The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 2, 1907, Page 1

amar in Seattle That Dares to Print the News ‘3 FGLAINS THE PRESIDENT ~ Chief Executive Brands as Wil- __ fally False Statements in Har- “fiman Letter Made Pubiic Today--Denies That He Asked Harriman to Raise Money or Promised to Send Depew to France SENS Tonmemvece on Wall at, today, contains the fol-jagroed that if found necessary he lowing would-appolat Rim ambassador to About a week before the election | Parts, fa the autumn of 1904, It looked! The letter goes an to tell of the certain that the state toket would raising of the money and, finally, so democratic and wae doubtful as of the president's failure to keep his to Reosevelt himself, He sent me alleged promise regarding the ap a request te go to Washington to | potatment of Depew | Berviee.) April 2—Te pub & letter of © ti he te sald to Roosevelt ap to secure cam to $200,000 situation that the copy wes furnished pam confer upon polftiesl conditions In man New York state. I complied and he — vty est wdaestee cod the paign| Harriman, almost frantic with eau aah ba fully carried on |*#* Tefused to defend himeeif ox & is “ado without sufficient money and asked | °*Pt (© admit the authorship of the : @tenographer if | would help them If raising the |'#tter, The end of the greatest of & ld notes. 1 | necessary funds, O68 the national | sonations Roosevelt hae sprung in his moet spectavular administration York World that fe mot yet tn steht mt mot be printed. but Rot stop it, | | New York Ameri the letter for thar committee, under control of Cartel- | you bad utterly failed of obtaining | them and there waa a large amount| TR# morning It seemed an if the jue from them to the New York! President was hit hard, but (hie gtate commmition afternoon the world t= staggered at 1 explained to him that I under.| the force of the blow he hit tn writing the stood the diffieulty here was matn- | feturn. “E went further, ly caused by up-etate leaders being| Wall st. is epeechises, Politicians the copy you unwilling to support Depew for re | are dumbfounded. Wealy Rave part of It clection as United States senator; | . Hf printed, would | that if he (Depew) could be taken | Parker Says Nothing. Bare. Kt would re! care of in some other way I thought! ALBANY, N. Y¥. April 2-The ting it, be Gh the mack matters could be adjusted and dif-) pubiication of the Marriman-Web- ferent contending elements in the ster letters thie mornt oatly party browght fmto close alliance | pleased Alton I Parker hew Letter. | agate Mar Which created a stir be ? He We talked over what could/ ever, said that the subject was too done for Depew. Finally he weigtity for a hasty answer. vm on — oo a NeSSNSENRNSSNSD “ipl tctate wee nism mate pubis ocmer te GOVERNOR LEADS when Harriman wrote that he would rem down the “first of pext week” wher he thought conditions; would be tmproved. These letters between the prea) Gor. Albert K. Mead and Miss dent and Harriman. were ene! | Bra MeCullom, president of the with bis correspondence to Sher-| Weltresses’s anion, led the grand Reoservelt GRAND BALL ' man In one letter Harriman | ™@Peh of 150 couples at the eighth} Witere the presi! srongty urged the appointment of | @maual grand ball of Local No. 240 you to say | Hyde, saying that Hyde would cer | Waltresses’ Union, at Bagies hall tainly have the backing of Depew | 9" Monday night and Senator Platt. The president| The affair eclipsed any previous mys to Sherman ball, 500 people being present “The whole thing shows how In- " ¢ compatible my actions at thet time | Were with amy theory now advanced that I solicited. or sought. or ex: pected amy campaign contribution from Harriman. | conferred with Harrtman, Morgan, Hill and other} rattroed men, just the same ae I) DEADLOCK The Sunday closing deadiock may . ROOSEVELT’S DENIAL THE SEA WEATHER FORECAST—SHOWE | known as Edgewater curve, }ing Green Lake car | foot embankment achool plenicers were wrecked three tham the conductor and motorman did with Keefe, Morrissey and other | labor leaders. Harriman’s Personal Reference. “So much for what Harriman sald be discussed at a meeting of the city council et Ballard tonight ‘The original intention wes to pase & resolution calling upon Chief of | been at- about me personally. Par more im-| Police Nabors to close the saloons, few days by portant are additional remarks he | but for siection reason this pro- 2 ” made to you as you inform me j/gram has been changed, and the BEthorized the When you asked him ff he thought) matter wilt new pot it well to see Hearstiam and the like | upon at this session, At lenst that tiamphent over the republican! is the latest announcement. If this party he did not care in the leest. because | open again these people were crooks, and he could buy them; that whenever he wanted legislation from a state leg next the fact that an ordinance branding the sale of liquor on Sunday filegal hae been passed jt Sher with making. same state te the letter of Row published, | slature he could buy ft; that be] Whether or not Counciiman Cox it proper that| could buy congress, and that, if} means to introduce his (0 Sherman lant sary, he could buy the judt-| calling for the resignation of Ch | themselves of Police Nabors ts not known This doubtless is sald tn bors has declared he won't resign ful cyniciem and partly in & mere/ and that the council could not force burst of bad temper, because of bis! him to be boast Wanted. Sorrespondence objection to the interestate com-| — — Mat the pres oe law and to my actions ae **** et eee eee ee eee cttinas law and y Fresh 4) president. But it shows « cyniciam | * * Sought | sad pseated corruption which|* BANK CLEARINGS. * makes the man uttering such sen-| * FE SSI * timents and boasting, no matter) * Apr. 2, 1907 $1,460,608.40 @ how falsely, of this power to per-|* Apr. 2, 1906 ., 1,472,639.51 & form such crimes, at least such an | * * . ondesirable efitizen as Debs or | ®@R@eeeeeteaeeeane eary penalty Moyer or Haywood. MANY SITES HAVE be touched | enlosis Frank Bensk! cheated the you inform me, he told you! ie true saicons in Ballard witli be| by cutting his throat at the county) man Sunday, despite | hospital last night Tesolution | move, crawled out of tie bed to & | plan, MACHINISTS GO OUT TONIGHT AND WEONESDAY; SOUTHEAST BRE SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, APRIL a, 1907, CAR HURDLES A EMBANKMENT At Root and Albion sts, at Since that time two other care o'clock this morning, at a | imped the ratis at the same potat Ta the accident this morning, When the motorman felt the car wetting t i hie control he atart ed & apply the air brake only to NEW WARD lind. that the power was off. He ORES od ie ee, te Serer oe! A large delegation of the city Wedavd in betweon the bars of that| Council left this afternoon at two} . sontrivante, and it was, to all in-| o'clock to pay an official visit to stuck, | tenta aad purposes, useless d the Badgewater curve has an unen Fortunately it was the car's first | SOUtbeast bear's Four rye i oy viable record, it being there that a trip out and there were no pans |'Welfth. The object is to familiarize ear containing « party of Sunday emgere aboard, otherwise others| tne members with the needs of the new district, which hae several years ago, killing one child and se might Rave been shaken up and | petitions for improvements before riously hurting others. burt the council i i CAN EATTLE? HIS EN VISIT Jumped track and hurdied clear over a alx The motorman was slightly hurt, the conductor waa somewhat shaken up, but the oar maintained its upright position de eplte its aerial flight, and landed on its wheele in the mud where it } IF HENEY CAME TOS | his mind being « PAY ONLY ONE CENT DEMAND YOUR CHANGE VOL, 9. NO. 41. 25 CENTS PER MONTH. N CONSTANTINE SWEARS — MIND WAS BLANK ~* Jesse Hall’s Assailant Testifies That He Remem- bers Nothing of Shooting--State Summons Four Alienists to Combat the Temporary Insanity Defense. Wiliam Constantine, on trial for;ache, something very unusual for the attempted murder of his son-tn- | 1 J a= in't concentrate my mind. low; Seaee ¥ ore on the | Kept thinking of some way to ; ease M. Hall, swore on vid seandal for Myra. The child's witness stand today that he remem-| suffering was on my mind every bers nothing of the assault he made,' minute. At the store | tried to per- nothing of his consequent arrest and confinement in the county jail blank until he form my usual duties but couldn't, My head was jn a sort of « whirl; @ sort of & daze awoke from a slumber on Wednes 1 went to Hall's office to nee if day morning, the day after the | 1 couldn't arrange the divorce mat shooting ter, He wasn’t in. | went to Mr. This testimony is in compliance Faben's office. He was not in. I with the attempt of the defense to prove that Constantine was suffer ing from a form of temporary insan went back to Hall's office, but he had not come down yet. Returning 1 found Mr, Faben in, and we talked Wig SEERA ERE EERE RARER ERE RHR RHEE Weuld he find as much Juice in the lemon as he found in Gan Francisco? The cartoon was sug geeted by the publication news to the effect thet Assistant Distriet Attorney Heney, the man who is Se Francisco, is coming to Seattic ® after hie work in Gan Francisco ie Po UP Oe PEE OCCU CES A 8 ROR eee eld CHEATS DISEASE BY SUICIDE * * * * * io POSTPONES ACTION. On the verge of death from tuber] with all the strength at hin com The vacation of the Alva st Tieaski'e roommate awoke &t bridge, at the foot of the Portland that it to see the unfortunate | gt in front of the mit and the vacation of ral streets ror With the bieod welling Im/ asked for by the Union Pacific, Benski, according to the physl-| streati« from the awful wound !9' were matters postponed by the cians, had no more than two days) his . and before he could reach | council jast night until May 6 to live. At & o'clock ast night the | him, aki with a choking groan, sick man, slmost (oo weak to fell t@ the floor aud died HY N 6 Benski was 24 years old. His dresser where he had « razor, and/ His only known relative te a cousin Olson of 1507 Twelfth av. was found hanging from an or remorssiess disease of fta vietory } 4 the weapon Into bis throat | Hving is Dorchester, Wis, ON A STRIKE 0° to the Seattle Lumber company, | ity recognized by medieal authori-|of the divorce. He tried to reach ties as transitory fury or frenzy, Hall by telepho and failed. I which so dominates the mind a8 to went back to my market leaving render the vietim tneapable of con trolling his action, and which gener him to try to get Hall 1 phoned out home, saying that ally does not leave until after sleep.) was wick, and coming home. My and then passes off, leaving thé) wife told me not to come until I mind a blank a8 to what has tran had arranged the divorce matter. epired | She then told facts that Myra had State Has Experts, te her of Hall's treatment that aro insane.” Here Constan- To combat the defouses insanity testimony the state has a number of noted alieniste in waiting. Four doctors were in Uke court room this morning. The whispering of their names caused a buss of excitement, as all were connected with the fa- mous Chester Thompson case | Foremost among these is Dr. W. T. Williamson, of Portland, Ore., whose part in the Thompson case tine told the jury in low tones what these facts were Remembers Nothing ‘Do you remember buying a re volver,” asked Attorney Morris. “No, sir.” Do you remember of again visit- ing Hall's office?” “No, sir, I do not.” “Do you remember the shooting?” made him one of the central figures No, str.” around whom the storm cent Do you remember what took Dr. H. M. Read, of Seattle; Dr. N.| pies im the hallway?” J. Redpath, of Olympia and Dr. J.|" | go pot.” B. Laughary, of Seattle, were al80/ «Dp you remember saying ‘I guess in the court room this morning. I have fixed him’ and snapping your What expert testimony the de revolver?” fense will use is being kept in th dark, but the prosecution dec! itself ready to meet any exp that may be introduced Constantine on Stand. William Constantine took stand yesterday afternoon I do not.” Do you remember your arrest?” “I do not.” “Do you remember the circum- stances at the police statton?” 1 do mot.” ‘Do you remembes your wife and Mr. Wilebire visiting you at the county jail?” the The en tire story, told fn full by Attorney Morris in his opening statement, and by Mra. Wm. Constantine No, sir.” Myra Constantine Hall in thelr tes | “Who was the first person you timony, was repeated by the de-| recognized?” fendant, who made a convincing) “The jailor on the next morning. witness in his own behalf. | Lawyers Clash. This morning he related the de) Cigshing between counsel contim tafle of the revolting story of thé/ 04 today. Attorney Morris at on@ abuse of Myra Hall by her husband/iine had a tilt with the court, which, it in claimed, was told bim) wnich stirred the spectators up to by his wife on the evening of Mon) ox recting strict censure to be day, Oct. 1 | passed upon the attorney, but while “I did not sleep on Monday sine court grew somewhat red, he |night,” declared Constantine. “I noida to his ruling in the same, fe = pe all —. ron bpd calm, judicial Rg wer ty be} t some way to ‘ehate i bis han: for my daughter without giving the Enea dene ni ey or ge my a cou! nd ; stantine having m told, grace it would bring 1 would rath-| -rowd dwindled down to ordinary er have died—I can't describe how > nortions, although many of the | I Gott. | women noticed in the court room Day of Shooting. yosterday returned today to hear “Tuesday morning 1 went down to the defendant repeat the morbid my work with a very severe bead- details, t STATE DEPOSITARIES. CA FUND cous opal OLYMPIA, April 1-—Some time Y, M. oth ab the middle of next month | the State Board of Finance will de- |signate as state depositaries such | banks in the state as It may select lander the provisions and terms of |the recently enacted state deposi- } tary bill. It is estimated that the javerage balances to be deposited 4 carried will aggre three. yesterday raised fourths of a million dol FYGEEDED M. Cc. A The Y $9,976.98 in excess of the $220,000 y needed for its building fund. The new building when completed will mean the expenditure of $275,000 $55,000 of which will be re 1 from the sale of the old First av DP ty. Over $14,000 was raised yesterday afternoon. MEAT MEN | ORGANIZE! MINES rs of th The office teamer Santa lara bring word of a strike in the mines which has tied up WES Willing to confor Wealth of Corruptionists. , eae ‘about giv! ‘ fleventy-five machinists went out, morning conferring with the head®/trea two hundred feet off Federal The retail butchers of Seattle or mines for the past two weeks me air to The wealth of the corruption ‘ } ie temporary aseociation last Be Would like to! i ealth of a demagogue, B lon strike today at the Moran Broth. | Of (heBe companies in Volunteer Park, by F. G@.| ganized a temporary associa The men were receiving $3.50 per later ints Is the wea sles be | ‘The strike affects ail union ma-| Prior, of 1216 Sixteenth av., at 8:30] evening. Fifty shops were repre nal who excites in the press oF am the ‘ Jers’ ship yards, the Weshinaton) cniniste employed by these compa-| o'clock thie moraine sented. Gus Meyers and Harry|@ay and thelr demand for $4 per camp, im offies oF br wed al The committee which is to Iron works and the Union Machin-| nies: No effort has been made to| From investigation made by the! Reed were chosen temporary chair ay was refused that Har clase against class, and Sppedls in| lect a site for the new state soldiers’ |ery and Bupply company because of fill tiipir places. Those at the head| coroner it is believed Olson com-| man and secretary | The mine owners min ae message « the. bas 'y : aasions Ys at Bes. me ar sane tens feastved about £0 offere| the failur ¢ the employers to) Of the union say they expect no fur-| mitted suic Olson was married The butchers laim y are], oon th ae oan oo soul, an a oe e Bande | ther trout: no more men will be| and lived with his wife at the above | ariv by the 5 ee < * . ‘ is eititede ot is ° ike and equally the enemnee ees of te oc - = vg wad bg rant & minimum wage scale of 40) pi vasteg and they expect that the address, He was 35 years old. The|of the reta kere and whole oa Se ee tage tetoretate public | s — ae in Se! conte an hour | matter will soon be settled body is in charge of-Bonny-Watson, | sa i ade. They ex . 2 rata horrified, an was attle yesterday and sald the com 1 was horr , | | In order that the work on the! Al ® special meeting of the union » ‘ol the retail meat trad Root, when y« id us today what) mittee would get together in a} : &t Labor Temple monday night ! P PE TY Letters to Sherman. Harriman had said to yo An I|#hort time and select the site. battleship Nebraska might not be) St anor pe oe = 7 en RM and retall prices 1 an ha | | ‘| ended by 200 mem siamese | M iteident’s letters 1. r-leay, If you meet him, you are en-| jinterrupted the Moran Brothers: 10 is wee decided to call « ntrike | | MS teucerning Hari tirely welcome to show bin +i] DEPUBLICAN CLQB | cvented tne aemana of the machin-|ge the regular meeting next Friday| BALLARD TO GET A) vid | hotter, although of courne S ae. | iste employed on the vensel, but up night if thelr demand for a raise WRI 3H | | sisal {-| not be made public unless requ a | | * tne | om 25 to or a — b reason of public policy, | COMMITTEE’ neon had not inctaded. Gigaane iis wages trom. WAS to 98.00 was) CHANCE FOR JOBS | touts & Tenny ana wite are the v-|by some reaso F ’ in thelr shops proper fot @ftanted, and the action of the ee a of owners of block 89 in Lakewood o and then only after my consent bro) oma —_ | T. H. Stevens, business agent of machinists this morning was not | — | ‘ Yolu " been first obtained #. hintets’ union, spent the wbexpeqied | ‘The confirmation of George EB. uddition to Columbia, The Seattle (Signed.) {resident L. HM. Gray, of the King| the machinis union, , lee | Wrie pointed by the mayor as The civil service commission yes) Electric Co.'s oposed extension THEODORE ROOSEVELT Republican club, yesterday |= . 5 member of the ibrar rd, wag |terday decided that if Ballard be-| will pass diagonally through this Written October #, 190¢ . od the f wing bers | | Unanimous in the council last even- | comes ann ed, citizens of x ty, and the owner Asser Qn October 12 the preside a @ come a a ling ltown will be eligible to all the reg-/that its value would be greatly le »lwrote to Sherman, saying that] Kietckerbocker, P. J. Smith, John F. | The appointment of John Hay to] ular spring civil service examina-|sened by such action. An injunce h ou and F had \ wi Claude Ram ee be superintendent of streets and | tions, thus affording them early ‘ tion has been asked he superior to protest against Hyde aa) * Prank HM. Renick, John F. Mill | Mayor Moore was sustained by | cftyowill keep the lot, which is now | sewers was rejected by the coun-| portunity of getting on the eligible} court to prevent the E. Co. con- : r they | 1 ry Wilson. | worth $15,000 or more 1 Mats for city employment structing the propo line 1 smbasaador as soon as th of 1 he | | the council Iast night In his veto of | “St ; ‘ ard he had been mentioned | j ime members voted against the 2 —-—— ee errennmnsemnerreeneenneren me, | PLAN NEW CHURCH | the bill returning to the Terry hetrs| pasange of the bill over the veto ’ [| TO USE OLD FRANCHISE : corrace | TOSS Who wished to pass the bill DTO BUY the lot on Broadway and Terrnce| notwithstanding the veto, were The Seattle-Tacoma Power com-| A Methodist church may be estad-|*t*, given to the city several yoars| Zyinden, Morrison, Gill, Crichton, | bd ISLAND | pany the city! lished in the southern portion of|a«o for fire hoase purposes. The} Conway and’ Bowen. ; 1 r f the old) the city. Bish Atkins and Dr.|= = be Sere cemace ! franchise MeMurr cre of the board ;PHYGICIANS FAVOR t Wand, in, Union yw of church exten are In 86 | A NEW CITY HALL. Wer by the park K attle looking into the matter to | Pee, & hare nurmin: onl ‘ing } | DteGeo. 1. Randall was last night tis —* ia atlitontecienanaal | {ing Gount "4 amg 4 aces | triet aposmaed “/ oe Sine County a | “We, the Jury, censure the Seat-) The eyewitnesses tostil that e in j ’ ng GP pete rt BBs 0! “ the otorman, Aike \ very Seiten: IN PREPARATION ppeitencan the flay conteisine [te Electric company for employing |the motorman, Aiken. male every —— | | suggested by the Manufacturers’ as too young and inexperienced men, | pi Or' {0 ston the car pom THE ROOSTER | sociation to take up the question | and for allowing its cars to run at van o> tee le | A certain sorority at the state unt of & new city hat which ran 50 feet after hitting | versity, which contains several (eestous e pa too high rate of speed along busy | Schaper. | “brides-to-be” at the end of th MINBA POLIS. . ; thereughfares J. B. Rose of the Seat- term, hi employed a cooking phe trial of seven railroads and | “We believe, if the brakes on said | tle Electrik re to |teacher who gives regular lessons) four grain firms, accused of grant } i jear had been in first class order, | 9 to the condition of the brakes j | at the home of the sorority. ing rebates, began in the federal NEW YORK us vil Q-—~Jerome | that the car could have been bet-/on car No, 213, or to the existence | | court here today, the total number how wratted a crusate against the|te? controlled. But we do not at sand in the boxes. of counts being 178. The Chicago, tae 1 postroom trust by issuing a tribute any blame to the motor John Aiken, the motorman, | R Milwaukee & St. Paul was the first fea ath ey / son | man.” though not obliged to go om the pete. lease taken up of John W. Gates, It is believed) ae eceilink ni Wh A. Wee * pee he above is the verdict of the red the accident could hav An amendment to the present city | YACHT CLUB SITE. aah Sees. Che: Soak oh wane 1008 | scrameie jury on the death of Fred | been “ ided had the braben > w regarding the sale of liquors in . ': we great: weal C> be brought intel oe ho was run over by Lak 1 ly and efficiently lrenstote to be shortly offered 4 tt Yacht club held a “Who stole the mayor's clock?” | tne investigation. ee, woo ae Aree “ eget, Phyo: whee 4 py a et j —— The serves - ‘ Union ca 1 aturday ev , ald tried to bring the the counetl by Jon ncilipan aster A. P. Spaulding | Meeting last night at which a ¢ jie the 24-hour mystery stirring the Q00D FIRE ALARMS. Senand erg rh ‘o a halt immediately upon ese Keene yee Otis mote toned ived printed booklets| ™ttee was appointed fo ex amine | otty fall | coroner which signed t ag ak but that the brakes ors on th escription « navig on Elliott bay.| Pe ey ting April ; hour stunt on the mayor returned f 4 trip through ea BE. N. Bro C. FL Exae M ctor on the quors on th ie @ meeting nt jay afternoon ht fr t arpa tf ac-| Sloan, C, B. Hanson, J. W. ¢ f Aiken's tes re hict ently passed by the rda noor Th , he purr t M iriggiste have recently | cit 1 CLERKS REPORT on S ary Wilkins opened up, | quainting himself ¢ ly with} The hearing beg ' srrested for lating the| ‘The rules will be rigidly enforced. “¢ mianing. What makes mat-| modern fire alarm ems, contral| o'clock, Deputy Ce W , © exonera Mu jaw. who claimed to have’ These rules govern the speed of all} The total earnings of the county worse, it a police depart-| stations, ete. Mr. Joslyn believea| presided, and Assistant P f Ai » motorman wad Sacclf chalealitios only in gelling, vexsela plying on the waters of clerk's office for Fobrua nt clock and the property of the| Seattle has much room for improve-| Attorney Vandevee ' this afternoon @ ton ) ‘icinal purposes ] witott bay. $4,969, ment examination of the witn the coroner.