The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 22, 1908, Page 1

LAST VOL. 9% NO, 185 Claiming that the over pci tt Ne Cons “eermpany has closes! «| he Law qaine, near Black Tiamond action throw oat of nine public wing the loudly pr: ort gablie would tah: This loudly vo and wa ch an a bankers excuse for o Price Ought to Brop geverel months it has bee that there fs plenty of Market, and consumers hav expected to see a drop The Jaw of supply d would cause a drop in it was allowed to operate has been no reduc He Coast company fo malvtain the high | by the monopoly {By United Press. YORK, Jan in @ sores of shoppers in @fy goods sore at noon B® Woman, suppored to be Clark, Wwaped from a Store's «= restaurant had been talking with iy, an advertising man, five times, instantly ‘The terrified diners from the large room pepkins and Tan, while the slayer twice and died a few In a hospital ‘Were several hundred per fm the place when the stepped from the ele- hed the table at Was sittin with McPherson, of the Evening the 5 Tat at No Time Out of Place Mayor. Gual-Market ls Overstocked, But Exorbitant Prices Are Still Demanded. EDITION summer, and Seattle consumers are at present paying $1 per ton more for Black Téamond lump coal than they did dYring the famine of last winter If the closing of th is @ Lawgon mine to lack of demand for coal, | consumers cannot understand why ‘amine prices still prevail in the Seattle market, unless the coal mon opely intends (o maintain the pres t exorbitant prices regardless of supply and demand To Protect Price. The Lawson mine is a large pro- ducer of the beet grade of coal mined by the Pacific Coast com Shutting it down will ma terfally affeet the coal supply of Seattle, and this action of the Pa-/ cifie Coast company may reauit| in a seareity of coal in a few weeks’ | dime Those who have been following the coal question belleve that the action of the company wan taken to curtall the supply so that the monopoly need not yleld to the publie demand for cheaper coal Under present market conditions Hack Diamond lamp coal ought to) be selling for from $5 to $5.60 per ton at the bupkers, instead of §7 per ton, the present price. SS Telegram, She sat down for a mo- ment. then rose and quickly palled a revolver from a handbag and be- gan shooting. Hrady had so time to defend himself. He tried to run, but fell over dead .He was 27 years old aud the woman was 30. re mctive ts not kaown ‘GERMAN OFFICERS ARE ON TRIAL (By United Press.) BERLIN, Jap. 22.--Aceused of participating in the tmmoralities | charged by Editor Harden against other “Koights of the Hound Table,” General Count Hohenaa| and Major Count Lypar appeared to defend themselves today before the military court of Inquiry The jtwo men are officially charged with) abusing their authority by forcing THE SEATTLE STAR LOSING MINES TO. MAINTAIN PRICES eeaaeeannaaae os * BANK CLEARINGS, Seattle. today , .$1,025,961.97 $1,820.19 Cleartngs alances Tacoma. Cleartngs today Balances a eee eeeeeeees * * a * * * * * * * *. *® Clearings & Balances Portland. today eee eee ee ee ee AFTER LIQUOR DEALERS. OLYMPIA, Jan State Treas urer Mills han forwarded to Prose cutor Rowland & lst of the Pierce county quer dealers who have failed to pay state lleenses, and aks that they be immediately pros wouted 2 SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1908. UNDESIRABLE CITIZENS (By United P jmen drink to intoxication than men KENOBHA, Win, 22 in the present day Investigators for the women's he: » the eairable eltiner . ore the undesirable CiMs0Me | uns of Kenosha announce . that the drinking women, the indolent | women are not the victims of a jrich and the sale keepert—ae natural desire for tntoxteation, but cording to the clubwomen of Ke bons pt their love for liqy throug criptions given them | no . ri o osha, Thelrgppinion came out tm |)" diane, and with the grow 4 discussion of “the undesirable jing of drunkenness amo#® women eltizen. | 4 decrease in the use of intoxicants | They also declare that more wor | 4mong men has followed JAILED BANKER LOSING NERVE / By United Press.) [of steel bare in front of him is SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 22—/Tapldly unnerving bis whole | Walter J, Bartnott, disgraced off jeystem. Dr. Watkins recommend ed that the sheriff take action im cial of the defunct California Bale | mediately The. doctor further Deposit and Trust mpany,| says Hartnett 1@ “so fer gone” that through City Physician Jas, T. Wat) he paces up and down the main kins has made application to) corridor during his hours of exer Sheriff Dolan to be allowed to! cine, p on & cot in the main corridor, bis halr, clearly alleging that the continuous mae at wr condition, ingicating hin ANTHONY COMSTOCK WITN Placed on the Stand and Relates: His Conferences, +s PACIFIC COAST 10 With White's Slayer-—Dens of Vice Ruled by the: * Rich Are Mentioned. (By United Press.) YORK, Jan. NEW Mra Frances E. Plerce, the first witness | called to the stand this morning in the trial of Harry Thaw for the marder of Stanford White, ident fied. Thaw's signature to bin wil), which was made on the evening jot bin marriage to Evelyn Nesbit District Attorney Jerome object ed to the witness giving textimony along this line. He tnsisted that jahe would be unable to swear that the document was in the same tom dition and that ft read the same as it did on the wight it Was signed A lengthy toebnical discussion followed Justice Dowling finally ruled the codicil to the will over there was much argument The defease which should be admitted or inducing soldiers under them to/ wade an offer to admit the will in partictpate in the offenses charged | by Harden. Count Hohenau ts the} kalser’s cousin. | evidence and then temporarily | withdrew it Anthony Comstock was the next | witness for the defense, He ssid BANK RECEIVER | TAKES CHARGE (By United Press.) | ROSE, idaho, Jan. 22.-—-Walter & rece, who was appointed re- ceiver of the Capital fitate bank, | which suspended yeaterday took | charge today. It is wtil! maintained | by the director# and the recetver | that the depositors will be pald fo) fall, but much oneasioess in mant- fested, an many ugly «tories are! afloat Has He Even Considered : for Republican Nomination : several days the Dersistent!y rumor has Fin Cireniated that i & FP. Russel! would withdraw xm the mayoraity race, and this Used by the workers for & fARdidates as an argument Mr. Russ. am § #latement issued today Mr * brands thi« rumor as false SE declares bis determination to ‘ Pies im the race to the finish wy iy express confidence zx Wi be nominated and elect cihe ior that 1 would with from the ma t nce is a , id Mr. Russe 1 in d fo win the ation on the “ B ticket and be elect Be next mayor of this city. The sentiment In my favor t# growing every day, and I firmly believe that the only question that is now in volved in the primary = tion is the extent of my majori “I am convinced that this with drawal talk has been cireulated for the express purpose of injaring my candidacy, but | will be a candb date for the nomination until the last vote is counted jn the primary election, and that minute I will be | xin my campaign for election as the republican nominee. At no time since I filed my declaratfton of candidacy have 1 contemplated withdrawing from the The talk was apparently started for the purpose of discour aging those who are working fer} my nomination.” jraary, ‘TAKE FLINGS | Thaw called at his office in Feb 1904, by appointment, j told him that a well known New Yorker had acquired a habit of | raining young girls by druasiog them in his apartments at 122 AT ROOSEVELT (By United Press) BALT LAKE, Utah, Jan. 22.— ‘ Repeated flings at Preaident Rouse- | forage SSELL PUTS AN END TO UMoRS OF WITHDRAWAL ee ee ee eee * * * PUBLIC BUILDING BILLS. (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.— Public butldings for Belling ham and Olympia were pro vided for in bills Introduced in the senate by Senator Piles. * * * seeeeeeeee WHERE RERER SOY FOUND DEAD (By United Press.) OLYMPIA, Jan Peter rud was found dead this morning the federal surveyor general's of fice and was said to have been & Norwegian nobleman. He ts said have owned some valuable) land near Seattie Sux in bed here to Mibsesss+s¢ihehakiaaan ae WILL GIVE EVANS * LAUGH AND THEGRIP GERMS LEAVE; - Ys WEEP AND YOU GO TO BED : » | beh he : : (By United Press diseases because the resisting ; CHICAGO, jan Laughter. foree is able to defeat the germs the best cure for the eri; and keep them subjected until the .< This ts the - dee {D ‘sistance lage or Weakens, and nee Leavitt, wh has|then the microbe, which is the . Practicing tion most powerful, wins out. This is J oly seanon the grip. 3 explaing it athe The brain is the center of this e There in every bu-| resistance and is stron ‘a espert eve city-| wise, just as the spirit of the vie tree tin rained atmos-|tim happens’ to be. Ch Of smoke, b ‘ poor keeps the nervous system WeRtilation the ; f eve tone; makes the resistance more ‘ee that flesh ’ powerf®, and conquers the grip Wery one do these | microbe.” ROYAL WELCOME (By United Press.) KS, Cal, Jan, 22.— A ” of ball for the offi cers and a threedays’ barbec for the Jackies, are the first plans formulated for the reception of the battleships of Admiral Evans’ fleot that are duled to arrive in Los An ports in Aprfl General Adna R. Chaffe has been selected as chairman of the com | mittee. James J. Jeffries. the pugilist, has been added to the lst of committeemen. The fleet com mittee will agk the public to raise by popular subscription $25,000 to defray the expenses of the enter t@ument nd | ae Ta NN 1 He was employed in| SS FOR THAW Ninweeadkews ts * walth Unites Press.) ® WA INGTON, Jan. 22.- ® Representative MeKint > ® California, an active ‘aft re campaigner, eald today that Eid # nouncement that Gov | Twenty-second’ st, He identifed|* enor Hughes’ candidacy ‘* woul not affect the situation \$48 California or along the Pa fic coast. He declared Cal Girls’ Gereams Heard. | ® Mornia will be instructed for Comstock said that at a second} ® TAft and that Washington and ® Oregon will do the same, then he wes iUa hartale’ popeudl & whether Hughes rans or not which be showed Thaw. eel RUEF cussed White and others who were tn the habit of assembling In tae “den” to 22nd at. Pleads for Time in Which ~ to Secure Counsel— Comstock swore Thaw sald he (By United Press.) was positive White had tn hin a collection of obscene pleturea, that a tenant next door had little girlx screaming. He cared Thaw gave him a © i liet of girls allexed to have been vietimnes of th e. «tne ball i president of the congress. The SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 22.-—-Abe |soler relerred particularly to] Quef pleaded for delay thix morn | Roosevelt's Jamestown speech, which be declared that the *), Geo, Keane, bie attorney, of the west were only ft for) for time to secure additional coun gel. Lawler granted him = until Friday afternoon, plainly telling be placed 4 watch on the batiding, but could get no direct evidence dim be must be ready then; that he must not seek to delay again The first communication between bin impending trial wpen that Thaw and Comstock waa without oppesition. Most. of contents je already been pabite. stock vid Thaw told him the 24th st. house was used by a band of ertminal rich men, that It wes controlled by six oF seven of the scoundysels, and that twe or three men who knew nothing | about the character of the place fre quently went there, Through a minunderstanding the | United Raliroads defendants were 08 ANGELES, Cal, Jan. 22--[met represented by counsel this) | George W. King, 55, veteran of | morping, and Ruefs case was ta the Boer war in Africa, was found | mediately called dead in @ room in a hotel on First) Keane in behalf of Ruef pleaded st. this morning. He was fully|"We have been canvassing pred dressed, and the cause will not/|attorneys, hoping to sooure oc be known until an autopsy is held. | sel for Ruef. The result is one at King was attached to the neers’ corps of the British army in| under certain conditions. He in South Africa sists that an associate counsel be - He is to try @ case at beginning next Fri will consume a week ¢ therefore ask that this matter le continued » couple of weeks The court anderstands the right lremistered letters sent | Thaw him = by * * * * * ay | velt beeanse of his utterances con corning lands tn the west were the | features of an address delivered |today at the Arid Farm congress by J. L. Douahue, of Denver, who (By United Press.) @ a defendant to have counsel | Of hix choice to defend him, but the défendant should remember that the time of the court is also i» be conkidered and counsel shold not be engaged who can't take up the trial in a reasonable ' line,” replied Judge Lawler FO Pou Tide Lawler thereupon contin NEW YORK. Jaa. Lesilo M.}neq the case until Friday after Shaw has resigned the presidency} pcan at 2 o'clock of the Carnegie ‘Trust company,|” The cases of Schmitz which he assumed early last March | yajted “Railroad lon his retirement from the treas ury portfolio at Washington. In explaining his resignation, Shaw sald that he had “small at rences” with haries C. le kine the organizer and chief own- or ae the trust company. STEAMER WATSON IN and the defendants were sontinued until the same time NEW YORK DEMOCRA ARE FOR BRYAN I" (By United Press.) OCEAN GALE NEW YORK, Jan. The state ot New York will support William Jennings Bryan for president in | the Denver convention, At least } (By United Press.) {his is the significance leading SAN FRANCISCO, Jan, 22.—| Democrats attach to the calling off Great gales beset the Alaska-Pa-| of the proposed conference of con effic line steamer Watson on her) servative Democrats, which has way here from Tacoma, lasting | been scheduled to convene tomor from Sunday morning until noon! pow In the Waldorf-Astoria, This yesterday. One huge comber which | Gonférence had been heralded as assailed the staunch steamer|another Bryan affair. According smashed the rail forward, carried|to the wiseacers the conference away the house of the auxiliary] wag called off because it became steering gear aft and did other| Apparent that opposition to Bryan [damage on deck. The Watson ar-| could not be solidified sufficiently rived at 5 o'clock last night to Become dangerous. ranting hin fingers. through | in| @r when he faced Judge Lawler | begged engl |torney har agreed to take the case) | FUNERAL OF VETERAN THE WEA NIGHT AN ONE CENT - THER—RAIN OR SNOW TO D THURBDAY; EAGT WINDS. ALASKA MINERS HAVE ORGANIZED TO KILL | “banorat aervicer var som a wai Men in the Innoko District Band Together and Take Oath to Kill Cache Robber-—Will Meet Summary lock, of Olatla, Wash,, will be held tomorrow afternoon, at 2 o'eloeh at Johnson & Haniliton'« chapel Sierme pat will take pla t the A cometery, The deceased ee 7 # old, and a member of Stevens Post, G. AK HERO DIES FROM POISONING | (By United Pr: ) | LOB ANGELES, Cal, Jan After mocking death in one of the most glorious and desperate adven | tures in the history of the Ameri lean navy, Val F, Wilby, wito helped | Cushing blow up the Albemarle in | 1864, is dead from the effects of eating sausage containing main Wilby's wife also from the same cause, The cave has created 4 sensation because of the peculiar action of the / | | oner, whose physician nays the two vietima of the spoiled meat Gied of heart disease and brain trouble, respectively (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. Rear Admiral! Evans’ Atlantic sailed for Punta Arenas today, ac cording to @ telegram received from the admiral BOY ON TRIAL FOR 22.— HIGHWAY ROBBERY Norman Martin, the 17-yearold boy who was arrested on suspicion of having assaulted and robbed Gus i, a Swan Lake farmer, on Dee. 118, ie being tried in the criminal department of the superior court today The evidence ts largely circum stantial |}. Hil was badly beaten on the bead and w5« in a precarious con | dition for some time. Vengeance. (By United Press.) | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan Driven to peration by having their outfits stolen, miners in the 1nOkd district have batded them pe together and taken oath to kill on sight @ person known as Five-Finger Jimmy The news of the sworn vengeance of the miners’ committee is brought t town by A. Fiedler, an opefator on Little creek. He arrived with a dog team Hie says there are about miners on Lit Gaines and Fe ger creeks. So many caghes have been robbed lately, and the prices of provision: are wo high that there will be very little prospect ing, as the miners are foreed to constantly guard their provisions His own experience tm similar to that of many others. He had 2,200 pounds of provisions on Little creek tn a tent while building a cabin, He was invited to Nichol yon's roadhouse and stayed there one night.” The next morning all that was left of his cache were a few pounds of beans and other things, pot enough for more a few meals at the most A light snow had fallen and he | the tracks to the main trail j they became lost | moccasin tracks, ‘He reported the | theft to the commissioner and m shal, the same as others had do before and since, and was asked if he had any suspicions or knew wh that | followed) in lots of other | jthe guilty party. He said he dia not. He was told that the? could not do anything Hugh Marland was also robbed of ail of his provisions and was forced to leave for Fairbanks, and others became of such cf&mmon oc urren that the miners het! a meet Evidence was adduced which satisfied those present, at least, that the man mentioned was guilty of some of the robberies. |T fact that he had not been w ing and other circumstantial dence caused the miners to de cide thet he munt die A m- mittee wae appointed to kill him on sight by having drawn lots. They heard that he was at the Indian village at the forks, and the miners rustled t ther eight dogs and rifles and the committee went after its mi No trace of him could be however, and the hunters returned. But they were still Jooking for him when Mr. Fiedler left | When the commissioner heard about the action of the miners he | caused a warrant to be sworn out for the arrest of “Jimmy,” bot Mr. | Fiedler believes that the miners are likely to take summary ven- weance if they get their hands upon the suspect Flour is selling at $50 per hun- -| dred and everything else is $1 per pound. In fact, nothing i» retailed for less than $1 and canned mille ‘sells for $1 per can MAY GET LIFE SENTENCE | FOR ROBBING STATEROOM Upon the exact location of the Ramona, bound from Vaneouver to Seattle Saturday night, hinges the question of a 10-year term or life imprisonment of James Rain, alias Ryan, who i* charged with having robbed H. R. Adkinson, a passer ger. If the boat was in British waters at the tinie of the robbery, Bain will be tried in British courts; ff in America, it will be his third of. fense in this country, and under the state jaw he will be sentenced to the penitentiary for life Bain, it is alleged, confessed yes- terday to Prosecutitig Attorney Vanderveer that he entered Adkim son's stateroom and robbed him, James Carroll, another burglary suspect, assisting In the . job, he says. He alto admit«x robbing a guest at the Metropole hotel, in Vancouver, of a gold watch, which he pawned. Bain says the crime was com- mitted at 11 p. m, which would place the boat in British waters, The captain, however, says it was about 2 a. m, whieh would mean | American waters and life impris- lonment for Bein MAY APPEAL TO COURT TO REVIEW COUNCIL ACTION A. B. IRWIN DEAD. (By United Press.) VANCOUVER, B.C. Jan B. irwin, manager of the Pacific Coast Wood Pipe company, died last night, The burial will take plece in Spokane. Before coming west Irwin was « stock broker in New York City OLSON FINALL WITHORAWS “A question has been raised re garding my hold the office of mayor of Seattle says D. P. Olson, candidate for the democratic nomination in a letter A to H. W. Carroll, city clerk, last night, withdrawing from the race My duty to myself, to my friends and vo my fellow citizens of Seat attle will not permit me to occupy a position © the least doubt can exist in regard’ to my legal qualification * Mr. Olson therefore withdraws from the race and asks that his name be not printed on the official ballot | primary INSANE MAN TA KS | OFA SHOOTING | Raving under the delusion that he was being pursued and perse jeuted by the officers of the law and ying his guilt of a « ting | the officers have not yet heard of, |B 8. Meanor was today brought jfrom Maple Valley to the county | jal |" According to Deputy Sheriff Bob {Hodge of Black Diamond, who brought the prisoner to Seattle, Meanor was seen running through the woods near Maple Valley with out hat or coat, despite the fact that it was raining. He kept cry ing that he was not the man th did the shooting; that it was a ¢ panion that fired the revolver talked incessantly of being pursued by officers of the law Deputy Sheriff Hodge arrested the man, and brought him to Seat Ue, but not until he had made a number of efforts to escape. Locked up in the county jail, the man con tinued his raving, and will be ex amined by a commission. legal qualifications to | Andignant Twelfth Ward Voters Claims That the | City Council Disregarded Primary Law. } | The arrogance with which the city council overrode the direct |primary law in some instances in the selection of precinct. officials jis in prospeet of being aired ia ‘court | Indignant electors residing in the | Fourth precinet of the Twelffh ward have taken the matter up and are consulting attorneys as to whether the council can be com- pelled to follow the plain provisions of the statutes. The law provides that whenever the voters of any party in any pre cinct hold a meeting and select three men for election officers one of the three must be placed on the board, This procedure was follow ed by the republican voters in the Fourth precinct of the Twelfth ward, and the recommends v spurned by the coaneil, whic pointed other men No Ward Conte There is no local contest on ir the welfth ward, so the voters there have no seperteatty. for ex pressing their disapproval of thin - method by trying to defeat Coun- cilman }iines, why 18 alleged to be responsible for the councii’s netion. The same method was feliowed in many of the other precincts, but in the main it was the Seattle city party which was ignored or over- ridden. Being accustomed to this kind of treatment, the members of that party have merely taken their medicine. But the men who comprised the republican meeting in the Fourth precinet of the Twelfth ward are not accustomed to being treated in this manner, and declare they will not stand for it. Meeting Regular. The republican meeting in ques tion was, to all appearances, en- tively regular in every respect. Cer- tainly the return it sent In con- veys that impression. It recom- mended for election officials J. Stocker, H. M, Bally and Miles. emple, The council ignored this list and appointed G. W. Gillespie, F.P. Bamala yao and E. BE. Wood. [=o E TCALF! E order to defeat of Mayor Moore to brewing interests of Se attle are to finance the campaign of Gen. Jémes B. Metcalf, self confessed hero and democratic candid for the nomination mayor Neither the brewers nor Metcalfe have any idea that the latter will be e! mayor, but they are working on the theory that Metcalfe may be able to draw & number of votes that would ptherwise go to Moore, thereby lending assurance of success to whomsot the republican eandi date may be. Matthew Dow was to have been | In ithe if possible Willian neceed him efforts Hickman the self for Gen }the medium whereby the result |desired by the brewers was have been attained. Dow, how ever, became cognizant of the fact jthat he was being used only as a club and promptly withdrew |from the race, SS Se THE TOOL OF THE BREWERS Thereupon the brewers took ap Metcalfe and with the assistance of the leaders of the democratic party, Donald B, Olson was induced to withdraw from the race for the demoeratic nomination, leaving the field to Metcalfe and Kulies. With the of money subscribed by the brewers, Metealfe is to secure the nomination and is to go down he ine in an effort to draw wength from the Moore follow- That the brewers have been dis- appointed in the r ption given to thefr efforts on behalf of Met calle is admitted Litde if any support is being accorded him by ® than those paid to work in his Interest and a newspaper paid te give publicity to his campaign. The petitions secured by Met- calfe workers “resquesting” the herole general to become a candi date ave filled with the names of men who have no votes and ef others who are openiy suppertiog | other candidates, fe ido Se 2s See