The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 6, 1906, Page 1

t the News Only Paper» Seattle That Dare THE SEATTLE STAR WEATHER FORECAST—Fair SEATTIL VANDERBILT COURSE "re" 18 A TRAIL OF DEATH ; —. . > stators of Today's Big Automobile Race Are|3 Todt deg.” J and lujured--Wagner, Driving a eee ge . }® men left r s9 Car, Wins the Big Event. |e sae,ces omens Foe, ——— ee i: a ga ene with attack Telegraph Service ees, the injured man . te on FB gn mage and tie NPRRBILT COURS! : . age ee eae * bad Mitle diftioulty in getting won the V : m Woods, of Boston, hin neck = D cenace , t oken. Stadler dled Instant ; weorge Wynder, who carried . se the street, was also eas Sowes William Hord, the a Fiat car, and arvented ay Ming becoming con mea + of Thirty-fourth was knocked ed down ffeur, was Bean, cha Mary G st. and Second av Sands spectators were injur some cases through the triving of chauffeurs and in others by standing om the track outside of by Henry imit police . ans More Cautious yee contesta American of attributed te the rowde upon the are char the Americans showed injured. F. & St reckless de re getting out reignere cis ep spect that the ¢ asked for and contracts let. While our charter calls for Ev OLYMPIA LEFT a ncte as the ultimate terminus of MAP — WiLL NOT the Oregon and Washington, con struction will be carried only INTERURBAN far an Seattic at present. We will also leave Olympia off the map of the Oregos and hington Whether a branch will be rum to Olympia is a matter for the future to determine From Vancoever the ine will bug the north shore of the Colum bia river to Kalama The Oregon and Washington road will be en tirely independent of the Seattle Tacoma interurban Moe. “Our surveys out of Seattle. which were thought to have been planned with a view to making a connection with the electric line, were not made for this pur purpose. We will bufid an en tireiy new line of rallway between the two sound cities. Jost how we will pass through Tacoma is still somewhat doubtful as there are so which we must | many different lines being consid to have the | ered. Constrection on the new line by the end! will be pushed through a* rapidly When bids will be 0 possible.” AMPION CASE IS AUSING CRITICISM ——$——_— Ore, Oct. 6—Spe Pacific will start to Puget sound ath. J.D. Farrell, Har man tn Seattie, who feday, accompanied , chief engineer Washington rath under which the Be building north to sreil “oday cave out the Ey d interview WM probably be Mne in a month Wcated definite and Chebalis, Some alternative conoucT in| work, and was under salary during jall of bis absence RR 1S HARDLY) Dan Cook, also while in the em ploy of the city fire department, did WITH SOME OF |11; of the plumbing work in two ACTS. |houses batlt by Chief Cook on Rat . Inier boulevard. Department was- ons carried material back and forth i |for the chief, and department mate- the Seattle fire de-|rials and tools were used in the filielsing very se | work : of Chie Cook in| This, the firemen point ont, is in from the service W. G. | great contrast to the action of Cook efter the latter bad ten-|in dismisaing Champion because the form his resigna-|latter secured a position before ten |dering bis resignation as a member etvil lof the fire department . 4 ms tae Cook's Fire Escape Trip. a fee: an is} = *, " v, Chief Cook's trip to New York ME accepted. tut the com| iy tn the interests of the Twen the action of Cook. | tieth Century Fire Escape company is also pointed out as Inconsistent ay and) with his conduct In the Champion to £9 ©) case Cook was gone for five weeks. owever, B®) under salary, ostensibly to attend to T*lthe national convéntion of fire position. chiefs In addition to hia salary he 70 88 wan given $300 by the city pay his expenses. The Twentieth Cen tury Fire Eseape company paid him $1,900, and when not incapacitated, his entire time wes spent in the im lterests of the fire escape people Actions such as this Champion case,” said a member of the department this morning, “an utter lack of any respect for th chief and the knowledge that he has lost all interest In the departn alexcep* in the matter of the purchase ot supp is demoralizing Seat tle’s fire department Conditions are going from bad to worse and some thing should be done st once to rem. ‘edy affairs.” f matron, who examined the girl's ondition. yy T defense brought forward oot to show that the re teacher and pupil Bppealed to the on, in an ¢ fo plumbing + if Clark Ata vacation in or tween was an rent and as @ state toofree whip. pil by a teacher rt then dismissed the otion of Attorney Al that the charge against had not been brought oper statute and that fp the Rainier been made even If it Manteees < ectly brought Justice of th SN ee os SNEAK THIEF AT WORK. ten one of Ny, living at 120 Was b Util the ct he Lacan yee ras bid Beroes the back » vg that while he wae out ening a sneak n money, his cloth own and fatally injured by a car] Many in the} * (RRR ee | | | | VANCOUVER, B.C. Oct, € For the fourth time Mrs teeters ee eeeeee Ton ight; Sunday Probably Fair) Light Bast Winds WASHINGTON, SATURDQZY, OCTOBER 6, 1906. THE MODE AN CAIN. | fact gradually brought about a feel tm of hatred, which termin i in « murder of the moet foul manner Speaking of bis erime, Aram said raph Services.) NEW YORK, Oct. 6—New York ie stilt talking over the murder of Markar Tash by bis brother He had lots of money, bat made Aram, who has since confessed the | me stipport our mother. She starved crime, relating In full the fiendish | to death, and for this | grow to bate him, and to plan as to how 1 might which the erime wn him and protect myself. We! and the body afterwards | kil! manner in | committed, ONE CENT DEMAND YOUR CHANGE vol CENTS PER MONTH NO 192, STATES TAX BOARD LOOTS KING COUNTY * STUDY DRIVE HIM MAD STUDENT OF INSANITY BE COME® A VICTIM OF THE DI6-| EASE HE STUDIED. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct, 6—A rav ing maniac, the result of over-stuc Jot insanity, John MeComb, son of ex Warden McComb, of San Quentin prison, was today committed to the asylute. VICTORIA FROM THE NORTH With 616 passengers and treasure Ball trik hand eee call. & strikingly D804’) dismembered and hidden in exeave | quarreled one night and, setting a | omcuniine te $158,260.88, the steam eg ar wg, “Stren Pag pe | ome and boxears throughout the| bitelier knife, I plunged tt to his| er Victoria arrived in port thin then paramour wo herlcity, and tater discovered by the hdert. You know what followed/ morning after & my passage an Daramour was convicted in| volice. With calm assurance the/ efter that | Te Victoria was too far out at the x ler husband tool ’ Sacer beak thes sleed oF Tite pone hed murderer informed the police that} .Aram ts believed to be perfectly | time the near storm hit the perth _ ro bh rT * b i hd f € wegen 0" mo and weat off again last night he had killed bik brother because | seme, but says that he does not wish | *°" wah ~~ oe yd te the latter nad made more money |te die, although he has but little | i rough wen jsteamers Banta Ana and Ban Ma- than be, and had saved This hepe of escaping the electric chair OIRIKE '3 AFQUR PLACES VOTING BAD ONE ON ANNEXATION KINDRED UNIONS WILL STRIKE IN SYMPATHY WITH GRAIN HANDLERS — FIVE VESSELS DIVERTED FROM PORTLAND HARBOR. PORTHAND, Ore, Oct. 6 notice on all ginning Monday no ship loaded tor b hour ference at Seattle | the owners and strikers. shoremen's and teameters have served noties that tomerrow | #0 out Tuesday im sympathy with the grain handiera. This will com pletely tie ap the waterfront. Five | tramp steamers w Portland to the so SAN MATEO HOWLING GA The foundered the days ago off the Va today ane-like ithe ates hurr or The Longshoremen + union today served abipowners that be be than 50 cents an an increase of 10 cents, unlewe an agreement ts reached at the con with The long unions they wil e diverted from rm THE SUBURBS—"GO ON, YOU OPEN THE GATE. Ana tour Fs a A spt ine aRpobon West Seattle 1 the surround a private company Ing the Nome stenmer fan Mateo |'96 suburbs are voting today on the| At West Beattle at 2:30 o'clock in just such a position. According | (estion of annexation. The precise this afternoon only 4% votes had to Capt. Ross, of the fan Mateo, |questions at issue involved at West |Deen cast. The annexationiats had the squalls came up 36 and continved until October and were of such a violent nature Heptember the majority, but the railroad propo sition ie doubtful Youngstown had cast 61 votes at 2°86 o'clock. It is stated that the Seattle are first, whether Weet Se shell invite her neighboring 1 villages to unite with ber of annexation to 2 jattle towne a that at times the aafety of the ves-|for the purpose eel war in question. Seattle ax a unit, and second, to be citizens are against annexat According to the log book the/taken up in the latter places. At Aiki Point only 19 votes were ship wae unmane bie at times,| whether said towns are willing to|cagt and these were in favor of an and the mainsalle and trysall were|unite with West Seattle for the | negation blown away. Other spare were lost | above purpore. At South Park the fight is being in the heavy seas, and things be West Seattle is also votiig upon | bitterly waged. Sixty votes had gan to look #0 bad that Capt. Ross |the proposition to seil its municipal |been cast at 2:50 this afternoon, the had the sea anchor and hawser|atreet railway system for $20,000 to! repults being uncertain made ready for emergency. PRINCE VICTORIA OFF. The Canadian Pacific torta and Vancouver Her steamer Indianapon« national Steamship company couver and Victoria. POWLEY SAYS HE DIDN'T. Frank M. Powley jes the report that he h atened to kill his wife HONOLULU, Oct. 6—The Mali steamer Manchuria her trial trip today gines. YOUNG MAN IN TROUB steamer Princess Victoria will tonight make her last trip between this city, Vie place on that run will be taken by the of the Inter The Princess Victoria will in all probe bility go on the run between Van who was fined $10 in Judge Gordon's court yeater y for carrying concealed weapons, MANCHURIA ON TRIAL TRIP. | weURGENTS GET UGLY, BUT|sinounts * | in taking to test the en fare. The disarmament ts proceed- itie] ARE QUICKLY SUPPRESSED | ing #moothiy, and I really but | Hitie better than a farce. The per-| AND DISARMED BY AMER! | cont ame which has surrendered is |m@hait to the number known to have CAN MARINES—TROOPS ARE | Meee nn nied ' N ROUTE TO CUBA, yet <i Will Rush Troops MARINES JAIL CUBAN REBELS thousand dol 4 Earnest Curtis, aged 17, of Co WABHINGTON, Oct. 6 lumbta City, was lodged in the ) fietatly denied that or county jail this morning on a seri (Seripps Telegraph Service.) | nem tanued or iontemplater ous eriminal charge a’ | HAVANA, Oct. 6.—Two hundred | tg the holding of the Cuban expe-| | rgonts rode inte Caridad, a sub- | @itiow at Norfolk. The tro will} | MARSAUDILLE TO BE urb of Pu k . today. wav- | be rushed as rapidly as transports ‘ threatening thet eae be obtalned. The president cor | ON TRIAL MONDAY. | ing ‘ 1 ‘ ferred Chief of Staff Hell and | Next Monday Jullus Marsanditie| ® 4 eerie Cha ¢ J uae % a will be tried before Judge F rushed nd and arres > | be ey left for Cuba for murder fn the second oot surgents and frightened the FINALLY RESCUED. In this case Mrs. Bmma Dalley was | reme ed by Gi ' shot by a trapgun while opening ' t - HONOLULU, Oct, 6.—The trans the trunk of Marsaudille t} ort Sheridan was hauled off che | r beach tod. nd was brought into PORE Honolulu harbor . } | ROYALTY TO MARAY. Oe ed * * * * # ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 6—~ & * BANK CLEARINGS. * # A marriage bas been arranged # * * # betweer Grand Duk * #0 c $2,007,866.55 & # nel, b * * 06 1,529,290.43 & oo oF of ® , « # Cont niece of King #| # Increase over same * *# Edward. * 2 ¢ ast year..$ 478,576.12 @ le % found in the comminsar 4 . EERE EEE EEN HH HM ment that the Clenfucgon shortage |@ kek eee AKA HH Acco ate coast at om the nuing Nome, and many in for the rule to ree a high wages are the DAVIS. GRANTED CHANGE FORMER MANAGER OF IRO QUOIS THEATER, HAS CASE TAKEN FROM CHICAGO COURT, CHICAGO, Oct. 6--A change of venue has been granted to Will Davia, former manager of the Iro quois theater, and other defend ants, charged with manslaughter as a result of the Lroquois fire on the night of December 20, 1903, in which 600 lives were lost. The case goes to the Vermilion county ctr eult court of Danville, i FRE. DESTROYS WAREHOUSE STOCK is DAMAGED TO AMOUNT OF $450,000-—-BLAZE 18 WITNESSED BY FIRE CHIEFS EN ROUTE TO CON VENTION AT DALLAS. Oct 6+The warehouse ue LOUISVILLE, Ky Mayfield wo wae destroyed by fire thie morn Stock valued at $450,000 was in ¢ building, and it im estimated that 76 per cent of the stock is lost. Fire chiefs from all over the country, en route to the national meeting at Dallas, saw the fire THINK IT 1S SIMPKINS MAN BELIEVED TO BE SIMP. KINGS, WANTED IN IDAHO FOR STEUNENBERG MURDER, 18 ARRESTED IN ARIZONA. en mills BISREE, Ariz, Oct. 6—-A man supposed to be Simpkins, accused of complicity in the Steunenberg murder, is being held at Cananea, Mexico, where he was arrested Thursday by the Rurales at the in stigation of the Arizona Rangers. The suspect answers In every par ticular the description furnished photographs of nd likeness of the papers are suspect's re of Simpkina, and Simpkins are a soner tradition ing prepared for the he moval to Idaho The following estin on pre | posed local improvements were su! mitted to the board of public works his morning by City Engineer Thomson Lee st Third av. N Nob ill] av. and Fourth av. N 47,200. An extension of two weed was asked by Mr, Thomson to sub mit estimates on the following iw provements: Fourteenth av. N. E Brooklyn av, EB. 47th, 60th, 62d th and 56th st Flagg & Bennett presented a 1 pletion of improvement Emerson st. and leging that access t could only be had now y in the rear Sing to passengers the raine ‘Residents of King Forced to Pay 65 Per Cent Of the Increase of State Government-- Punishment Inflicted for Practices of Seattle Tax-Dodgers. | | ——_—— Oe | | FACTS ABOUT TAXES. Total taxes levied for state purposes in 1905 $2,496,922 Total taxes levied for state purposes in 1906 2,863,240 Increase over last year $ 366,318 Or 15 Per Cent State tax apportioned to King county in 1905 % 640,480 State tax apportioned to King county in 1906 $ 239,796 | Increase over last year Or 37 Per Cent. Increase in state tax le fast $ 366,318 Proportion of this increase apportioned King County. § 239,769 Or 6 Per Cent. ed this year over % 649,480 Or 2% Per Cent. % 889,276 Or 31 Per Cent. King county's share of state tax levied in 1906 levied in King county for county purposes, 1905. $ 499,260 1906 678,283 levied in King county for county purpose $ 179,022 Or 36 Per Cent. Increase over | it year Total state and county tax levied in King county, 1905. $1,148,729 levied in King county, 1906.. 1,567,558 Total state and county ta % 418219 Increase over |. o- Or 264 Per Cent. t year Seeee ee tee eens KRHeeK sets eer eee eet ee eere 7 * * . * * * * * * . * * * * * 7 . . * # King county's share of state tax levied in 1905 * * . . * « . * . * . * * . * * * * SORE With the announcement yester-jstate the increase in the assessed day of the tax levies in King county | *#tvation of railroad and corporate for state and county purposes, the|PToperty Kept more eqltases pace whole iniquitous purpose of the|eaing of other property. Bo to call manipulation of assessment valua-jupon those counties for more state lone this year in the interests of taxes would be to ask more (axe® the big tax-dodgers stands exposed. |° ‘be corporate interests That parpose was to save the tax-| Residence Properties. dodgers from having to pay «ny| In King county, on the covtrary, portion of the increase in state and | the increase in the valuation on real county taxes made necessary by the property and the property of home- growing demands of state and coun-|owners far outran the increase im ty governments and by official ex-|the valuation on railroad property, travagance and mismanagement.) This enabled the state beard te This end was accomplished by sad-|demand more state taxes of King dling the icereased burden on the |county without proportionately in- shoulders of the small property |creasing the taxes levied on corpo owners lration property. The manner in which assesament! The total assesssed valuation of valuations were manipulated this|property in King county this year year in the interests of the tax-| was increased over that of last year dodgers wan clearly set forth by|by more than 100 per cent, most ot The Star in August in ite series of! which increase fell on real estat articles on “How the Poor Man|and-the property of farmers and Pays the Rich Man’s Taxes.” In/home owners. Despite this show- those articles it was pointed out|ing, however, the state board of that the essessement valuations on equalization increased the King pecially homes’ and county assessment by approximate- real estate, home property, and other property /ly $6,000,000, thereby even further belonging to men of moderate|increasing the burden of state tam yorans had been vastly increased, |ation borne by this county while the valuations on the property| In short, the crime committed by of big corporations and property|the state board of equalization owners had been increased but/ against this county consists of fim slightly if at all ing this county for the action of its State Tax Increase. jassessor and equalization board in > aks ond |tadequately assessing railroad and Cee ee ied Bar atatn, perponss| reerees Drapery, Oak te. Bee when assessed, cannot under exist- sein tase Feo oe ine os nes, NK conditions and laws be collect- + gg peal pn f2anee22 e¢ from the taxdodging corpora: ieled last year. Thie ie an increase) eet must be paid by otbes of $266,318, or 15 per cent property owners, who were already Set in cueaitioniaa the increase | paying the taxes of the taxdodgers, among the counties of the state the| County Tax Burden. sesessment ficures were so manip Nor is this the limit of the ulated that $239,796, or 65 per cent | miqui! The county commission- fn the total increase im the state|ers Have Increased the county tam levy was saddled upon King cou Lest ty | burden, for county purposes. Last year this county was called|year the total taxes levied for coun- upon to pay $649,480, or 26 per cent/ty purposes amounted to $499,260, taxes levied for state pur-|This year ft has been increased to This year this county is | $678,022, an increase of $179,022, oF called upon to pay $889,276, or 31/36 per cent per cent of the total. | ‘This increase, like the increase in The saddling of this additional|state taxes, falls almost entirely burden upon this county, instead of | if not entirely, on the owners of read distributing it around over the/ estate, prominent among whom are state, is for the purpose of protect-| farmers and homeowners. The ex- Ing the railroads and other big cor-jtent to which this ts true, and the porate interests of the state from, manner in which % was accom bearing an equitable share in the| plished was pointed out by The cost of maintaining the state gov-|Star in its articles om “How the ernment |Poor Man Pays the Rich Man's In most other counties in the | Taxes.” WILL ASK FOR BAIL ° MONDAY VINCE FABEN WILL nged siege of illness before re | gaining his strength | ASK FOR RELEASE OF WIL-| Dr. R. M, Hall, father of the in- jured m is in almost constant at- LIAM CONSTANTINE, WHO | tendance at the bedside, and has been sim his arrival tn this city SHOT HIS SON-IN-LAW, JESSE from Butte. Mrs. Hall and Flall's MALL. younger brother are the only other . | persons permitted to see him be- | aides the physicians and nurses, | The wife of the injured man has Vincent Faben, who has been re-) not as yet visited him, nor has tained as attorney for Willlam sent any inquiries to the hospital jstantine, charged with the shooting | regarding his cor dition. Since the 1 his son-in-law, Jes M. Hall, shooting has been at the home | ar ed this morning that on | of her m apparently taking no | Monday he will make application | int ndition of her |for ball for his client wou d hush a As there is now @ prompect of ung Hall's ‘overy, the cha of murder ot, under the eb TRIP POSTPONED. an apie aaypse pr yrteng 0 SANTA BARBARA, Cal, Oct. 6.— reihyd The trial trip of the new cruiser € for today, has eagles Mr raged fl eso 1 on account of the he the proof of gu * positive ¢ ¢ presumption great # ae RRR RRR Be r { of Mr. H ‘ * * what im * PLATT TO RESIGN. * Dr his § ' t * ¥ ae hie te 1 *« WA Ni Oct. 6—It * at t «1 it reported * tient ry # that Se "| is soon to # re const # resign on account of i health, ® He ery | * * h he may after a p ee