The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 6, 1907, Page 1

> > | LAST EDITION () GRAFT CHARGED Applicant for School eaershig Sep Someone Want- ed Percentage of Salary--Club Demands a Grand Jury--McKown Said to Have Paid Graft. Charging that he was offered the }the janitor of the school. The fig mitorehip of the Gre Lake |ures showed that the average ws Md at $140 per month it he|Nelht per load charged to t scho@ at jachool during September, October, would sign receipts for $140 and ac- cept $120, Morris Thomas, 201 Kast November and December was about 4,200 pounds, while during January, 65th et., says he would ke to have February, Mareh@and April the the opgertunity to appear before ajloade with a single ad grand jury and give bis testimony, | weighed from 4,700 to 6,285 pounds, | Tyo years ago this opming fail, | the average weight bein® in the bd | apalie ed for the janitor@hip of the | neighborhood of 5,500 pounds Green Lake school,” sald Mr Thomas. “Seceptary Jones, of the AN Lende Same. St schoo! board, tok me I could have} Janitor Forsythe verified Mr the position at $140 per montie i¢|Newby’s statement that the loads were detiver@ by the same driver te the same wagon and that there Was no apparent differegce in the amount of coal In a load billed at 4,200 pounds and one billed at 5,600 pounds. “The driver ased to laugh as he | “Thomas was not even considered drove up to the school with a toad “for the position,” said Mr. Jones. | of coal and say: “Here's where Stay He were not | & Jenitne shortchange the achoo! " sald Mr. Newby tion and he was not considered for j his eeport to the club. the’. position | Mr. Newby declared that. the ex ¥ Of the janitor at the | Pianatio#? made by the coal men $150 per | that a load of fine coal, such as that additional $10 for | delivered to the schools during the nual training |*hortage, ty more compact and Out of ‘this-thésjanitor must | welghs more than a load of lump lary .of his helper whieh | | te entirely false; that the Jump céa! I betleve is $05 er gon Belt really more compact and heavier tees the full saiary aitd pa: .; than the finer coal. Relper himself. “Thas is ite Coats | The janitor accounted for some money .that comes out.” of the weight by saying that he had | Club Wants Grand Jury. jtaken @ large quantity of rock out |of the coal after it was delivered. ‘The J. B. Allen Improvementictud | Seales to weigh the coal at every in the grand jury movement | schoo! was, the solution of the al & resolution | jeged short-weight J would receipt $140 a accept $120. | told him that if there was any evaft in it T did not want the Reuben W. Jones, t board, makes a he charge. retary of the haolute denal recommendations “such as to entitle him to considera- | board again,’ 4 night by re 5 question favoring the calling of 4 gratd Jury | posed by Mr. Newby and catered to investigate in Seattle and by the club. ting a committee to meet the committees of other im- Brerement clube today to consider | the subject. _ The action of the club followed the report of A. L. Newby, president ef the club, on the work of ¢ committee appointed to investigate the alleged short weight of the eoal supplied te the J. B. Allen school last winter, through Stay @ Jenkins, who delivered the supply for the Pacific Coast company. Mr. Newby read the weights of the Say MeKown Paid Graft. A sensation was caused by the declaration of Mr. Newby that James McKown, principal of the Franklin school, had told bim that he paid & per cent. of his salary every month to retain bis position. Professor McKown, who has been elected principal of the Lincoln High school at a salary of $2,400 per year, is in California and could not be reached today. His wife, however, denied that he had ever Joads delivered to the school dur- | paid any percentage of his salary to Ing the current year, which were an agency or any other furnished the club at his ounces rth hall dame by | while in Seattle. DOG REMAINS BY Faithful to the end, “Tony,” a ttle dog owned by Henry Olsen, an ‘employe at Camp No. 2, Cherry Val ty Lamber company, maintained Ma death vigil over the body of his Mester, who had wandered off into Woods to die, until a party of found the remains of the inate logger yesterday morn He had evidently been dead for serv eral days. by the side of his body, so weak from lack of food that he could merely wag bis tail in salutation to his discoverers The dog had been Olsen's con stant companion for the two years that the man has been employed at Bhout eight miles from the Cherry Valley and had accompanted ‘alley roadhouse. him to town, where he started the ir & protracted spree of two spree that ended in death. A full is Olsen left Monroe warly in Week to return to camp. When did not show up his fellow em | Ployes became alarmed and Inst! tuted a search. It was not until Yesterday morning that they came ~ selma the man's body in the woods. quart bottle of whisky lay unopened by the man's side. The woodsmen lea the dog to ea where he was given every attention Olsen's body was taken in charge by a desiuty coroner and no autopsy will probable be necessary the proceeds to be used for the de are om trial at Boise City, Idabo. Indications are that a. large crowd The steamer Yosemite has been chartered for the trip which will leave Seattle at 9:30 a. m The headquarters of the Alaska fie exposition were Woved today from the top floos of TO GRANT DEMAND | the Alaska building to the third floor of the new Arcade buflding on First avenue and Union st The demands of the Jewelers’ un jon of Seattle for a half holid. on Sat and extra pay for over . nearly all the proprietor este Gi L ewelry stores having consented AB excursion will be given Sun- | % the request recently made by the di on, Some of the factories may @y to Olympia under the auspices ide to close all day on Satur @ the Wast ston Babor Journal, days during the summer months HOOKED {TOMAR RNR eNO Ae MMPS ESSE: seeeeeeeeeeenren sees sone in | the auspices of the Fed source | BODY OF MASTER but bis faithful dog was! “JOSLYN APPOINTED | BY MAYOR Mayor Moore today @appointed | Howagd Joslyn city electrician un der aff ording tly passed by the counell creating the office and | defining ita duties, M&yor Moore said today that the position fs under civil service and that Josly@was the only eligible on | the @st at pr sont TO CLEAN UP THE CITY The first steps toward making Beattle a clean and attractive city to the Alaska Yukon- Pacific tion visitor were taken this afte |noon at a meeting In the rooms of the Chamber Comm exposl © under tion of of men's Clubs The meeting was attend by |members from most of the elvie or ganizations, John H. Pe nd Thomas W. Price, representing the Chamber of Commerce. Plans were discussed for work begin as soon as practicable looking to the cleaning up of the streets and joys and the unsightly vacant lote jand back yards SEATTLE, WASH TO COMPLETE BUILDING The Trustee company today took out the permit for the completion Jof the big building that the com pany is putting up on Third av, b tween Columbia and Marion, The cont of the work yet » » done | under the new permit $450,000, walls and rior and ex jcovering all the coner |torlor for the full eight stories | DELEGATES WANTED SAT has been asked to hame ten.delegates to the fifteenth Annual irrigation congress, whiele meets this year at @cramento, from September 2 to 7. The mayor wants volunteers and those who can at tend the congress shoug§ make the fact known at elty hall, BID ON CITY JOBE Mayor Moor Bidding was livel doy for the average city contraet work and the board room Was jammed with anxious contractors | with penciis and booke « The fo} }lowing work wan bid on apd award | wil be made Tuegday Thirty-second a¥., grading © fontaine place, coment walks; north and west Sixtieth regrading Third.ay, west et al. sewers; Pike st. et als sewers; Wad h place sewer; Blewett at wrading and Sixth av. northwest et al, grading FELIX ADLER TO SPEAK . Dr, Felix Ad ties and social at unlversity, will deliver an add in Seattle tomorrow evening at &:15 Colum o'clock, Prof, Adier wil! talk on the subject of “The Forward Movement in Religion and Morals” in Egan's hall ‘a the Afeade building at otty hall to: | peor of poll | 9 URDAY, JULY 6, 1907. Rockefeller Without Wig. © M. F. WIGHT ad IN THE BACK M.-F. Wight, senior the firm of M F wip offices tn the member of Wight & Co Batley butiding NEW CONTRACTOR CAPTURES DENNY HILL REGRARE hae ‘Chicago Man Invades } | City Improvement. j contractor, has entered the local lfeld aad today captured the bie Denny Hil regrade work, # job worth two or three milifon dollars Overstreet came to Seattle sev eral days ago and quietly went to work organizing the Rainler De | “velopment company, and took near ly all the stock himself, giving out lonty enough to. make the proceed lings legal and give the company the proper local color. His bid today under the name of the Rainier Development Co. set the heads of the olg contractors wagaing while the figures astonish ed the board of public works which for a long time hasn't seen anything that looked good to them in the way of figures. The only other competitor the work was the fHydranlie ¢ struction company, formed of loca! people, but it did not got off right in the bidding The latter com pany was 5% cents a yard higher WOMAN: AND | for Se an a is to taal a HH. EB Overstreet. a bic Chicago | on the three and one-half million | eae C.E. EXPECTS $10,000 FROM CHURCHES lyarde of earth, making @ differ ence of about $20,000 In the one iter. | The local compahg bid $26,000 for clearing and grabbing, while the Chicago man bid $1 for the same work, « saving to the city of $29,999. The only other liom bid on, beaides the grading. was a \emall amount of box drains for which the Chicago mag bid 25 cents & fet, and the local company $1 # foot On the regrading. 3,590,000 cuble yards, the Overstrect bid was 27 cents « yard, and the other 32% |‘ conte. A. Z% Bowen sent in # bid with out any certified check, which was not considered. The bid was the highest offered john H. Powell, the lawyer, Is president of the ne grading com pany, and gald today that Mr Overstreet. for whom Powell t« counsel, would be on band when the time came to do the work. Mr Overstreet bas done some large contracts for the government, as well as for municipalities in east see AGED MAN GET PRISON SENTENCES With tears rolling down his fur rowed cheeks and loud sobs of self sentence which to him means imprisoyment for the rest of hia natural life, N. Wiidrick, aged 70, was led back to his cell Deputy Sheriff Fred Hilt, afte re « & wontence of four years at hard labor at Walla Waila Waldrick, together with Nellic Winters, who also goes under the name of Wildrick and claims to be his wife, was found guilty of enti ing two 16-year-old girls away from eee had GOING To STAY AND S48 TH/S 1@) y in @ Chinese ing sen ial was mous and dis f poth the in instances ein t only long enough to take n ballot also received a four-year sentence, but took tt without any outward evidence of eme JAPANESE TEA ROOM Seattle is to have the first ve tea mn in the Unite *. It is now being got Into hape he M. Furuya Co., 80¢ Jecond av. This tearoom-to-be Is ured and T f artist, is Dlos Omg people, wil at ied | Japfinese waitresses in all their dainty and bizarre dresne r frunit will t f (onde H ORILG® TEAM TO LEAVE Rainier Lodge F H. ‘Thoma ia " 1 r" b SALES IN WEST SEATTGE we h ff { a de 1 elop into one of inest i Jence sections of oO -~ the} — pating to make a complete rear raskement of his office force, tak the water collection department 7 of the water office and giving ft the position » cashier's force, which wil pew room Same Disguised With Wig TO REMODE . OFFICE. THE SEATTLE STAR LIAS and Smile. was the vietim of an accidental shooting the morning of July 4. The bullet, which came from a 22 rifle evidently fired by some boy hunt ing in the neighborhood of Wight'’s ome, entered the real estate man's | ba k and a has not been locat ed, The in attendance probed yesterday but fatied loca in spite of the fact t he seven Inches into the leah Wight has a summer Wastin don the other 8 Lake Washington, On the of July 4 he stepped out yard and it while about t t a uliet car from sotkewhdre out of the surrounding forest and str hi He was temporarily cared for there and then hurried to this city in a launch. He is confined at the Se attle ital, and it wil be he will be able physician or it it went to home morning into his walking to be abe Will Ask Every Church ‘Member for Assistance--J. E. Thomas & Co. Offers $1,000 to Assure Success of International Convention. ee from the east Tueeday evening, July 0—S addresses by finest speakers in Friday forenoon, July 12 rives. Receptions at depot and Labor Oscar Strause arrive Friday evoning—Addresses at the convention tent Saturday, July 13—Excursio Sunday, July 14—Visiting m Pulpit in the city. Monday and Tuesday Yention closes on Wednesday, J ca Sete eee eee eee eee eee eee tt, ee ee Thomas, of the real estate nae ox eph } Th hag offered $1,000 to thet Christian Brideavor a guccdns. He is of that before the convention open nest Wednesday many other bu ness men will rally to the support lof the Endeavorers and contribute funds for the expense of entertalr ing thdusands ‘of visitors next w Tomorrow in every protestant Iehurch of Seattle there will be generak movement to raise fund: for the éonvention. Fifty thousand I envelopes large enough for a FEATURES OF THE CONVENTION, Monday, July &—First delegates arrive on special trains ©. £. chorus of 1,500 with soloists, at the convention tent, Williston, in Lincoln park Wednesday, July All of 15,000 delegates in the city Convention opens. On Wednesday and Thursday at the two convention tents and overtiow meetings, opening exercises and Vice the interior James R. Garfield and Secretary of Commerce and Gener RR nging of Handel's “Messiah” by America Presid: at Hote! L Fairbanks ar Secretary of ent ncoln. by Fairbanks, Garfield and ns for delegates. inieters will preach from every ‘al convention business. Con uly 17 Steen eet eee eee eee eee eee ee ee a “ be fistri © various congregat an ne Ww urged tc a ¢ f if ) of the 6 00 hurch member « nd th con tion w « ure of the nds 1 sa fi CCE Nea will preac Endeay , will tend toward increasin el terest ir © events of tb € ' week Chamber of Ce h alr ad GAMBLERS’ CAMPAIGN Througiout the greater portion of 1899 the tlectors of Seattle were in an upkoa® of bitter indign@@ion opposftion to the granting ity council of the solidated ‘street railway Over thie opposition the for the franchise were with? the aid of Comptroller Corporation Counsel Humphrey and @ subservient majority of the coun: cil in the proposed con: franchise applicants by victorious Parry Despite the pepylar indignation ggg, alls the the (then aroused against th® franchise, corrupt Repuplican machine representing the gamblers’ combine and the corporatiag, plundertgmd the chief factor inu@which was the | Seattle Ele again tion of March, 1900, renomigating Mayor Humes at the instigation and company) Republicary for the benefit of the gamblers, and parceling out c@ncilmanic nom nations in the interest of the plun derbund in ¢ nstailment of his narra tive ith recalls the incidents leadi @o and attending that convention and the tactics used in ay dominating it. The feature of the convention was the high-handed manner in which the “organiza tion,” under the leadership of Sam Piles, “Billy” Grambs and George Piper, sought to jam through the nomination of W. H. Parry and Capt. John Taylor large without per the convention, an attempt which was prevented by an outburst of indignation on the pagt of the un muzzied delegates. Mr. Smith also fact that in that car ampaign assessments of the Iimanic candid@tes paid ingtump sum by the gamblers ombin® as cagnclimen-at nitting a vote of paign the BY JOE SMITH VOL egright oy Gee Lf rand son Co Another Pose. CHICAGO. nd Mr July 6.——John rose late this morning me of Harold McCormick, oo-iniaw Shorily after 8 with his brother Willem McCormick, he rode in an auto to the Chicago office of the co] NO. JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER FINALLY GOES’ BEFORE THE INQUISITOR Snapshot of Rocky by Staff Artist. ONE CENT Standard Oil company for a conte’ ence before entering the Reaching the sidewalk in front of the Standard Ol! company’s offi Rockefeller shook hands with reporters the movi doing Y to th Jor ' He tervie to ph At 10 o'clock Rockefeller and party Th fore 1888 the orers night total year Frank eptic the Inst Dr the ree He newspaper « his hat thing requested in I answered a request for w ) looking cheerfully photogray raised his cane and too slow,” h ographers admitted that as inviting th ay golf with him in Oh entered the after a conference. ¢ lant time Rockefeller was be- investigating be when he was senate — an Not callin guarantee. fund Horsfall committee will be sent out to- for e remarked he is not has been an in © reporters his building | federal the que of payment pledged court was in tioned New York is hae King st telephones installed at the station conde not Monday morning special trains egations on pected to arrive before Tv morning. At that time a spec train from Washington, D. C., on from Virginia, and several from central states will pull into the station Depot Superintendent Robert | Dudgeon has made every arrange ment for caring for the big crowds tatives on the Lincoin park grounds in the te Endeavor” f the urpose of validating the t a of the delegates. [My ¢ hb that would nec come at the city ticket of and at the depot be so that the business th railroad Non mittee chairman ¢ ing can | orary represen pt republicaf machine which at hat time represented jointly the ts of the big gamMer bine t n ft ‘ h ef in h had just attic Electric company. The per onal commander of the machine a presenting these joint Interests as G Piper t te to the zenity of As a wiresque political be T Par? had become € ited n the Seattle & Lal@ Washington Va y Co., and was gg the ev rE f ry ir, Pa 1 He i \ in Found Paul in the ing own Ww D. * the posed for yhers by of PRICE 25c PER MONTE 4. D. Rockefeller, all “Coal Oi) Johnny.” But the “Foxy Grandpa” Oil King Says He Really Knows Nothing---Has Not Been in His Office for the Past Eight Years. and the manufacturers’ committee of Massachusetts concerning the formation of the ofl trust. Neither committee then a thing. plished anys Quizzing John D. Rockefeller took the stand in | Judge Landis’ court at 10:55. “Have you any official connec tion with the Standard O1 Co. of New Jersey?” asked Jndge Landig. ‘I am its president. The posle tion'4s honorary. It has been so for eight or ten years, | have rem dered no service whatever,” replied Rockefeller. Do you know at what the out standing capital of the Standard is estimated? John Miller, the oll company's at torney objected, claiming the line of inquiry to be unreasonable. The objection was overruled. think the capital ts $100,000, 000,” replied Rockefelier What is the general business of the Standard Oi! Co.? Miller objected again |was overruled ‘I have been out of business so long I could not ax It: has been eight years since | have been in my office at all "What is your tmp: business’? “The Standard has and this ession of the a plant to re fine ofl. That was its business. It would be impossible for me to give ja correct answer, however Have you an impression that |the Btandard has more than one re finery, that there are others oat side of the state?” Miller objected, claiming the court was seeking to widen the scope of its inquiry Miller said: “I beg to suggest that the government has « case in jthe state of Missouri in which the organization of the company is in- volved, and the question whether the company has more than one re finery is not at issue. Point at Issue. Judge Landis then said: “In the view of this court it is pertinent to ascertain the occupation of the Standard.” The court announced that the last question may f he fine. Rockefeller answered that he had no impression as to the operation of refineries outside of New Jersey. Judge Landis: “What were the dividend: of the Standard in 1904 and 1 I do not know w he divi- dends were. You know what the net earzings of those twe s?” No Landis then asked R feller to name the men who could tell him the net earnir Rockefeller could not Rockefeller was then questioned a li by District Attorney Sims and excused. A. Wann, the former freight of the eded Roc ago & Alton road feller to the stand. He was asked if he, as auditor of » road, issued instructions. as to ments of oil f Whiting, Ind,, to East St. Loni: A technical discussion followed. ent Felton of the Union e testified concerning the ar arrange with the Pratt of the Standard stified concerning the or+ ganization and capitalization of the Indfana corporation Traffic Manage Star » of the Alton road t concerning the arrangement of cars used by the Standard The court nil Mon- day, when f may be ‘ again * behind the city he nats ally sought to m his peace with them and to secure thelr sup= port and ris candl- la. te he was only partially successf ose powers giving thelr sup nstead to Frank H. Paul whose longer expé® nee in their ved them as a double assurance that he would prove — satisfa sbedient as omptroller While he appears to haw dong 0 Mr. Paul never gave a great dea} of tne or 4 im to the Gamigall re of the Mr. Ripe ger, me-time-to-be-ta« i report w working on he office ion ho became the ve mane ger of th y ampaign J. M k w the re publican nomina nee ha eady relat page narrative Cy ugh the e he nuinental c now secretary of the (Continued on Page Three)