet t ket value than unimproved property @ Aug. 16 f @ | er the Virginia ot. wh nig st B he sank into un in the same locality is assessed. dq ‘The net re = 4 | The count on mayor's vote was The manaacre tx supposed to haYe | Aug 16. 1905 6 wile MM. N. Roberteca, of the Wash: |conscious Se tt ; snd him there are a ar al assessed, Me asd an hosest return in the|made by a repr mtative of The |been planned by revolutionists in|» a @Hiagion Cold Storage compar rn Cfo eet aniiadt aan mont “i " née In Renton's Addition | is would have been to| Star at the same time Comminsion-|revenge for the arrest recently Of) @ increase over same ele rour is x * one end nt and which ia in every Bis total vote im the city ler Raine was counting the vote oa |ten Socialist workmen in the iron at 2 wom seneee on a a — a r ~ debris, beh . This fact may be demonstrat ‘votes. counctimen at large bworking suburb of Praga fe ee ee ee reams on * Seer Oe ethemgted Drink and tlinees. me singe Me in ansonned */ by running through the sbstrac@ _— } “ss vin: wen on helt rs Kobe! een employed 5s ab-aure hich habe sinneie noat any addition in the ci n Ree RAR HRE EE EESESE ESN SHEER HRA R RARE RRR | SMITH CASE CONTINUED, |." Petes The patrol “ Puget Sound Wagon Works. He|cieared and. fenced and lying next | instance, in Renton’s addition, om, * s est or WSF | had family troubles in whieh a di-|to th it A ~ |the Second hill, there have been RESULT OF THE DOW-MULLEN RECOUNT, * The case of Alfred 1. Smith, who} 2" * mimes Kobelt died | vorce figured. He took Fo Sala none hygin- 18 sales of property re & }has applied for a writ of habeas |e * Teached the scene j iliness came upon him and helacre. A short distan saat ere since Jaauary 1906, 18 Majority to Be Overcome by Dow, 347. ® |corpus from Judge Hanford, h Left Hospital. from to worse. A week| Norton place i tee nos “Ss I a of them of unimproved property MULLEN. HURD. pow + j been postponed until Tuesday, Aug Kobelt was recently released he attempted to brace up andjtract of M. KJ o in ree: wae land elght of improved propert¥e Bee s * lust 21. Smith ts in charge of Spe | from « hospital in Everett. He was sought his old job, but he was toolas desirable as ote wtuee. teri oe 8 of unimproved prope % [cial Officer Clyde Coleman, on his}aftiioted with an incurable disease, | sick to work Wandering about and| sessed at $100 an acre ee “Jerty during year for 962, | | ' ¢ | AY north, to answer to a charge|and wandered about the city wait: | drinking he passed the last week of ; | 150, and are ass $15,550, on if | | a [Of periury which he is claimed tojing for his time to die. The hope- | bis life Lower All Around, 24 per cent of their market values ‘ i | a have committed Heseness of his situation evidently| The body te at Bonney-Watson’s| Just north of Soper's place is 100) The eight pleces of unimprovedy : i ope} acres belonging to Crawford & Con.| property sold during the ye for = e | | * | lover, ansessed at $400 an acre, South | $48,100, and are assessed at $2 3 ; é | 3 E] © € é : “| [of Soper's place is another 40 acres/ 100, or 42 per cent of their marke’ 133 3 % 3 3 + «| of Lake Washington waterfront) value. Renton’s addition is one of ae . 4a j)>e)\¢e fod « | owned by Jacob Furth and assessed|the high class asphalt residencq@ 75 OT 46° 93a) 870 Et * | jat $400 an acre | districts aa2) sii} 11) g26) 814 ae | Half @ dozen other property own-| In Law's Second addition tem, 1085 | 1070 15 1184 | 1171 0 | ers in that neighborhood, many of|pleces of untmproved — propert 78 | 712 6 | 71) 765 ae whom had been treated as Soper | which have been sold (his year fo o7| om 8 os | 673 ae | had, appeared before the board of |a total of $16,200 are assessed al equalization this morning to protest | $7,200, or 44 per cent of thelr m <5 .-| 4007 | 3088 9 | 78 | 4982 | 4293 1) ee | against their assessments, Ag one; ket value, while seven pieces 6 s ite | of them aatd |improved property sold during the me ; = | ss though the deputy |year for a total of $18 ure age nets Only, e out there blind-| sessed at $11,200, or 60 per cen@ : up the assess-|of their market value. ment wit rd whatever Lic Pee eee eee Pee PP PPP Pee Pee eee eee eee WANT TRUE BOUNDARY. | Because of several complaints the miismoner have in er or Valentine to conference with the tecal Law's Second Addition. to ac property values,” Too Busy to Object. Law's Second addition lies well back on Queen Anne Dill, and the in looking over this neighborhood, | !™proved properties sold during the must have concluded that here was | /¢°r “re lots containing homes coste a class of property which could be|!ns from $500 to $3,000. The com, Jussessed at high valuations with|Parison of assessed valuation®, impunity. It would almost appear ws how the small home owne@y |that they argued that these people, soaked” as compared with thé lbustly engaged in trying to subdue |OWner of speculative property |their small farms, would have but|, The ompanying table show little time to spend looking after |foUT sample assessments of $2,000, such minor matters as taxes, At|t¥0 on small homes, one assessed Jleast the way in which the asses-|"t 105 per cent and the other at 3 sor has “soaked” these people on| Per cent of their market value ag shown by sales this year; one on @ dette te beheld tea® of the better s whicls ol his year for $6,000 and High Assosoment. | at 83 per cent, and ind There are many small garden|fourth on a plece of investment north of the city limits, some of! property which sold during the yea whieh are returned on the assess jfor $16,000 and is assessed at 1 ment rolls at as high as $500 an! per cent of that value acre. Instances are even found in| ‘hus does the poor man pay the which tracts which within two] rich man’s taxes. years have sold for $100 or less an — = re are asvessed as high as Assessor Peter and his deputies, United States engineering office ——— ° their assessment is something won EMAS. WILLARD HOUGHTON, OF | owing to the darkness, could not nee M snybody. About two feet east of| BALLARD, 15 A SECOND the building is a fence and it i sup-| posed that the man was hiding b TIME CALLED TO DEFEND tween the house and building until] ’ HER Hom. 11:46, when Mrs. Houghton heard B WITH A GUN, him in back of the house. She fired = through an open window of the rec. Me. Witiara Houghton, of 211/074 floor as soon as she heard the! ADJUSTERS FIX DAMAGES 6U8- man, but did not hit him. Mrs. night Cred) Hough enlied W. H. Peter, a| TAINED BY OCCUPANTS OF t a midnight | neighbor, who was sleeping in a) 1a coi dint aaa | ore |EFFER EER ERE REO OE ’ ‘ nt o ome ASHI BL > 0 owne: acreage were : WOW who made his excape. It iw tent in the rear of his hor | N tall ners of acreage were | * GANS-NELSON FIGHT * of the #h Peter saw a man running from| ge REVISED. as unkindly treated by the asses-| the front of the house through the sor, For instance, there are almost) , WITHOUT REFEREE. « of July 29, Mem. |jot towards Post st, while the man Jany number of acre tracts inside] % had been at whom Mra, Houghton fired came of the city limits, between the unt-| GOLDFIELD, Nev, Aug. 16. # time. She|from the rear and on the other wide! |, Peeing a verslty and Gree n lake which F el No referee for the Joe-Gans- % uid shoot, |of the building and ran east (0 Beem ee scans of the ‘Treer ei oh aS oo |* Battling Nelson fight hs * ¢ was only |ond av. wacen Sagal 3g = Aer Mean of of them as low a _ $200 an ner ee coe: a 5 trying to! sre, Houghton’s husband If 4] 4+ $47,900, and that of F. W. Mer. Fae ee ne ara t cweer ° hv }® without training quarters, and . a result re~| jogger and has a camp at Brinnon.| sich at 314,000, with insurance at fs th Puget Mill senting \* Manager Nolan is worried, as # oe Ke of ¢ in hie!) A” few days after the first shooting 5006. These loeese and settles adh ah ue Ae i con menys a | Nelson must begin real trata ¥ ree in, Bice et work- affair he returned home. Mr. ments have not been definitely set- a ae oe ees the chole-| ing soon, The Dane is takin * ’ The F. unded man. | Hoods canal. among the local insurance men to at $600 an acre, or even less.| FS yyy Lundy will be La '@ Fourth Time. | Mrs. Houghton has been living| receive an adjuster sent to them peg Aare | tobby indy will soon * at night was fourth time|alone with her two little dauahters|from California by the insurance . . cing aie |® hore to spar with Nelson. By 5 that My Houg? es noticed for several months and han often| association of that state Even the s0-aere tract just north) w erything is going smoothly. In BAD prowling «round wang nen) | ahve Ries “‘prows Mh ‘The local 1 rena ai of the university grounds, recently} Gans’ camp the Baltimore lad W ‘ at night since been troubled by a prowler ne 9 local men will continue with pe ge Bay types MB. : f : Previous shooting, but when the has not been able to see the man’a| thelr work and should a San Fran eld by this company to James A.iw is doing well. The plane fer @ previous Moore for $4,000 an acre, 18 assess-|% the arena, drawn by a local ® rrived in anewer to her face, as it js always derk when he|cisco man be sent to Seattle his tracta morth of the city limitsl® ar ™ i feune. me call no trace could be\ comer around. It {# not known] work will largely be that of check~ ed at but $500, This property is rd ohn : Loe eee at rs % rv last night's vieltor was the|ing up the work of the local ad- worth three times as much an acre|# tion is proc ork of erec q eet nae Mra. Houghton heard man who weg Wounded sev-|juaters, before settlement is finally igh lar F opal gp adhe eater a | 0 ‘ : va about 9:30 jock, but, eral weeks aj made, THE CZAR: GEA OUT OF THE ROAD AND LET SOMEONE RUN WHO CAN RUN, All around the shore of Lake pRelelielelelielReReiehelah