The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 31, 1907, Page 5

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tie Star Exciusive Service.) E GHICAGO, Dec, 31.—J. Brandt/ Walker, prodigal plunger, who re Pently captured his own $5,000,000 | 4¢ Petiod calt in the Wall street mar- | be Pet and was chided by his father — PD Wher he brought bis fortune home, trading SM plonging again. bushels ‘This tiow he ts « central figure | the [fe the wild wheat market in Chi.) ¥8* 3 cky Jim” Patten is said ler can buy ave chased the fatted calf o & corner and hewed off large, weateaks. According to board of © every bread eater, reports Walker has beea James A. Patten. mg” for about 2,000,000 bushels. | be long 10,000,000 ©) Althouxh he has not previously | if he owned the i red in wheat to any ; er is a “bear.” he sold short, and when Pat-|to an equal amount they : and others began to manipulate | have a corner between them Pe market untit wheat went up| How trivial a thing may n by rt of trade's own figures supply of May purpowes—was United States for that aprt wou Hine. *] believe that prices are going fo $1.26," Patten says supply.” At present the world’ afloat or in the warehouses | inju Burope and America, ts said to! god 137,000,000 bushels, This is 33,-/ GRANTED LIFE A few minutes later an of iin. The present bulg life diplomas by the state/L. Kibbe, Elma; Violet Morga accredited list, the University |lotte Stewart, Spokang; Helen q tm. at Missoula, and Mid- Jackson, Spokane; Ora B. Y. ; ry college, at Middlebury, Vt. B on the application of three| Mary E. Bruce, Spokane institutions for listing as | Colton, Wenatches; W. O dited schools was deferred.| ming: teachers granted life certifi-| Ever: are as follows | quiam; Maina K. Stauffer, nee M Matilda L. Victoria Etlensburg; Stanton, North Yak | E. Anne C. Magnusven, Reardan tte P. Gaines, M. Bourgett, McKown, Seattle; | son, Spokane; Paul J. Orr, Oakesdale; | Leonora H. Pitcher, Colfax; Nome, Alaska; | Wright, Spokane. BREST MURDER SUS |B Hayashi, wanted in Seattle | ys oa Was subsequently arrested of Chukiko Yoko, has been at Sacramento, Cal, ac to a telegram received last asserted that Hay bi was Japanese as the fugitive from victim. the Maueka restaurant, Fifth av. | the hand Main at. and Y. Naki first since the murder, WHEAT PIT, WHICH IS IN WILD FRENZY AGAIN PHOTOGRAPH SHOWS “BETWEEN CALL” SCENE AT WHEAT PIT IN CHIC 000,000 bushels less than last yoar. | ker Just how much these speculative |and deimiga holdings of breadstuffa have to do with the actual price can be readily |to make jhe comparing a few of the [it is going tc The | wheat last that is, wheat obtainable fot 33,000.00 ‘The actual production in Cs 2,069,000. Yet {f any one up or contro! the 33,000,000 he has cornered the mar ket and Is able to dictate the prices who fs sald to . ba extent | contro! of one-third approximately Reports are |'Should two of his friends go long! would or knew ¢ influ ind $1.05 his brokers bought in| ence the price of speculative whe: }was shown im this rise, when the bulls forced tne prices of May to| (that his tries we “This is | $1.05 on a report that heavy rains &. ly due to the decrease in the | in Argentine had damaged the crop cial re | his aperatiog in 1898 stock of| port came In denying the rains had been accuse$by the board of trade | 1 the crop, and prices sag aid a bro tective assedition; C. W. C the Pacific orthweet Soctety of Kogineers; © R. Aldrich of the | . Ww _ Bwenty-seven teachers have been| Grace C. Huntoon, Seattle; Alice of education, which met in| Carbonado: Winnle McMullen, Se|ti, Franklin Quota sen pent | Washington Annex yesterday. | attle; Nellie Ramsey, Kolso; For-|iradics of thobeottic tanter alan more schools were placed on|dyce W. Rhoades, Seattle: Char-| : ’ | ang, Tacotha; Herbert BE. Jones, Wilbur Cora M Cum-} Colvitie: Louts J. Campbell, | Gross, Ho Hruska, Water ville; Jessie A. Knight, Shelton; 3 Edith M. Ob SPECT March 13, 1906, for the alleged one of the principals. He entered a plea of guilty and received a long sentence in the penitentiary. He guilty by the police department -as himself, and that his knife was Message was to the effect that | responsible for many of the wounds bi had been identified by oth-| that terminated in the death of the Hayashi fed the country. Yoko was killed in a fight and the news from Sacramento is obtained by the police So eS relal club last evening, M representing the club lowing as the Northwestern Indus association, reported the club Shape for incorporation, Those Will be the representatives in Manufacturers’ association; J | AStore For Everybody—Speiger & Huribut—The House of Bargains | “To our thousands of friends an ‘patrons: We wish you a Happy New Year. Store closed all day. ) | PEIGERHURIBU 2ND AVENUE & UNION STREET: ee on he SL At the meeting of the Seattle |the new organization are the fol : J. & Goldsmith of the Chamber the made-in-Seattie committee of Commerce; John W. Efuw of the Hell of the Builders’ Exchange; M. B. Harben of the Commercial ctab; L. 8. Winans of the Merchants’ Pro- OD BOARD OF TRADE ‘hadGo relation to the supply | It is merely an at-| crowg of opera | ther crowd b lose money.” tempt offone Yot brajirs work themselves tnto | & frenty @er the game at the board f trade @eat pit. Coats are torn and hats $mashed, toes are tread | upon and he t Moor of the trad-| ing room foars from the time the | gong a 2 until it sounds again, | But the @mer doesn't get these! marvelous r does the} bread eat@ Breat benefit | when prie@ nly man who | gets tie te broker, who] Fierce between what 5 n€what the other fellow wagered Daniel C ht, an Ultnols farm, | MA «He came to Chicago s ki, time gambied In mar and for gins. He “Gade his own trades” on the floor a lost $10,000. Then he tified Infeourt a few days ago} ™ © Intention of deliver Yet Wright began | He bas now | y bets, | That he had ing the wh@r directors of Rad fulth in tontifying | that he was Rambling,” ed him fromijne floor : af Colby of and expell-| shington Mate Chapter, Amert can Institutet Architects; J. J.| Higgins of (i Retail Grocers’ as-| sootation; FR. Graff of the Heat ufacturers Mills of Grape Harbor, Wa resuming ope@tions While the was celebrating Christmas, the tug Lenora foan dered in & ga® at Minstrel island, 150 miles somh of Vancouver, B C. So deep it the water that the tug will undovtedly remain at the bottom. It is report#t at Portland that the Oregon Test & Savings bank whieh closed § ring the first days of th will be opened and th merged with the Germ@-American bank of | that city Rev, Cooke pod hia wife, for merly Loretta Thalley, the hetreas, who eloped anl who were located | at ‘Frisco ye ay, have disap red, and thi police are unable to locate then | The Washingbn Post attacks the} Seattle exposifon of 1909 and| states that thepeople of the Unit. | ed States woulf not care to travel so far to see @hibits. he paper | claims it is a bom for Seattle | From Michig@n to the Pacific coast is the gal now to be at |tained by the managers of La Fol-| lette for the pr@idency | | Owing to thejsanitary fight, the bubonic plague @ rapidly disappear jing from ‘Frisce Montana bankers favor a sub-| jtreasury in Squtte | The engage@eat is announced at Utica, N. ¥., @ Governor Hoggatt of Alaska to Mise Clarissa Eames are Millard, the wéiding to take place some time in the spring. The cou ple met while the Millard family | were touring tlp northiand several | years ago. | | James J. Hill after shouting ca lamity for seveal weeks, is now looking into the future with an op imistic view } | WEDS 1,000TH COUPLE. } RAVENNA, ©, Dec. 31.—The Rev. Andrew Wilson, D. D., of Ra onna, 64 yéara in the lead of Uni ‘ersalism, officiated at his 1,000th i when he pronounced Miss I Hindman and C. M. Bard band wi The young mmedigtely home, wh was for them here, and a jents of Ravenna. Dr. W 1 the parents of the went to their dy waiting now real son mar WHO OWNS CLOTHING? Who t# the owner of the coat pair of and gold wateh mas et. in a bh pile, Sanda toy and EB. Thomas sts? The hing was spla with mud here was no writing to indicate | dentity of the \} CHANGES MEETING NIGHT. & time f Monday to T la | Thousands and Thousands, Oppress- BY JESSIE M. PARTLON. | In every land, in every clime, where men are depraved and wom: 4 jsalary for be THE SEATTLE STAR-—TUESDAY, DEC, 31, 1907, PROPOSE ISLAND FOR DETENTION HOSPITAL disapproval of Mayor Moore | The site for the isolation hoapt of the propowal of the counetl to | 4! could be fenced off from the ¥ $2,800 f {nrecenathio wand Peat of the island and beautified pay vs, - slag by parking or other Improvement. | bill in the White river valley fe |The location would be the most | the purpose of a site for an tsolw | healthful that cauld be found with: | tion hospital bas aroused in olty|in the same distance of the city hall circles a proposal that the city |The rest of the island could then] procure Blake isiand for this and}be devoted to other uses, For in r muntelpal purposes, j#tance, church or charitable organ lake island contains some 680) izations which desire to establiah located at the entrance of | summer camping grounds or camps Port Orchard, some seven miles| could be permitted to do #0, thus from Seattle, owned by W. P. Trim: | affording the Mnest opportunlty for ble and Lawrence Colman. Owned | our pe by the city, it would provide not) at a minimum of cost ple to take summer outings | only the desired alte for an isola: | tion hospital, but would | magnificent public park ground, summer camping and ajte for the summer homes of charitable organizations elty The island would | ideal alte for an | said a member of the lic works this morning it Boat Service Assured. make a play-| "With the ground |a center a suitable boat would soon be developed control of docks of the run would oure service and the beat «# would | traffic would sustatn. development service able It to pro the vice the reasonable rates be enally acowsnl ble A smal i do not ow what it would launch could be kept on the water at the elty to purchase the {sl | front, in charge of the b " dd, but at present ft has no value for a minimum of ¢ it| whatever other than a speculative could be available at any and alljone. The owners are both public hours for this and other uses, and) spirited men and would doubtloas hen infected patients were taken; be willing to i at & reasonable over in it it could be completely | price, thus putting the elty In pos disinfected on the return trip, so as | sesston of one of the most magnifi to be thoroughly safe from any | cent pleces of danger of spreading contagion property available for many excellent purposes ‘aT 1S MORE AND MORE DIFFICULT FOR THE GIRL WORKER TO STAY VIRTUOUS” JESSIE M. PARTLON THE WOMAN OF THE STREETS. | and Social Condi- od by Industr tions, Vieid to the Lure of Vice and Its Attractiveness. en weak, are found the Daughters of Lilith. ‘The treatment aceorded the de classe woman is paradoxical. With one hand we push her farther down into the black abyss of crime, with the other we vell oar blushes of righteous Indignation that such evil should extat, Economic conditions in America make it more and more difficalt for the unskilled girl worker to re main virtuous, and yet we cast out into the underworld the girl who falie. She cannot associate with the wives and daughters of the men who reap fortunes from her ander paid labor—she is not Mit. But the man who offers that girl $3.60 a week aa a living wage, explaining she ts not expected to lve on ft that man i honored and respected by sootety Down tn the depth, of New York's lower Mast Side, that sev h circle of an Inferno surpassing Dante's vision of hell, I found Han nah Weiss. She ja & Russian Jowous* just 17 a girl Hike any other girl, loving pleasure aud pretty clothes and the | aide with the society of her fellows [ithgotten wealth Hannah Weiss works in a dirty,| nity, learn thelr little, ilLemelling Houston st shop from 7 a. mr ttl T pm. for) There should be a labor law in $4.50 a week state of the Union, fixing the makes battonh th coats | minimum wage for all women work and vests, 200 baltonholes « day lers. This should be based on a de There are 30 girls in the shop |cent standard of livin where Hannah Welss works, and laity for the ¢ some of them make as high as $10 | any woman a & week on “piece work.” These are these «girls enough to ——$——— el TYPE OF EAST SIDE GIRL That's what we are doing for the | immigrant and his children. The majority of these giris’ parents are respectable, hard-working who came to Am condition. Their children. norma! on every peop rica to better thelr growing up in ab wrroundings and confronted pectacle of ved in immu lesson and profit sweat | by tt every and ® pen vyment of @ lows wage girl or Either pay now nothing but machines, with sustain tife honorably, or make it lackluster eyes and yellow. parch- | winecessary for them to labor ment-ifke «kina The ordinary gtri/ haa only been making buttenholes a FARMER KILLEO. couple of years, and gets from $3.50 a week to | By the breaking of a stretcher How do you suppose these girts| par which he was live? Well, you will find Hannah Wetas’ home on the top floor using in pulling stamps J. H. Carter, a farmer at { &/ Sheridan near Bremerton, received Deiancy st. tnement In ar om | injuries from which he died ye abont aa big as = cell in “bankers’ | terday. He leaves a wife and row” in the Ohio penitentiary she | chjidren, the eldest 19. He was a lives with five other human beings. | native of Misstasippl, and Hved at Could that girl fuvite her friends | Green Lake five years befere re into that home, with such surround: | moving to Kitaap county ings? Certainly not. So, as a con-|————— —~ ————-———— sequence of her youth and sex, she spends her evenings :n a dance hal! or out on the street The lowest price at which a girl can obtain board and lodging tn ab solutely respectable au roundings is , and that is at the Young Woman's Christian Association. which can only take a limited num. her. Suppose the girl pays all her 1 and shelter, where mon coming fi for clothes, car fare, lunche bills and the hundred actual nece ities of I iw the Visit the Haymarket dance ha t through @ session of th « irt, go to “Cairo,” or look into ¢ dance halls and “aitting " mg the Bowery and you will find JA dig lot of Ladies’ Shoes, Viel Kid and Patent Leather a repulsive thing, ten't it? ght and vy soles, broken 1 mean re inew. Regular price were venta a fashionable her |} $3.00, $3.50 and $4.00 Lens pleasant appearance, than factory Ne city o women of th treet hale oO rt fF omtig aot find one } half so wretched and @eserving of a my ittle friend, Hannah Ww of th Houston at wou hop. | These were fa »nably 1 Their « hi bk ad cork ae] RAYMOND & “iaiearvenctre.|| HOYT 405—Pike Street—405 \ of auch | and the | at that end | ORDER i6 A REED. TEACHERS’ SALARIE AUTHORIZED a Ohiet Wappenstetn’s order ate Olssing Patrolman Coleman from the force at Fremont for alleged neglect of duty was reversed by the elvil services commission at a ting yesterday. A recommenda tion wan made by the eommiasion ove Ahat Coloman be suspended for 60 days, and, as he has already been The hoard of education yesterday authorized the regular monthly ex penditure for teachers’ salaries, Jamounting to @ Mttle over $61,000 | istration of women voters by cards, fo save them the annoyance and inconvenience of having to register for overy school election, WIRELESS RECORD. VALLEJO, Deo. tl—Five wite lens telegraph messages have been received at Mare Istand and Point | Loma from Sitka, Alaska. This 4 Y ,{The board also ordered some] ia the record for long distance on pe a longth of me lchanges in the Ldncoin High build | this const. Communication has probably be reinstated within q|/@ '@ order to accommodate tho| been established direct with all idee! crush of students attending that in-| stations and also all ships off South- © ~ | wtitution. ern California const. The Mare GUNS FOR RENT—Piper &| The board approved the plan of|iwland navy yard 4s In charge of Tett, 102426 Second av **! Director Ki. ©, Hughes for the rog:! all wireless work on this coast Great Northern Tourists Combine omfort and conomy. BRAND NEW TOURIST SLEEPERS -=-ON THE--- “ORIENTAL LIMITED” Leaving Nightly at 9:30 SEATTLE to ST. PAUL Without Change These cars are of the latest pattern, wide ve oe. iding finished tn rich red mahogany upholstered in olive green well ventilated room clean Hnen da mt porter in « interior eather led, well high sanitary Nehted pack Beats, tollet tant attendance. TOURIST BERTHS COST - THE STANDARD RATE For reservations Passenger and Ticket and tickets to all Eastern points, Agent call on or address C. W MELDRUM, City TICKET OFFICE—SECOND AND COLUMBIA

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