The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 20, 1907, Page 1

THE SEATTLE STAR WEATHER FORECAST.-GHOWER® TONIGHT AND THURSDAY; SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH a0, 1907. CO’S LITTLE BOSS. AY MAKE CONFESSION oe Crealated ‘That Ruef May Divulge More iBIG TIMBER the Superviso rs-—-Between 70 and 100 Will Be Returned This Afternoon--- Being Shadowed. Bervice) | <" age cH has announ< & statement for th will create a greater than that following ft the supervisors than ever In now being ‘aroused by this re with the am + this afternoon be 108 indictments will | M, affecting poopie the genera! o is Intense fnterest in the tn.) gon will be it will catch. That will be caught In the that} a Confession. ft ts in the atate- | nounced he the litle boss Weated to, or even ty interesting stor just what he of conjecture. Known that Detective ‘am inkling that the a pablic state Burns has been for days in an of M@atement from him, gnable to wring any of any incriminat- “r Unbdosom. to Ruef armed by the inform eee has been more for the secret service | his repulses Burns) @fernoon that to him/ be & matter of time Would unbosom himeeif et Heney neither affirms Feport that Ruef bas fmmunity if be will tx indignantly de} etrewiated last nicht | fed. “I am here to the mayor stated this statement. and a closer shad. thrown about the a the “man of mys certain and that I LEAVES RAILS ia | extortion, he received for his share over $200, } 000 in the telephone deal alone now seoms certain Reet is believed to have been the! wal KO-Detween. It waa he who operated all the deals, and the} mayor and supervisors were tools in his han The confesstons made ssseani| night show that the beard of su pervisors were bought twice by the Pacific States Telephone company although only once by the Home company, and the latter, even at j that, won out Besides the names of Ruef and |Sechmite being added to the list of thowe charged with indictment of there are others, being seach men as Jimmy Coffroth, prise fight promoter, with Willle Britt, brother of the exlightweight cham plon; Morris Levey and Graney are charged with having of fured or given $20,000 for privileges to Might ring battles tn this city Want Schmitz to Resign. Although there Is a clamor for Sehmita’s resignation, there ts lit- tle expectation that the mayor will quit under fire, Bome of his po iitteal opponents affect to believe that he will tell all and throw him self om the mercy of Heney or | Judge Dunne, basing their concia sions on the mayors statement, that if he had anything to tell, it would be told tn court and through his attorneys. The request that be be permitted to change, add to or amend his plea of not guilty on the charge of extortion entered before Denne yesterday, is also comment- ed upon siguificantiy That there is surprise in store for the supervisors who, since com feesing have acted as though they felt sure of going unpunished for their crimes, seema certain. In all probability the ind ents against the informers will be returned this afternoon, if for no other purpose than to hold them as witnesses Whether or not they were promised immunity in return for their confes stows the prosecution will not say, but it is reasonably sure that at least two will never be prosecuted. OLYMPIA, March 20—1. H Burnett, of Aberdeen, has been ap pointed spectal A Yv.P. E commie ee by Gov. Mead. a ) CAUSES PANIC an jum enAcKy D AV. AND NAR-| S DROPPING $T.-—WOMEN feeulted at 6:30 this B Westbound Madi the track 30 feet hy this point are ab} above the street dragged on by Band swayed cram} fight down pped the ralls| he regrading of | the rails sup t on props and attempted er man nt store, standing on mcs the panic ies old Common Law as Basis for | dew lagainat the | passengers on the ‘The cries of the passengers and the bumping and crashing of the car along the props that support the rails, brought hundreds of pe ans running to the scene. Fortunately the car was brought to a standsiffl at Becond av. and no one wea injared ‘The accident was dus to defectiv ralla, which are sald to have been used since the line was first com structed. in many places the flanges have been entirely worn away, and the rails would be dan gerous on » level track Mr. Wolf, after accident, de clared that he would call upon the mayor and formall com plain r LU Janger to tine, where morn Madia the ¢ track nt this at the rectal left ear and the ng accident oecurred the bill, the car danhed 15 feet 4 Third av. regrade level, as of passengers killed the wn to and Against the S. E. Co.-Important Preced- BeEstablished—Railway Will Fight Case. | athe mM m &n informa: the firwt tiene Heattie Hier ts. Bromeuted tor fm eonnection, and to what «x of the roa for the + dee to poor eration. Will Determine Lov ™ 080 te import Pale. as there | the offenne Charged, ar be fought ou Th cane a under ¥ for a wy 10 contriput by proper trated four he y will b wher ony Gitiharn but not nt Prone mat! any sting Attor- Be » the 1 by t biless be ed from the neh POLICE WORK FAST st Eddie Judge | might} DEAL One of the Sahel timber deals| in the history of Puget sound was! cloned yesterday by Charles H.| Cobb, of the Port Susan Lumber company, and a number of asso! |e oo. The ayndicate purchased | 160,009,000 feet of standing fir and cedar, located on « creek tributary | i to the Stillaguamish river tn Sno} |homish county. The price was} page: THEATER CASE MARCH 28 The hearing of the ns thenteien’ men} arrested for violating the Sunday | lelosing law will be held before Judge Gorton .aoste a8. DEITRICH DISTRICT | JUDGE OF IDAHO WASHINGTON, March 10.—~The President thix afternoon announced Frank &. Deitrieh, of Pocatello, Valted States district judge for Idaho, vice Beatty resigned. OUTBREAK OPAEADING (Beriops Telegraph Service.) MOLDAVIA, Koumania, Mareb 20.—The Jowtsh outbreak ls spread ing. Over 2,000 men, women am ehitdren have crossed the boundary, betng chased by the unrelentiogs | Russian. Serious distarbances have | occurred at Botosabent, where the peasants have wet fire to the homes | of the Jows. Against the Jews. VIENNA, March 20.--A state ment has been insued showing that the Jews are In a hard way for} justice at Bucharest. The prefect lof the Botozahen! district by | plied to a telegram Minister George Cantacure that none of the Russian peasants are ia danger but the Jews, He would not give one Christian soul for 4 mUllon Jews, BREAK SHER Lombardy poplars have spotled a sewer on Madison st. at Sixth av and the sewer artment has been | for sever trying to mend the | trouble | rees along that | in a : wth « ke a This gre ally causes the sewer to che or break | ‘EXPECT BETTER RATE | ‘TO FRISCO 1 San lumber This bare sound by in the ar future. arket exceedingly San Francisco, Puget ox yer between | Francisco is shipper makes the m sent in holding their o of the new rate. lers are take advantag ne BREAK © CITY'S WIRES lers to sent to Chief of the Paul warning er the the in ex Engineer cago, Milw poard of company } the Cedar river of having all bi suspended Blasts set ukee st wu ating crew hed m p oper more caut ng tions off near the phone mning up the broken the wires also have There is ing the city and the pipe where the city come “nger connection pl and railway rights of-way together | Mayor re | from Prime | ‘ A drop tn the carrying rate of lum- | FAMILY INVOLVED IN SHOPLIFTING Through the arrest Saturday Dialibe. i sald, These are not atolen, night of Martin Daniels for stealing a a aves saya nagihing, don’t " * rc ” The neighbor told & fur boa by Patrolman Sulll¥am lier what he intended to inform the the police believe they are on the} poliog and this he did, despite a trai! of a gang of shoplifters, After! pitiful appeal by Mra, Dantele. Daniels’ arrest, bis wife appeared) The silverware is all new, the at police headquarters with a pith| wrapping met having been removed fal appeal for ber husband's re-| from the spoons. lease being made to locate the owner. Detective Daniels aad his wife lived on the case and learned that Mrs. | Greenwood ay. Green Lake, with a Daniels had last night deposited| family of three small children with a neighbor three degen knives,) With the father In jail and the forke and spoons, all of the best | mother a puspected party, the police material and bearing the stamp of|are in ® quand/Y,\ the children be ers Brow ing 86 young ae to make ft hard The informant declared that, in|to take the mother away from leaving the articles in his care, Mrs en BALLIET GETS ALASKA APPOINTMENT Andrew J. Balliet, one of the beat, by Hallet. The commission author known attorneys of this city, has | izes the appointee to take affidavits Just recetved his appointment as | acknowledgments, deposits and do commissioner of deeds for Alaska | business In this state with the in the state of Washington. The ap same a@uthority as if he resided to polntment was made by erpor | Alaska, Halliet has been connected Hoxgatt of the northern territory,| with tie local bar for the last 14 in appreciation of the work done | years. Corbett investigated MORAL QUESTION NOW ONLY CONTROVERSY That the Real Issue Between ay Mayor and City Council Says the Former--Chief Executive Ad- dresses Men’s Club of University Congregational Church. “Teo contending forces }waye at Work in the social fabric of these forces ts contend ing for the elevation 4 the soctal ls the force r i lowering al- [om that matter fn the minds peeple as well as the legal profes son, exactly as to what i within the inhibition of the law. If the laW contemplates taking In the op eration of street cars that carry the ¢[ PeORie And other things of general public necessity, | would not enforce the law te that extent One man, following up the trond of the expoutive’s talk, aeked when the controversy between the mayor and the city counct! would end One Real Controversy. “There is but one real controversy between the inw-making depart- ment and the executive, and that ir the moral question. There has beer 4 wentrowray between us on the matter of the granting of street Hiway trenchines, The differences over the fora! question never wilt end—newer will be settlod—until the ty Counclt looke at the matter rom my ¥lewpotnt. “The cantroversy over franchises hae net. ‘im fact, been settied, but in effect hme been, for the reseom that the qwancii has overridden my vetoe@ find refused to embedy tn the 2rameliiees my views of the priv- legen whieh | think the people are entitied ta The pasting of the or Huanees Over my veto ham, in ef fect, wettled that controversy “There i@ no more controversy be tween the counct) and myself on the matter of publie works than be tween members of the city council In that reapect I believe the devel jopment ef the city and the prog reas of public tmprovements are be ing carrie out [than ever bef Aside fram th are eo referred ta antending for the moral standard The first of these forces times without vigor and inchs tention: the other te always «to tear down, never asleep.” The above were the words of Wiitiam Hickman Moore nigh talked on righteos Chub of h o te at} who baat and otvic Men's hure senahip fore the aregation station, the ¢ ai at University Duty of Citizens. *, more than ever, men should not sleep upon their rights. the mayer continued. “It ts the duty of the good citiven to attend the caucuses and the primartes and see that men who entertain your ideas and convictions are given p office. Men like Theode od | Roosevelt, Tom Johnson, Governor ik and others of thelr views and onvietions are worthy of your emulation. They who have done much for the elevation and purification of the eoctal atmosphere. the men who furnish the steel for the back- of the minor oft | 1 do not believe te Where there had beer ned pr enforcer and st to obtain «pe form. complete me more watinfactorily p by to force t law fr uid hav ece@eary Mad I All come 1 eed rtaken of there we the ance the first teve © beer urd and think ity . rene oe te that t ‘" the fee ald ndle ait auccenstu t en mmnell and myneif a a by Bunday Closing legreen Thomson and Wappenstein. | f support my en avora to efvic purity ae 1 ean City Engineer nd Chief of Police Wa; naider Mr. Thomeor cleanest, ablest men en in public office an order Ct has not executed on et two men are left bowers admin EXAGGERATED t that I at appro » that subject, naked if he be 4 of opinto tlons A little later wher ed it unday te wued sible to « the n yiht om difteret of my | woRK CONTINUES ON masivts Third and Washington, also in | BUILOINGS SAID TO Have! the ist, No interruption of work jis visible on the University Build STOPPED OPERATIONS AND ling company's building at Third UNIONS CLAIM ONLY 219 MEN | and University ARE OUT OF WORK. All Men at Wort. — The @inim te made by the pension of bullding| that nemrly all the men laid Seattle the Mas-| the sumpension have atremdy |ter Butlders ation is not near | one* cee, oe that the. amt 7 : : find it difficult fill ty 88 estonesve a8 Bas Be «when work ts resumed & canvass of the move looking toward list of those | tiement of diffic wan 1 tO) by the Bullding Trade although it t# « lifffeultiow will b k fesumed by the The bullding adhered to their ination to allow 0 swalt the fexular mee executive committ« ing Trades council night. & committe ed to meet the « mast bufiders | ©@ OF the Master : Bn eno Tt Hon and effect tlement, If pow oft Labor leader List Is Small ttlement will be the Mat of build fly and thé contractors are anxious ha n 8 for an adjustment of working cor i ring ditions to Jast unttl after th eon inve At ing of tha 1909 exposition ‘at's EASTER EGGS SCARCE.‘ unions That the oft by operations in by tors hetr assoc! ee is shown by Idings which a set b on have bee In named named in a alties made fl to that was counc i usted of unte riginal n ~ of the t ui ome ber ‘dir rkmen and the | of w this their . butt tank in n tings on id off. om mittee tern emen {the { the ounell, which h fling the A Trades busy who have t to ting the of men the tractors c place the 219 out of 6. number tt héeld to appoln ll be mittee Bullders an immediate n laid by con entire numt M working claim that are | n confident that la hed speed { However | whieh Pie. indled sett sf men Arcade he lar bec this igati found pended un um mol ler m ber which is one building t works supy tht loc taster eggs will Several weeks market reached | of the cc thet stock t that ha nud 23 « the unloading and Vestern av. a ‘ Commision men were sup for nded W ration nae nape the price No interruption Jon the Tru Third lat ents, ‘ the will find the named t h erations is ru An effort ts vow) found | Bulids| MODERATE SOUTH WINDS, ENDORSED The Men's club “el: the Queen! Anne Methodist chureh last night} | by @ unanimous vote endorsed the | }course of Mayor Moore in closing | saloons on Sunday The elub decided that a masa! meeting of citizens of the north end be called and the Bunday closing question discussed Senator George F. Cotterill and! Representative L. EB. Kirkpatrick | were present last evening, and} spoke on the work of the legtsle ture, Counci!man Crichton also ad dressed the club TIDE LAND BILL OPPOSED The Chamber of Commerce this afternoon overruled the recom mendation of its committee on state legislation, that Gov Meade be urged to sign House Bill No. 190, providing for the improvement of tide lands with city docks ,ete. Judge Thomas Burke spoke strongly against the bill, and the chamber decided rather to recom mend ite veto, The chamber empowered {ts com- mittee on county affairs to appear before the county commissioners at 2:30 p. m. today for the purpose of urging them to provide for a com tinuation of the ferry service be tween Seattle and the east side of Lake Washington, in spite of th condemnation of the ferry be: King County teameter on the by the Interna pany, was ar nd appeared be | Dick Major, Third av. regrade tional Contract rested yesterday fore Judge Gordon cherged with spilling dirt on the street. He was fined $2. The judge took occasion te scare the contract company for overloading wagons, thereby caus. dirt to overflow desptte the ef TWICE CALLED The fire department received two calls to the Olympus cafe, on First av, last night, a amall biase caused by a burning chimney breaking out after having been once supposediy ended by the department. The first call was at 11:24, the second at 5:46 thie morning. The damage from the fire amounts to about $64. NEW. FIREBOAT PROJECT committer up the pro wfire boat The fire and w li this evening take t of building a ne The has invited a number architests to present their views and plans for o hew steamer for the safeguarding of the waterfront A commission may be take up the alter na for the committee and formulate committee ENGINEERS TO STRIKE IF RAISE 1S NOT GRANTED. td of the Puget the own meeting will be b this aft in the offices t Navigation Co. by ors of Puge mand tugs and steam to discuss the raise asked b ne engineors. If this raise granted the will engineers AT THE ART EXHIBIT, Mrs. Eleanore Perrin Miller and Mra. W. B. Michae conducted the second program the arts and erafta exhibit of the Woman's Cen tury club last night The following participated: Elsie Weiss, He Matson, Bertha Tellier, Charlotte Winte Mra. Mil Mrs. Annette B. Roger, Mra. Bertha La Graay ARCTIC ENTERTAINMENT, of the h will to be executive committee Brotherhoo whi manage the entertainmen given by the May and 26. for the purpose of raising a fund for the erection of « bufiding at the A-Y-P. expost held a meeting esterday after and appointed the following subcommittee or |tickets: Frank H. N. James H Ardern, J. Koleman, Rogers and I. H. Moore The entertainment will b the Grand Opera house. The Arctic order on. noon ! well Iu nt given In NO LIGHT FOR WEST SEATTLE ot An will natdet joint committee, made up n committee s evening ta of th at wa co! on city lighting up and ce West night un endorsement and Hight bill x the nor chief executive rhi of ow and will} | the counetl request wa the water in the hands of pon which the old a confer | Today it Jaround the nmittee request tomorrow rally believed that the joint report ad the city out light ence olty will the gene ha make a 1 be iti vers @ to n to supply for places with power an town { committee and Patrolman De fr 1 $20 cact of the nded ON PAY ONLY E CENT DEMAND YOUR CHANGE 9. NO, 20. 25 CENTS PER MONTH. BLAME OFFICIALS FOR BIG RAILROAD CRISIS SUNDAY CLOSING 1S Prominent Trainman Explains Trouble Which May Result in Greatest Strike in the History of Rail Transportation-Men Complain of Red Tape. The fact that the trainmen of j 39 railroads affected in the present controversy between the managers and the men’s greviance committee have voted almost animously for a strike unless their demands are acceeded to by the Managers, was positively corrobor ated today by « high official of the Brotherhood of Trainmen. The strike, if declared, will te up every road west of Chicago and place 90,-| 000 men out of work. | The signal for a strike is now up to the action of the two men, P. 1. Morrison, grand master of the Brotherhood of Trainmen, and Grand Master Garrison of the) Order of Conductors. The | men have voted to strike, and un } og 4 compromise is affected short these (wo men will give the word te the strike. A second offer of arbitration has been made by the managers’ com-| mittee in Chicago and refused by the trainmen’s greviance commit toe in &t Paul | The True Cause. | The real cause that has brought | about the strike agitation on the part of the trainmen is the high handed actions of the railroads’ ubordinate officials. When a general manager of a! road makes certain rulings govern ing the control of employes, these rules are violated continually by the roads subordinate officials Men are worked for outrageour hours and? submitted to petty ty-/ ranny by these officials. The rulés discourage men from appealing their oases | cases to to higher an un }If a man appeals, |to the superintendent, | the gene thorities In the road’s management, he must send a member of his greviance commit at an expense of $7 a day, first to the trainmaster of the road, then then to the and finally and the tee general superintendent, to the general manag rallroad president. After ching superintendent it is under the rules of the trainmen, to employ the entire grie- vance committee of the railroad system at an expense of a day | each. Among the rules which have been constantly violated are those regarding the signing and payment of time slips, and the forcing of the men to serve too long hours at a stretch. Working at Washington. The four organizations of fire men, engineers, brakemen and con ductors maintain a man in Wash ington at a salary of $26,000 an nually. Thie man, W. R. Fuller, has been exerting his influence at the national capitol in the present strike situation, and, it in under- ntood, has been in consultation with President Roosevelt, who himself is a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen. The trainmen officials believe that there will be no strike, think- ing that the managers’ committee will yield to the demands of the men. These now provide for a 12 per cent increase of wages, a nine- hour day and other improved con- ditions applying to the rules gov- erning employes. The demands to be settled apply to all the trainmen weet of the Mississippi river. ‘al hecessary, GREAT SECRECY IN HALL CASE BOTH SIDES PREPARING FOR) TRIAL IN A MANNER TO IN DICATE A SENSATIONAL FIGHT—NAMES OF WITNESS. £8 NOT DISCLOSED. The defense of William Constan tine, to be placed on trial Monday | to answer a charge of assault with intent to commit murder, is being prepared with all the secrecy of a first-degree murder case. Not only fo the wealthy butcher's attorneys | fefuse to divulge what their plan of dotense with be, bul the names of their witnesses are also being kept absolutely in the dark. It is probable, according to the non-com mittal Will H. Morris, that the sub. poenses for the defense will not be issued until the last moment when | the state has rested {ts case. It hae been thought generally that insanity of a temporary nature would be the defense. It is also held, however, that the attorneys for the defense will attempt to show that Constantine did not have murder fm hie heart, and had not premeditated the attack, bein guilty only of assault with intent to do bodily harm. In support of the Insanity plea several witnesses are said to have been found who be | stantine, states that there Tueve Constantine was not his nor mal self on the morning of the shooting, and it is gained from a reliable source that experts have been approached in regard to testl fying Will H. Morris, attorney for Com stantine, refused lo discuss the ar ticle in Inst night's Star to the ef- fect that Jesse Hall's girlwife would be put on the stand to black+ en his character “If Hall ia put om the stand, he will make the best witness we wil} have,” sald Mr. Morris. te will blacken his own character, if there is any blackening done.” James Fenton, attorney for Jesse ail in his efvil suit against Con< is Bo truth tn the recently revived raino® that be is to assist the prosecur thon. “There will be no outside attorm neys representing the state, as far as I know, certainly none brought into the case by Jesse Hall.” All that can be dug out of the defense’s attorheys is that the pub- c as yet does not know the causes of the shooting, and the circum stances surrounding It. Will HL Morris states that he expects a re versal of public opinion when these are brought to light Hi POOR BID ON BONDS But one did was submitted today the pure of the $ of special water bonds money for which was to » to the construction of a new pipe line to Cedar river. The bid presented was from Geo. H. Tilden & Co., a bond buying firm of this city which located in the Lowman building Th {fered by Tilden & Co. than the face bonda, or $ neer Thomson, n the bid wa for ane »,000 issue the value of the City r who wa whe pened. said it and with ed It a was an insult that it should and re to the city rejected forth- a ivertisement or the city accepts the bid, it 1 pay a fraction over 5 1-2 per ‘ interest on the bonds instead of 5 p nt In explaining said that it was knowl edge that the market at this me will not take this class of secur ty except at rate of inter- wo Tilden a high WANTS CO URT TO EXAMINE THAW JEROME MAKES A GaidArion.) AL REQUEST THAT JUDGE FITZGERALD EXAMINE HAR RY K. THAW AS TO HIS MEN-| TAL CONDITION AT THE} PRESENT TIME. (Scripps Telegraph Service.) NEW YORK, March sen the day The the Thaw | ation ¢ in trial oceurred when rupted ngs and requ ed Judge procee Fitzgerald inquiry to in-] into s mental condition Jerome intimated that 1 use its own guid at one stitut an Har K Thaw er and . state ‘ nll a tated that he help the proc be this would tria fon caused con » in the ranks of the d gerald took the Isement for a 1 that excused until In the meantime be made for appointment ission rupt udy rounced mornin ments termed of latter | th ortly s killed. Lane Hamtit the stand as the firat He was d by Delmas, asked the witness to examination of st yenr. inst Whit Allan i M on was mas je- Thaw, Jerome ant with 1 Del- feel- their his on his feet in a objection, and both argued with of ty. % }H TY D Seoures Basis for New Trial. 8 ob- and wet on tions. sue- n tions vsis for attempted t Ham from adjourn at dd he to h the this was he s proposit to tell all, or Thaw asked tc red ter on pecially holds state each milt the facts Vag Gets 30 Days. t charged with ntenced in vagran- by days the