The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 26, 1907, Page 1

ee and Injury Follows Accident i in Black ond Mine---Gas Explodes on Sixth Il of Morgan Slope, As Miners Are g to Work. AND INJURED, } Tt te supposed that = gas poo had o pillar dead ares Seth lew tog broken) of the explosion. badly bureed) Joe the men, 1 waa evident that t jane had been fired fram « miner's lamp and that the expanding flames had enveloped the miners about thetr heads and bodies. immediately fetiowing the expio- the men from the other levels | summoned to the aixth tanne! | Tk wae quick- | in Mae count 12 men tought hundreds of feet ef the ground the Morgan Slope Coa: Diamgea. The ox ‘on ie sixth tevel! victima were) 1 te ght out ef the mine before the the miners Were work had reached the families of iy br hands, the men } tn} Disptaye of individual nerve were os, Witnessed when the men Were brought eut. One who was badly | burned sbout the head and shoul: te shafts but lost thete lie were later found | Durned aiftrost be- “Boys, Wrap something around my cad keep the air off. Leavy fag {little place for me (o see through lend I will walk to the hospital | Take care of the other boye and don't mind me,” he eat, the Conse Stemie Boyd, a ié-year-old ber occurred Im the} he was tending door in « garawary about three and|mear the explosion, wee biown &© the entrance to [feet bot escaped serious injury fact that It occurred Moat of the injured miners are men of the morn- ie and the majority are seid to aces he unmarried. The mine te the — ot the TS HENEY with the clothing hetz bodies above the | Lengdon ordered him arrested if he made a further desturbance. been Telegragh Servier.) | White President Tucker was Va, April 24.—Prest- making the opening speech a panic arrived in Hamp | occurred in the great crowd before the grandstand. For a time it wagh many women and piste sores rat neg |childrea would be trampled to poy Tess ae | The exposition guards and regu ‘wen sesstved by lar troops im tine near by, rushed menagenent and in and quieted the swaying mass of waa greeted by | Dumanity and seriots resulta were averted She maitiinde. cident! After Tweker had completed his the history of the remarks, President Roosevelt 9 "7 the en, |touchea on electric button. the flags ‘He om ame Fitzhugh were freed to the breeze and when largely responsible for! aatvans. trfumph. He sketched that led to the settie- | ind enumerated the princt- | ‘Mored the colonists. He lemon of today is that of m that may | Milee how far our conduct ia con i by the Drinetples for which fought.” ee, although large. ¥ emali compared to the The following telegram was sent teday by 4. EB. Chilberg, president of the Alaska-Yuson-racific export tion company to Marry St. George Tuck or, preswent of .¢ Jamestown Ter-Centennial exposition In behalf of the A-Y-P. expost tien of 1909, I congratulate tle Jamestown exposition upon its aus celebration of wwe a we This was on account| pictouws opening in Pe delayed excursion steamers, the birth of the Ameri nation Oe pler being ready for the and wish it unbounded success in every way AVES A og bite tite, | the married ones All we tak glothing from thetr|t? the company hespitel. the seartog mows & F | HREE KILLED [NW EX PLOSION THE SEATTLE STAR—FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1907. AWFUL (Sertppe Telegraph " Service.) NEW YORK, April 24-—-A_ mob lof passengers, maddened at the! sight of a boy who had been run) over and killed by « etreet ear of the Coney Island Surface ine last night, dragged the motorman from the platform and trampled) upon him. Police officers arrived and fore- ing their way through the circle: of furious mea « women ree cued the street car man after he had been beaten inseusibie, The boy's head and lege were severed by the car wheels, The accident | ¥ea unavoidable, OUTRAGE Seripee Telegraph Service.) NORFOLK, Va. April 26-~Mra, Rawin Warfiesd, wife of Maryland's governor, en route to the Jamem town @xpesi..on aboard .« steamer deca refueed further aid i. nt woke last night to find a negro beading over her in her stateroom, Her screams attracted) the aecauands. sue negro plunged tarough a window and has net been located. AUTOISTS FINED Justice o. the Peace Gordon this fined three violators of .¢ automobile ordinance. were charged gp running their | machines beyond the smnit, | jR B. Kamp wae fined $10 and foots because the patrolman whe |made the arrest had to pureae him a mile before they were «ble to catch him. L. W. Paxsos and A. H. Jones were fined $10 each. A complaint was «0d against Col. George B. Lamping this afternoon for the same ecenes. Ateut 100 journeymen talloré \whoe have been out on strike at) six of the leading Seattle shops for weeks returned t Word reached today that General Ar- thur MacArthur and staff, who are lon their way from San Francisco to Seattle for the purpose of meet- ing and escorting General Karokt) and etaff to the Jamestown expo~ sition, would not reach bere until Sundsy afternoon, instead of Satur- day ae first announced. A meeting will be held at the) |chamber Monday morning by ail) the cheering subsided he made his) PUYALLUP. Aprit 2 eaning those who eaw the rescue could forward from a x ng hardly tell whether Mrs. St Clair Pacific eng which had been struck by the engine and ews “ tchman thrown Into the diteh or had been Mre. St. pushed from its path ath The incident occurred about 6:45 and tossed her o'clock yesterday and the fact that le C acke at Mrs. St. Clair was not ground to horrified spec- death beneath the wheels of the 7 elle g engine, whieh wae wing «& RO power on ca ave string of freight cars toward Teco oe from being ma. is only dae to the presence of Drobably ki nd of the switehman who was MBE escape that for accompanying the train a Ume the associations planning recep tions to these generals for the par- pose of laying final plans as to the nature of the functions to be given im honor of the distinguished vis- tore. MR. DENNISTON RESIGNS The resignation of A. B. C. Denn ston, northwest passenger agent of the Pacific Coast Steamehip Co. for the past two years has been ten-/ dered to the company. and will take effect May 15. Mr. Denniston re signe to become manager of the bond department of the Trustee Ca, Mr. Dennison wil! retain bis tn-| teresta in the Aiki Point Transpor tation Co., and other local steam ship concerns, which he b done much to build up. His successor with the Pacific Conet Co, has not been chosen BANQUET FOR KUROKI At a meeting of the Asiatic Aw sociation of Seattle, held Thursday night at e Ra Club, it was decided to banquet Gen. Baron Ku roki, Baron Osawa, Gen Arthur MacArthur acd bis staff, and the Japanese party. on the night of their arrival here The commitiee apopinted to ° the matter in charge will ae n af BOOD AB poRs whether the vis itors will accept such an invitation Maj. Wood, quartermaster at Fort Lawton, will receive Gen, MaeAr thur and his staff when they arrive Saturday VICTORIA, A The journed last nig It is announced that the Sunday « law w i will not be enforced in the province At @ meeting held In the | ting wp $25 ball ‘Tae men! the Chamber of! s POSTMASTERS HLBWOTION, MO & 9 Fourth Ct , Van ¢ Mected Mre. Hiennmah Arey of Kennydale, vice prest and © Pratt ef Hanford, treasurer, By-laws and thon were adopted The league Wil) seek to secUre better pay for) postmastera TAKE IN MORE AUTOISTS 1 police took two more auto late into custody for speeding. The orders of Chief Wappenstein are vant | SiMe sealously followed out, and | everrdriver going too fast is taken to the station, The men arrested | were A.B, Meacham and W, & Fer ris, They were retested upon pat Judge Gordon has }@ considerable number of automo bile cases upon bis calendar. See AT VOL. 9. NO. 51. One Cent 12 PAGES PRICE 25e PER MONTH. ASPHALT AND GRAFT WORK HAND IN HAND PROTEST ASSESSMENT. Property owners on Bateman *t., in Georgetown, are up in arme over the $3 per front foot sasex ment for plank walk on the street They claim that the price ts at least twice os high as it should be. | COMMITTEE ANMANGEMENTS, At & meeting at the Chamber of late thie afternoon the t of the meres appointed to eception of Genar heir te theae THOUSANDS ARE BURIED SANTIAGO DE CHILI, April 26.—Another volcano is in — im the Valdivi district, which threatens to complete the ha woe begun by the volcano at Villarioa. It is pouring | forth vast clouds of ashes, which are fast burying all the feet of ashes, lava and dust. now completing the work of Lava and mud streams are destruction. Hundreds of thousands have been driven from their i homes in the devastated district, and are now living in the | open fields, subsisting on roots and wild fruits MORE SMALLPOX FOUND ” } treaamrers | pest house last night with the more | ve a acon ODD FELLOWS C RATE. Members of the Odd Fellows are celebrating the #$h anpiversary of the order today, Th fternoon large mesting was held at the Se attle ..eater and addresses were made by Gov. A. KE. Mead, Rev. M « Matthews, Gen, Raney and other) prominent ment o. the order This evening at 7.30 o'clock the decoration of chivalry will be com | ferred upon several members at the \ieshi Park pavilion, and a grand } bell will wind up the weaing PRIMARY | ELECTION The election and coundaries com mittee oc tue counet! this afternoon turned down the nomination of A. Ware for councliman from ¢ new Twelfia ward, and decided to leall a primary election tn the ward lto choose a counciiman. Columbia ane South rark will ve annexed to beattle Monuay nignt, and immed iately afterward a primary election with be ordered HERMANN’S FATE ' _ WITH JURY | WASHINGTON, April 26.-—~Ac cusing Binger Hermann of destroy ing the public records for filegat purposes and riso of being in an al | leged conepiracy with Mitchell Benson, Hyde and Diamond, Die triet Attorney Baker closed the | government's case today | Standing before Hermann, whore wife and daughter were beaide bim. and pointing bis finger at the de fendant Baker characterized him | as felon Baker closed with a demand for verdict of guilty Justice Stafford then charged the jury The case went t the fury at 0 o'clock this af n xo NEW T t | Judge Griffin today denied the | motion rf a new trial of the John Sullivan estate case. His decision was anticipated, aud the state took an appeal at once. Rival claim ante to the winners of the $ fortune also appre Business ( ee basebal! teame will play at Woodland Park jet 1 o'clock. Saturday IN TREASURER’S OFFICE sister serious dtarned, Pheips ef about four weeks ago came down with what was thought to be chick @& pox, bat what le now though! to have been emalipos George Ht Quintan, another of the treasurer's clerks, removed to the pest bouse Monday, ie now thought to bave contracted the disease through Pheips, The treasurers office wae Kg m wt fumigated fast night by the hh officera, Ali of | the clerks are in constant fear of coming down with the diseane 7 . (Sertppe Telegraph Service.) NEW YORK, April 2%.—-Dr Gardner with J. sartin up, a 3 tol shot, wine the $16,000 Excelsior handicap at Jamaica. PSTATE LIGHTLY APPRAISED, The estate of the late Christian fcheverman has been apprained at sae 644.75, of whieh $250,000 is on * tcheuerman block af the north east corner of First and Cherry consisting of a lot x improved hy & three story brick bullding The market walue of the corner ts t tea 608 t . te ment ie Je to fix the inheritance RLOPERS WrD, Harel Merzman. the 15-year-old girl who eloped to Victoria a few lays ago with Ben Stevens, was married tn that city to the man of her choice yesterday afternoon The Heraman girl before the enca pade lived with her mother on Con pectiont et. in thie city After marriage the newly united peir started for San Francisco MITCHELL, IMPROVING CHICAGO, April % Jobr Mitchel! te better today and he may be able to within @ week or tefinttely READ postpone it ES underge n operation Within the next few years the property owners of the city of be attle will spend millions of doliare in the asphaiting of streets. if history repeats itself, hundreds of thousands of these dollars will go for iHegitimate purpos Money, in the form of graft, will be paid to city counciimen and other officials, and thousands will be spent irregularly in other a rections in an effort to prevent com petition. The asphalt situation in the elty of Seattic today emeils of greft. it ig the same old odor that may be traced today to prison oolle in Why wouldn't it be « good idea for the taxpayers of Geattic to follow up this oder to the place from which it emanates. it may reauit in the saving of |arge sums of money and the pun- many cities of the country. tahment of dishonest men. Pressure ts being wwenene by the asphalt trust upon the board of public works to foree that body to accept the bid of the Barber As company for the fit lty-five blocks of paving in the Queen Anne Hill district Property owners who claim that their only Interest in the matter is the Increase in property values which will follow paving are im pertuning the board ot public works to accept the bid of the Bar ber company so that the work of paving may proceed. On the other hand, many proper- ty wheres are protesting againat both the price and the, extent of |e paving authorized by the coun- cll. The smaller property owners, eepeciatly those on cross streets, claim that there ia no ‘ecessity for etch extensive improvement on } Queen Anne hill at the i time; that main thorough fares and | euch cross streets as the property may be paved, but that aephalt paving on many ot the streets would be an unnecet- sary hardship at the present time, and at present prices The a seeement would practically be lll | mortange againet all emall proper- ty holdings Jumping The Price | phalt Paving lowners favor. | ‘The conviction of protesting | property owners that the bid of the Barber Asphalt company. which” wae the lowest bid, exorbitant is borse out by ithe figures While the labor have [fix ot material and ten per oent. dur- lereased about ing the last six months, the bids on arp paving be in the neighborhood of forty per cent The Barber Asphalt Paving com- pany’s bid on the Queen Anne im- provement fs exorbitant in nearty every item. The bids on the ae phalt wark te $2.16 per square yard: $1.0 per square yard would be a good price, eapecialty ta view of the fact that the elty pays the company 2 1-2 cents per square yard for maintenance for ten years. which practically adds 25 cents per square yard to the contract price The aephalt product is controlled by the asphalt trust and no reason exists why the material should rise in price The bid on Queen Anne ents per cuble sub-grading for the improvement ia 75 yard, The con tract price on the Third avenue improvement, which is being put in by the same company was only 40 cents per cuble yard, » Consider- ing the fact that the excavating on Queen Anne Hill is all sand, 36 cents d is considered & good price, per cuble y Sandstone Keorbitant present | | the trust, | Sandstone is another exorbitant | item in the Barber bid. It is put in at #4 per square foot At present prices of sandstone blocks, $3.50 per square yard would yield a profit contract price on the ast work this nature done for the city by the Barber people was $3.20 per equare yard, $1.20 less than their present bid firick gutters are priced tn the Rarber bid at $3.40 per square yard Pased on the present price of brick the figure ought to be about 2.60. The price at which the Barber ompany ta doing the Third avenue ts $2.40 for paving brick E. M. Williams election to the senate wae an avowed ep tative of the Barber Asphalt ny, displays much interest in Y TO the present situation, being much around the city: hall Senator Williams eceupled the position of “fixer” for the Barber company. His work was so good that the leniency of the grand jury aione saved him from getting into trouble in Tacoma. His operations have extended to other towns in this section of the country as shown by the following extract from a stery printed in the Cap- ital N . Of Boise, Idaho, Feb. 12, 1006. Graft at Boles “Was there « determined effort on the part of the Barber Asphait Paving trust to corrupt the mem- bers of the city council of Boine, and secure the city council of Boise, and secure the paving con~- tract through bribery? This is known to have been the case so far as one member of the council is concerned, who, however, re- fused to betray the Interests of the eity and would not sell bimaelf to the liberal offer of the tempter being ignored “The story of the attempted brib ery wes told in the mayor's office this morning, in the presence of Mayor Pinney and Councilmen Ac- nett and Hubbard, aod was related by Coupcliman A. A. Johnson of the first ward, whom the Barber people endeavored to corrupt. Mr. Jobneon said Meets Mr. Williaa. “'ADout the firet of the month te | Wee called lato o business place on Mate #t, the location of which com, need not be stated. and there in- | troduced to # Mr. Willlams of Seat- | tle, who sald he was one of the | principal members of the Barber ihereased | COMpABY, and was desirous of s- caring the paving contrect soon to be let I was on my way t o liwmeh at the time, and Mr. Wii- liame walked out with me, accom- panying me for several biocks. He talked of the paving contract, and inquired bow much of my property would come under the paving dis- trict. After | told him he made sole rapid calculations, saying, “It will cost you about $2,000 to pay for your share of the paving. We want this contract and are going to get it. Now, I'll tell you what rll do; UU cut this price in two with you, eo that your paving wil! not cost you over $1,000, and be a saving to you of over $1,000 for your vote, but I want an answer right now.’ Would Thisk tt Over. “L didn’t say anything in reply. when he again insisted on an answer, I then told him I wouldn't give bim any answer, but said | would think the matter over. A couple of days before the last Meeting of the council I again met Mr. Williams, when he said, "We haven't got "em all yet, but we are going to have them,’ to which | made no reply pry! If such work wae done tn Tacoma and Boise, why not in Seattle? PRACTICE SIGNALING. Company A, Signal Corps of the National Guard of Washington, will spend next Sunday in outdoot heliograph signaling A station will be established on Queen Anne Hilt and one of Capitol Hill, and signals will be exheanged. The corps is planning to establish a station on Mount Rainier this seum- mer for practice signaling with a station on Queen Anne Hill SMALLPOX. Margaret Molett. an 18-year-old girl, living at Firet av. and Cedar st, Was taken to the pest house today suffering from smallpox. IGHT MOULDERS MAKES SAILING RECORD The bark Harvester, master Wa er H. Myers, has Alaska ' sHEK REPORMATORY srrr of the threatened 1, which promises moulders was coast brougt t ov by 1 Hulme ager of the Vul { this city who is the following statement to fight the most, If we and for an Mend, tox | ara he a de ; a elk fay now would . ais a ques of possibly a few , « v they would be asking ; he V works has about oe y " ' 1 the foundry ' Arling all making over $4 per jfore arriving at @ f Jay and should have no kick com- ing. None but union labor has been employed, bat if the un jomands an eight-hour day, department will be never opened again open shop. Under the we cannot pastern that closed and unless as an conditions proposed possibly compete with manufacturers. We are preparing to spend as much money as necessary to carry on the fight, if the union desires to start it The attitude of J. V. Patterson general manager of the Moran com- pany’s shops, is practically the ame as that outlined by Mr. Hume and the employers will probably de lare an open shopon the day the union strikes for eight hours ; he 2 fan a ta ag tem -_ yrs.