The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 1, 1907, Page 1

THE SEATTLE STAR WEATHER FORECAST-SHOWERS TONIGHT AND TUESDAY; LIGHT SOUTH TO WEST WINDS. SEATTI WASH.,, MONDAY JULY 1, 1907 ONE CENT VOL NO, 208. PRICE 25¢ PER MONTH. CAST SUSPICIO CITY COMPTROLLER unicipal Ownership League Declares Present Comp- troller Covered Up Riplinger Shortage and Kept Checks He Should Have + Turned Into Treasury. | Casting eertous suspicion on va-| practice which occurred not only pos offictal actions of City Comp-/ during the incumbeney of Mr. Rip plier Harry W. Carroll and his | linger it of his predec or and mnection with the defaications bia successor as well refers to the dincove exComptrolier John Ripliager @ Municipal Ownership league, at The last paragr $2,500 in checks aph recently # Meeting Saturday night, passed ed by the expert accountants tn wolutions declaring the present the comptroller’s vauita, part of perting of the city’s accounts un-| which has been recelved during Wietaetory and demanding a/ Mr, Carroll's term of office, and tend jury Investigation of the Rip-| kept In the vault instead of being ager Shortage and accompanying turned over to the city treasurer roumstances. Mr, Carroll urned atthe ‘The resolution contains the fol- today from the east. When asked wing reference to present Comp- to explain the presence of the voller Carroll checks in his vault wald The known facts regarding Mr Having only returned from the Aplinger’s shortage were covered cast last night, | am not prepared br more tham a year after Mr. to make any explanation of the Hpiiager went out of office until checks recently found by the ex he completion of unfinished con-|perts while looking through the fact work, the money to pay for local improvement fur ‘ds in which had been embexsied, ren-/my affice. ‘This discovery was fered further concealment impos- made after | went cast with the ®ble without the repayment of the sewer and park bonds. noney Riptinger left with me four “When the facts that a shortage funds, only one of which I have imisted became known through the turned over to tho treasurer. The ardy report of his successor in of three yet to be turned over are for tee, the finance cc tee of the very smal! amot I had no op Mty counetl, for political or other portunity of consulting with Treas ‘easons, ignored Mayor Moore and turer Russell since returning home netituted an investigation under and I do not know at this time any ihe supervision of City Treasurer thing about these checks, to what Jeorge Russell, who owes his eleva funds they t yog if any, or wh fon to offtc the same forces ag er they are the property of the the defaulting officer, and the city or of the people who ve embers of the council committee. them. Upon my return from Olym ough has already become pia the matter will be taken up pablic to show that {t has been a| The actual work in the expert met uncommon practice for the ing of: Jotm Riptinger’s accounts dity « trotier collect city ac has been completed, but It will be founts in the form of personal anc day or two before the re thecks, which checks were not nm be made out and placed — into the efty treasury, a in the hands of Treasurer Russell wR FURTH THINKS MADISON STREET CABLE LINE NEEDS IMPROVIN President Jacob Furth of the Se Out of deference to the feeling ile Electric Co. thoroughly be of Mr. Furth, no one complained that the Madison st. cable In fact everyone med gle be improved the walk ome one a fit Be reached that conclusion a few active than Mr. Furth set the pace @ays agp. while be walk from ‘and it was @ pretty good one Bighteerth av. to the hil! overlook At Thirty seventh st. a carriag Madison park appeared, bound westwa: M oMr. Furth was a passenger on Furth entered into negotiations fhe Madison cable He was with the driver, and after a mo his way to Madison. park to ment or two of conversation oren ed the door of the hack ped in When the rest of the party afriv the boat for his summer home the eastern shore of the lake Righteenth ay. the cable tine and mep down, and after waiting ed at the park they found Mr length of time, Mr. Furth and Ferth and the boat waiting for lake passengers started afoot them. The » day Mr. Furth he lake. went out in ax automobile os RESTAURANT KEEPERS TO RAISE PRICES AGAIN The Seattle Restaurant Keepers’ |( sociation will meet tonight for ihe purpose of again deciding on § scale advancing the price of i. A raise of five cents will Fee on meat and pastry orders HE restaurants and cafes with the exception of about a half dozen This will be the second advance in the price of meals within the past month. The members of the asesociation give as an excuse the recent advance in the prices of various commodities, especially meat and flour. } DROWNED IN LAKE. BALLINGER Frank Smithers, ¥2 years old, a laborer employed by the Seattle | Everett Interurban railway, was | drowned in Lake Ballinger y day, while fishing from a log BRINGS: GOLD Bringing $160,000 tn gold and 42 the Humboldt this forenoon from Alaskan porte NEW CLERKS AT WORK & clerks were put office of the passengers arrived | Southeastern The following towork at the main le post-office this morning Edgar Reecer, Raymond G. Run del, Jobn MeBvoy, Howard H Taylor, Emrys Hughes, Allen } Kay, ©. Edward Macy, Jr. Pere B. Corpal, George E. MeKerche Thomas Murphy, a la or, was also added to force at the main office today The growth of the business at the office is #0 great that Post ma © Geurge M. Stewart says the nt force will be ad quate or for a short time. An ad ! wance will be asked for suman AUSTIN, Texas, July 1—~Mins Elizabeth Nye, a sculptress known through Rurope and the United States, died yesterday of heart fatle She he livin this city quie pas or twelve years BEGIN THIRD AVE. jedge Frater Decides Cleri's> file Mark on Carrau SKAGWAY, Alaska The Third av. ¢ cases we: ndemnation placed on trial before Judge Griffin and a jury ment & of the superior court today tn Depart These are the o determine the damages to be pald to property owners along Third av. from Jet ferson to Pike, for the nine foo vip to be taken. for the widen ing of that from a 66-foot to an S4-foot thoroughfare The morning was spent in im panneling the juries to sit in the wea and taking them through the whole length of Third av the property affected by ening suits stree to show the wid REACH CLIMAX IN HAYWOOD MURDER TRIAL Testimony Admitted Which Shows That Pinkertons Controlled the Situation in Every -Miners’ Union—- Plot Now Involves Governors of State in Case. @ the Haywood trial, Morris Frie Ban, « forme Kraph el, Bas led and a fight t in tert H ‘Mer . 5 fepo : & i f yus testimony |™* ort c olled =the | eBtia’ rye. aninie ality in . - on ‘ae * ry se ee ee - atte & for an netion 9 Oven Puen aia HORE tewnion, qt, rotary tem ‘ deration Be. the ba wshin € Orch 6 questi eo organt » © lands belong joneer member tothe upland owne be decide dagby the United BOVE Koon, In bef Judge Albert iy On & motion fc n MMunction restraining IG FIRE A ~ PORTLAND (Scripps Telegraph Service.) PORTLAND, Ore J The REPORT BiG CATCH Coun litor James P. Agnew from ree "See uit in an wpland o a take Wash ig tor ho a Ke that the shore Ix belong to the upland owne He also claims that the presen shore lands were dry ground and until the lake's building a dem part of his property level wan raised by at the portage LOVE'S DART PIERCES THE HEARTS OF SENATOR BEVERIDGE AND MISS EDDY yo rn ay Min MISS KATHERINE EDOY, WHO 18 TO MARRY SENATOR BEV ‘ . BRIDGE (Seattic Star's Exclusive Service.) | American legation in Bor er CHICAGO Jul 1 The little vert foes abrow god LOVE has at last to meet he t State ha Heve ben Beveridge en 1 th o fighte and tr fentaliy senate eight ears ¥ * firet wife ¢ only 36, and was ou « he is now >» membe { e « be marry ful Miss Kath: | where > acted nationa erine & of } Mar. attention his strenu 5 0 He is o a he w an Oblo plowh i A Th wedding tak at a na ceive ; ad now at’ 16) ar " neelt in ¢ any ¥ ther, money w car Spencer Keddy the college. NSCRIPT WOT FILE Transcript Not Legal-Brands Stamp on Letter as Boc us. tudge A. W Frater this morning made of letters ¢ decided that the mysterious tran and script in the case of Marie Carran ery transeript f laimant of the estate of John Sul Under 3 elaie livan, was never filed in ou today Mine m to the perior court. He decided be Sullivan jon = depends = on transcript which mysteriously whether the supreme court sup peared in the mail of Jud ota the decision. If it 0 soe last month, bearing the will declare that the transcript clerk's stamp for March never was filed, and Miss Carrau’s was tamped by the ¢ right peal is lost the stamp was placed on there Miss Carrau and her lawyer legally. being ally a form W. R. Rell and J. W. Robinsor He ga no ¢ to the theo n fidene hat Judec of Mise Carrau’s lawyers that the “ orned transcript had b flied and then n he b the stolen from th K's ate f be The note that accompanied against Mins Carra ay transeript when it appeared tn of Piles, Howe and i a Jadge Albertson's matt, tn thelr “irish he Ca inion. This x en net he J. Cox, a watchman, wa Deputy ¢ ‘ h ‘ ain 1, the Gra as married a ed ata " 1, was walkin nith Holga wt he d ° TACOMA’S NEW CHWRCH the tv Star Special Service he n wa od ‘ TACOMA -s SAP SHOT STILL FIGHTS uff 1 three t of it and at the first * in, two of which would he a r dinarily x fatal, J. Mashu ; ot rdutg the base a Japanone ) years od t hia gun here, bat M : to his assailant, J, Kamada, |lowed hiw he . ed ar-old " f 4 nouffing 1 | a fired hitting ad € f + xhaustle ng house h an tak i There Kamada began to deat the were dre his gun, and although he battered attra him almost to unconsetc t a fata plucky Jap ws@ill bung® on they Sound fought their way for the distance The tw of a half a block and more with « tht the stairway of a near-by lodging aurant at half hous. All the time ‘ erday morning called for /& Vieglike grip on his yreakfast. After the trio had eaten could not be shaked for arrived upon the uppe Masuhara asked Kamada to pa pres, leh ' taircase the Masuhara’s meal, and this Kamada the ’ were ofused to do. It f# claimed that, several byat ra to acti n Kamada owed Masuhara meney,| Patrolman Chase was called ot until t asked to make the this reason was : pa? the little bill, One word led licoman had Kamada handcuffed to another and the two men com | did Masuhara let Ko his old. Ke menced fighting in the restaurant, |mada t# now tn the city J arious condition | tt appears that Kamada was get |subara Ix in a previ THREE BIG COMBINES FACE STRUGGLE HUNTER TAKES CHARGE c r of hi ne I 1 of Hunter as D. LA LH and Ja mp he ¢ ther cit ‘OPERATORS WANT TO STRIKE BLOW Scripps Telegraph Service CHICAGO, Ju The officia hat a Ma FRISCO STRIKE SITUATION (Scripps Telegraph Service.) SAN Rn C1 oO, J 1 With " © of wh » offi ha h r os in b gee ALASKA PAPER | CHANGES HANDS - © oldest dait a, changed hands foprietor ta D: f out know the Ate The « leave MRS. MELSE DIES. Mra. E. W. Melee, wife of Re tiring Chief Clerk Melse, of the ¥ comptrolier’s office, expired his morning at the Minor hospita of muscular rheumatism, which timately reached her heart eday morning between 10 and inlaw, Charles W. Saunders, Te ay Beside husband, Mra. Melse Mra. ( and ¢ and Me She was be M in, J 1, 1858 ROOSEV BOYS HOME” OYSTER N. Y., July 1 Theodore 1 Kermit Rooseve MILLIONS GIVEN C.R. Stong Will Buck United Efforts of Wholesale and Retail Grocers and Commission Trust to Maintain High Prices on Food in Seattle. goods as I ofit and other make gro object in selling margin of 1 and #0 can is to give the public value for its money. Iam doing a good bus | Who knows his busine Wholesaler Defends Combine. iness and making @ good p I ie the declaration of C. BR. nay a pertoct t tp rete the grocer who has defied to anyone at own discretion, is tte Hetall ¢ rs’ assdelation, the ‘the contention of J. 8. Goldsmith, estern hington Wholemile of Schwabacher Bros & Co., pres Groce m and the Seat ident of the Western Washington ' ci ation | esale Gre tion sing cut prices on gre ‘ We have the right to tect © the thre of ourselves against loss in our bast o- es ne to put him out ness and can refuse to sell goods ve told in The Star Sat- to price-cutters, because our ex nday 7 nee ha deme te that The latest defiar was a price-cutters a poor credit. If 1 Mr. Stor we cont! to sell to them, we ast Union and 23d @ bound to get caught in the t jiowing in the head. end. The whole holds the DK bag for the price ' It 1s easy to nee that we are not It has been decided by the law in the comblie by looking over th the jobber has the right to prices velow x the retail price of bis copyright The circular contained cut prices ed goods and to refuse goods to on goods named in the sacred list retailers who refuses to abide by of the oers’ association, the ¢ shed price ciation cannot cut without subject. in Seatt not due to any com ing themuselve ) for bine, The condition is produced the first offer of |by several causes. Prices high credit and goods b: e jobbers | all over cou because since if chey persist in cutting 1900 the population of the country Backin Ston has increa about 15,000,000, 1 People in ~ ye ro ot \4 not believe the production of “ me him up 2004 fn the United § e has kept me ore backing him UP nace with the increase in popula for the general increase in prices, Different Conditions Here. knees. The next me of the whole that them. We double commission men ts tair to compare priceg in § with price and Tacoma. The tk ply hey due directly to the Alaska trade wh’ brings such a large, floating tion to Se wy to pay for thet which buy the best and that the wholesaler stin} p prices, that {t is hard to y € ! supply the demand ices con main b ich farming 1 will continue to cut pric fruits and veg and it is om Stor The grocers of fair to that charging 40 per cent city. Los Angeles Is other ‘ rofit on thelr ¢ city in the west which of a fate nearly as I can figure comparison with Seattle, and the not giving the peoy cost of living ts just as high there worth. I can do s on as it is h a SEN. BOOTH’ +) ‘PURSUIT ¢ OF BURGLAR RESULTS IN A SPRAINED ANKLE Senator Robert F. Booth fs go- minutes later he came to and ing around this morning with the crawled into the house. In the aid of a cane. At midnight last ™eantime the burglar had fled. it was the baby’s feeding time night he sprained an ankle and /anq 1 had to go down stairs any it was with the greatest difficulty |way,” said Senator footh this that he got out at all this morn. | morning. The burglar affair was bai merely incidental. 1 had to make ; a bluff at going after him or | Responsibility for the sprained the ‘respect of my wife, sod? _— se agg the shoulders of | chose the former. al native, & 8 slar, his identity being to/ didn't, however, intend to sprain Senator Booth unknown. my ankle. The burglar showed up shortly = " patter 12 o'clock last night. He was heard in the basement of the Booth DELIVERS BONDS real Mra. Booth was the f ot his presence an ffictent urging, Mr pie 1p @ large and dange looy revolver and desce: he wt © of the house The burglar heard th Mayor Moore signed $200,000 had entered. His pur *!0n bonds this morning before of hurried through the Tice hours at the city hall, and at jumped from the 9:45 City Comptroller Harry Can lawn, He alighted roll left with the bonds for Olympia a flower bed and where they were delivered during ankle Two « three the day to the state AWAY BY CORRUPT COUNCILS The tice on the pa ficials of but fare to make hlef beneficiary of the pra t of Seattle city of heringcthe public wel orporation holidays has beer d is thé Seattle Ele tr ms 2 company which has btained its franchise through and exhit armarks of the niawf cless use of ey t nplish its ends. Dur of Seattle t yiven this company |practically for nothing, so far as [the city itself is neérned, fran |chises that are « ated by Cour |ty Assessor Pa to be worth In net his nar mpany in 1900 procured its cor solida treet railway hise from a weak and subservient coun ‘ the bitter and outspoken pr f an outraged public of ’ {ing along this narra tive w he will recall the specific pub , de that bes were paid t men, the ayed in the umphrey, then ra tlor yur and W H. Parry f er, rendered the t a crit y nt BY JOE SMITH Riplin ave had @ it lo « ' Oye® the facty are undorst it © mare o surprise to the Ufoughttul ter al phenomenon rangle hold which | friends to its p such is and the rposes and upon the achine of the has been period of ite many of sub- h were o a loudly Those coun: © vote into ne company f public grants franchises streets, ev early in nd they still have from come which ts year ment at up rsons operations have he most striking thing that of the ¢ r iy tem, the peop : ther two the people 1 Firm Grip on City both instea the be lary. of pany are known to the public | Pf hae be through the agenoy of various in-) ym pan One of these vestigations, disclosures, report iio at law and other public and lish |ter sy ¢Continued on Page TO THE STATE 1 ka sand a big pu! id re a the make uphol i and h the nrday