The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 27, 1907, Page 1

IN PAVING Submitted By the Barber Asphalt ny Show an Increase Five Times ter Than the Advance in Cost of for the Same Period. THE PVNCRRASED COT OF PAVING. fellewing table shows the bide of the Harber Asphalt Co. for av, paving job of 1005, nnd for the Queen Anne HI joe , The figures show bew the peving trast hee boosted = prices ‘ent te two years and during the same period labor has tn- ¢ — 1905 Increase. eubte yard ’ - -. “ 100 “” toe Sad a - oo 200 ae ae seo e008 90.00 65.00 2300 sandstone ts $1.20 higher thas It wae im 185, & eet fighting the improvement of the streets on Queen endeavoring te point out te the people of the catire the Indications of graft tn the matter of aephelt paving. ef Queen Ane Hill are saffictentiy tetelitgest te one atintes. If they desire te pay the price asked for the streets im thet district, Chat te thelr orm business ond the mest fashionable resident district of the etty, Queen sbeald be Improved ‘ that (he property owners are to be held ap Hot te stand for this beld-up ft te set within the prev i For taking out 4 ump root, like the roots tooth, they ask $10,000. igh prices, according to made by the Barber Ae i¢ a short time age, ere ptible of reasonable ex- . but they do not nay how bat the successful bid Righteenth ay. contract above, could bid $1.87 per H i 32 AL: DURSER= EEE i i E j st : th ; H i uy egatroiling met, bid $3.00. The bidder whe the Bighteenth ar $23 Inter developed Into the Inde t Asphalt Co. whieh cour te sow taking the bulk of the work, whether by under if The reasons assigned by the Rar- down in th ter people for the great advance there is every: in prices over one and two years Y ago are: the incressed cost of labor. | Qauctmating and advancing prices Crabting Charge. of tron, delay in shipments of as company has hit the | phait and other material from the ene of the hardest | south and east and of course, the Md for “clearing and| usual run of causes sssignable & designation bet ie required to| to be put forward. @rdinances. There| Labor, It is well known, has in- and grubbing, al}/ creased only about 10 per cent over are graded. In thie two years ago while the prices has covered back above show an average advance tn for incidenta bidding for all material of just about 56 per cent iindintipinencene KNOWN SPORTING : AND BROTHER OUS LIGHTWEIGHT LOCAL HOTEL, A VICTIM OF SPINAL Lavigne, better known Lavigne, one of the best ‘Merting men in America, is Antlers hotel. this city, Meningitis, Levigne ie of the famous e1-cham- “Kid” Lavigne himself. o mana- famous pugiifsts, a of various capacities, man, he is known t coast. He has « ainong the sporting te this city, and the fatal il\Iness comes to Wie & thunderciap out of a Wy. His death will probably ‘olay ] & big, powerful, sturdy ht usual advertising for the Post-Inteiligencer Re Went to bed at the a “eS ears headache He the coast, locating In San Francisco LY" LAVEG PER CENT BOOST work ia! 4, 1906, wae Stirrat & Goets, | Set improbsbie thet the ctty will Go weeks on a charge of destroying weys believed me so. that | when there is po legitimate reasons | ij | BID CLOSE DOWN | weetern Washington have closed thetr thelr machinery | w days, because of | The mille report | houses full of lumber, te moved there will be | Pour large tumber mille in north « and stopp the car ah eheda and and until thi | ne more work, |. The, mills are: The Parker-Melt | Launder company, at Ptichwek; the At fine Lumber & Shingle company, at McMurray: the Day Lumber company, at Big Lake, and the Clear Lake Lum- ber compeny, at Clear Lake All are on the N. P. ratiread. formerty ths | Beattic & International Ine. HEARING COAL’ LAND CASE | United States Attorney PC. Built jren be@an « lege! feht today on be half of the government against Wat json Allen and the Wilken Coal com- pany te secure 2%) sores of con! lands | te Lewts county, whieh the goevern- ment chaime were fraudulently se cured, Testimony ie being taken today be- fore W. A. Warden, of Tacome, man- ter th chancery of the United States court. Ne government land can legally be taken up for coal purposes, and the government clatms that the Wilson company took the lend for ite ena! value, Numerous other suite of « similer nature are pending. involving millions Of seres of coal lnnde in several weat- | rn #taten, some of them againgt the Unien Pacific raitway, which has ee j cured vast areas of cos! land in the same manner ONLY BID IS FAR 700 HIGH Only one bid, and that & high ene, | wae recetved thie morning by the! beard of public works for the laying | of a vtretch of the clty pipe line, The atonsion i along Harvard ay. N..! where there ie a big paving job to be ial¢ spon. ‘The Did wit be relected and it te) | the works ltoett ‘The bid wae made ty " ‘Conerass company | for Om nate | | a ARE DOOMED The cent meal will heave to go. A san of gehersi prowpertty te cep! today by « general advance m the price of meals by the pro of Japaoene ants thre the ety. The Ja sociation haa ttued « notice of the advance in printed form. and gives as the reason the high prices which they are competed to pay for food «tufts ‘The case of Col. George B Lamping, charged with running hie auto beyond the speed permitted by law, witt come up before Justice of the Peace Gordon next Tuseday IS DYING | ‘DISAGREEMENT IN — BROWNFIELD CASE ‘The second trial In the case against | Clyde Brownfiwig has resulted tn a disagreement The jury retired at 11130 yesterday morning and reported at 12 neon today The jury stood peren to five for conviction THRASHED (Sertppe Telegraph Service.) SPENCER, ind, Aprii 1.—Kight frasked men, before daylight this morning, cut the wires between thie town and & point west, and went to | the home of John Layman, « farmer jand ordered him out shot him tied him and given medi dying Two bullets are heat Layman we h a warrant into a sleep from where he was proprietor of several he has never awakened Tavigne thought him only in| jn ring afta , but bh efforta Four years ago he came to Seat atic and sporting gossip. BACK FROM AUSTRALIA DP. Lambe addition, hae from @ voyage Zealand and t « Hawatian islands. Pugilists He came Ap | hath establishments, and prominent |NEWSCART MEN IN NEW TROUBLE Bm this morning proved tie. He established a number of equniinenenetees A physician was called and! boxing clubs, and until # year or! ‘4 as spinal mer © ago was prominent tn this line Recently he took up newspaper was born Saginaw, work, not only as an advertising relatives solicitor but as a writer of pugtl “| SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1907. SUSPEND | terson Folek « DOCTOR le the charge on which the doctors wilh be Difficulty in getting the wtate rd together bes delay led the heartnm j THE SEATTLE STAR WRATHBR FORRCAST—FAIN TONIGHT; SUNDAY INCREASING CLOUDINE FOLLOWED BY LICENSE | Marine Inapectore Whit CAUGHT TRYING DOORS an unfit ¢ 4 } 4.0. SPRINGRR MAREE, | * (Hevipps Telegraph servies,) eT. Lor April {John W.| Charles Mooney was arrested by Aipringer, once elected mayor of Den-| Patrolman Landon in North feat ver, wae marriod to Mra. Isabelle Pat~ Ue last night for trying doors of | at noon today in the different residences in the north Hotel Jefferson. The couple left at 2 end. Mooney says that he had no oclock for Denver intention of doing wrong Coming Up From the Ashes The replacing of The Star's pliant, recently cestroyed by fire, Will consume about three months time. Ite new building which will be owned by The Star Publishing Co. will have an area practically the same as that of the Postln- telligencer building For present purposes the walls will be carried up two stories, but the structural steel will be sufficiently strong to bear two ad- ditional stories, whenever they are needed The walls, floors and roof will be of reinforced concrete, There will be nothing inflammable in the eu:fice. Ita front will be orpmamental nd of Moorish design Within a few days The Siar will print @ picture of Its new bome, aa it will appear when completed so: 9 9 6.8 The Star le owned by The Publishing Co, incorporated in thie state and {ts stockholders are four in sumber, two of them being residents of Beattie. Sinc® The Star was founded, three of ite four stockholders have established dailies in Spokane, Tacoma and Portian., Uregon. a are now conducting them along the same lines as the Beatt! tar All of them are cesentially newspapers of the people. They are hot organs of large corporate interests, or “syndicates,” uniess r group of now operating on & common policy for the pubiic 00d could be called a “syndicate.” The Star endeavors, a» doce its sister papers to avoid all a)- Hances which would tend to keep it from being free, feartess and independent. . ee th ein th HERMANN IS NOT GUILTY (Bertpps Telegraph Service.) with the outcome of the case, stat WASHINGTON, April 27—at ing thet it wae the only verdict 12: 4B this afternoon the jury in the that could have been found case of Binger Hermans, former Hermann feeelved the verdict | temmissioner general of the iaad calmly lt te what | expected. I office, whe has been on trie! for am innovent and my friends al lam great! records, wae fownd peg ro to bave my honor vindt om ” public: guilty. The jury Fetired yesterday after hoon at 3:50 o'clock am LepT yn ali cight Barly thie morning the SAN FRANCISCO, April jurors returned to the court roum Prosecutor Heney deciares and asked for special instrections, Hermann’s sequittal will have no then retired. effect on his trial in Portiend on Binget Hermann ia wet! pleased « charge of land fraud erie my ta ee HEARING description wae seen leaving Par- kere house by some nelabbors The thief secured (wo 22-catiber guns, & lady's gold wateh and « red ané biack hair fon anche sae MAY 10 May 1 the Gate eet hearing of the three ad doctors against whom cor ating the medical by Chtet W teal Inetitute the Seott M Robert B Medical Inetitute Paying commissions on feer to cappers who brought them business FAVOR A sTRIKGE. (Seripps Telegraph Servier.) | BAN FRANCISCO, April tt.-—The street car men's etrike now inevitable, A careful canvas at the barns thie morning shows an? overwhelming sentiment tn favor a walkout SUICIDE (Rertppe Telegraph Service, NEW YORK, April 27.—David Wilcox shot himeelf in the head on board the steamer Barbarosa last «ednesday niga ing Instantly The at quarantine last suicide was reported Mr. Wiicox was formerly preat dent of the Delaware & | ompany and an intimate fri B. H. Harriman. Several mo ago be went abroad for bis health and was returning from this city when he killed himself LAND FRAUD CASE. (Seripps Telegraph Service.) N A WAsl t the t would require ¢ DAYLIGHT BURGLAR ©. Parker of Kennydale, was the victim of a da gia esterday. He ¢ yenter oars old, 5 f and wearing © «re ond a dark | | have been | Georgetown or West | dodge in and out of rear doors into | dark alleys for the sake of « Sun- wrens, One Cent 12 PAGES PRICE 25¢ PER MONTH. DRUGGISTS AND DRINKERS _ IN LEAGUE FOR LIQUOR able Pharmacies Is Now Employed to Dodge the Sunday Closing Law---Women Are Steady Patrons and Druggists Find Business Profitable. A very simple little plan whereby ‘certain druggista in Seattle have heen coyly evading the spirit of the law which would prevent the sale of liquor on Sunday has been re- | vealed as @ result of the agitation growing out of Councilman Keene's, to permit proposed ordinance intoxicants pharmacists to sell without a license. While preachers tn the pulpit thundering anathemas against the hickless Mr. Keene for proposing such a law, while Mayor Moore, Chief Wappenstein and the eity’s full force of biuecoats have been uniting in a strenuous effort to stamp out the drink evil on the Gabbath day, and while the poor man has been compelled to chase) up hill and down dale, migrate to Seattle and day drink, these druggists have heen gelling liquor almost as brisk- ly as if Counciiman Keene's pro- posed ordinance had really been passed, and without any technical violation of the present state or ety law do anything about it unless be could prove the agreement between the druggist, the physician and the patron, The prescription tp the hands of | the pharmaciat is in every way regular, The law expressly permits druggists to sell liquor when there is a prescription from « physician in good standing calling for it. Sell Much te Wemen. And that this agreement has been entered into by certain druggists and physicians and that ft ts in foree today, has been proven by | a secret investigation by The Star As a rule the druggiats in the scheme have stores in the residence section where the trade is, genera’ ly speaking. of a private character. The system bas especially been a godeend to many fashionable wornen who indulge in stimulants just as much as their bus! but who don’t want anybody, even their husbands, to know any- ae about it | “My whisky sales to my custom- ers last Sunday was greater thas all the rest of my other sales com- bined,” one well known di This is the way it is being done ‘in an exciusive part of the town, t* Peysicians Ald ebeme. An agreement has been entered into between the druggists in ques- tion and certain physicians where- by the pharmacists have been fur- nished prescriptions for all the pa- trons who have evidenced a desire to buy liquor at their stores. It t understood that ali the patrons thus bring the druggist into trouble. The preacriptions are kept on file | by the pharmacists, in the manner of all other prescriptions, and each one has ite individual and eeparate number Then ail the customer has to do ls to come into the drug store and my Please §«fill_ so preseription. No. 4-1 or whatever the sumber happens to be and be, or she, gets lwhat the prescription calle for, which may be whinky of any other | Kind of intexteant Ne Denger ef Heperere. The drug store might be filled with customers at the time and no one would be any the wiser. One ot Chief Wappenstein’s might actually be on the scene and he would have no way of telling that the concoction called for waent something to remove warts from the fate. And even if he did, he couldo’t “APRIL IN SEATTLE sleuthe | | peported to have said some time jago, “I suppose that the friends of some of these women would be ter- ribly shocked if they knew they drink. And in feet they drink to excess; they simply 1 nip now and then, and of courses | they know we would never sar anything about it. Why should | wer" Keene Won't Divelee. Cownciiman Keene refused this morning to give the name of the | ssloon which he says he saw 50 or | more people enter om a recent Sun- | day through @ side entrance. | “I am going to bring this mat- | ter to the attention of the chai jman of the license committe,” j sald Mr. Keene. While the charter does not say | cathe make them’ — xo om them | they observe violations of Rete to appreliend the parties ot report them to the police, but Mr. Keene never made any report of thin af fatr until yesterday EMPMRS OF IO TRUST SAY THEY ARP GUILTY CINCINNATI, = April members of the toe trust plead guil- ty today and were fined $100 each 4 ETA a smears — lu | tun