The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 4, 1907, Page 1

“LAST - P EDITION aty od, nd vit a of the taxpayers . rice Bulletin is making a small profit. de this p i r Fa The lowest | at 4! Just 12 it? es as much! That's right, isn’t > But— *Mtimes. Suppose a notice is published 30 times. # ictal of $1.35 > Diets figure it at one cent $135 which the city would pay, and we have 83% cents. iver and above the cost to the publishers thereof. And that is at 4" cents per inch. al these. of insertions. cents per inch. Take some time, Mr as at Washington Annex Faces Revolver Robber Loots the Cash Drawer~Overlooks Me With Door Standing Open. head muffled in a sack | pletely ignored the safe, the of which stood open doors a by a murderous-iook : a The lobby was brilliantly lighted wer, ed the at the time, but the bold highway the Wa Annex | man timed his entrance to the 9:15 o'clock this morning, | oment, finding both Japanese bell: “8 ate during DOTS advent, and the clerk slone B about & minute, Curing | sisting ront of his desk he had backed Night) ji, f worta” te Mr FP. Francis behind the | Francis, “were a command to hold desk, holding the gun in|") my hands, and I remarked that % face with one hand ey Saas G8 OS, tee sere r ordered me to d the desk ghtly as him behir ly going through the and W @tawer with the other, de what rattled as he Ieemediately with $200 in big gun before my phed $100 cash in two 7 7 * pocket and scatter Most of money inte ie the drawer, and com- ing tabs around the floor irbutors to Fund to Clear Republican Club of Debt ‘We Named-—Jacob Furth, W. B. Trimble, and fadrew Hemrick Heaviest Subscribers. pre nt of the attle te fo ’ an for f : oh e King cx 1 Ming to « t of ote, r 1 The fina th night ‘ Bach Contributes $100 r Math of the three ing tributed the. fund | $14 ew than $1 ust the cat on own expendit no legal requirement ing it necessary tation to publish The t { their ses amount of and the f $209.40. Cor F ‘ 1 The € men of the ¢ here con feeb, amon ity Smith, H « ‘ und the ning 7 Df expe { 1 ¢ G t i 4. 8. W. Treat . Sam Hi) t 1 have ft ts the t Of the p. * uber’ be. ¢ B fund and Wistance | Mitrees {,, Wn, and ‘ M better c, the , 1 Kt. I and {: eaniza: NOW direct Midivids, Bra nt loyee | The first insertion costs the publisher 1244 cents per inch. "Bulletin, which has a circulation of less than 800 copies, would not cost one cent extra per insertion the money was in too search the missed the but he made was tn wach drawer all took him If there was any profit in the city cents per inch, how much profit will there be in the city printing at 50 cents an inch? bag. of a hurry carefully two amali envelopes tn the back, each of which held $60 for a no attempt And this would be true. but d opened by the council last Monday night was that of the Bulletin at 50 cents per inch. ayi2 times greater than the figure at which the printing is now being done. Now, if you were talking with Col. Blethen he would tell you that it costs 1214 cents per inch to set these city proof read them and publish them in the Bulletin, Where these notices have to be set, proof read and corrected but once they are published anywhere from one to For each publication the city would pay 4% cents per inch, or a The remaining insertions in a publication like the We would therefore add 29 cents to 12% cents, making 41% cents. Subtract that from That represents what the city would pay to the Bulletin The printing bill of the city of Seattle for the current year, on a rate of 444 cents per inch, will amount to $4,000, For the same space during the coming year the bill would amount to 12 times that, or $48,000. ‘There are, however, in addition to the regular notices, charter amendments to be voted upon and these will to be published 30 times, for which, at 50 cents an inch, the city would have to pay $15 per inch for, the total As already told, it would cost the publishers 4114 cents an inch to make these 30 publications, leaving a profit of At the rate of 50 cents per inch it is estimated that the publication of these charter amendments will cost the “Approximately $45,000 over and above the estimated $48,000, amounting in all to $93,000. Taxpayer, with these figures and you will discover how Col he lost on the Morning Times, for the suspension of which he hopes to get the city printing at his own BREE EERE ee OLDS UP CLERK sie oF SIGHS AND GETS $200 he to and minute. to go through my clothes, remarking that 1 wae a he would let went out the door me off pretty young fellow and Just as be he turned, war ing the gon threateningly and said, If anything ts sald about this, come back here tomorrow night and kill you,’ ” The robber disappeared up Stew | Francia immediately | The detectives rwards | omobi n of ort st. Mr notified the police were on the scene soon af In the new department a little he had but could ge the man, « pletely hidden tn There was a of t to get KE NAMES OF — BACKERS PUBLIC BOMB THROWER KILLED. (By United P MOS woman OW, Dec he carriage General Hers street In injured, the car t pl Kill ‘The jury governor tn the safe checks ts will be stopped immediat jay threw this city two by the explosior escaped deen » sack tptt | Seattle if YOU PAY TAXES, THESE FIGURES WILL INTEREST YOU Pay careful attention to these figures and you will see what the publishers’ combine hopes to do to you and the Today the city is paying the Bulletin 444 cents per inch for the publication of all city notices, ** This But to be sure, Poe eee eee eee ee eee ee eee ee eee eee es Figured likewise, if a notice were published but six times the profit would be 9 cénts per inch. There would be a loss on notices published onee, twice or three times, but the thirty-day notices would take care Blethen will get back the ee eee ee | FOR CITY JAIL is to have a “Bridge of Sighs In the new municipal jail and Emergeney hospital, at Pifth and Yesler, will be a tong bridge extending across the alr shaft over | whieh all prisoners will pass on their way from the celle to the court room where they will be tried. LAND COMPANY CHARGED - rn} so com amount of whieh he made a record ayment blown wi we mb in Chorging that property purchased the Hillman Invest by them from ment company had been sold a pee jond time to a man named Myers, while they yet making pay ments on the original o t Serena E. and Rose A. Galway to day Inetituted sult in the superior court asking $1,000 damages against | the corporation were 1907, “THE SEATTLE STAR SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, ONE CENT THE WEATHER—RAINS&YONIGHT AND B " THURBDAY; FRESH SOUTHEAST GALE, NEWSPAPERS COMBINE TO ROB CITY BEL R cate cneeenneenenenanahadaananaabaaneannneaebaaaaaapanaabe RAISE THE PRICE OF CITY PRINTING ___ ONE THOUSAND PER CENT errr reyerT Terry * * * BANK CLEARINGS *| * cute *| * attic. * *® Cloarings today ..$1,420,236.66 » | * Balances 117,348.48 & | e" . * Tacoma. . ® Clearings today Shih 918 we! ® Dalances 1GATL wy * * * . Portland * * Clearings today $736,407 &) * Balances 44,578 & | * . NRE NEWPOLICE AUTO IS PURCHASED bile for the po The new autor lice department has hy the city, after a severe made yesterday by City Engineer Thomson. It in a Knox Wateriens, | 30-horse-power machine, The price pald Was $2,000. [GRAND JURY : DISCHARGED deen purchased | | By United Press.) | BAN PRANCISCO, Dec. 4.—Last night the Oliver grand jury, which has been in session 100 separate daya, made ite final report and was discharged by Judge Coffey. Most | of the work of the grand jury war tm the graft cases. In the final report the police department w rounily roasted for its protectic a of toe. AOK! TO RETURN TO JAPAN (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, I 4.—Amba. WITH SHADY DEAL CIVIC UNION IMPLICATES That the ted the of the etty report of the experts who ex unaccounted-fo: comptrolier's of John Riptinge not only shows to have been an embessler, but that ex-Comptroiier Will H. Parry and ex-Comptrotier Frank Paul are tn od as well, is @ feature of the report of the committee on city affaira of the Civic union submit ted to the union at its regular meeting held last night ’ port says CIVIC UNION WATCH OFFICER To Keep Record of t the ‘Actions of Public Official Employ Secretary to Handle This Work. nion has been perform portant work in invemtigs eporting upon the public record r and during the last oc didaten in King ‘ nd conservative in it mendations have me to und much attention and car weight In polities Under the workings of t new ct primary law, whe n feeling eliminated and partisan ce nullified, it w be af 1 and it the in hoe d me " his i { legree One of the first mover to be OTHER COMPTROLLERS Conspiracy Is One of the Results of the Suspension of the Mornig Times-~ Blethen Bids 50 Cents for Printing Now Being Done at Four and One- Half Cents an Inch. The Star charges that the exorbitant bids for city printing opened by the council last Monday night are the result of an agreement entered into by representatives of the Se- attle Times and the Post-Intelligencer The Star charges that in consideration of the withdrawal of the Morning Times from the local field the Post-Intelligencer agreed to put in a bid for the city printing at a figure which would leave it out of the competition. The Star between representatives of the two newspapers and their attorneys further asserts that this agreement was reached after successive conferences some of these confers ences being held in the Times office The desire of Alden J. Blethen make the people of Seattle pay for the loss sustained by him is to through the publication of the president of the Times Publishing company, Morning Times. If the council awards the contract for the city printing to the Blethen publication the city will pay $48,000 for what it secured during the year 1907 for $4,000. How do you like it, Mr The Star has told you of the grocers’ bine, things, Against these combines there is nothing you could do. during the year of 1908 Taxpayer? combine, of the milk combine, of the ice come and other and you have grown indignant But against the publishers’ Go to your councilman and tell him that if he doesn’t vote to throw these bids out you won't vote for him when he comes up for re-election. combine you have a most effective weapon. Don't let him put you off with the excuse that the council must accept the lowest bid. It doesn't have to do this. Make the council readvertise for new bids. At a price 50 per cent lower than that bid by the Blethen publication, the Bulletin, there is lots of money in the city printing, and some one may determine to start a paper such as the Bulletin and go after this city work. And this would result in a big saving to the city. The Star doesn’t want the city printing vertising But it does want to keep the plunderers out of the city treasury. in this beyond a desire to serve the citizens of Seattle. It illed with commercial ad- has no interest because its columns are alread sador Aoki will leave here An opportunity to protect the | bine er at a figure yie es, “a et me have Jagan before the Christmas = for The Bull dage, But it tm wtated that he public treasury from a combine Ke p ng fe ¢ Bolletia pot been recalled. Aoki simply | wisch peeks to extort thousar The ay w gure and I will an goes to Japan to consult with the to th t ‘ the suspen- poreamens officials C says there of doliars from the people is open) =, we n to the « The Morning Times aid will js u niguificance in his trip as thei tne printing committee of the | newspaper , i sateed ext.” telations between the (wo countries | printing comm newspapers as well as to the ¢ ispend on Saturday next are the most pleasant elty council, which meets at 3:30) officials, The Star t affe tion was accepted, tomorrow afternoor to take the cor pri Times dropped out ol Bank Statements Called N ‘ : Hees ' - ened ek, 9 WASHING Dec, 4.—The i gee weNPtage lee) ere in ling 3 limited 2 £ space field, the Post-Intelligencer Dlg comptroller of currency today | Seattle, organized and headed by jis fully cecupied by live, com $ for the city printing and called for the report of the cond! |Alden J. Biethen, is seeking to rob/cigt advertising. Accordingly, the| Blethen got what he wanted Hog Of national banks at the close | the city of thousands of dollars dur-|combine has been able to figure nber 3 ing the coming year through the|/on no competition from The Star To Raise Subscription Price, contra city printing in the bidding. Oceasionally this Thr workings of @ defin-| paper has subm oars ether subjects dis- ax ent, the lowest bid sub-liy to force the comb to tial 4 at th onferences. a Itted to the council for the city |jower and save the public money. | the Price of + |printing 18 1,000 per cent greater | fr ‘bly thie has resulted in 2M Of these, It was agreed that lthen the cuintraet price under|jower bid being submitted by «| 20th Papers should increase the |which Col. Blethen has been doing | member of the combine price of subscriptions on January £ the city printing in his public next. A very commendable effort | me dium, the Bulletin, during the Sam Weston’s Little Joke was ma to agree on a plan The complaint recites that on | past year ee agree tIntetiigencer |*°.°tt both ‘papers down to some Apri! 1906,.the plaintiffs bought vidence of this combine must s 4 tor the | extent thereby economizing upon jand from the defendant corpora: |, is hs the tenes ae diene one er the | white paper In r words tio and that on July 9, 1906, the | *PParen my ag | Limes combine » 8. P. Wee the tion and the lamb agreed that same land was sold to the man | Committee In the submitted ds, Wintiinah waningig of thé: Peau t, F lamba 1 Myers, The plaintiffs claim that Under the circumstances, the | ipteiligencer bmitted his bid ew room both of them they made reguiar payments on the | pup) mands that the committee |, “ A“ . % : . € feedi nd property for almost a year after: | oo 0., “Ee wy aed eee ee _ | Col. Blethen had lost $76,000 up watde before learning that the ‘ one who gets the city prin ; a8 ‘ieoretes er ven were paying on which stood |" Its charte ft fuse te f “ have to bid vi . : In another person's nat accept any of the is tte ai > 1 RP COR TEROS, “Beree™ see Waenaaemade-tds ¢ : ee : for he knew that a rich io eh an . . 7 ‘ contra mld bring Blethen on Combines jetin. V Pos er . in sow ae ee Evidence f Miether a t OCA URE ad b given on the subject ‘ 7 the ex e morning field | shown the he ¢ Aithe 1 the 5 w me rich t ing t 4 " t The expert examination of the |Printing submitted by him fe Blethen realized a la ‘ quoted aving one time Tbookw of the cit ¢. | two publications, the T and a nag : fa r the very ini e state flee and the ¢ . Mletix ad by the 1 AReme posi “ment: “The public be @ a fully wustains the le} of the Post P bed m wore in our report J ur , . ns f anchise « One Bid a Hoax discloses th fact that not onl wae . ee at « s “ Joba Rt er an embezzier, but we tae c e8 Elec ‘ A h bid that Messrs. Paul and Parry, if 1 thro& u \ ‘ the others, “were also implicated. The jing to the E nw " "we Arad t f the Seatt mine a letting.of the contracts for x nad ae ae ' t . ; : pert @lamination of the cit ‘ - with > os was" unsatisfactory, and showed a ais ¢ the Nea « tod for 16 ce er disregard for the economical spend ; 5 a f and 13 ing Of the city’s money he } ¢ M ‘ ‘ ys t ent ine da ht, thef w fe 1 : a 4 t bosx prise the ening t ( : F 2 2. Cuthbert the cit In spite : € ertified financial ft be $ k of ' mu w te Pp s 8 Get Togethe ri e bid, Jay night in ame I nan werd a ellis was $ t mes ver for w large increase ir mber t , . ¥ ship. This campaign will receive ' ‘ ‘ a the first attention of the new ne ' ‘ { wed t tary it anticipated th ' membership of organization a: be Increased t 600 or more, Ub . f . . . » 8 greatly widening its influence \ At last night’s meeting tr were elected for the ensuing three Advance 1,000 Per Cent ear terr an follow Roger . Gre Vv. P. McKlwa u Filet, C. B. Bussell, 7 H os< an, A hurwell, ¢ C. B. Congleton, F. \ ! lApt L r 61 G.'A i lowit ff wore 1 ' lent, T 7 ive be ; > 4 u iu ' rr be dD. 1 t } Mi ‘ \ i ut i ‘ ! 1 n i t t t ee sn sss sence ans desea