The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 18, 1906, Page 1

LAST EDITIO ttle That Dares to Print the News ed. jmetican Cities Ruin aeaeaeen el Almeadral to Bellavista ste.” Thejcasioned by the seating of the fam */ latter street is timed with resi /ily. Taking her seat she p * |) derces and business warehouses. | forest alled further delay by e jing her hands and with * Ne Cable to New York head = exclaimed ‘Our e NEW YORK, Aug. 18.—The cable |Mether, Amen. Let's chew Mre * | companies here received nothing |W. C. Thompson, Montera, Wash die * | trom Valparaiso this morning ed. Firat Direct News: the several cade Bug Took « Mouthful, | NEW YORK, Aug 18—West,} : to appear ® pat ® * One day a bee tung little sister, | Duval & Co. recelved a cable direct rd aged 2% ve Sh from Valparaiso thie morning, as ‘work «on * veare ¢ came into the Tt te feared that en nagraal «| house crying and « A big bug | fellows Town nearly destroyed; m forces may WO OM bit me wid ite tall.—Mre KW. | particulars when shaking ceases @ | Well, 5008 Brooklyn av } : ; | Valparaise Shut Off * News Via Hamby NEW YORK, Ave. 18—The Ce re " of North « HAMBURG, Aug. 18.—The North |'"*! @ Southern American Tele peeching @ | German bank today received from |#'*)> company early this mornt @| its correspondent. the Bank ot {received thie message from Vai @ Chitt at Valparaiso, the following | *!5'* @ dispateh | People demoralized: all business All well. Rank butlding onty | D°USt® closed pect of an slightly damaged. Many houses de- | **"!Y Feetoration of lines te Ban stroved by fire. Unable to atate | lage or Huenos Ayres. extent of damage. Bank closed.” us Nothing From Chile. qeporia that the situation Koamoe Steamers in Danger BUENOS AYRES, Aug 11.—¢ fe dmilar to San SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18 PR m—In the absence of telegraphic . The city is # art | The Kosmos line, which rans steam | ;ommunication from | Fuente Del} 3 , r jInca it has been impossible to this ef the company | ers between this city and Valpa:| Pree ‘The manager Mt hacteous | FalMO, had eight steamers at Valpa eater te obtain accurate details of that all places ralso at the time of the earthquake. |'"* @estruction by the earthquake of the ‘J tr Th th ‘doeed and that many of Uh | No word bas been received eh daar gs he Bae a elty docks or ships are safe. je companion Rere state that ‘have left the ‘* pe are aa nothing ta coming through. Press set Pillagers. | Coneternation at Sentings. po glo te von aa ‘Treage Shoot faa : < ¢ purely imaginary f am, W—Labas b a NEW YORK, Ang. 18.-~A delayed | gon and New York are engerty ph com | dispatch from Santiago de Chile says the earthquake there created great consternation. | | Heavy Loss of Life. | LONDON, Aug. 18—There was] heavy loss of Ife and Immense dam-| age to property in Valparaiso, ac | cording to & Message from the offt-| cers of the Pacific Steamship com pany, in the ruined city. The dis patch says the company's offices were partly wrecked, bat the float-/ ing property is undamaged. An-| other firm was notified that two/ squares at one post were wrecked. } The buildings on several avenues! were destroyed Another firm ts} notified that business is being re Let's Get ‘Busy. sumed. Aug. 18.—A bank here Little Violet, aged 2, wae at her! & dispatch saying: |grandma’s to dinner one day and fe half leatroyed trom | became Impatiest at the delay oc companies in that ff fire follow ke English companies will Half Destroyed. | involved Mr. Gearson in conversa: | i} | ten, The enknown was aleo going | to Everett and, with Mr. Gearson’s farally they boarded the train. | kt | The local depot officials w | startled by the report from the coo | ductor of the train which came over) the wire from Ballard 15 misutes the train left the depot, that Mr. Gearson bad bee orked for | $50, all he possessed, @ stranger, | who did the job by the freight-bil| jtriek while the train was passing TRICK WORKED | through the Great Northern tunnel. | | The stranger left the moving (rain wie TRAIN | when it emerged from the north) [88 OF GREAT | Portal } The deseription of the bunce art-| TUNNEL. | Ist was as follows, medium height. | dark hair, clean shaveo we, black sult of clothes, the man wearing 4 | slouch hat freight bill trick BN UBsOphisticated Oregon this morning | BJORNGON TO LECTURE. | quick The distinguished traveler and| lecturer, Prling Biornson, of Nor-| will leetare in the Labor Tem | from Bugene, Ore. | pic's largest hall on Tuesday even:| i! Mr. Gearson | ing at 8 o'clock, under the auspices | te the City of Hmoke- | of Leif Erickson lodge No. 1. 8 N| ts om the GN. Van-|P. C. He will give in his lecture Jocal train. some of his experiences and tm at the depot an-| pressions of his travels In this coun appearing tellow | try and in Europe BMe family or oR the King #1. depot carly a rf BOLIVAR’S THE SEATTLE STAR WEATHER FORECAST BEATTLE, WASHINGTON, ISASTER WORSE THAN REPORTED secking for news from the affileted @atrict railway say that it i# their beltet that the t Valparaiso te not ne # has beer stated they express fear that the town of Low Andes hae been Aeatrnyed Many Casualties Reported BUBNO® AYRES, Avge 14—T newspapers leat poblie lelegrame from Mendesia (which te an ontrep . trade between with which mountain Buenos Ayr it comm ed by passes of Uspaltala to the effect that meny houses In the Loe Andes district were de stroyed by the earthquake and that there have been a large number of casualties, The interruption of ail meane of communication with Chile causes much enazlety. Many more of disaster are afiont mw = SES LEG FOR A CLUE Charies Williams, a one-legned beggar, stopped Patrolman Brat ford tast night while out walking with hie wife and in citizen's clothes and asked for # little change with which to buy a meal. When Brafford expressed bis to tention of arresting him he war struck three times with William wooden leg. This morning Wi) Hames was given 63 days im the city fall by Judge Alexander SHANGHAIING SUSPECTED. Chrietensen, sen of Dr chr aon of La Croese, Wie believed to have been shanghaied from Port Townsend on the Austra~- Mian bark Henry Failing, which sail. 4 from that port on June 12. An examina tio of the roll showed the name of Jo! m Christensen. EAM Johann F. . Portitio). | Palr Tonight; bund ! | | | jay Pair and Warmer; BATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1906 ee ee BANK CLEARINGS | $1,981,648 16 1,009,919.94 @ Inereare « date * 7 o . * a * * * eee ee ee | INSPECTOR COMING Lieut. Col. Chamberlain, tne Jomof the commissary department | will be in Seattle next week to tn er 9 the commiasary or's department and quarter efCommunication With Chili Causes Grave Fear That Valparaiso’s WRECKED HIS BANK Less Greater Than at First Believed--That Subterranean Forces May) er Panama Canal Is Scouted by Authorities--Other South) . #EONE LANGDON KEY. Officiain of the Pecific Se ee ee ee ee ee eee wTNEe She came | @ MISGING PRESIDENT \* HAS EN CAUGHT. le — }w CHICAGO, Ang if-—The * | ® police here have been notified # | ® that a man thought to be Paul # O. Stensiand, the missing pree # CHICAGO, Aug. 18.—Frienda of Padi Stentiand, the missing pres dent of the Milwaukee Av. Btaw bank. assert that he ruined bis life land robbed thousands all beosuse he was insanely tufataated with a woman. This woman ls Mra. Leone lLangdon Key, a beautiful divorcee, | who in also missing afd te eupposed to have fled with Stensland Mrs Key is « musician of some Uttle reputation in Chicago, having heen organist in several churches | —_—_—— HARRIMAN 10 PARALLEL WP, WILL INVOLVE SUITS FOR RIGHT-OF-WAY IN ALL COUN. TIES THROUGH WHICH LINE WILL PASS. The line of the Northera Pacific raitroad from Seattle to Portland ts to be paralleled by the Oregon & Washington railroad, which is the state name of the Harriman «ye tem. The above snnouncement comes from one well informed. At present the fight fs to be waged in Cowllts county In order to secure a parallel road, it ts © derstood that Harriman must tn- stitete suite in every county through which it will be necessary to pass in order to obtain a right of way Several substantial buys are re ported to bave been made by the Harriman officials between Seat tle and Tacoma and also south of Tacoma. EAGLES COMING IN 1908 GRAND AERIE VOTES TO MEET IN SEATTLE, THE HOME OF THE ORGANIZATION — FIF TEEN THOUSAND DELE GATES WILL ATTEND. Oe ee eee SPOKANE EAGLES WIN. MILWAUKEE, Aug. next convention of # grand aerie of Eagles will be # heid in Norfolk, Va. The Spo # kane drill team won the first *® prize. + Seeeteeeeee Ce ‘Telegrams have been received by Frank Dowd, secretary of the local aerie of jes, that a resolution was unanimously adopted at the session of the grand aerle, now be ing held in Milwaukee, for the hold ing of the 1908 session of the order in Beattie, the home of the order The Fraterral Order of Baglen was founded in Seattle on February 6, 1808, and the first grand serie sension was held here in May, 1899, ani the Mother serie haw started out from that time to have every tenth session of the grand nerie held in this city, the first of whieh will fall tp 1908, This will mean that at least 15,000 Bagles will be to Chicago with her ut five years ago Years inter, just when her t dresses and her of prosperity began tc } attention her busband quiet a divorce fs one of those big, handsome who never fail to attract at gen | @ Ident of the Milwaukee Ave #® Ge the ctrests or fa 8 @ nue bank, has been caught at #/ he was always dashing j# Midway, B.C. + i. appearance and pQrfect! eee eee eee ee A soon after her divorce (hat began paying serious at | mS Pe Boge not tong be taal! wae corm plete { mis are net surjrised to ft the woman is bioe mies it hes surprised chem to hat he wrecked bis bank for Prints of Mra. Key state that often told them that she cared aie for Stensiand, but that her sole idea in accepting bis atten tons was to secure his money Mere at that time as the guests of thy Mother aerte. A telegram has Biro been received advising the lo Gal serie of the election of Edward Krause, of Wilmington, Del, arand Worthy president; Theo. Bell, of Napa, Cal, grand worthy vice pres fdent, and A. EB. Pariricge, formerly @f Beottic, and a member of No 1 But now of Kansas City, re-elected for the cighth time as grand secre A spirited contest prevailed @ a)! offices LIGHTNING STRUCK HIM AS HE CHIDED DAUGHTER GREEN BAY, Wie, Ave 15 This morning, while Fred Billings was chiding his daughter for her fear of the st . Hghtning struck and kill him as he spoke. MORAL RIGHTS NVOLVED MOVEMENT FOR CHANGE OF AEDLIGHT DISTRICT Is NOT PROMULGATED BY REAL ES. TATE AGITATORS. ' 4 hon petitions are presented a onal req ote are made Mayor Moore for the removal of the relight district from tion will no doubt be to find that the petitions and ts are not from real estate Mayor Moore is expected to tomorrow and Monday, if it fe powsible, the matter of changing the district will be taken up with he wur him, Those who are now ciren lating petitions sre doing so on purely moral grounds, The agtia tien is not one promulgated by property holders, but by citizens ho want to rid the present site of © sore so attempt has been made by y to designate a part of the for the new redlight district conceded, though, that the dis must be moved further south Just where, no one seems to @ wettied up future location thing is certain, it must yt be VIEST WOMAM IN THE WORLD , se than 500 pounde. Hv. A. Rudolph was arrested !ast t, charged with stealing ih and pin valued at $60, The elry waa recovered. da its present | far removed from a police cen-| UNTINGTON, W, Va., Aug. 18 anie V, Davis, who is believed | ave been the heaviest woman In world, is dead here, She was Ge years old and weighed 720 ds. Her coffin ts five feet ss and three feet high The woman has a sister welghing Light Northweat Winde vol 06 —_—_—______- THIS BEE HUNT For oashinc woman (COST $700 MILL OWNER WANTED TO PLEASE HIS MEN, WHO HAD A SWEET TOOTH—FIRE WAS ] THE RESULT. a eee | EVERETT Aus 18 Three} t hor eu That's} he price paid for the article] by Jaw KE. Bell, the umberma The trans| mon his part, however, was : | a swarm of bees out of a tree rocure the hor rhey used wet lothes, and nat way thought could | nt the fire from spreading, but spark sailed sway and soon brush was sblaze, threatening the sawmill! and necessitating « hard fight agate it, The $700 enents the cost of that battle the 4 me by the fire. The three pou in the honey prese to the millman a the end of th h | NEW SCHOOLS - TOBE OPENED be Four new school buildings w / begin: | pene the ning of the fall school term The new echools are the Latona, Stev ens, Franklin and Dantel Bagiey which have been built at a cost of $180,000. 1 neat-| ing capacity of 2,000 puptie, furnish: | ing employment for upwards of 60) teachers | A tour of inspection wee made yesterday by Messrs, Hughes and) NGalbraith, Rev. Baward Lincoln Bmith and Reuben Jones, of the schoo! board, who are at present In the city CHINESE TRADE HS TOPG ) | Rod James |! addressed 100 Consul General j gers, of Shanghal, business men at luncheon at the) Commercial club rd Mr about Rodgers is very enthust: the trade of the United States with | China, but he sald that If the Amer licans did not do something at once jthe Japanese will capture the en tire trade of the Orient Senator Piles, Congressman Hum nd Frederick D. Cloud, late vie nwul of Hang Chow, all spoke on the Chinese questivn, and em | phasized all that Mr. Rodgers bad! sald j ‘OVER MILLION AND, | A HALF GONE SPRINGFIELD, Il, Aug 18—| Bank Examiner Jones reports that Av. bank shows at ) Jost unquestionably , amounting to nearly} gone $250,000 ts/ A | |PROPERTY WORTH LESS siadel $10,000 I$ ASSESSED AT 50} PER CENT, $20,000 PROPERTY AT 34 PER CENT AND PROP-| ERTY WORTH MORE IS DOWN | FOR 27 PER CENT. In whatever direction a man may {turn in searching the King county assessment rolls for 1906 he will find that it is the rule and not the exception that the less valuable the property the more heavily it 1s as-| compared with ite actual] sessed a value, while th © valuable the! roperty the mor it ha valued by the or and his leputios A pertinent example of this is found in the assessment made in ‘Sarah A. Bell's addition and in Sarah A. Bell's Second additton These additions He in the Westlake boulevard district, | of them ex tending across the new portion of the boulevard, the first one north of Pike st, and the ond one just south of Denny way. Owing to the rapid increase tn values in the dls triet due to opening the street and for other reasons the market for property in the district has been | active, and a large number have been orded during rent r, These sales and the prices recorded as having been |paid for the property furnish a re HHiable index to actual market val-| s with which to compare the as u sensed valuations fixed by the as wessor, —_——. . . | that EXTRA! —— a5 CENTS PER MONTH » 8& NO. 150 WHO HAD THE KEYS ALLOT BOXES? octoring” of Ballots Done by One Man Who Had Access to the Keys Supposed to Be in the Custody of the City Comptroller's Office, co f a recount the h woo the ard. been cllman at whom the pendt arestel 0n4, tampering was tor « the something tr- inet. He had, . er intimated that ght be ward, where was found and « tn a» Mullen jobbed @ ount . hae in that precinet the unt, « agnir in favor the boxes atcht box been tampered with | @ count | hows st Mullen was @ Ir b t with the bal ince tampered crest ct of the Seve | count gave al cor ave him yunt gave Dow but 62, ballots t boxes, led by ielais and ered to M. ©. between | p the} ¢ held up. the that 11 of thene ounted Dov marked for Mullen. in the course unted at their face showing, Riplinger had 115 votes instead of 99 and Moore had 66 instead of 82 showing that 16 of|b ged in Rip- the original subst ballots at the the quently fo mayor bu ballot | of wt mptrolier’s of prior to that] wn that there & recount fact t kine ty ts have been char pomslt to. 3 as LOUIS HUNY IS TAKEN OFF LIST HIS NAME REMOVED FROM/Later otber protests of a similar nature were made, and Hun y LIST OF JUDGES CHOGEN FOR | jast carried out his threat to A. one watcher. The watchers then APPROACHING SPECIAL ELEC| ont ihe matter to Frank Rust TION. and W. D. Wood, who went to th polling place with three police ficers to put @ stop to the fraudu ‘ lent count. Suspicion points so strongly to } wards Louls Huny as the man re- Griffin Stitt On. sponsible for the fraudulent count The King County Republican club of the ballote in the Sixth precinct! was asked to furnish a list of the First ward in the recent city | judges and clerks for the approadle election that Huny's name has been|ing special election. On the Hot taken off the Mat of judges for the|as made up at the city comptrotler's approaching special election, and | office appeared the name of Huny Sixth County Auditor Agnew has an-|as one of the judges in the nowneed that he will discharge him| precinct of the First ward. It hag from his position in the counts | since been marked off and the npthé lof Joe Griffin substituted. James watchers | Mullen, who was on the board with employed to watch the count in) Huny last spring, is on the list now. precinct say taat James Mal-| The exposures made by The Star len, one of the judges, took the bal-| have haa the effect of inducing the lots out of | ox and that Huny/|counei! io give the municipal owme called off the Qmes of the candi-/ersnip campaign comunittee repre dates voted fo | n on the election boards for Challenged the Count. | the spec election. The municipal On the Lith ballot taken out one | ownership committee has made up auditor's office Municipal ownership of the watchers challenged the/a list of men it desires appointed count called by Huny and demand-|and the list will be filed this aft ed that ft be counted by one of | ernoon It will have the effect, the other judg permit this and threatened to eject the watchers from the polling place Huny refused to/also, of causing the council to leave joff the names of certain politionl |hangers-on, usually put on the list, SAME OLD STORY. swerage at least one report a day of this nature. Edward Weir of the Grand Cen-| Seer i ‘ tral hotel reports to the police that! THIEVES TAKE FURS. ¢ he took a stranger im hard luck to] dente the George hotel last night, and! Rk, Petkovitz, = furrier at 110 Mae that he awakened this morning | ron st. reports that his store wes finding the stranger missing, and Thursday or Frie martin skins stole rom with him was $45 which Weir had | ¢"tered either on in bis pockets before retiring. This ts © be an old story with the rived day night and The skins y in value $16 each. $10 y have S THE VALUE GOES UP ASSESSMENTS GO DOWN RRR ERR ARKH * * HOW ASSESSOR PETER FAVORED VALUABLE PROPER. z * TY IN SARAH A. BELL'S ADDITION * * 8 . Lots Worth Less Than $10,000 Each. 3 * PCT. g & Sixteen pieces of property which have sold since Janu- * * ary 1 for $94,350 assessed at $47,200, or . * * Lots Worth From $10,000 to $20,000. * *% Thirty pieces of property which have sold since January * * 1 for $412,500 assessed at $141,950, or aede . «4 * Lots Worth $20,000 or More * *% Seventeen pieces of property which have sold since Jan- * * uary 1 for $626,500 a at $173,700, or . 27? * * ‘SERBS RE SSE RSE SIRS R ESSE SSE ES See In the two additions there have | sessed at $141 or on a basis been 63 sales of property recorded 4 per cent of their selling price in the county auditor's office, and e January 1 the prices in each have been trans The other 17 sales in the two ferred to the tract books in the | additions have been of properties assessor's office rhe record of | selling for from 000 or mop these prices is therefore kept In the | each, the total selg.e\value of the assessor's of! and has all along 17 pieces being 500” = Thege been avail as a source of in-/17 pieces of yerty are assessetl formation regarding the values of /at $1 or on a basis of 87 property per cent of their actual selling Of the 63 recorded sales 16 of | value From these figures It will be seam that the man who owns a lot wo them have been pieces of property sold for prices ranging under $10, 000 a lot or tract. The total selling | less tnan $10,000 is assessed at price of the 16 pieces, as shown by per cent in that addition; the ” the transfer records, {8 $94,356.| who owns a lot worth from $10,0 These pieces of property have been to $20,000 ts assessed at 84 assessed for a total of $47,200, or | cent, and the man who ow of ona is of 50 per cent of their, worth $20,000 or more is cnsenged actual selling price since the first| at 27 per cent. In other words, he of th ur man owning a piece of proj Thirty of the sales since the first) worth $9,900 is assessed on It of the year have been of properties $4,900, while the man who own® selling for $10,000 or more and less a piece of property worth $20,000 than $26,000, the total price paid approximately twice as much { for the 30 pleces being $4 ) sessed at but $5,400, or only $ These 80 pieces of property are as for the additional $10,100 of ve PE