The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 13, 1908, Page 1

LAST ED TION FOUR BADLY INJURED IN COLLISION Interurban Train Carrying Party of Tacoma. SING Men Crashes Into Freight Train South of George- town Early This Morning. a Pee eee eee ee ee eee ee ee eee ee ee eee eee ee eee ee eee SING |Soring place, was motorman. noth | Caphaim of Steamer General Slocum Must Serve Ten Years. THE INJURED ith, fractured jumped in time 8 ony | selves from being seriously injured, | witiam Moroff, bruised about pedy and internally i”) cut on head, taken to thelr} Charwoid Mearup » local offices of the iter, of them serionsls ascertained meat SP nce | (By United Press.) It is believed NEW YORK t of appeals has affirmed the judgement of conviction in the case of Capt ’ mmanded the steame been a mista freight and the had passed switches not more than from the scene as both the of the collision The spectal car pletely wrecked was alinost com ear and a night | » freight train on the fetorerben Georgetown, +! ‘All were resider The four most were taken fo (he at Georgetowe ‘The special os ‘who had aties ged banquet of () fhe return trip ar lS 18 minutes later fate the north bound ¢ lone of over Vanschaick will go to | Sing Sing for ten years. Taken to Tacoma charged with being negligent prior ing train was went to the ws of the dinaster, time the tracks were Vessel wan beached the more ser’ special car and taken to Tacoma, from which point p romeved to their homes. injured who were taken | wnty hospital were this morving suffering from fractured skull and other tnjuries, will probably die, and William Mor . ein & pre Train Crew Jumps Lee Campbel!. |i t and George F) << Sa allallalalla Rela atind ah Ss koe OS fd ‘WOULD ENFORCE RECALL ACT ey arious condition ice eee a (By United Press.) |morning that he has decided to more frequent enforcement of the recall act send federal writes a correspondent in a letter “We weed a the city covernme “Chiet of Police nade the recall act act. to preserve order | the striking miners had declined |convineed beyond doubt that unless lhe took the action he bi leided upon the disorder might have Wappenstein ta the only head of a de we When one of bis The president be applied to all branches of the t as tt ts applied by contractors or in pri- » chief makes his men mind their busl- them when they do. of insisting on an increase in their pay, to increase it Jone just as he promised to do and en vancll has bucked bim all the way What about that blind pig out at the the sporting element at Georgetown? Mackintosh fa all he did do, look after “This principle ae | fees, dat be stands He stuck out fer them in the mat feared The president agted on Informa tion transmitted by Marshal Perry | He is not informed as }of the strike, E forced the law that Was not hie fauit track, and about “Prosecuting Atto bot was told eee eee eee ee eeeeee ee ee inal action that may. be necessary |\ | After a conference with the presi FF situation at i Mr. Moore's example with whom he is associated polttt and stand im with the saloon and sporting i and officially i “ of Seattle should get wise and and at the same time give him his administration, and y to the street - With @ better ompiish much more another McDonald, a pretty . protested with all the eeeeeeee eee eee ee evesesenenee ee teenese eee e ee eee eee * PRR elie | when Humane Officer Vaupell last ing Webster Guerin, came a decla | sight took her from her mother at Dora MeDonald would devote of a saloon at and assumed the entrance land Lenora st tody over her because the mother was intoxicated A. MeDonald, the child's ration from and helping children in need. 4 trip to Palestine with her | will don the enter the hospital of the of the American Revolw hospital is to be for ma ex and one of the is to be named the of the of inte garb of a| mother, it te alleged. She sat town wards | dered a glass of beer Dora MeDon (By United Press.) CHICAGO, Feb Aequittal on the charge of =< EXPENSES OF CANDIDATES WERE VERY LIGHT peti lal apis Kae el a lation a ttle child lke both arme thoughts of the se Mayor Moore Spent But $1.55 in Primary Campaign + ws of te separavion @™4 | Lasted Fifteen Years and Aside From Filing Fee—Expense Statement of ? : ROOSEVELT FORGETFUL. (By United Press.) WASHINGTON It President . peli she had four children In Minn court she said he had left her | as for an apt titled to aa t veling expenses. Ta addition te $Y, paid to ihe the total cost to Be campaign for tt for comptroller and who paid out in anticipation of eeeeee eee eeeeeee teeeeeeee eee re errr rns manie"candidate in the Ninth ward, paid out $29.95 Republicans Higher While attends Mean cand da independent Jabor party, free from Ntieal organizations, and not affil jated in any way with the various socialist parties, is the p 10 DEATH (By United Press.) PITTSBURG, pa ri "out 917 ems of printing and circulating, $8 | hall rent and $15 for Pred for the ear defeated candi ) tons of liquid councilman-at-large. tap hole of the steel plated fur past few weeks, defeated candidate for counciiman-at-large, paid out $16 Htieal orga time should with that end in view nomination loud explosion tonation caus » cold floor sh afternoon we statements th , Including | $34.26; | Fay $142; EB Vy Rebor, T. Erickson, WH. Miadicton THE SEATTLE STAR ATT WA H., THURSDAY eee ee ee ee WHEN JOHN F. MILLER WAS PROSECUTING ATTORNEY 1 saw thin city way back in the territorial days of 1884 after it had elected what was known as an ‘apple orchard ticket in one effort toward reform, And then | saw it go back to the old ‘wide open’ proposition and then becoming worse and worse, with a grand exception during the period just after the fire in the magnificent business administration that wan given us by Robert Moran, And then following up that, and | want to rivet you attention for a moment on thix 1 saw during the years of 1800 and T8091 and part of 1892 a pertod of wide-open polley which tn the horrors and debase ment some of you older resident) know can never be com pared with any era in our elly before or since, There existed in thie efty during ‘$1 and part of ‘92 the ‘ground floor white-chapel,’ the ground floor gambling house proposition, it was a period In which graft and thuggery and highway rob bery and everything that is vile and viclous was rampant more than ever before or since In the history of this ety That was the period when this county had John F. Miller for prosecuting attorney, ‘Jim’ Woolery for sheriff and Baldy « for chief of police. Some of you have heard or read the earnest statements ently mide by Mr, Miller of the faith of the son in his mother how, with the face of his mother to iiiumine him, he propos to make a bett Beatle; bet | can’t help but remember the time wh John ¥. Miller came to this city a moral, virtuous young m fresh from that grand old mother, but surrendered politically and gave manhood away and perjured his offietal oath that there might put into effect or at least fostered and helped of. ficially, a condition that brought hundreds and thousands of gray-haired mothers here, and in the old Eastern homes, mis ery and bitterness by reason of the corruption and degrada tion of their boys in this elty,”—From George F. Cottertil's Areade Hall Bpeech eee eee eRe PRESIDENT WILL SEND U. S. TROOPS TO FAIRBANKS | eearTLe MAN GOES TO GENOA. Un nited Press. BRUARY 13, 1908. (8 | NEW (Von pen 1h. —Davia | tfeasurer of the American Federa pacity of le That Soldiers Are Necessary, He Believes. Coblents, of Seattle, was a passen: | ONE CENT THE WEATHER OCCASIONAL RAIN TONIGHT AND FRIDAY; &. E. WINDS. VALIDITY OF TAX LAW UPHELD BY COURT 5 ee ee ee ee ee ed Pe * nk curanincs 4 sudge Morris Decides Point Against Corporations . * . . . Beattie 7 * curinen ett"? so gina t Which Are Seeking to Escape Payment of Taxes * Balances 113,209.05 #| ‘ P * * — Assessed Against Franchises. * Tacoma * eo earings today $665,775 & *. 46,885 & « *) The law passed by the « county assessor had illegally ex * Portland. ., & | islature of 1907 exe ing empted moneys and credits from * Clearings today $989,463 ® and credits from « n in valid,| the tax rolls * Halances 748 ® according to a decision rendered The decision is a lengthy one and * *\by Judge Morris in the superior! a number of other paragraphs are eee eee eee court today ordered atricken from the cou This dee m upholds the valid-| plaint Several of the items to | ity of the nme ment levied in ch Mr. Herald took ex yiions ever count in the tate, are allowed to remain in the plain- ! which was indire« attacke by ulffs brief. | the public service corporations This is the first decision of the king to evade franchise taxes superior courts on the tax cases, j t igh the complaint of the Se which in substance Involved the em t attle ctrie company, upon which tire tax rolls of every county im oe decision is based the state. An adverse decision In the complaint it was urged | would have thrown the finances of 1a? the various county assessors tate in a desperate tangle, and had illegally agreed to exempt the county offictals regard the opin- | $200,000,000 in moneys and credits ax being of the greatest im- in various financta! institutions tn nee the state from taxation, and there Corporations Combine. fore the corporation franchises | . 5 *1| could not be ansessed | tee corporations. 06; (0. am j Bill Fail have been making @ desperate at Tax Levy Endangered. tempt to escape the payment of Had the court held with this their franchise assesament taxes to Pass, Fatal Blow view, it would have invalidated the and practically the same cases as jassessment roll of every county In| were brought in the superior court 2) tm state. This contingency was have been taken to the federal Will Be Struck. fraught with such grave danger court on plead almost identical |that there has been a great deal to those pending in the eivil courts. jof uneasiness on the part of the Another important pleading made county officials over the outcome. py the corporations is the claim (By United Press.) | The decision proved welcome that their bonds and stocks are sold LOS ANGE Feb 13. news to County Assessor Parish jn the east and therefore the fran- John B. Lennon, of Milwaukee, | 224 the prosecuting attorney's of- | chises should be taxed there, where . fice, which has appeared in the ca they contend its only tangible value al advisers for the exists. wt county officials who were made it is generally understood that tion of Labor, and one of the m |xer on the North German Lioyd| prominent workers In the trade| defendants in the case under con- the corporations have practically | Steamehip company’s steamer Ko-| nig Albert, which sailed for Genoa jhanks with Acting Secretary ae he War Oliver Martial Law Deciared. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Feb. 13.- U. S. Marwhal Perry, Two hun dred and fifty deputies have been a aworn in to preserve order, All are over, Marshal Perry annonne Martial jaw has been declared hora the saloons have been ordered clos ed until the present labor troables ed this morning that if necessary the federal troops would be called Everything ie quiet but trouble is = raronen | Valparaiso Enthusiastic Over VALDI Distriet At ¥ torney 1 heen ordered |} . ’ to Fairbanks to attend to any erfm Greeting ot Evans the trouble between the union} nd the new arrivals Squadron. aE: charged with embezzlement of $200 | Cour 7 MA ¥ 7 AKE on sf oe = " re ja 4 also with wife desertion. He PARAISO, Feb. 18.—Fo : thusiagm over the welcoming | CHILD AWAY ncn this port continues to increase here Special traine wil! carry thousands | of people from Santiago and neigh boring cities and almost every craft saloon,” said a woman who wasiin the bay has already been char passing as she came out of the | tered. place, dragging the ebild after her.| The Central and South American Incensed at the interference With |eable company has authorized the what she called ber rights, Mra. itransmission free of charge of McDonald was pummeling the } personal telegrams of Americar trange woman when Officer Vae- [officers sent from South American |st., fell from the second story of| The car jumped the track atj)avs. and when it reached Third li ended the fracas by taking the | porte to their families in the Unit-jone of the buildings fn the King / Fourth av. and started downhill, /av., Dickin mother and child into custody ea States. At Lima and Callao, 7 The child was given into the care | Peru, elaborate preparations ication preferred against entertainment of the p fleet mother men of t court this morning Mra. Me Donald pleaded for another chance. You ought to know better than to argue with the court as to whether it is right to take that child into a saloon while you i drinking,” said City Attorney Bruler. “We are going to take tat ! child from you because you are not a fit person to have ber Tl take an oath I'll never touch another drop of liquor, if you let have her,” sald the mother, aa » clasped the child tightly with The child burst into tears at bestowed on mother and Mra. MeDor ft a husband and polis, but in - (By United Press.) Disposition of the case will be made by Judge Frater tomorrow CHICAGO, Feb. 13.—A strike of the iron moulders, having lasted 16 years, was today reported ended by } the National Founders’ association The origin of the strike was for the closed shop, and plants all over the country have been m Or less lin trouble over the question dur Jing the entire period covering the | trouble The Chicago plants got into the | NEW (By United Prose) vat an |sttike zone in May, 1906, 4 sinee that time the union has main and | Senator Tillman with character ey y able : comment. The document charges wield their influence over all the | that the individual wealth of six banks of the country and thereby 5 powerful gamesters of Wall st.” is build the YORK influence of any existing po The controversy involved at day | term of warfare nd of organized labor is the | ssenaus of opinion among the vis | juin in the tabor movement REPUBLICAN CLUB) Judging from the facts learned the United Press, who secured | » most conservative heads of the labor organizations, sentiment | eed favor of such # party has rengthened greatly within the The Swedish Republican Will hold a meeting this ¢ Many of the leaders say the time . now ripe for an Independent po sation, and that no » lost in making plans and Pine will be discus will be amer ments to the NOME 18 DEFEATED. charter to be voted = on March TON, Wis., Feb Arrangements will also be PORT WASHIN | hard-fought game by 46 to 44 nominees in the city campaign | Washington, fall through, it will | 4Pproximately $5,000,000. dahamtiig tallies police matron, and a charge} being made for the reception and | Atcers and 4 told Officer Van ls Now Finally Ended. tained continuous strike conditions men and 115 foundries during at 8 o'clock, in the basement the Swedish club, corner Bighth Several matters of importance 1, among which union movement, addressing a| *#4eration joined their issues in these cases great audience of union men here} ;.2%" Scio won which the opin- | and will leave no stone unturned to , si jon is based was a suit brought defeat their francntse vaxes. The last night, sald by the Seattle Electric company to Seattle Lighting Co, the Puget ‘Th is greater need for or-|evcape the payment of an assess Sound Power Co. and the Seattle ganization now than er before.| ment levied against their fran-| Electric Co., the latter two of whieh | Should the new immigration act/chise by County Assessor Parish, | are recognized as Stone & Webster cerning the Japanese, which is|Who fixed the value of the fran-| corporations, now have their cases junder discussion at present, in| Chive for assessment purposes at | Pe nding in the local courts. y" |mean a fatal blow to the trades| Asked Restraining Order. junfonist movement on the Pacific! ‘The corporation asked that the | count, if the labor organizations | county officials be enjoined from in the various cities are not on 4) extending the tax rolls, and alse | solid basis and fully ready to meet| that County Assessor Parish be nd the condition strained from turning over the) | he ordinary American work-| hooks to County Auditor Agnew and m is unable to compete with) County Treasurer Gormley to col- growing influx of Asiatic|ject the assessments. | hordes who will work for starva The first battle in the courts| M. A. McTaggart, a poultry | tion wages. over the issue occurred early in| raiser north of the city limits, yes w . the year, when Deputy Prosecuting terday shot and killed a wildeag FILES COMPLAINT. | Attorney Herald appeared before that measured three and a half Judge Morris-and asked that m feet and weighed 35 pounds. items of the complaint be e The animal had been treed by ated, on the ground that they were dogs just inside the city limits. Me not material Taggart saw it in the tree, and The most important of these brought it down with one charge clauses was the charge that the | from his shotgun. cool CAR DASHES DOWN “LABORER HAS MADISON TRESTLE | | BAD FA L L Heroism of Gripman Dickinson After taking a tight grip on the —_——_— G on the Madison st. cable Ine at | cable ipman Dickinson set the 11 o'clock this morning probably| brake. The car rode safely over Sacko- | saved from injury opdeath 16 pas temporary trestle work on the Judkins | sengers. steep hill between Third and Fourth Prosecuting Attorney Mackintosh filed complaint this morning in the |auperior court against Frank FE. |Minach, the business agent of the Stage Employes’ union. Minsch is! was arrested } last w Another laborer, labrin, 23 years old. on let go the cable, ast. district being raised to conform | the grip holding the cable through The car lurehed to one side and with the new grade yesterday even- | Dickinson's efforts came to a stop. ing and was badly bruised. He was The rear trucks left the rails So well was the car handled that taken to the Seattle neral hos-| while crossing Fourth av. The a window was broken. All the pital. Sackolabrin is the third inner wheels rode the cable slot pngers escaped with a slight jlaborer to be injured in this way. | the outer poised in midair {shaking up. I set PETITION FOR DEFEAT OF THE ALDRICH BILL Tee PPP eee eee eo MEANS WORK FOR * Claims Made That It Will Place Secretary f 7 * * * THOUSANDS *| i : Treasury in Power of Wall St. Ga |e (By United Pre +, Treasury in Power o! mesters. % CHICAGO, Feb. 13.—Oper- *| | ating officials of the railroads * % have practically given up * ; | ® hope of patting off the time * ae to enable them to “demand any |® when it is necessary to com- #| WASHING 13.— price therefor from those that must % ply with the federal law, limit- #| A petition demanding that the Ald Semetiinn ae P etmncted ed Rr Bev. : ie mage agg Peg : rich financial bill be defeated be” Crozier declares that the bill cone Fe era sorta meet a cause It was drafted solely for the | tains other dangerous features, that # the conditions of the law as # | Denefit of the Wall st. money kings | it would satisfy the well known @ far as possible March 4, the # | 224 that It places in the hands of | spirit of revenge of the financiers lw date it becomes effective. Ad- &| Sch men as Rockefeller, Mo and block all progressive legisla- & vertisements appeared in the #|20¢ Ryan, the power to create pan-' tion between a democratic admin’ Ie ting papers yesterday for #18 and to expand the currency to tration and a republican congress. % 3,000 operators % the extent of hundreds of million The petition_further asserts that | of dol are at their will, was today bill will multiply the political presented to the senate by Alfred power of the “lawless, relentless \* Rea e eR RR RRR RR Crosior, of Wilmington, Del masters of Wall st.” and that by » petition was announced by! controlling the secretary of the © treasury th would be able to greatest political machine sufficient to create a corner in gold in the history of the United Stat as ae WRECKED ppopmieTOR LEAVES Oe ig NOTHING BUT BILLS 13.—The schooner Ella G. is a to. jtal wreck on Santa Rosa island, | = where she went ashore after los Two eg e of bread | Weinke has run the house since ider fo: J fe efore that he was ager B a pie ing her rudder in a storm while | constituted the son pr passing the Farallon islands dinner last night for 25 hungry jof the Hotel Stander. Detectives | The craft left Vancouver No-|boarders at the Marlborough, 908 |Kennedy and Barbee, who invest! mber with a cargo of sealskins, | Jefferson st. after the hasty de-| gated, found no clues to the where- and sailed without mishap until|parture of C. J, H. Weinke and |at of the 1 couple. © was passing the Farallones, | wife, the host and hostess everal of the sts had paid After losing her rudder the boat| Salary accounts to the amount of |room rent tn ad Others drifted until it was driven on San-| $275 are also due owed for it. The furnishings were ta Rosa teland by the swift tide. Weinke and his wife had strip ctically owned by an install- The local basketball cham-|for a large mass meeting to Capt. Joseph Lamp and his crew) ped their rooms of all articles of | ment house, and the employes who plons defeated the Nome Arctic lheld tn the wr future for of nine men reached here last) value and left the house, together | have salary claims will be unable two} Brotherhood bunch last night in a | purpose of ratifying the republican | night with sundry bills unpayable, it is/to obtain anything on which to The cargo was lost | alleged |realize their money,