The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 16, 1907, Page 1

Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News of the Upper House From Sthe 32nd Dis-| Finds That the Eye of the Speaker Is Very to Catch. Service.) Jan Sena ‘of King county, me im the senate yea- te wondering stake be sure of recognition and hear- ine.” But the completeness of the insur- gent victory hae upset his caloule- tiena, Before cony sion the president majority leaders as to wram So yesterday when Wililams rose their pro- was ure Sto jon the upris- [to address the senate the president to have reptied: | looked blankly past him and recog nd the merite | nixed an inaurgent but they tell me for s new mem " presiding offi. to address the first catch the eye or lew, tT 1 wit always SINESS UNDER In introducing a state banking law Williams has so framed it as to have revenge on two bankers in his diatrict who have opposed him tn politics, Remabers @ Dixon, who have a small but prosperous bank at Fremont. Made tor the Immediate Purchase of ‘the Factory at State Penitentiary-Many Introduced. Service) by Condon, of Kitsap county, breth or of the registrar at the state enl- versity, appropriating $600,000 from the state general fund for sew bulldings at t university, to be used by the exposition, ‘The senate unanimousiy passed a DM appropriating $70,000 for legts- lative §=expenses. Presifent Pro ‘Tem. Jones, of Tacoma, presided for the firet time during consideration of this Dill, and Senator Knicker docker, of King county. @uring the consideration of the jute Dill. The senate also postponed the Ruseell-Btewart memorial exerciees from Fridey until next Wednesday, ae Friday will be occupied with con- sideration of committee appotnt- ments, whieh Lieut. Gov. Coon wilt submit tomorrow afternoon, The senate adjourned at noon until # ofcleek tomorrow. Im the house @ joint resolution was adopted unanimously appeinting « committee to request William Jen- nings Hryan to address the legieia- ture Friday morning, Bryan iee~ tures here tomorrow evening. Al- though this resclution was report- ed to the senate, action on it was overlooked before adjournment. ‘The house adopted resolutions of respect to the memory of former Representatives Joseph H. Dawes, Dm P. Bowers and A. & Meiche members of the last session, now deceased. The house met gain at ponder tBrnd nth ha ocloek this afternoon. IS INTRODUCED IN LATURE TODAY tm cities of more than 50,000 a cap ttal of $200,000 ts required; banka and . te. &--By Polson, creating state Bt 9 of arbitration; iabor and laber statistics. S&B. &—By Jones, appropriating $70,000 for legisiative expenses; he @rection of buildings | committee of whole. tpiversity and provid & B. 10-—By Polson, creating thereof by the Ala#-| state board of tax commissioners; exposition, appro | judictary 5S. B. 1l—-By McGowan, appropri By Hetson, providing ajuting $19,960 for expense of Hticn F epert district to com-|tion between Washington and Ore m Benton and Franklin| gon concerning the boundary; ap propriations. y Boone, prohibiting} §. B 12-—By Polson, defining Hquors within! perjury and providing @ penalty on state col | judictary B @dueationa! insti-| §. B. 12—By Polson, to puniah }publie employes for accepting amending code | bribes or to giving of bribes. to allow firet| & B 14—By Cotterill, amending who have| constitution, section 1, art. 3. to % months of | provide the initiative and referen iMB6 state, to receive! dum of laws by 8 per cent of the Certificates; jfudt-| voters BE if E 1--By Condon, appro from the general S. B 15—By Kline, relating to norma! echeols to allow the Belling ham school to add collegiate course equal to that at the state univer. sity, educational & B. 16—By Kitne, providing an additional superior court judge for Whatcom county; judiciary In the house House Bill 1—By Reid, approprt ating $90,000 from the revolving fund of the penitentiary immediate ly for the purchase of jute, passed both houses under suspension of rules, E’S QUEST ENDS IN MYSTERY i ets seo William H Oho, set his fare toward Bnd heft hin si WW Bratt, amending road B for election, instead road supervisors Wad district, and for roads and BAH road poll tax, roada Polson, providing a} years’ imprisonment fitness or jaror judiciary state bank ed that the missing man's moth is dying and desires to see her once more before her death Mrs. Fletcher says the family Pe Bie fortune In| never heard from the son since he Bb Whether he died Winfield, Kan, tn 1895. Bev Was killed. or ply months ago ehe heard that there Bis identity ier an was ® man in Seattle by that name @ unknown ¢ but does not know whether It war Whig morning r. Barrack is about 44 and asked , ee tres ce hr the wom | pia lanfer several 4 but | }- | seripet f th iter of tt from f ‘ ook for the man. His plare for several days, bu' am al-l\scription of the writer o! eo ex era not in the eity directory 1, most afraid to tell you, but should | traordin note a, Wins k file at the poatottice : Maurice Thompson, Brother of yt ny Trial, Is never fee! guiltioss We rwere| Mau Thompson was visibly pam lynefed and | knew of it. Do not pertu when he told one or two} number of minor tnjuries Given a Note That Tells of onspiracy to Do |r anybody about this letter. of his most intimate friends of the received a sever-inch ga Away With Slayer of Judge Emory If He Is Ac-| re ian (oe. 3 ack of the head, in which Ma Pie understand,” he ! th as Rnd te be tenes, Ome quitted. | Ageording to one of the employes | Here have been rumors current t fete an ene Oe _——- of the court house, the girl on-| the offect that Chester committer io who was on the] Plans to lynch Chester Thomp-| The text of the letter is as fol |tered the corridor of the main floor, | f° aie cule actrees net i then ineleted| him on a verdict of insantt were| “Although | am afraid you will! brotHer o« nd be foun ne clerk af Briere vtage ned ‘ oa sat the bannounced in the startling contents think it is bold, | am writing to you | offered to take the letter to t ~ i cevOr oe atten snensees 2 Sere Med Fo canded. to Maurice| because | went to school with/ thinking he was at his po dance Heo dbl ag A MB Be “s “ ite of the jot @ letior ther of the youthfut| Chester Thompson and want to help | cashier's cage of the county cle : ' fact that his own son was more se-|Thompaon, brother of ihe yeullht) Hie go Rane alle eta Ap Fe a Soe Sepa ee a the ons ‘ot the} “A terrible plan is being formed | ployed. Starting up staire tt ink cedaesthien Gh alee, eabedis al BM Atiorney PD. Hux y eee ee nause by wn 18-year-old girl.|by bad people in Seattle to lynch | bearer of the letter met Mau eytes tapi ve I Pf A enppe tty cattle yesterday | your brother if the jury lets him| coming down, after his brief visi ne um ‘ um te: he at De SEATTLE ELECTRIC CO tate bafta: od irip from oo because of Bont a father| A hurried perusal of the tnyat to Chitago for a ¢ of t LAYING TRACK RAPIDLY. |) ene of the matchlessly dra-|ls one of them. | cannot tell you | ous missive, and Maurice sprang to | ate an lopted in that ¢ low Imatte trial of his younger brother,|who they are, but know some of | look for the clerk, and the two hur. | after I as disante ith a the ’ 4 Wiectric company ts|He went at once to th perior|them are prominent lawyere and|ried to the exits, but no girl of | view of ' nilar law 1 y h» a court house, recelve letter and, | other men, and they do not belteve| 18 years was to be found force } The yt Re Owned by Bw apid progress on the 0 1 etore he s1d tear-open the en-| that Chester is ae Insane, aid _* wan ven re nd zo t € it O88 slde and « a igh Weat Seattle, Wrom | o, unecnventional enued ||. believe it because | used to know | looking,” declared the cle ' iit & fractore ft vilen. Chester Thompson,” she was gone,| “I have known about this terrible | sesaion of practically no ferther de- provided JATOR WILLIAMS IS VERY MUCH OUT OF IT SENATE AND HOUSE THE SEATTLE STAR WEATHER FORECAST—Goneraily Fair Tonight and Thursday, Fresh East Winds, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 16, 1907. SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, ~ NOBODY DOIN’ NOTHIN’ ate banks attic shall The bill provides that in cities the, sine of have & capitalisation of not lems than $250,000, This provision, should tt become a law, will drive the Reme berg & Dixon bank and many oth ere throughout the state out of bus. inomm, The banking law ts vigor. ously urged before the lemisiature by the State Rank Aasoolation, and Promises in some form to be passed. Willlama recetved another jolt when the first batch of the forth coming flood of direct primary pe- litlons Was recetved in the senate. When the resolution was read Wil- ama, anxious to appear active in the direct primary matter, rose and moved that the petitiona be placed on file ipletely ignoring the motion, which recety » necond, Lieut. Gey. Coon announced that the petitions would be referred to the committee on privileges and elec. tons when the same shall have been appointed. WAY DEATH AT GEORGETOWN, Mra, James MeMurphy, wife of Jamen MoMurphy, an expressman, died at her home, Sixteenth and Alaska ate, at Georgetown, this torning, She leaves besides her husband a Mttle ehild 2 years old. Seo ee Lee ee ate LUMP COAL SUPPLY SHUT DOWN AT THE BUNKERS Famine Reached Its Crisis Today When the Pacific Coast Company Announced” ‘wcLouD IN JAIL Its Inability to Deliver More Lump Coal Until the Weather Moderates— Schools Will Be Forced to Close—Companies May Refuse to Accept Orders From Speculators. JACK FROST TO WOOD mame rx AN AX, NOW SOME OF YOU FELLOWS GET BUSY IN THE WOODS.” x MeCloua. » siayer of Peter Bimer in @ (ght a week ago last Sunday, was this morning taken to the cou ty jail from the county hospital, where he has been nursing an in- jured head and two cracked ribs aft- or the freight train accident which, fortunately for the deputios who were pursuing him, aided in his cap- ture at the hospital at Tacoma. MeCloud seems to be recovering rapidly from the effects of the acet- dent. He ts still persistent tn bis claims that he killed Eimer in self defense. The prosecuting attorney's offier had taken no stepe this morn. ing of filing information against the prisoner the mine; intertiew with e Gtar representa tive morning co Oo oe OO ee eee de tet tenet ‘ emapressinen HM. Odiunad, a musician at 191 but have been forced to ‘| Mixth ay. N, called at the Roslyn | by ements of the public,” he conl,|/bunkers this morning to get some) sald. "We have not fixed the blah mck coal. He was informed that wen wat have accepted them) that be sould have cae sock of the | rea begged to havi coal Our that he could have one sack of the | profitewepresent only from 16 cen’ to supply any but mine run coal coal, weighing 100 pounds, for 50|to §8 per hour for the time we p’ Domestic conaumoré and the pub | cow After figuring « moment / tn. 1s not more than _ Me schools which not heated by | Odlund fownd that at that rate ft ae steam plants are dependent on the | Lwould cost him $10 per tom, fnatead coal dealers wish to driv lump coal, and the interruption Of fot $5, as was first supposed. He| Gs OREof the business, but if they dealers refuse to the Pacific Coast compeny’s supply | refused to take the coal. are to supply the per ae means the closing of all the smaller they @y, why do people stop us| an @xtonaton of | Oetipe Otap Spneeon. and beg ws to baul cus: for them?" DAY SENTENCE wel Dealers Criticised. Fuet dealera are not exerting Moe Wappenstets tnat night detatied| mommiven to secure wood to re| BW. Newth, the whaler captain Officers in CitiseR’s| lieve the fucl shortage, according| *ntenced by Judge Hanford to one at the bunkers of the Pa) to 4 of wood outside of the| day's Imprisonment, ts today serv- oe go Goal company. > ob Sy abe ave attempted to sel? the fuel famine im the homes anti! | In secordance with a suggestion (made by The Star, Chief of Po der the surveillance Jatier Emi! o ng hie term in the county jail un- A. J. Allen, 2020 Dearborn PAY ONLY ONE CENT DEMAND YOUR CHANGE VOL, 8. NO. 279. as CENTS PER MONTH, AQ) ARE DEAD IN KINGGTON with rellef suppliew for Kings- CITY 16 IN | RUINS—FOUR HUN.” ay DRED DEAD AND THOUSANDS | ‘”" INJURED — BUBIN SEC. | ice.) TION DEMOLISHED — AID 16 / , Although RUSHING TO SCENE. | comme stion with Kingston, Jamaica, is interrupted, there is ery as ae | every evidence that great damage AANA Re HH | and lors of life nas resulted from the disastrous earthquake shocks, (erin is Telegraph rvice.) | the first of which was felt late KINGSTON, Jamaica, Jan Monday afternoon, followed at in- 1é—Firet direct communica tervals by of unt) late yea- tion with the stricken city | terday afternoon, when the latest Kinshrdiu nemfwy p-nebrsdam | «¢ were received from a Kingston was overwhelmed by five miles from the stricken 40 earthquake at 3:50 o'clock Monday afternoon. All sources within a radius of ten miles have been damaged and almost po ity It has been learned that many of the most important buildings have Peer rerrr rr Terese eee sees <-eeeee veesventeneeee seeeee bee and although the every house tn the city has of life is large, the cable com- | —— de moves * been unable to obtain ‘ire broke out after the ity Met. The dead earthquake and completed the 1 to be mortly Discks, al- work of destruction. The bus «bh « number of Europeans and iness section is a smoldering ‘ ans are missing heap of ruins The killed number 400, and Killed in Hospital. thousands are injured. Man » LONDON, Jan, 16.—It ie offietal- of these will die, There were y announced that Bir James Fer- no fatalities at the ( tant € was killed at Kingston. Springs hotel. Bir James T soldiers were killed in t guson is among the ki"ed f the military hospital. floere were killed except Maj. ee oe ee sithough many were ser- a inded | Vessels Go to Relief ine Young and Constantine, sh co Moyal Steam packet com- LONDON, Jan, 16.—The or teers Indefatigable and Briliant, no tag Pe gee PR tive Hho the West Indies, have been orderea | “T***!n, but slight shocks con- te the relief of Kingston. fe See Seen eee ee Among the prombaent ond Ole | paring to send reliet from the tinguished persone now in Kingston, | "#hboring British colontes, and from whom no word has been ad received, are Sir Alfred Jones, Hall wit Need pt moa Caine, Viscount Montmorres, H. 0, SHINGTON, D.C oe Arnold-Foster, Bir Thomas Hughes. eae yy department dispatch Sir Thomas Shann, and others of from Kingston save equal prominence “Fearful earthquake, followed by fire, has destroyed Kingstes. Hun- dreds of lives are lost. Food is Dewey Leaves With Cargo. BOSTON, Jan. 16—Tte steamer|nadiy needed. The consulate is Dewey salle today with @ miscel- partly destroye laneous cargo for Kingston om United States Fruit company Lose Half a Million. informed that the mercantile por- NEW YORK, 16.—-The Tour. tion of Kingston ts destroyed, in- jist agency estimates that 2,006 cluding thetr offices. Americans were visiting Kingston at the time of the quake. Dis patches this afternoon say the city is practically ruined. The property Joss is half a million dollars. Later calculations will probably increase this amount. TRAIN DRAGS MAN TO HIS DEATH UNFORTUNATE WORKMAN morgue. RUN DOWN BY COLUMBIA 4| t own PUGET SOUND SWITCH EN- | happened, as nolther Hob Williams, GINE AND TERRIBLY MAN: the engineer; P. Peterson, the GLEO—PICTURE OF YOUNG #witchman, nor Harry Fletcher, foreman of the Pee. crew, Hi om ia 18 FOUND ON T Goa eed struck The ® eupposition, bow- Hamburg Line Sends Aid. NEW YORK, Jan. 1¢.—The Ham- burg-Amertcan liners Allegheny and Prince Joaquin eal, the former on Friday and the latter on Satur- eee to > the. Bosnej-Wateon Bonney Watson of celebration of bo school, anes pia: whose wagons, The Stari si abo owns a shingle mill in| Larsen. By way of colebrat a " school board pomaik aa. ¢. Ex tenroca have been feriring # City, says that he offered) bi* Gay of days, the captain deter Serta aeatas Ma: tat tht Go was at Se — _— — ta percentage af the number in! 1 to sev-| mined to have « breakfast served tr a jing the tracks, probably enter endeavoring to get coal, with but) #"™®e P ae to 100 cords of wood ne lumbia @ Puget Sound railroad,| one of the all-night restaerants on Iittle assurance that the a) tne woking eae one who are | oral dualers In town, because he un-|styia, and secured the services of «| 000%, 1 ehis morning, backed &| Railroad av. although mot a cent jump coal could be contis: The | at bunkers to obtain coal to hawk | ge, that people were suffer | local restaurant's caterer, ip the! ight car down upon an unknown |of méney was found on bis per larger schools with steam plants| t consumers af estorsionats nes linger fuel, bat could find no mar satis mies omen, Poli gare PP who was attempting to cross| eon, ‘There were two fretaht an will be heated with mine run coal Pee ge Fong te ya S toe Denkers | eetaee Mr — gd 7 could) Served this morning. and Capt |the tracks at Railrond av. and At-| standing on the track, and evident- Dealers Condemn Speculators. | but after getting thelr loads, drive jo oe a that the ranchers near|Newth and his breakfast wilt for|/antle st. and killed bim instantly |ly he did not notice that one of That the deaicrs in many Cases! about the stredta offering thelr coal on ond Bnet dn vac| many, many months be the talk of| The man’s right arm was torn off jthese had an engine attached. | ty have many © joy the left arm, shoulder, chest and| Marks on one foot of the man indt- have been reaping . harvest froa| for prices running up to $80 8 108.) nidar wood plied up ready to dis | the county's prisoners face badly lacerated, giving evi-|cate that he was at the outside the coal shortage and that much of Their presence in the coal line has| pone tt | ; “ * vey BE ghee aka . wat a arg ag Hm Bo PP acpi been one of the chief reasons why alg Bartram ctation on the Co| FUNERAL OF MRS. WHEELER, per) Ag} yrs Aeon ‘aon the jeg oe ore ere i classes moan hy the coul| regular coal dealers cannot fljambin & Puget Bound railroad Sikietet anes of Hester Anne|track. The man hed a picture of| Besides the picture, there was speculator, fe the verdict of nearly! their orders from customers. comes the report that there are/ - ee | f woman in the veet pocket | nothing on the bod alt legitimate fuel dealers in Se-| Chief Wappenstein bar deter!) 000 eorda of dry wood there ready! Whe" were held from the resi-/a young woman in the veet p | nothing ‘on the y save a pipe. | attle. mined to put th | @ence of Mra, A. Farr at 2 o'clock » men out of buat | for shipment if a market is found,| In an Interview with Justin Cook | ness, and the Pactfic Const Coal) and 660 cords of dry fir ts reported this afternoon. Rev, W. Reese con of the W. L. Keene Fuel a G |eompany this morning notified bic | within sight of Renton | ducted the services. Interment was this morning, The Btar was [that they would cooperate with| Hotels Aare Gaine | made in Lakeview cemetery. formed that $1 for a sack of wai him fn every way, so that coal may Dowh-town hotels are re was bitant, Mr. Cook declaret|be deitvered first to the drivers benefit from the fuel Pe oi rue that 75 cents for a 110-pound sack| who can produce legitimate orders of Black Diamond lump «aed 50/\ from customers, and who are cents for the mine run and nut coal.) known by the bunker men to be! an inefease in patronage. It ts ew timated that 360 of the 1,000 or more fatailies who « out of coal FEDERAL. ts a good price for the coal, deliv: | regular coal dealers. jin ti city have closed up their) ered to any pince within a radiuc Watch to Continue. housda and have gone to hotels,/ of a mile and a half from the baad | Two officers will be kept at the| where they can k arm. Those yard. | bunkers from now on, and all ped-|who eannot afford to pay hotel HG. Winsor, an employe of the! diere will be forced to form a line | rates have remained in their houses Ourhe af Pa nym y _ ls at the rear of the bunkers. Coal|and have suffered morning sta’ at he did not see) will be sold in the front only to| Inaliflity of the Pacific Coast com n why the speeuiator did not have ®/reguiar drivers, and they will be as to aupply the Seattle Blectrio| Federal mail to this city from Tight to charge whatever he choose! attended to before any others company with coal for public con-| Washington has been greatly de for his coal, even though it did) |: ts estimated that the chief's| sumption, due to the freezing of the | layed by snow storms in the middle couse suffering among the poorer! action will relieve the waual line at| bunkers and waehers at the com-| west and much inconvenience to classes. Mr. Winsor grew some | the bunkers of about 50 per cont of! pany’e mines at Newcastle, prevent-| federal officeholders here has re what excited during the interview | its teams, this being the porcentage|ed the plan of the Seattle Riectric|eulted. Mall éGoming over the and used heated ianguage | nald to be speculators, and that per-| company to carry coal on ite cars| Great Northern is four and five None But Mine Run. jsons placing thetr orders with reg-| from affording any appreciable re ays late. The Northern Pacific is The Pacific Coast company this | ular dealers can be supplied om tief, | #4 hours behind time morning hai very little lamp or nut much shorter notice. The company has announced tte| Several Mouring mille in Seattle coal on hand. The coal which was| Three coal dealers have already | willingness to deliver coal by the | have been experiencing muc h diffi left Im the bunkers at the mines|been reported by the police on) cariomd to dealers at the ends of | culty in keeping a sufficient supply had sweated afd when the cold|wateh—the Pacitic Transfer comm, the various lines or wherever there|of wheat on hand to operate their snap came, the nut and lump coal! pany, a man of the name of Wilsan,| are sifiings avaliable, but there was | mills, owing to the car shortage were frozen into one solid lump,|and a man of the name of White,| no coal yesterday and none could be|and the long delays in getting | and will not run from the t secured by the company today aside | freight trains into tle. The! to the cars until thawed. Th R. Johneon expreseman, who! from @ #hipment of Rente | Centennial mill, with a capacity of | pany has a good supply of mine run} has been handiing coal, came to} most of which was neede | 23,000 barrels a day, is running} the defense of his fellows in an the power plants of the company. | short coal this morning. but many of the STRANGE NOTE TELLS OF PLAN | jover his heart Coroner Carroll the The dead man was about 32 years six feet tall and weighed 199 pounds. He was evi- a working m ALASKAN MUMMY HAS BEEN FOUND An Alaskan mummy. That ts the! The skin of the mummy is dried latest unique thing to come from | and has petrified to a great extent. the north. This mummy, which is| The hair shows that growth kept genuine, absolutely, is now on the| up, evidently many months after Pacific Coast company’s pier A, en-| this Alaskan native breathed his was notified of] of age, ae an investigation | about The body was | dently ac —" om mt jclosed in a large box carefully | Inst |packed. It will undoubtedly be| Surrounding this mummy were \shipped to the Smithsonian Insti-| scores of grinning skulls. Accord- | tute, although there is a bare possi-| ing to the legends, there was once bility that it will be donated to the| an Alaskan chief who, when h museum of the University of Wash-| captured his enemies, behead ington or the Alaska clul them and placed one of his slaves This mummy was brought south| to watch over the skulls until on the Cottage City yesterday by| death | H. A. Baver, of Sitka. The mummy| From the story now circulated by is of an Indian and was found in a| the natives who were made aware | cave on the coast of Alaska not far] of the unique find, they state that from Sitka an old chief was killed In war with Around this mummy is woven aj the Chilkats and his tribe was story of early Alaskan Indian] wiped out of existence legendry The mummy was found The poor slave, alone in his cave, lin & cave entirely protected by | not knowing what would happen if shrubber which had nearly walled/ he left his lonely vigtl, his food up the opening to the ¢ | sug being suddenly cut off, stol- Forty feet from the opening the | idly sat at his post until overtaken mummy was found in a sitting) by death posture, the head bent forward and A finding of this mummy fur. resting in the hands. The mumr s further scientific research in was sitting on a hewed board and unknown of Alaska and the nature very curiously made th mummy will be one of the coun- board a part of the mummy try’s curtosities. Rae ARGUE FOR STAY. R. Bell, attorney for » In the action of the r residents who are try- ire a stay of the election iary 17 on the question ation by an injunc the county commis- f « the polia to- 1 his side of the case Yakey this morning. resider { the contested re- t to hear the court TREATY IS SIGNED TRAMP BOATS ARE DOOME Flour r ttle, been red tes neisco have ASHING Telegraph TON, D. Service.) » Jan. 16.— the erection at Ri today. Mexico lvert beyond ave | of mp rande t of the ata tthe $4 nd few tramps ~~ water im- in Mexican quanti for her