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PAY ONLY ONE CENT DEMAND YOUR CHANGE WEATHER REPORT—Showers Tonight and Friday; Light Bast Winds. SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, FEB. a1, 1907. ——~ DRUGGISTS OAT STRIKES SAND BAR tte fra IN THE STRAITS OF DOVER 2225 = ‘AND 200 LIVES ARE LOST 25 CENTS PER MONTH. Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News VOL. 8. NO. 310, MRS. THAW EXPOSES _— NEGLECT IN TRAINING SAILOR RUNS AMUCK out Yoenses, Bhaw was fined $76, and'Caineron $60. The latter case willf tt Je said, be appenied. Shaw ja € ruggiat who was rearrested as hé was leaving the court room Tuenday Girl’s Mother Failed to Send Her to Sunday School ' or Church and Allowed the Young Woman to Grow Hecause Adolphe Marie La Rhuen, 4 seaman on board the French bark 4 ou Sawa ae Me ens -vnsnnennmnnnen | Mearman on voard che French bark) Up in Ignorance of Existence ot a Divine Being. ; it Eastern Railway Company's Steamer Berlin En Route to Rotterdam of wine and wanted to take chares : CED, i Eo ty Gals GomsDown ix Sight of Lint Mh Se Provets Besa SCENE: OF THE WRECK) sini cee cacir| cereyrirrs or, |e mat hae | publics to ent confine pending a » 3:80 before United States Comm t, Adolphe ix at pres in the county jail, | ing this afternoon at ling statement was made by Evelyn Thaw op the witness stand this morning, that until she was almost 19 years of age, she had never at wang after Washington's birthday. The trial will probably not be resumed before Monday Evelyn was called OF THE BERLIN g ot Aid and Vessel Sinks Before Eyes of Helpless Landsmen, - - . e after the con- (Scripps Telegraph Service.) 4 RARER * Dae snl big Herons 2 ro |tended Bunday school or church, ference, and appeared in the same 1 RDAM, Feb. a1.—Within sight of aid, whi " om “ jhad no religious belief, and had biue dress, her face slightly paler C . ght 0 id, which * BANK CLEARINGS, *) pean ny eon oe seomon | bractically refused to acknowledge | and her somewhat tousied. Her reach them, 200 persons aboard the British steamer Se ig sc eihaen te ‘| NORTH Rocke, French conaul-at thia port, | n0cmmence of Sag bet - a voice was stronger, however, and o . 21 . | ’ por | witness also testified that #he her replies more certain @m route to this port from Harwich, England, went | ron. it. i906 - harging bim with absence from | ™ jj 8 4, + 1,910,827.00 & duty, ineuboraination and making | 2%, bees aware of her wrong doing Went to “Dead Rat” Cafe, until after she had related to her > pte this harbor. A terrific gale, which is still raging, p the steamer on the sand banks, the vessel breaking nd sinking almost immediately, Landsmen witnessed ai from the shore, but were unable to reach the dated craft, owing to the high sea which was running. jwas hoped, and even thought by those ashore, that the gel would be able to weather the gale, but evidently the ness of the storm caused the boat to become unman- » to Mwatery grave this morning, just outside the en- |* RARER ARERR NO IMMEDIATE HOPE FOR AN INSPECTOR | The proposed ordinance, creating the position of inspector of bakeries and restaurants, ts stfll plgeonholed | with the records of the ctvil service | 4 / ‘ymaorers f threats of violence aga the mas- husband the tale of ber ruin as ac tor and offieers of the ship. SHINGLES COST MORE NOW complished by Stanford White, at which time Thaw told her of the awful character of her indiscretion It was not until this time, the wit ness declared, that she realized he every womanly inatinet was aroused to a full sense of her shame and degredation. When thie realization wae reached, the young woman refused to be comforted and declared that had it not been for —“ position and then she stated that) Jerome read a record of the ex amination late yesterday to the ef fect that Evelyn believed cil wom- en bad until she was 18% years old, unul she talked with Thaw after fusing bim on account of her ows unworthiness.” Did you ever hear of the “Dead Rat?” asked Jerome Yeu; it is }eafe in Paris.” “In it reputable 1 do not know.” “Were you ever there?’ “Yes. People were eat- ing and drinking there, and some ible, or clse caused Captain Precious to misjudge his |*"¢ ence Age games Ae east | This morning the Shingle Mills |the steadfast faithfulness of her| (anced Fy eo Ses tage when attempting to enter the harbor. er " bureau received word that the price |husband, she woul undoubtedly | pere sont f in the, morning a PASSENGER LIST IS LOST. Qne hundred and sixty passengers were aboard the and these together with the entire crew were lost. aft, declare that it will probably be impossible to learn " of the passengers. It is known, however, that the DIN te attached to the document, with the signature of Chairman Sawyer, but none of the other mem ders have signed. It has been in this shape for some weeks, Wife of ‘Mike’ McDonald, Gambling King and Million- aire, Shoots Webster Guerin in His Oftice-—-Woman Claims to Have Been Guerin’s Victim. (Seripps Telegraph Service.) CHICAGO, — Fed. 21. —Webster Guerin, age AS yoars, was shot and instantly kijled in his office in the Omaha building, on Vanburen and LaBalle streets at noon today Flora, the wife of Michael MeDon old, Chicago's former gambiing king You wouldn't let to me. He pushed me back into a chair. Yott would be better if 1 were dead, and I didnt want to live another minute I wouldn't allow asy man to talk to me that way, Oh, the rest dow't matter.” MeDonald ts over sixty, but looke f, dispite his storms and the of many years of sporting The police say his wife was formerly Ute | Vy Crose shows where the vessel etruck and went to SAR I A CHICAGO WOMAN KILLS ARRAIGNED FOR ; eee ey Bervioe) YORK, Feb. 21-—-Mre Lot- tte YPretee was formally arraigned thi. pitpracon on the charge of mur- dering by polsen ber aged mother, Mra, ide Birign, to relieve the latter Flora Feldman, a cbiid-| of have sunk to an even greater depth of degradation Thaw Enters Protest. The trial room filled rapidly to day. Evelyn's appearance didn't of wbingle had gone up. “Clears” advanced from $2.16 to $3, and ‘Btare” from $2.26 to 92.50. ‘These are the two kinds mostly used in the building and shipping tributes the advance in price direct- ly to the car shortage. Out of the 462 mille under the supervision of her success of Wednesday, Jer entered smilingly confident w 000 shingles daily time since his arrest he called a newspaper map to discuss the care, but thie was merely to protest against an article this morning commentiag on Evelyn's forgetful ness “It ta not exactly just to her, you know,” he sald. “Bhe had but little to do with those funds from the trust company.” After a brief consultation of the LOSE NEW YORK CLUB RECEPTION. Tomorrow night at the Alaska club rooms in the Alaska buliding the New York society will be en tertalned by the former residents of St. Lawrence county. There will be addresses and a general good Une. CITY MURDER ar. Her husband sald the —— ome preeeded all the lawyers and) Jerome questioned further about the cafe, Evelyn sald she was sure one was a Russian dance, but there “may have been a cake-walk also.” Jerome showed that he had obtain- ed one of Thaw's letters from list was aboard the Berlin, and the officials indicate that she had any great ¥ business. Dan W. Base, president Paria. The witness said Shubert Great Eastern Railway company, which owned the and manager of the bureau, -at-| hen geined oooalentble courage te |und another theatrical manager Were with her and Thaw at the “Dead Rat,” and she believed some women were also with Shubert. think I do.” said the witness, Had No Religious Betief. Jerome handed Evelyn the letter from which he had been reading and asked her tf it was in Thaw’s handwriting. She identified it as euch. “When you were in Paris after Thaw's proposal, had your pe German Opera company was aboard and was lost the burean but 46 are in actual op-| entered carrying bunch of news-| Jerome, reading evidently from . ‘ eration, representing about & per © clippin: of t revious| Thaw's letter, asked: “Do you ur Herbert, the king’s messenger, who was carrying dis- cent of an entire output of 48,000,-| hays pore sey pile previour|know what te meant by “Many of the bunch on the tenderioin?’” “Et (Continued on Page 7.) SALE OF GREAT BOND ISSUE + ~~? A detective ba ed to be 68 | how M Of bell was immaterial, as rode Ray oad are sd : = Vena 'was divorce rom hi tisi| he fe prepared to tornish any JAP ROBBED Council’s too Great Absorption in the Accormplish- re wife and soon after a me Donald, Who said hael’s | aAM@UAL to $7,000,000 BERLIN WAS A LARGE CRAFT. Sean Wuaaiadiy torte. Gr Set abe aathen otats ihiuk th’ ber. des: SS ment of Its Spite Work May Result in the Refusal ‘The Berlin, was built in 1894, by the Carlis company, , 1 England. She was a steel bull, twin screw craft, th 1,775 tonnage. Her dimensions were 302 feet in length, beam and 16-foot depth of hold. | The vessel's home port was Harwich, England, from lich point she traveled across the Straits of Dover to Rot- and return. TE PASSES a ee ee through the glase door, she ex elatmed, “My God, he has shot him- | self, What shall I do? 1 wouldn't hurt him, because I Jove him.” A revolver wes taken from the woman's hands. “Mike” McDonald was notified and hastened to the cell where his wife threw herself) upon her aged husband's shoulder and wept. “It don't matter,” she cried, “something te horribly wrong ) em BILL interes Wil! Dance. Lecal Union No, 396, Brothe hood of Painters and Decora’ wit hold ite seventh annual ball at Eagles hall tomorre nt. | blackmafting her, and that she had UNION PACIFIC GETS ation, while wildly pacing the coll, Mra. MeDonaid made the a» sertion that Guerin hae long been paid him thousands of dollars. Me- Donald told the police that he gave her large ums frequently shed no questions as to ite die posal. The prisoner declared that Guerin followed ber to California once to blackmail her. The police assert that Guerin had a strong hold om Mrs MeDonald, through some indiscretion committed before her marriage with McDonald, and that he pursued her relentlessly with threats of exposure wotil she wa: forced to the condition of mind which led to the slaying. The committee on tity affairs of the Chamber of Commerce will hoid & Meeting tomorrow afternoon at 2 O'clock to divcuss laying of sult wa- ter matns through the city, to be used by the fire department in case of fire, The comemitive will also take up the au » of adequate fire protection at the theaters and} 9 ie police have been requested| 7. Mackawa, a guest of the Klon- te three German sailors who | dike lodging bouse, reported to the rd, OLYMPIA, COMM tee On privileges and tiene wil) hold & wension in the houst io Seattic Saturday up Re question of the condition of the Ghliot boxes in Senator Cotter i's @istrict, for the purpose of a» certafping whether the ballots have u ; Two firemen, named | some Japanese money and Poreadh an Brepat, and a stew! other articles of less value, which a Park and Sewer Bonds. from the employ of the) police this morning the loss of a Meanship company a few sult of clothes, a pair of shoes, many he says, while he was! Seattle in in more or less tmmt- ‘nent danger of again losing a sale of bonds because of the imperfect methods of the city council, and the whole transaction between the city and the Harris Trust @ Bavings Mass, are named as the | were stolen, Jasleep in his room last night. — Bank company of Chicago, by which W II | ME E I HE R 3 $2,150,000 bonds was recently sold y to that firm, is in danger of going by the board ‘The Harris company made their bid contingent on taking the whole fasue of both kinds or none at all The firm haa Just found out that there ts a question as to the legality that they have keen tampered with, the ballots will not be counted The senate this morning passed! the Chehalis county division bill, | (Btar Special Service.) Feb. 21-—-The state elecr court " approve - »7| the council did not let them know The senate passed Booth's Dill Fe | Lorre and the firm has ft in its av in fro © publi train schedul ge sone ty aba vote | power to throw up the whole mat schedules, defeated one vor ter Cotterti | equirt express ae. MA ae’ pannges in| It ts conceded that the city can towns and nities not hold it to the contract if the Rapt intact winc® the election Roth houses wil] adjourn thie aft- firm cares to take advantage at ' this sta of the game Lyons establishes the fact ternoon unti Monday It is explicitly stated in its bid to take of the Harris Banking Company to Accept the that ft must depend on the opinion of its attorney as to the regularity and legality of the igsues. Hearing that there was a legal question as to the park bonds the trust company has wired the city offictals for a full report, request- ing also that the matter of getting |the bonds im shape for delivery be | adjusted Immediately . | The question of the regularity of the council proceedings in the |matter of the park bonds and the new water bonds is before the su preme court, where, it is under | stood, the briefs have been filed. which now gees to the governor fF/ (7 th. park bonds, a matter which) The state's attorney has held that the council proceedings were not regular. | Unless the court renders a de |cision very soon it is probable the bond house will withdraw and re- fuse to take the park bonds, which means that if the bond people care to say #0, they can also refuse the $1,650,000 sewer bands, tt : [RACULOUS SSC APEUudiae 5 Beane, q fing, com tn the Smploy of the Beattie Blectric O ae é » + oe -'e mabe eupectations. yee | have | Strap 0 the pole, MeColliater im getting senate | tough All obstacles for the entrance of This now gives the Union Pacific iy, was seriously injured late) 7.1, he sidewalk, the pole land- passed in the upper) son, the Union Pacific into Seattle have/a right-of-way through the property | ¥ by fatiing from a pole.|ing underneath. In some manner Thia bill is di-| ers, been — ae me wilh ay | = Great North berg oh and TRAt he was not kilied instantly, | tht strap broke tn the fall and Me- oon ‘ oie at depriving Mayor | pected enter ttle along the proposed) blocks 280, 291, 282 and 283, to], oe ont: tai a broken | Cellister’® body on striking the it to you to show on Sundays?” appointive power in Fifth av. 8. route. (ts terminals on Jackson st. This | Meme Sf only sustaining 9 br naa| Pavement bounded over a i6-foot CHIEF WAPPENGSTEIN TAKES |i tO one tone was vas, vara i Shortly after noon today two quit- claim deeds, one for a strip 30 feet trip tx 30 feet for the exclusive Peetfic, use of the Union and a wanted for an entrance collar bone. broke tb. seems miraculous to his fractured arm LONG CHANCES WITH JOHN CORT AND GETS AWAY WITH embankment. Workmen rushed to his side, but if Mr. Cort was startled at firet he was bravely over it now. The eeniahe’ a: aaa enema before, when the dili| others of the ring Wide and the other for two 15-foot | common-user clause for the two 15-| fellew workmen Instead of finding @ dead ‘man, M« : Sesstor Lincoin De- the city’ to] Stripe on each side of the 30-fout | font strips on each side obieter wan doing line work| Colliater got up and walked nearly ei wate eae Fgh tne Ranger. was persuaded to ike tnise ban The property owners slong (@}on Wrwinia at. at the re of the | half a block before he realized his had not lived his life without learn- be placed at the bot- Governor Wil strip wanted by the Union old “Wabhington hotel, While hel injuries, Me was taken to the Pat| If it only had been,—but then,/ing to control himself. So his face f t list, the Seattle con- Montana raflroad, the name under| between Fourth and Sixth m wal Bt the top of an olf pote, die-| cific hompital, where he will be for| it wasn't Ses tin & wecdee tnnek on be cob rf ie ar Es ane’ beth Goce eeleg |oteay eee tavaeh tar Go “nen paket, 1 Ble at ata Ss death eran Chief of Police Wappenstein and | ually returned : A ate, jeede ing | of-way claims yu the ‘ rn . put ~) ry 9 * roug’ property | ===! Manager John Cort were watching Oh, about $500 a day, I should Seb cities shall neglect jubilant. we aa ER ATTEMPTS TO signed by Louis W. Hill, president, nd Edward Sawyer, secretary. The transfer amounted to §1 The Seattle Brewing & Malting| city departments. As far back as the fight be BREWING COMPANY IN Thie now leaves the Union Pa cifle ite entrance Into this clty give the license to no one dP the one after another as fast as their bonds came to him for approval The was a score of ‘Moenses . : "OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE “The Ham Tree” chorus go through the bewildering maizes of a fan tastic evolution at the Grand, when the executive head of the city blue coats turned to the theatrical man and said “1 suppose, Mr. Cort, that it is velled words cause a startled look at then he slowly replied either spoke | very | seemed to throb out something again. Somehow the thrumming of the orchestra sin fy melmowT the chief and/ think.” Into Each Other's Eyes. Somehow the two men found each other's eyes and in that instant jeach read the other's Pi “You let me see the money and I guess I can fix it 80 quite a valuable thing to you to be|that the mayor's Sunday order 7 permitted to show on Sundays?” Inever troubles you,” the chief Something in the _ tentatively | ¥¥ispered hoarsely = Cont to flash, Cort wasted no words. He dart- 1 back upon the stage and in @ moment was back again, with @ : Moore adherents company bee at last my out 10 | "Mayor Moore tben told Abérew “Yes, Chief, It is quite a valuable | healthy roll of greenbacks in bis Dill and ft lo declared that it could | te open and Joined in the fight of] yemrich, as head of the) bitwink thing, © very valuable thing, in-|"\0O. oe counted the notes very, not be passed over his veto the whisky ring im the city coun-|trust, that unless the councll gave deed very gravely and then without ® The Seattle lobbyists for the bill} cil against Mayor Moore, a fight| Williams the license “he would Playing Thinking Parts. sign walked out of the theater, returned to the city this morning| now raging both in and out of the| clove up every saloon tn the City It was some little time before | Whatever his faults may be Wap penstein knows when he is beaten. He had meant to have a little fun with Cort and had been out- a tween the mayor and the council | piled up on the mayor's desk, wait t and hidden, although the au-|witted in his own game. over the question of who was to|ing for him to appre the bonds, tomatons on the stage seemed to be The notes were only stage own and control the Federal ea-|when Williams gat cold feet and moving gaily enough to its accom-| money, borrowed from Mr, McIn- \' y loon, opposite the new federal build-| went to the mayor and said be had paniment tyre, the colored gentleman, who O E SON INSANE Sag: ah Third. ane Valen, the heew-| wera eee one Sal | “And, er, that ts, how valuable | sold’ his “manhood” and then sold ing company has had a hand in the| No one around city hall seems to I Xa would: pou wits tn: Pound uitabvers te [out Ment ae PIA | fight, but not openly. It was not|know what made WiMiatis draw till the last tow dag that Andrew|out. The license was then given nants 0M, BP nar mai aets, | - AN excited Crowd of witnesses, | person. The witnesses against|Hemrich and . his. brother, Alvin,|to Billy Hmerson. After that came you Rummes AY ‘PASS uP PATROLMEN lated that the company must pro Telatives of the accused,| Dodgson were his mother and sis-| head of the big brewing trust, came | the attempt of the whiskey ring } tect its crosetnae with watchmen, wild} ray? ters. Dodgson denied being insane,|in to take part in the fight. The|to take away the mayor's power of | ATT instead of the efty maintaining po ly and all trying | O°) nae engaged Judge 0. A. C.|order of Mayor Moore closing the | approval of the bonds and their tn licemen at its expense WME at once, edged up close) Rochester to 4 him. Judge| saloons Sunday caused them to get | glorious defeat so far } senateicn ither the board of public Me edge’ bench in Judge Mor-| Morris continued the hearing unti!|openly into the fight and into the| Both the Hemrichs have gone Ge | works or the thayor wish to proceed Mepattnent this morning in the | next Monday, patting the defendant | newspapers. into the newspapers to denounce The police Heense and revenue/to the swearing out of warrants to det ‘ a under $1,006 bonds. ‘The council whisky ring wanted|the mayor and, as the executive de committee has passed up the cross-| against the officers of the company Mrmine the sanity of| "oe are evidently some inter-|the Federal saloon to go either to! clares, t esent Mim and his ing policemen question to the board} as in either case It ts feared that = 2 they aot | esting sidelights to the case, Dodg-| Beck and Mullen or to Johnny |astatements, No one was present of public works for a report on the | it might be charged up as spite. Ed that Judge Morris, who |gon until recently was in bustness| Brill, or some one controlied by/at the conversation between tte matter, ‘The board intended to take a : ‘ Milidest of men, had to ad-|in partnership with his brother. | them mayor and Andrew Hemrich but the the matter up at the meeting of the | he sudden thawing of snow tn 4 them that they were wot in| THEY disagreed, litigation followed] Joo Williams came Into control} mayor's private secretary board. yesterday but press of | the vicinity of ‘Thorpe and Ellens ‘8 police ne v0t in | aa receiver for the business was|of the place and desired to get the| The brewing company it is, cal other business caused It to go burg yesterday caused a second | a signa jo ved for The family took sides| loense transferred to himself. Hi} culated loves about $2,000 to $2, over washout on the Northern Paeifie i The ease was that of Jncob Dodg-\ wiih the brothor Gill told ¥\ he had “hollered” | 500 each Sunday, the reduction be The board will look into the | between those | two points. | The pam Whom Nellie Yerkes is tryts Dodgson claima the sult is aj his head of Mayor Moore dur-|ing several hundréd kegs of beer franchise given to te Seatvie: lec company expect o clear the ¢ 7 Committed as an ines schowe to get him out of the way.'ing the campaign and they would each day, tric company, In which it Is stipu jay iT

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