The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 29, 1907, Page 1

‘ ? “man escaped” rang at Pland penitentiary for the fire’ (ime in near and today guards H @ penitentiary are i faland in search of counterfeliter, who at yesterday's 6 v. 8 Marshal fered $100 for the The authorities Mi ia hiding on the fs ae up from Seattle’ plead guilty to He was caught @t where he operated had been in trow fe known in lee udge three he debaved well treaty. Yesterday he “gne o'clock roll call uN WILL) DAY BALLS AT ‘FACE OF INJUNC- DAMAGE sUITS-- THEM SOURCE G MANY GIRLS. Wappenstein ts against bite others, the proprietors i pavilion, to root gies at all park re Sree om account of e UAiefs «hands was not able to continued at night. ‘ @ large ae Wi astray xt i a list of sit & their toons way as & direct danere. The list ¢ more Bames of xirle @ifferent houses of Majority of these that they date trouble from Park, and the pavilion thers. Ser- 5 Qemart bas prepared a Zi he mys that of Jane, July ear he was in between You . The dance Wa. “requented ac- Matement by women pete WD WAVE ‘Telegraph Service) CITY, Mo., April 19.— and rain temperature, {« Missouri, Ne together in Georget: ¢ Le respectable citizen of WE stabbed while asei Marshal in preserving the brawie and profanity from noon ur the early @ this morr bie men ‘ dared t A r WO Or from feat? |< had ¢ eet their oars by the lane intox By and women A veritable reig, “ "i t be the | Wn on Sund A oN employ « os ®, in describing cor my WEND?, SEATTLE COUNTERFEIT- eR. DISAPPEARS FROM PENITENTIARY wD MAN-HUNT IS’ ON—MARSHAL OF-' FERS $100 REWARD. and hae not been seen since. He le thought to be anarmed, bul may have taken a rowboat and left the island. Owing to the isolation o: the penitentiary in the middle of Puget sound, between Tacoma and Olympia, the trustees are allowed great freedom, making the esoape possible Local authorities throughout Northwest are watching for the escaped prisoner. He fs the first man to escape from MecNeil's Is! and «since July, 1906, when seven desperate men got away, but were all captured save one. These men were armed and fought desperately In Beattie police cireles He n Wendt was known a8 & bicycle thief, He served one year in Walla Walla tor grand larceny, and is considered 9 clever and experten ed crook, He is 33 years old, dark hair, light Dive eyes. weight (bo. wore convicts’ stripes when taet seen At thie time the Riley brothers asked Patrolman Bunnell to work at the pavilion on the nights dances were held, says Stuart This was when Bunpell was off shift and he undertook the work He says that be had to quit after the third night om scoount of the dissolute character of the elientabir which supported the dancing. Ser geant Stuart himesl? wae pot to work there and when Riley told him one sight, sceording to the statement of Stuart, that he was not to eject lewd women beranse they were good spenders he says he quit the job as be could not stand for this. Patroiman Hetpentinck and Ser geant Stuart arrested » young gir! March first of thie year in a room ia 8 North Seattle lodging house while Im the company of 5 man The girl lived at Fremost and had mined her last car. @he had been attending a dance at Lesehi Park Chiet Wappenstein sald today ‘It ts & common trick for the men who go to these dances to make a gir! mise the leet car and then take ber to a room. At the present time [ can not interfere with the crowd that t# running the dances at Leech! Park. I have the statements of & number of people living im the vicininty of the Yoo ler way ear line who tell me that last night bottle: were hiried from the care as the drunken dancers were returning to town There was a great deal of liquor at the park. Wh did it come from? And yet | am powerless to prevent it. it is not generally known that a little girl was meariy brained with a thrown beer bottle @ short time ago 1 have the facts in thin case.” MUST PAY JURY FEES Sudme Atberteon, to the State of Washington, on M. Malor againet Justice Peace H.R. Georg tow ted that @ party to & act ins aatine ' 29.20 fe the trial on INTY-THREE ARRESTS MADE IN THE | SOUTHERN SUBURB—CITIZEN STABBED | IN AIDING A TOWN MARSHAL TO PRE- tions there yesterday said to The tar this morning Drunken men and boys are seen m alt our ets, street fights a sil kinds of drunken brawls are @ mmon sight everywhere in town frunkards that women will not travel in them ‘One of our citizens, Coe Morgan as cut yesterday when he tried marshal to make ar iu would not surprise 7 fon some Sunday « mur ire as a result of ‘ ee drunken fights here were arrests for dr ent esterday. ¢ tie rapidly becoming so that our po are wnable to preserve any SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, MONDAY, APRIL 29, 1907, ASPHALT COMBINE IN FULL CONTROL APE FRO M’NEILS BARBERS STOP RISQUE JOKE. MANITOWAC, Wis, April 29 The lid is on barberehop story-tel} tng contests in thie town. The town boys will have to seek another place to epring their low jokes. The bar bers declare they are tired of it and they have had signs printed repuesting patrons to refrain from risque yerne. They believe people should use @* much discretion in a barber shop aa lo any other place of business. SEC. ROOT IS TO RESIGN WASHINOTON, April 29.--It is sald that Root is contemplating re signing. He te apparently pushing Bacon ahead to take charge of the office. It ts bellewed that Root and Pree ident Roosevelt are not tn close sympathy since the president advo cated Taft's candidacy JAPANESE ENTERTAINMENT. Th Japanese Art Aanoctation | |yesterday gave a successful enter { hall The program was typically Japan tainment in ow JACKSON © vioualy Heimont | trial of murder tp the second deg in the ertminal court & Morria today Kgan's Arcade Ruth Jack The postponed a witnons, omne because was ean Just ge was pr Ole inis#ing The tmpanneliing of a jury took up all the forenoon and a part of the afternoon The defendant te charged having stabbed her husband Jacknon lodgt brawls on an @ laborer, in a Firat house, during a February 8 last th yb ay drunken Joha Miller is prosecuting the case man wi Advices from Valdes state be necessary to C blawt Brown defending the wo that it away as of the rock on which the wrecked steamer Northwestern lying before the Yeasel can narod in be OPERATE ON MITCHELL. SPRINGFIELD, UL, April 20 John Mitchell, ander care of phys ielana, arrived home last night and today will be operated upon for hernia at the senitarium STANDS GOOD (Seripps Telearaph © ST. PAUL, Minn, April United States cireuit cour poale this morning affirmed the lecision of the lower court in con vieting Armour & Co. Neleon ris & Co, Swift &@ Co, Cuda @ Co. for accepting rebates on shipments from Kansas City to for elgn points To Lecture at “U." 1. Kahlemburg, physical cheniat at the University of Wisconsin, and one of the best known chemists of THE SEATTLE STAR VOL. 9. NO. 54. One Cent 12 PAGES PRICE 25¢ PER MONTH. GRADING CONTRACTORS DECLINE TO BID ON STREET GRADING WORK BECAUSE MORE MONEY CAN BE MADE IN TYING UP WITH ORS All street work In Seattle is prac: | tically controlied by the asphalt combine Grading contractors and others who might do street work find it profitable to bask under the asphalt tree and walt for the plume to fall It in due to this fact that the city is unable to get bids on street grading in the outlying districts of the eity Work which haa been or dered by the council) and adver tined by the board of public works does not interest the amalier con tractors enough to call forth bt One street grading job has advertined four times without a the east, will lecture at the State single bid being received by the University summer school thin city year The cause of thia condition is the “HOW ARE THE MIGHTY FALLEN!” weicoms Bo / TO THE UNITED BROTHER-HOOD OF UNDESIRABLE cirszEnws / HERE'S YOUR CAN. fi BILLY” LAVIGNE 1S DEAD Rev. Gowen Praises Hebrews. No other world, Jewus Christ Rev. H. H. Gowen. a sery the Chureh, in which he paid a the Jewish race. “The He * & race of martyrs, with st * that enable them to die h convictions Lake car No jumped Second Green the track thie morning at er being av. and Pike at, and finn replaced on the track wa taken back t ar barnw jor pairs. 9. B. Co. officials refused to aay what the trout was, bot it probably lay in a defe flange on one of the rear wheels, the rea The incident red at 45. 7 was in charge of motorman SUMMER'S SURVEY WORK Willem H roughout th vigne Lavigne. known country as “Billy died at Providence hosy tal this afternoon shortly after | lock Mr. Lavigne was taken fil on rriday pight, lapsing into uneon sclousness at about § o'clock on that eveni Physicians pror eo him au ng from spinah ingitie He remained unconsct ewept a brief interval yeater day removed his home at Hotel Antiers to € Providence hospital, and f 4 time this morning paysicians held nin recovery and we did not come un er of the K CAR JUMPS TRACK *: years “Billy” dev to newspaper Ww e advertising at aff ot the Post-lntelligencer. He also well known as a writer on a subjects Billy” was well known in Se attle in the sporung and newspaper wor He was a man with a large ‘ friends. Unlike the Air y pugilists fo! t ana and did swe tobacco It any form, ..¢ was @ t of se ai cond...ons ang latierly bad be He was hap marri¢ wise At about 3 0 this m ng man f © wife and ask f xh “ : Then he tatked for a few moments the fature of his wife . fe insurance ard ness faire Shortiy he aka. became oum e mained #0 until dea CMUARCH DEDICATED. The new University Methodist gE Chareh, ¢ of 13th Ay and 42nd street, was ded leated yesterday by Dr. H. C. Jen ire ie $12,000. The amount nec essary to sbtedness $3,798, was ra wterday SEVEN DEAD (Seripps Telegraph Service.) OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Apr 29.—Seven are repe 1 as the esult of a cloudt this burb morning at Onksdale, a sr INDIANS GET GOOD LAND od States land of tice 1 today schedules of a ar a‘ San Juan ar ment made t Swinomish reservation, al i th eaty of 18 These land maid & © tak f 1 per India ¢ high price which the asphalt com bine ie seeking to extort from the taxpayers for subgrading, On work which should be done for 35 to 00 cents, they are submitting bide as high as 75 cents More Money in Gig Jobs. With such a high price for sub grading, the Barber Asphalt com-| pany can afford to pay the small) contractor more for the use of his) teams on their big jobs than he could make out of the email im) provements upon which the city asks bids At present some smal! contractors | are waiting to work on the Quees Anne district improvement, They expect to find excredingly profita | ble employment for their teame there and so refuse to bid on the other grading jobs. Uniess out siders can be induced to bid on the work, {t evil! have to walt until such time aa the combine is willing to take It up. The combine does not confine its’ LOS ANGELES, Cal., April 2 Governor Buchtel of Colorado who s here in this city, in an interview nm the Moyer-Haywood case, sald The citigens of Colorado believe Moyer, Haywood and <ettibone only guilty, Indirectly, of that * not THE ASPHALT CONTRACT- paving operations to asphalt. Prac- teally ali the paving in ¢ elty asphalt, brick and stone, is laid by either the Barber or the Independ ent company The belief that a combine to raise paving prices existe between the Barber aud the Independent Asphalt companies indicated by re- cent bidding, Is strengthened by the fact that F. T. Sherman, man ager of the Independent company, was formerly manager of the Bar ber Asphalt Paving company in Se- attle, He left the Barber company soon after that company lost the contract of paving the Renton Hill district through a defective bid. Loss of the Contract. it was sald at the time tbat Mr. Sherman was credited by the Barber people with having caused them to lose the contract, but late ly thie was denied and no apparent cause exists for enmity toward the company by which he was formerly employed Mr. Sherman was involved im the abortive asphalt paving scandal tn Tacoma which led to bis arrest last fall. No prosecution followed, but the fact that the asphalt represen: tatives feared that the work of the grand jury would uncover the job- bery practiced In Tacoma was indicated by their disappearance from the jurisdiction of the coma courts until the storm had blown over i the storm had blown over. Mr. Sherman was arrested for an | offense alleged to have been com- mitted while representing the Bar- ber Asphalt Paving company. This act strengthens belief that | fact strengthens the belfef that him and the Barber company. =a ES: Ge CALLS THEM | MURDERERS the murder of exGovernor Steuen- enberg bat also guilty of many other murders and crimes which preceeded “When I say citizens of Colorado, I mean the jaw abiding citizens. What the president sald fitted the case exactly.” DESPERADO IN FIERCE BATTLE (Sertpps Telegraph view.) WILLOWS, Cal, April 2¢.—In a battle five miles north of here last night between a posse and an un identified deaperado, the latter was killed after 100 shots were fired Two revolvers an a eandbag were found on the corpse The jesperado defied the officers and eltizens to take him alive and al though he was wounded several JURORS BELIEV Cc. B. BAGLEY, FOREMAN OF BROWNFIELD JURY, SAYS DE TECTIVE OR POLICEMAN i586 NOT BELIEVED WHEN HE TESTIFIES UNDER OATH My late experience in the jury room convinces me that there ts a very strong prejudice among irymen aga policemen and de tectives on the witness stand,” said cB ey retary of the board F well k act tha ven when convinced of the ge a f ea h the ev Jurym ma t r hey pre and , And { en 8 i 1 that they are ling fn ‘ t " ’ Brownf which wa trial in the court Inst week the we ‘ jurymen for acquittal and sey I times he continued the fight until brought to his knees Seeing that capture was inevit- able be shot himself in the breast then through the head. Before killing himself he destroy- ed « number of letters About 50 bullets and shot holes found in his body. The fight lasted five hours and e running fire was kept up during the chase which extended over a territory of eight miles in length. DONT POLICE conviction. Mr. Bagley was foreman of the jury, and says there were some who believed Brownfteld to be a “bad egg” but were anwilling to » the evidence against him, by the polioe department he case resulted in a disagreement Mr. Bagley made a strong com plaint to the court about the un aniiness and unsanitary cond! STANFORD IS WINNER Service.) f the juryroom. (Sertpps Telear AUBALITO, Ca April 29 An eight-year old boy nm of the Ryan Ranch, was 8 crossing of the at South Park, this rema « the drowned at Rya Duwamish river morning. n n e ' t