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FAIR DEAL IN to Get None the Best of the Fight for! 36th District-Seattle Democratic! Acting With Insurgent Majority. wr tos! Bervien.) tees» t at Joo Ly Be senate | j The} « enters | « for the | teh the} ty" tietriet i Cot In bie! ma gete forth that in Rat et the Sixth ward, | Soattio oar east: | nie} A for candidate, : top of} ‘orth that) j | and that} he offtetal cived 63, nan € @ to~ than the] it ie ad- with the! > Raving Packs twee flew mt of Fraud, ney in totale 4 story of the ac- dtted. i tx act | peteons famitiar with | snd ca-| more pertinent fact Which has « to fig- | bearing on the case and will be the same | brought out in the trial, if trial be " normally alhad. ‘Thie is the fact that Lyons Mt legal baltote in each) and ome or two of hin political proper markings | henchmen made a tour of certain of of approximately §/ the precincts, Inctuding the two total cost, so it Ie} where the fraud was committed in the ballot box stuf- | a closed carriage, after midnight on punting, | the night the ballots were being in tact | counted, It was about the time of, irotmediately after there visits, te watchers neted In the seoneeenes ofa JESSE JONES. | President ProTem. of the State Senate tives Get se ET Are Offered Before the Noon Ad- t-Senate Meets This Afternoon to Receive ee Appointments. AARAAREAARS propriations of $162,000 for sew bafidings at the «tate college @t * | Pullman. By « resolution, the house voted to each member $5 worth of pom tage stamps, and adjourned to meet at 2 o'clock STATE RECEPTION ANO BALL. (Star Special Services.) OLYMPIA, Jan, 11.—The date of the state reception and ball given by the eftimens of Otympia te the mem- bers of the legisiature and state ad- Minivtration has been set for the evening of Tuesday, Janwary 2%, and from the number of requests for invitations which are being re ceived by the chairman of the ar- fangements committee it te evident that the affair will prove a. crush pes od equaled in the eopial history . the Capitol City. The requests mpd yer aed gee | for invitations came from nearly ev- tn. which | °7%, 0% in the state. ieee tong ont The grend march will be led by sith the in-| t2 MeClarty, the mayor of Otym- pis, aod Mra Mead, wife of the governor of the state. Next in line wit be Gov. Mead and Mra Me- Clarty. They witt be followed by the fodees of the supreme court and state officials with their wives, The affnir wit! be held in the Lobby, the building to which the legisiative vention of 1901 was held. | Raveninea HEIGHTS emeres RAVENNA HEIGHTS, J. BRYAN S INVITATION. Wash. dan. 17. presented & the house en- the Stevenson Washington for of the Snake and introduced was! ortioning datrict by Ranck, « ratl-| Jennie M. Hursley, of Miller's Bay, servant bill] Wash. were married Monday night for three new su-| at the residence of the bride's uncle, and salting Br |G. & Moore, Led Rev. os cou Mp a The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News SOTTERILL IS ASSURED SENATE 4 fe of uniformly etraight repub jlican dallote drawn out of the t in secession An feature of the Lyons Cotteriil contest which may con etude it in Cetterti'e favor without reaching a trial is the fact that ant has made ne effort which pro the cont to comply with the law Vides that such a contest shall be | imatituted In the district within #0 days after the election and the testimony taken p to the con Venting of the legislature, Hutson’s Glase House, Comment bas been aroused here by the fact Utat Senator Hutson, of Franklin and Walla Walla counties appears to be the floor leader of the fight for Lyona, a cireunsatance which is in iteelf significant in view of the fact that Hutson is not & legally constituted momber of the fenate. As already widely pro claimed, Hutson forfelted hin seat under the constitution when he ac ted the appotntinent aa aneiet- | = at United tee district attorney | under Attorney P. ¢ Sullivan. at) Beattie. Tt te even hinted that if) he becomes too active friends of Cotterill may offer a resolution ask tne the committee on privileges and elections to Investigate (he standing of Hutson, Cotterit’s action In getting into the “new deal” combination, now tn full centrol of the senate, insures that his case will, throughout {tv entire consideration, be heard on tts merits, as shown by the legal phases and the testimony, This vir tually tnaures that he will retain his seat. Meanwhile Cotterill hae THE SEATTLE STAR WEATHER FORECAST—Fair Tonight, Friday Fair and Not #0 Cold. Fresh East Winds, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, JAN, 17, 1907. “AIN'T HE THE FATAL WRE KID?” SEAR EROKL ASSES BANK CLEARINGS, 17, 17, 1907 1906 $1,560,074 1,262,963 & Increase over same ry * * * * * 7 * & date last year * $ 287,120.66 * *. HR FLOOD CAUSES SUFFERING Telegraph Bervice) EVANSVIL. Ind, Jan. 17 if the warm raine tain to oceur her continue. acres are flood rooned on knolls, starvation. kk is me waffering from eA 2ECK ON THE G. N. AT BELLINGHAM Owl Train From Vancouver Takes Open Switch and Crashes Into Waiting Train in the Great Northern Yards—Frank Watts, a plunged actively Into the work of ithe seasion and has atven evidence fof an intention to de the beat por sible work of which he is capabie regardions of the effect ft have on big membership, In bb troduction yesterday of the initta- tive and referendum, 4 measure copted after the Oregon law, with amendments along the itne of the best thought on the cecal ECT PRIMARY BILL. RODUCED IN HOUSE ding Iwncheon was served, the couple ieft for Ta coma, their future home. BRYAN ARRIVES IN SEATTLE este Wiliam Jetaings Bryan, prodable domocratic candidate for the presi dency fm 1908, will arrive in Seat the over the Great road mbout 4 o'clock thie afternoon. it is possible he may cancel his beo ture tonight at Olympia of account of not maktag | connections THROUGH TRAIN REACHES CITY The Great Nor Northern | has cleared tte tracks to St. Paul. The first train to artive in Seattie, direct from St. Paul since January 12, reached bere at 3:10 o'clock thin morning. The “Past Mall” train, carrying the government mail, weat into Spokane over the Northern Pa cific tracks and arrived in Seattle at 12:20 o'clock yesterday after noon The Great Northern's Past Mail, due yesterday, is at Spokane, hav ing been the firet train to travel directly over the Great Northern road for several days. The train ts divided into three sections and they are expected to arrive {6 Seattle tonight The Northern Pacific te still ran ning one day behind schedule. Ali of yeuterday’s trains aré due to ar ied this Laienees i Engineer Is Wounded, Passengers Are Seriously Injured. (Star Special Gervice.) RELLINGHAM, Jan. ii-An open switch cauned « fetal wreck on the Great Northern road at 2/48 thie mornin, n the south bound Owl train from Vancouver oreahed head-on into @ passenger train which was stationary on @ side track Im the Great Northern yards ! | After the wreck the stationary care e- INTERSTATE COMMERCE (Star 8 BPOKANE, missioner FF. K afternoon for Tacoma t the coal shortage, ” Prouty goes to Denver tomorrow Mr. Lane will hear the evidence tn the rate case in the coast cities STABBING AFFRAY AT SKAGWAY (@tar Special Service.) BSKAGWAY, Alaska, Jan. 17.-—~ ai Service.) Jan, 17 Wai Killed and seriously Injured, but none fatally The two locomotives were tele seeped, the tender of each being forced through the cab of the other by the mamentum from the coaches attached fo the south bound train. broke away aod would have plunged into the bey had they not struck a here, Frank Watts, a company | siring of freight cars, which held | (yet night Dent Mill dead- watehman who was in the cab of the | them on land, ly en with by ogo Gons, stationary engine, wae inatgntly| Asetstagt @uperintendent N. Cla jongshorewan. The men came to ieilled, and Eagineer Beott, of the | Chapman, of mg ia here with | blows in the Mascot saloon and be moving train, was fatally injured, | the eg Re He will en) fore the two were separated Goss He jumped, but wae crushed In the | denver tp place the responsibility.) was badly knifed. He staggered and that he believes the Mea-| through the saloon doors and fell to fran sileawed the ewiteh to r®-\ the sidewalk with 15 knife wounds main open ia responsible. in his body. He was taken to the cITYS willingness to admit that the mu Mayor Moore hae offered to necessary power from the city ee ee ee ee ee ee | company, * * @ The public ie not receiving the *% ite charter, the Geattle Electric * * * Se nade ah atid ara» stall NEW YORK HAS BLIZZARD (Seripps Telegraph Service.) NEW YORK, Jan. 17.—A blizsard prevails here today and rail com: / munication has practically ceased. There is « heavy wind from the sea and the thermometer registers 16 degrees above zero. WARM WEATHER NOW PROM!SED Warmer weather in promised Be- attic from now forth. Last might} IF HE’S SANE TORR R RRR RSE RRL LIL SST Oe SE WHY DOES S, E, CO. DECLINE Why dove the Seattic Electrie company refuse to accept the offer made by the city to furnish It with sufficient power to enable it w rencer the ordinary service te the peopte of thie city, beth in ite tranaportation and lighting department? le it pure pig headedness on the part of its officials, and « carrying out of the “public be d———" principle, or is it an wn the test better than Its own plant at Electron? The number of care running on its troliey lines today is lees than 80 per cent of the ordinary nurnber. that on mest fines only twe care an hour are running; on others a 40-minute service and on none of them more than four care an hour, except during the rush houre, terms that the city exchanges power with the Snoquaimie » and on the same terme that the Geattie Electric company obtained power from the Bnoquaimie company. mayor has eo informed Jacob Furth, president of the Geattic Kiectric company, and alee Mr. ent of transportation. The offer haw nat yet been accepted. The means of transmitting the power from the city lighting plant te the Seattic Electric company existe. OFFER: nicipal lighting plant hae stood This means supply the company with the lighting plant, on the same The Kempster, the superintend- accommodation which, under * * * * * * * * * + * * * *. * * . * * * * * * * 7 * * * . * * company is bound to provide. @ * * . . 2 IES ae the Horthweet district of the state wan Several degrees warmer than any other part of the country, the thermomefer standing at 29 above sere at & velock this mérning. which is degrees warmer thah yes- terday morning at the same time: The highest the thermometer has istered during the last two days yesterday afternoon at 4 p. m., APPEALS JOHN KELLY physicians say he will recover. ee was arrested. ¥. M,C. A. MAY NOT ERECT abeya@e, for the present, the plan for the addition of two corner af Fourth av. and (Beripps Telegraph Service.) John Kelly, formerly one a MORE sToniee To BUILDING. ‘The building committee of the stories to the original design of the Madison wt. The cost will be one- LINCOLN, Neb. Jan. 17.-~A bill bill wae introduced which provides ing a law suit to the federal court | 1 of Seattle's best known bluecoats, ¥. MC. A. baw decided to hold in prov building new In course of erection at the third more than the firet estimate war introduced In the senate today dren under the age of 16 Another that any insurance company remov must forfelt Its leense to do bust WIFE DENOUNCES faced an irate wife this morning in | whem it wae $2 degrees above sero! ine aivorce sult brought agninst Indications pow point to the ,him in the superior court weather gradually becOming warm-]" srs Anna Kelly, the wife, ac- er, and if @ warm spell should #ud- | ewttt? the eretwhile policeman of dently strike the city floods would | habitual drunkenness Sod shane of STORE Bp tia euleoms, her and her children. Mra. Kelly became particilarly eloquent when she told of her bushand’s alleged visite to Turki#h bath houses after John F, Logan, a crimfnal attor-}some of hie alleged orgies. Kelly ney of Portland, ia spending a few t with his face in his hands and days in Beattie, accompanied by his | never once lifted his head during wife his wife's qraigume nt AND Criminal Lawyer Here. wer ap re = HE’S “SPOOFING” The greatest flood in years ta cor: | thousands of | COMMISSION COMING. | Com: | thie | a So IF HE ISN'T “SPOOFING” HE'S INSANE That's the Verdict of the Jury of Baseball Fans Who Have Been Sitting on McCredie, of Portland. MoCredie’s will place Pacifie there i ev- he Judge om- statement that he in the Despite phatie Seattle vast Haseball league, in a team » believe that } ery reason in) simply | | | or he is « it ie true that 1 Mer onsening 4 tited rdinary is upon Judge of Inte assumption Uh t this reached the si fang have con n that the Judme ts me jenvoring ta breathe warmth the chilly aphere of Seattle Judge McCredie ald ke he has be s nr of b the h en into ah " ont laye-—that body, b David F ity 1 breee that Dugdale the baseball vuntry today er that affe the a mo ¢ business in the t ho 11d hope to #e tlonate Won Some of Us Away. column of the books of the Seattle stood five tig a silent tes baseball club there ures, large and giaring the Gase of One Judge to be @upénded for players, and] attle ba jub, But the platter coaxed @why with the sheen and|*@s hot and be refured to reach glitter afthels fairy tales sufficient | for It, and he shed not a tear while of the fané te make bareball un-|'t lay at his feet crushed and ' beyond all hope of profitatle for Dugdale. And then there followed st, Of waste and want several | rection. neg shea Dugdale Comes to Town, ¢ wont to grow insane na then tt was that Dugdale ut in the old park down below And tt . bi Dugd: boarded a car in the Rainier alley the James @t. power h ¢ regained and cam tow inh eat wes their lontageanon and stayed away) ii, city, covered with anow and from the. new ball park Every fi went the » 4 hat I ha where and all the time the opie | na pra iar ow . Kn ont ; ~ 7 knocked, And they cried out morn > elie = oe oe gpert me Sree the | been silent Aince the days It ‘ ing, nore, om vg) tre Ml old ball park found their by eebalt baseball mason e the returr of hi as ming t \ ad fr tp» Ices com ack, and from man 6 slons m the Hille and hamlets in And they have oried #0 ever since. | i. hollows thore welled for a ery And out on Mie ranch In the Rainier | oe pi cme : Dug@ale i ned 4 1) Outlaw » regular it matters these criag, Bat he was and te a}, Duséale 4 a a be ident man, thie Dugdale, and he! w ~ at the } people want if Judge Wil sited until he could hear mingled hams (or whatever his hes ‘4 M with (heme | entreating res the | ¢ redie thinks that he can bune sound of clinking dollars gal he's plumt aaa ir Fairy Tales Indeed! this is waid in the kinditest «ptrit Th tales f the new baseball | Stay oan a ke gods had proven fairy tales indeed. | judge, b r the dea that The bags ot gold and bales of bille| you can ever do business in the h peared, and in tho deficit | baseball line in thin city 1 | timontal to the lack of foresight of some of Seattle's moat highly re ted business men On a silver platter Russ Hall was | handed that remained of the Be | from ite miner. PAY ONLY ONE CENT DEMAND YOUR CHANGE VOL. 8. NO, a8o. as CENTS PER MONTH. COAL LINE AT BUNKERS FREE OF SPECULATORS Police Force All Teamsters in Line at the Pacitic Coast Company to Show Bona Fide Orders and Those Not So Equipped Are Forced to Leave Their Places--School Situation Relieved-Many Stories of Petty Graft Told. Following the suggestion of The{vensdale coal, The amount recelv~ Star, Chief of Police Wappenstein | od ily ie not large, but i# being today barred all speculators from | distributed in small lots to Hs cum- obtaining coal at the Pacific Coast | tomers in or to relieve as much ompany's bunkers, Armed with a| suffering a# possible list of the legitimate coal dealers,| ‘The Seattle Electric company te Patrolmen Davis and Oden app | furnishing the Walla Walla uel in the Pacific ¢ pany’s yard | company and local dealers with aw and proceeded to check up the team. | much Renton coal as it can spare, sters in tine, All who could not Bunkers Still Frozen. show an order from @ legitimate! Pye coal in the bunkers at the dealer were ordered out of the MN. | mines of the Pacific Coast company which was depleted about one-third. | ig til} frozen and ia be takes While some of the schools were | trom the bunkers with considerable late in opening this morning, being | ayericuity out of fuel, enough coal was se- | cured during the morning to open | Coal Dealers Helping. them up, and Secretary Jones, of| ™ of the coal the board of education, stated that | Mtlyirg districts are their power to relieve suffering, not he thought he bad secured enough) 4 4 | only for their regular customers, but to carry the schools through the lg cs “ltr those who have been trading About 20 care.of lump and nut | isewhere. ° None of the dealers will jael! any large amount, but at the coal were received and emptied Ir the bunkers of the Pacific Const} compeny last night and thie morn 4ifferent yards they are sacking the coal and selling three sacks to each ing, Thia supply is thought to be| customer. At the es ge - the mufficient to last during the greater | Renton Cos! company, at the ress lof the James st. power house, the | part of the day, when more coul In) expected. The Carbonade company hes a ard in the window which reads No coal today.” It is believed that the company receives very little coal lt charges $7 & coal at the yard, with no rebate to the dealer, The Pacifie Coast | company charges $6.50 for ita bent coal. Before the coal shortage the Carbonadoe coal company sold coal att per ton. Small Craft Get Coal. Conditions along the waterfront have improved over last week to some extent. The smaller craft have teen able to secure a small supply from the Pacific Const company. and not more than one-third of the number are idie at the present time. A large amount of “mine run” com received by the Pacific Coast com- pany this week was furnished the tugboats, a* In many cases the dealers refused to accept the coal, it being too peor for domestic use The Northwestern Improvement company, which merly handied Roslyn coal, i# now receiving Re- Te 1 ie being sacked and three sacks euld to each customer at 50 cente per sack, Early in the morning un- tH) late in the aft when the oal is exhausted, people are stand- ing in line. Complaint was made to The Star today that the Carbonado company, through Haswell & Co. sole agents, is not jiving up to advertiaed prices when retailing In sacks. One man wae changed 66 cents for a sack of 100 pounds of lump coal seid at the bunkers at $7 per ton. Accord ing to the ton price he ought not to have been charged over 40 cents, which would include 6 cents for the cost of the sack, as he sacked the coal himeeif. Through the announcement tn The Star yesterday that A. J, Allen, 2020 Dearborn st, had a large supply of wood for sale in Kitsap county, C, L. Peterso dealer at Ths» and Vine st., was able to secure 300 cords of wood for shipment as soon as the valiroads can carry tt. Mr. Peter- won states that his sales from hie yard so far this week amount to 180 tonde, a ies PARKER’S LOST PARENTS STILL MISSING Tages Couple Disappear Tuesday Night and Are Not Heard of Again--Were Strangers in the City—-Pro- prietress of Densmore Hotel, Where the Younger Parker is Stopping, Discredits the Son’s Story. reported the matter to the police. All day yesterday the police searched for Parker's parents, but without avail One of the oddest disappearance cases ever reported to the local po lice is that in which the aged par ents of George L. Parker, of the Stil! Missing Densmore hotel, 2106% First ay. | 2 are the malestag oh ore. | This morning they were still The authorities have thousands missing ond the aon, whe fours something terrible may heve hap of cases on record in which par ents have reported their offspring on missing, but this is the first ime that a son ha: pened to them is nearly frantic with worry and excitement Mr. Parker's father and mother were both strangers in the city. The elder Mr. Parker was 70 years old and his wife 66. Discredits Story. A reporter called at the Dens more hotel this morning, but could not find the younger Parker. Mrs. Ranada, the proprietress of the hostelry, declared, however, that she did not believe the son's story. “t think he just imagines his par as far as the police parents in just the r has lost his. Parker alleges that he ac- | companied bis father and mother to the Owl restaurant, on First av., Tuesday evening, and left them there while be went out on an er rand. When he returned to the restaurant, be says, they were gone. He returned home and waited, but they did pot put in an appear ance ents are lost,” she said. “He is a At 4:20 o'clock yesterday morn-| queer sort. His parents never ‘ne the son became alarmed and stopped here. op ~ KINGSTON ENGULFED BY TIDAL WAVE (Serioos Telegraph Service.) almost KINGSTON, Jamaica, Jan. 17. The statue of the late Queen Vic- A tidal wave has followed the dis toria has been apletely reversed astrous earthquaké, completely al-| yy successive shocks, but is as yet tering the shore line at Holland | absolutely uninjured. The statue bay, and it is feared that this city | Mow faces the parade. may siip bodily into the sea, The bed of Kingston harbor in sinking King Opens Subscription. and in many places the water ts 100} LONDON, Jan. 17.—King Eéwar@ feet deep. Residents are Neeing in | 4* opened a relief fund with a sub- terror from this new and deadly | S¢ription of 6,000 pounds. Subserip~ visita ior tions are pouring in rapidly. A ship It is now estimated that 1,200 per- | laden with suppiles sails tomorrow sone are dead, and that of the thou for Kingston. sande of injured man ywill die The re 7 ——_ property lors timated at $26 homeless, Natives are existing on fraite, but the white population faces starvation, Ghastly scenes are witnessed on all sides. The blacks, being in the| saute jority, Rave insugurated The fuel shortage has not yet a reign | rime, and are robbing ¢ ib struck Kitsap county. Mayor Moore lea, despite every effort to prevent | this morning received a letter from them. Charles March, of Waterman, post- The streets are Miled with terror- | office, in Kitsap county, offering to atricke citizens, t ngs have col- | sell wood at $1 per cord, the pur apsed, filling the streets with de-| chaser to do the cutting and haul the gas nd ectric Nght bland ing. Waterman is only 10 miles t and the fir from Seattle, on Rich passage FOUR BREAK THROUGH ICE ON GREEN LAKE Yesterday afternoon, about R. R. Underhill, who rans a gro- o'¢ two boys, whil z on | cery store on Sixty-sixth st., and a Green lake; broke through ice Rasmenson were the un nd narrowly aped drowning » » They were rescued T were pulled out by other | through the herote efforts of T. T akaters Grant, living at Seventy-first st., About 8 o'clock in the evening «| who, after removing his coat, threw second cry of “Help” was heard,| it to them and pulled them out nd rushing towards the center of) Mr. Underhill and Miss Rasmenson the lake the kate perceived a had ventured too near the center of man and woman iggling in the the lake, where tt ce was thin, water 1 had broken through