The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 6, 1907, Page 1

WEATHER FORECA SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1907. PAY ONLY ONE CENT DEMAND YOUR CHANGE 25 CENTS PER MONTH. THE LUNCH COUNTER HABIT AND cy. W YOU LOOK WHILE YOU EAT WR JUT STORY OF HER BOY ired Woman on the Witness Stand Today to i Her Aid in Etfort toClear Her Son--Collapses or the Strain of Examination. ‘There;and Jerome asked him ff he was the | @*gutng tn a circle. uch reasoning as you hare been | using om the stand ts evidence of EYORK, March ¢ 4 transition from gapert testimony to the! i the Thaw trisl Mre/icregular understanding m Tha was placed on the) Delmas objected and sakod and she will bring to| Witness if he understood Question Bo a mothertore “You,” sald Wagner, “he le asking pipe He of her son me if I think I au insane.” B Who bave sat and alter) Jerome switched to other forma and yawned at the! of questioning ble cross exemina- Jerome om New Tack. expert alieniets, Dre Jerome completed the crose-ex Wagner, were brought/amination of Wagner at 12:45 ice to face to the reall-|o’clock, He said he had found him ns life ie trembling, s0 more satisfactory than Evans by witnessing the | and is really more difficult to ctacle of the aged | handic. bare the family se Just before releasing Dr. Wagner, ‘wide open the family |Jeromo took an entirely new tack to convince the 13) ia endeavoring to show that Thaw ff son, the prisoner at| waa intoxicated when he shot White es with murder, is|/but be received no satisfaction ‘@f the crime. along this line from Wagner. Stark St Attorney Hartridge then an nounced that Mra. William Thaw Mrs. Thaw will us on teh before she ts through| sper jtethen, inn’ ‘mediately stand will be rm, | Mother on the Stand. saddening, one of the stories a mother can| The news that Mra. William ‘orld, auch @ one 44) Thaw would be placed on the stand be foreed from her, per) this afternoon flashed like wild fire which will fall unwilling-| over the city and when the session Ri ber lips because the life of/took up hundreds clamored for ad ds ta peril. mittance to the court room. ry will evidestiy Be a, Mrs Thaw was placed tmmedi- Dereditary tralte, of insane ately on the stand. and pre-natal ftifluences.| Attorney Delmas questioned the the ing confessiog will be! prisoner's mother regarding the ap-| m he came! the 7 worn, ris pearance of her son w! sole: court andjhome in November, 1903, from to heree!t will ery: “Blame|Kurope. She sald she “certainly bor; me me.” ca hia changed appearance. Battling Nel. Present. m he first came to the house the ramon Tmet him at the door and noticed sum me @ great change. There was glaring room He looked poarch | Whe eves that looked though | fat Harry Thaw, then turning fiends in bis party ox “That man deserves & for killing White.” j immediately placed Dr athe stand and the re Imsanity amalysis was thing.” The mother sald further “During Harry's stay at home his a@deent-mindness increased. Harry Gealy one day he left the table. | Boon I heard the piano being played violently and then tt suddenly stop | ped, and my son returned to the sand Wagner tad’ as tong! meal.” [fecard to the differ; This was frequent, she said, and and sane persons one of the most noticeable features Wagner per ‘to her was his wakefulness. indifferent answers, F cai she broke down and a aac GHT LAWS OPENLY VIOLATED BY S. E. CO. fs Filled With Freight Continually Hauled Through * Crowded Downtown Streets in Defiance of the Or- _ dinance. the fact that the Seattle| be regulated by ordinance. The compan y downtown | Seattle Electric company has, how: {4 continually crowded to ever, been sufficiently well pleased throughout the day, that|as it ie and has never applied for is operating freight cars|a permit in between ita passen Section 4 of the blanket franchise MOMS at )i hours of the day|says: “The city reserves the right at any time to prohibit the hauling of any freight over any part or the; whole of these Hines within the city et franchise—the fran cont the First and ay. lines ifleally sets that the « of Seat by ordi the of the @M4 may prot Mit sees ft, & Bever since > yrmgpe fe |and conditions concerning the haul ing, loading, unloading and trans portation of freight thereon In no instance has the city coun ctl ever sought to declare by or dinance the manner in which the company shall carry its freight There was a time when the com pany had grounds im the heart of the city for dumping its freight. Thi Jone away with on demand of th ty, but on the Madison and, perhaps, t op freight along neil ance regulate ce was ie ter the vio mat the storage Care are for subu to ca for new 11 to all p the m. by the « » the boa WB, 08 applicaric: & permit all th fre but pany n at mes ight are ma pair regular wns, way we aware f the officials are of the too frequent movement ht cars on the downtown ng the daytime, but hey ter may ALL SEATTLEITES ARE URGED TO HELP for united ef the) he had lost all iuterest in every-| bot would probably do so within a| night, # the city bas outgrown | #an Franctsco and other southern Was very fond of music, and sud-| Msnits and to preseribe restrictions | ined, saying that she wae Continuing Vane apole hot of a crying nature she sald “Often at night I heard sobs fram| ONE SECTION OF THE GREAT Harry's room. Gotng there, I would | find him fully dressed. I remon-/ strated and he would say it was useless for him to go to bed, as he could not sleep. I frequently }found him at 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning, and he told me troubles were on account of the wickedest man in New York, but was.” Learns Sad Story. jed that the trouble of her son w [because of his knowledge that by jememy had rained the girl in whom be was greatly interested “I tried to argue, mother, “that Harry was hot re sponsible for th irl, and that be der the circumstances he need pot rain bimeelf.” | The mother detatied instances jwhem her eon forgot himself and/ sobbed in church, and told her that his particular giti had the most beautiful mind of any person knew, that always he waa thinking Mf the terrible thing had not occur red, she might be with them. Bhe finally told of the time when ber eon told her the girl's name. Jerome objected to this conversa tion, claiming that it bad not been | shown that Thaw wae tnwane at! that time. Delmas Inalsted that the | fefendant should be considered tn sane at all Limes, three years previ ous to when White was killed (Continued on Page 7.) TRADES ASSEMBLY WORK IS GROWING Owing to the growth of the city jand labor interests, the Building Trades assembly has voted to give James Murphy, the business agent,| jan assistant to aid him im covering | the work of the assembly | Mr. Murphy stated today that he had not appointed an assistant yet ald the short time, his ability to cover It alone. | §OAHO CLU® ORGANIZED. Last night at the Alaska club rooms former residenta of Idaho came together and a temporary or ganization was formed with the fob lowing officers: Chairman, W. A | Holzeimer; secretary, B. A. Robb. jit decided to wire thanks to the Idaho leatsiatare for the appro priation of $15,000 for the 1909 ox b ansmos and te _ an increase. yeaa Rena enaaeee |* \& March 6, * * BANK CLEARINGS. + - * 1907 1906. “#1, 512,248.31 @ * March 6, 1,980,367.50 * 7 eS gig UA WU aL PC 8 dh ge b> eo *y AW’S MOTHER SOBS _ jj, P. TUNNEL PLAN bis! tied its plans for ite tunnels under | versity that he could pot tell me what St) item av. and |to Fifth ay. and Madison at Mra. Thaw said finally she learn | neis jeult fer an be | Mayor Breidensteta and the Bouth ee ee ee eee ONE FINE HAD -OMALL EFFECT | | A fine of $60 and costs imposed upon R. A. Closterman Inst week for selling liquor without a lleense apparently had but little effect, as the offender again j last night by geant Stuart and } Patrolman Tadrick on the same charge. EB. L. Bluhm and A. Nelson were arrested as witn eon. The men had in their possession a bot tle of whisky, supposedly purchased from Closterman. At police headqua man gave the name of € but the alias was quickly discov fered. He was dented bail and ts now in the city jail awatting the order of Judge Gordon TURNSTILES AT LIBRARY ot night Install The Installing vices is to pre the theft 1,100 volumes Closter Smith Smith, the lant Librarian library, was by the bos in the Mbrary these mechanical ¢ vent as far of books, Last year were stolen The establishment the foot of authorized public Queer n board brary at Hill was LUB TO INCORPORATE At lin meeting will report next meet nesota nd the that purpo | ioe committee a arrested | authorized | turnstiles | a branch 1-| Anne| he Min-| ° BUY A NEAL TRKEE BEFORE YOU ARE; iy ss ‘ lial RR Re Sco) ee es ARE FILED Great NoFthern tunnel running tn & northwesterly direction and crossing Pike ot. between First and Hecond aye, finally ending at Manchar@ st The other branch will proceed north up Fifth av. crossing the ual nds and cutting across ween Second and Third ending at the foot of UNDERGROUND TUBE WILL PARALLEL GREAT NORTH ERN TUNNEL. The Union Pacific this afternoon | the city Pike at The main tunnel ts to begin at | ave, keom st. and run | Bell at, where ohh Ly there are to be two provisional tun The first will parallel the om Pacific asks for per make boardinge along the oye routes. WOULD ENJOIN SOUT PARK OFFICIALS John Anderson, a taxpayer of) Geattle a secure Cedar river wa . ter, and who recently asked the South Park, this afternoon started P agg AB ve injunction to prevent | BAST xi genien rane ot on the water question. cor court issued an or ing the officials to ap arch 16 and show cause netion shall not be ts» Park counel! (om completing the proposed water contract with the) Georgetown Water company. Anderson represents the South PREDICTS SUMMER RUSH OF TOUR! That Seattle ‘wall ost ose thie summer ae great an influx of tourt from the cast as occurred Im 1906 and that many of them will remain in this) city permanently, te the opinion ox ed ht without proper ' eupposte it and the tron e * plate glass, letting the) safe fall frto the basement To get the safe out of the base | ment em incline is being built so | that be carried out through snot! wlight in the sidewalk The as belvg moved into the new im the Chapin block. BENSON BEING DEFENDED In spite of hie own desire to ab low the disbarment charges against pe to @ by default, former Bu perior Judge B.D. Benson was de fended thie afternoon in the su pertor court by two friends, At torners W. L. Hill and J. W. Ray burn. The Benson hearing was con tinued, afters three witnesses were heard, ust March 13, to give the voluntary attorneys chance to prepare defense ANOTHER VICTIM IS DEAD: INQUEST SET the tnan! of the Canadian Pacific, who ar rived yesterday afternoon from Vie-| toria, Mr. Ussher was formerly = i passenger agent of the road) and is now on a trip} of Inspection along the coast | Mr. Ussher leaves for Tacoma to} and from there will go to/ polnta, returning to Winnipeg aa Mareb $1 BANK SAFE FALLS Safe handlers in the employ of J. L Kahaley last night about 6 o'clock allowed a big safe in the feattle National bank to crash through an iron grating at the en trance to the bank j The men slid the big safe onto HELGA A. HANSEN SUCCUM . morning @t 10 o'clock in the But TO INJURIES FROM FT. LAW-|terwarth patiors, over the body of TON WRECK—THE CORONER Miss Hansen WILL OPEN INQUEST ON RE Aluert Reoks and Newton L. Thomas, the other seriounly injured MAINS TOMORROW aaa victims, have a chance for life. Superintendent Kempster, of the Death claimed its second victim! Seattle Keletrie company, while he an the result of the terrible Fort has ben table to learn who was Lawton wreck Sunday night, when to blame for the wreck, In positive Helea A. Hansen succumbed at that there. was no changing of 12:20 o'clock this morning, as the’ lights after the collision, and denies result of internal injuries. fthat theré was any possibility of After a conference with the prow Motorman (laser hastening to Fort ecuting attorney's office this morn-' Lawton td pull the ropes of a laht ing, Coroner Carroll announced that switeh anid thus cover up fatal neg an inquest will be held tomorrow ligenes. BONDS OF $100,000 FORFEITED BY RUEF Dest the an font ened this inane Dunsp and stated efforts of the sheriff's Joavor-to find Ruef were When the court re afterngon Heney nounced he | would move for tho disqualificatior | > sheriff and the entire | {fice and ask for the appoint t of William Burne as a special ffiowr to wearch for Ruef trom | tt'# attofneys announced they did not know of his whereabouts an had not seen him and had no com with him since Monday SECOND BOND DECLARED FOR FEITED THIS MORNING—THE WHEREABOUTS OF INDICTED BOSS STILL A MYSTERY. in oh Service.) March 6. yesterda (Scripps Telen SAN FRANCISCO, Abe Ruef, late yon declared a fugitive is stil) miseing. No trace of bim the stand thet the fest! Hebbard Threatens Heney. | SAN. FRANCISCO, March 6. Monday | judge Hebbard appeared in proceedings court at the weual hour this morn Jing. He appeared on the verge of nervous collapse. He asked the lawyers assembled what they thought of him, and they declared confidence in him unshattered In the chambers Hebbard kp irrationally and admitted that he % at xiceated yesterday, but Jen pting to kill a reporter He said the next time he.met Prose would kick him wll who wae wit- | munioat this | has been found nesses placed on morning all testify Ruef was seen evening after the Judge Hebbard’s office This morning when Judge trial and Ruef w second t Ruet, after ror by Judge ured forfeited is for time was his Dunne resumed the attendance, the at up bi writ of Judge Hebbard This make felted yin bon eted boss During the Detective Buros made arch for Ruef, The sheriff appeared before el atte rece f eutor Heney he over the town. The tat: | | Walla Walla | carpenter, | BLS? COFFEE i THE C/T ns ONCE OF THE SPOKANE comine vP ASA ee, me OF DAKOTA WILL — AID LOCAL MERCHANTS | TELEPHONE STOLEN | A clever thief yesterday telephone from a booth in the Union depot. It was noticed by employes that the phone was mise ing, but at first the loss was charged to the telephone company, apposed to have removed the in strument. No clue to the tdentity jot the thief haa been obtained oy |WO_ POINTS ARE WON (Berip sbedadi pene CHICAGO, March ¢—The gor ernment won two important polots today In tte suit against the Stand ard Oil company. Judge Landia ruled that the Standard sccepted reductions from the published rate | presumably “willfully and knowing “ Judge Landis also beld that the company should not have any immunity, CITY WATER EARNED « HALF MILLION A report complied by City Comp troller Carroll for 1906 of the re celpta and disbursements of the Cedar river water system has just peen completed, showing an im crease in net revenue of 10 per cent The system earned a net revenue 06.46 and a gross earning 73.35. The operating ex penses amounted to eT ee PARK BOARD TO MEET. The park board will meet Thurs day tn ite new quarters at 4i7 Hinckley block. At the meeting the board will open bids for the Wood: land park concessions for the next) three years. ‘The funeral of Lily Shirey, dangh ter of B. F. Shirey, of 810 Howell at., will be held from Butterworth’s un aking parlors, Thursday. The child died March 4 stole a ‘win Enable Hill Railroads to Pay a Little More At- tention to the Wants of Seattle Business Houses— Should Bring Relief in| Local Situation. during the last three months because of the freight blockade cannot be made up. It is a dead While the loss of the Great North.) lost ern Steamship Dakota Is a blow to jthe Oriental trade of Seattle, It is 8) 1on' t, the merchants, many of }@isaster not devold of features | whom will have to carry their de- which will mitigate the loss as far|layed shipments over to the next eason. Even the rea) estate mar ket reflects the condition Relieve Local Situation. } a8 Seattle ia concerned and may jturn it into a positive benefit, ac leording to those who have kept close track of trade conditions In| Consequently, even such a die this city aster to Oriental trade as the loss The Dakota had a capacity of |Of the Dakota will be welcome to ithe business men of Seattle if it 28,000 tons and made a round triP | win have thé tendency of relieving J every 69 days, If it carried 1t* the iocal freight situation, capacity both to and from the local trade on which the Orient it would require a train over |Chants of the city di the Grest Northern every other day | *!4ered of vastly m to the welfare of to handle the freight. This tm-|ihe Oriental trade, w j mease business has the precedence | ployment focally only jover all other shipments with the | handlers and a small pe’ eee exception of refrigerator en sete at is suai cars and has been largely responst-|tinental rallroade toward freight to |ble for the sidetracking of freight|and from the Orient estab- en route to Seattie merchants from | lished in the hearings of the inter the enst state commerce commission held by The interruption of Oriental|Commissioner Lane in Seattle in shipments is likely to relieve the | January of this year. Officials of ight congestion on the Great the Great Northern and Northern lorthern to a large extent and en-| Pacific admitted that Oriental ship- able the merchants of Seattle to get| ments are burried through with freight which has been sidetracked | only such delays as are beyond the for weeks between Seattle and St.| gower of the railroads to control Paul Interstate shipments being delayed |to make way for Orient Goattie Suffers Severely. law the saipneate to ue Seattic business men have euf-|originate in the easterh ‘sialon | fered severely from the effects of | oastern shipments bound for Seat the freight blockade Many who'\tle and intermediate points are had shipments due two and three | forted to wait omthe Oriental ship- }months ago are still unable to get | ments. their goods. The goods have been | Lumber and Shingles: paid for and the season for selling | |them fs practically past, but the) The same is trwe on humber and [ahtpmenta are still sidetracked on/ shingle shipments te the eastern the Great Northern and ortherp jstates from the sound. Trainloads Pacific betweer Seattle and St./of freight from the Orient are sent Paul. They represent so much through to the east while lumber dead capital to the merchants land shingle shippers ane clamoring he result is that stocks are de-|yainly for cars. 7 ed and the money of the local| So shippers t6 aad fram Seattle ke is Inrgely tied up in carry- see in the lose of the Dalbtm a ray ing the merchants until they can /of hope that the Igeab situation may | rece ve and re on their goods. | be greatly relieved by theneceasity | line of business in Seattle|forced on the Great Norterm to | is yt by this condition.|curtail Its Oriental shipmemi and | Money which should be available}pay more attention to Seattlgeship- for different business enterprises is'/ments upon which the rea tater tied up. The trade which has been ests of Seattle depend wee pl ASPHALT TRUST BILLS LOST PHOTOGRAPHERS IN AN ORGANIZATION A meeting of Seattle and King county photographers was beld last night in the Hamilton studio, and elation to be known as the King County Photographic soctety was organized. The officers are H. B. Witis, president; A. F. Mutr, vice president; J. BE. Ralston, secre tary and surer The next meeting will be held in the Curtis studio April 2 re COTTERILL FOR PRESIDENT F. W the Central I nominee for president on the for election of. Washington Federa bor business agent of Council, ia the only officia ballot ot lcers for the tion of Labor The alar official ballot, has been sent all the in the st contains the following other for election First vice y nt, J, B. Rv erett Shingle Weave nec ond vice president barber, and F. M. Alle of kane; third vic peland, which to unions n union Ivey otrician lont, T printer Tacoma president, Williaw Ll, sailor, and W. C, Lioyd, cigar Aberdeen; fifth B. Cutting, carpe and W. Frank Bellingham tary-treasurer, P. W. Dowler penter, T a, and W. W, Morgan electrician, Seattle. The ballots have hands of the federation at 1 f h vice vice prest of Moyer secre jent, M ter ot r of the in the JUROR DISMISSED man in Harvey L. Brown, a Frate departme lismisne On five-minute rec wn, His exe te md s tc was jury Monday Brown terday failed that the ot on gilusal a satisfactory Judge Frater. IN TWO STATES pa and Idaho Killed Schemes Identical With William’s Bill Now Before Washington Legislature Only Purpose Is to Kill Competition. The Barber Asphalt bill, similar specifications require the exclusive in Ohio and use of any patented article or Weed far Weld the dame ess or any article or process protected by any trademark or any article or process wholly controlled by any person, firm or corporation or combination thereof }to one tleally bills of similar purpose introduced into the legislatures of a number of states by Barber Asphalt com pany representatives, was passed | by the state senate yesterday after | noon by a vote of 23 to 17 | ee passage, the bill was! amen 80 as to differ wording from the other bills without alter ing its purpose, The wor vertise for bids” w lfor “adopt plans tions,” motion Graves. | The passage of the | posed by Senators Jones a enson, who denounced it as vicious legislation. It was championed by Senators Williams and Nichols. | It Is expected that the bill will be overwhelmingly in the house | The meas | the legislature of the asphalt Some days ago its news and editorial « potnted out the significance proposed legislation, ar tention the fi biN, if passed by both ild in effect eliminate b tal from « tition passed prac pre as Bithulitlc Paving Material te Pro tected by Patent. This bill was introduced into the Oregon legisiature by Senator Ma- ky, for the past two years at- ney for the Barber Asphalt Pay- ing company. It was detected asa corporation measure and defeated, The Idaho bill which contains the same provision word for word, was introduced by Senator MeM..i.an at the request of United States Sen- ator Borah, attorney for the Barber Asphalt Paving company. Senator McMillan himself voted against the bill, when its true character became known, and it was defeated. Washington Bil! Washington published in on of Senator bill w nd on defeated ® was Introduced into by Senator Williams lobby The The provision tn the bill, which has been The Star, is word fc lume same as the pro’ of the | and Oregon bills alled At-| tiams, who hat no hg 2? hou ate, Star, through q an Barber y in § Should ot lower As ttl his with under contr in street stom of letting and other cit phalt pre in paving but hope paving through competition from bithulltie paving 1 be at an end in Seat © (PAC) tie under the present system of let tin acts r Asp Un Star passed sent P he prices for “she Seattle les of woul mation of the char ; “1 ebked paving cont the present the il specifies the paving ma- ial to be used when it calls for bids, The proposed law would not prevent the counet! from specifying asphalt there several panies in the asphalt paving and neither the material proc patented of sy tem, ¢ company, The cured the following facts Bille Are Similar Similar bills were lature of introduced Oregon nte and because Are In both bills originated | Barber A The Oregon munielp: the tat ness with the the attorneys of ens is D »pany bel a bithullt- to bid proposed em would called for or bithulitle is contrary to the of the council at phalt co only bill | wed r high by con bidding street ¢ improv mad: (tive when suc