The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 14, 1908, Page 1

LAST EDITION vol APANESE SEALED China. ANALYSI8 OF CHINAJAPAN WAR CLOUD. February 7, Chinese officials seized the Japanese steamer Tateu Maru off Macao, charging that she was carrying arme te redeis. dapanese flag was hauled down The crew was held as Maru was taken to Whampoa, on the Canton river, stil held. yashi, Japanese minister to China, delivered Japan's from her foreign office, demanding immediate release the Tateu Maru, payment of heavy indemnity, and that Chinese salute the Japanese flag when it ia again raised. sought mediation. Japan refused. Shikai, of the Chinese foreign office, the Japanese demands Empress Tei interfered and dectared she preferred te settiement on such terms as Japan propo! ‘The Japanese naval board ordered the first squadron put in trim. sparred for time and asked ‘te mediate. further roused the Japanese ire by refusing shore rights for a cable camp at Shanghai. (By United Press) G KONG, China, March 14 fe making definite prepar bas to effect the release of the eer Tatsu Maru, which was by the Chinese government and a squadron of the biggest crulsers and «@ of smatier fighting vessels about to start for Macao ‘gl received toda ri that a Japanese ce about to sail on « under sealed orders are the cruisers and Akitsushima favored compl: the British minister at to allow fair and complications are regard ed ax certain. The trouble is over the Shang hat-Nagasaki cable. Recently Japan completed arrangementa to take over the shore FF and privileges granted the Danish corporation This would have given her con- trol of both ends of the cable. When the Pekin government heard | of this it notified the Great North-| ern company that the would not be sanctioned. There i much speculation here as to why Japan bas not forced the leone om that Tatea Maru incident and a general belief that Chi has called the mikado's bluff. Opinion differs as to whether via composed tory Japan ts being restrained by the of torpede fbiher small craft of this British attitede or by lack of funds it has caused in official and the government bestirred itxelf more time since the trouble Mara broke out. is about to Reperted China Jives in. A ne agency this aftermym claims te have recetved advices from China that that nation agrees to release the Japaneses steamer Tateu Maru. it threatened in This decision was réached after an failed to indicate extensive sexsion of to release the beard, during Which every feature lof the case was reviewed. Japa ois Means of learn proposals are accepted in tote. of the squadron, China will pay the Ja; owners at | of the vessel 31.000 yea (about $10,- that will! , and retain the arms found when it re pean the Tateu Mara. In addition Orders that have China will pay about 10,000 tacis | demurrage on the steamer | It is expected the formal release of the boat will take place March 16, when the Japanese flag will again be rum up to her peak and will be saluted by the ciate. In return for these conces sions, Japan agrees to the propost tion on which she at first refused to commit herself—a policy of vig orous suppression of the contraband | traffic mow carried on between Jap anese merchants and Chinese reb- els at an he 1 dgeet a rw it 4.—China to-| ir figurative | 0 Dotifying the that she tranater Sof the shore rights re the Great Northern & Danish telegraph and statesmen are said to ® Bolling rage over the af. —— SERRE CHICAGO AND MILWAUKEE ROAD MAKES ARRANGEMENTS FOR ITS ORIENTAL LINE. (By United Press. TOKIO, March 14.—it is reported here today that J. H. Hil- vice president of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St company, who has been here for several days, has Satisfactory arrangements for steamship service be- ONG and Japanese ports and Seattle, to which lat the company’s trains are expected to be running early Osaka Shoshen Kaisha line, which is building six Meamers at Nagasaki, it is said has accepted a propos! oe MF the railroad company to carry ite freight to the Orient. tal alllalhllelaiealieebchahahaholstatelehbahe a AMISH RI VER IS ON RAMPAGE | eeeeer eet te eeeee Dawamish river owed |that has become familiar to the] @f going on its y« . ‘der restients of these valleys the fact t t The high wa ax precipitated im the channel of by the heavy fa ain that ended SUDpOREd 10 at late yeuterda oon, Daring WP GORger to those who live on the preceding 2 Of the first v d measured o rain was ac el the rain of erday | wind, and this with the mild weath rm weather al the er melted the snow of the moun line, the Duwar arted ta filling up the emall streams last night, ana ! t\and adding their burden to that of Bering had overfiowed its | the rivers emptying Into the Sound BO perri Tukwila, Foster and Mas more wa eould prop. f Fesidents « MMO tMs moruing they found Jowlands flooded. : | NEW BATTLESHIP N COMMISSION the ashtication of a f (By United Press.) ae flood ave ré VASHINGTON, March 14.—The Year after you ‘ t battleship added to the na Beattie and Tac Fiver pr since the departure the fleet wa In the pe placed in commission at the Leagn oma Was littered Tala a ard t She is the rees and + af ow hire b cor bores, being carried « arg fee ae. Ga c co i Fapld rate and prevent Rae W rei , ofthe Mikado's Biggest Cruisers, and a Number of Smaller Fighting Vessels, Are About to Start for Macao—-Torpedo Boats Also Ordered to Join Big Fleet-~Japan Makes Good Her Threat to Begin Hostilities Against transfer | the foreign | Chinese offi | rc) THE SEATTLE STAR SEATTLE, WASH., SQUA SATURDAY, MARCH ee ONE CENT WEATH SHOWERS TONIGHT 6, WINDS. THE 14, 1908. AND §& A t iT DIES WITH SECRET ARTIALLY TOLD ADORESS AT TEMPLE . Ure Ida Crouch Havelett, editor Of tie Montana News, will deliver 60 addred at the Labor Temple to Thoryow night 6 Western ede FOR SHIELD... ation of Labor Supposed Defaulter Succumbs to Pneumonia in Hospital (By United Press Louis Mo M h . ° irwotive wundred boewery work After Telling Matron His Real Name, and Fact | mpathetic strike at any moment Th ii ™ . aa of ternational dite ren at He Had Had Trouble in the East. Which has resulted in the dive at: | 00 men | . If I live, keep m ' ed about the ec er (By United Press.) die, try to let m ihe of George Martin, and - ~ ————e | «6 BAKERSFIELD, Cal, March 14 Will you pr ne” c spring, by means of a hn dhe result of & révoiver duel, - ‘ee ation, was able to hold the morgue, and his wife, whom compelled to to jhe used as a shield against @ oor work to which he ” » ay at mic nig t did not object to it, but | Gtosen f# in a hospital today in Los Ange es ‘an UTY | ana with tours tres eineh etn tale, cad ee le preéarious condition from bullet fo exacted the 1 # sick man practically | wounds. Fil Red-H R port. was readily given y since | Without even introductng any! 4@ibeon was a boarder in the es ot Ke MecGreachy, destitute and sick De want to say that you evidence in his own behalf, Beo|Phomes “home, and the latter ac yas picked up by ihe police March {were = detasiter in the. bank?” — ee | Tanaka, charged with murder in|eused him of trying to win the ii and sent by Dr. John Hunt, po-jasked Mrs, Smull, when McGreachy } the first degr was yesterday aft | fections of Moet. omas, A (By United Press.) bres Mg i“: to the Washington | he ed following bis reference an SRARR AAA AR AH HH ernoon acquitted by a jury in the @mrrel ensued and both men drew LOS ANGELES, Cal rch 14 an ae " ws hin it ea 4 ma 24 Pe wy I shall fee) i * criminal department of the su yolvers und began a duel at I report of the grand ; peypthog - ey ¥ Perhaps 1 shall feel better im * BANK CLEARINGS. 4 pol v “ sa} and bogs yeni | at The final report of the grand jury | friends, the man declined to talk. the morning,” he sald, gasping for ort range. During the progr of 1907, filed today, is the most sen it was found that MecGreaet * *| The case of the prosecution tothe the fight Mra. Thomas entered 7 a hag: Ripe: Fang cent and I will tell you all ? tte, *| fat when K. Nakayama, who had fti$ room and her husband foreed | *@tlonal document ever banded| "Mi Miiiering mith | pneumonia It : # Clearings today ..$1,14 * | been brought here from the state/ W stand between him and| down by an inquisitorial body in| Si ype onal — on n bis talk grew rambling. “In ® Halances #| penitentiary, refused to repeat bia|@ieom as a shield. As she at-| Los Angeles [ae sieming. Getrity deter sorning” he was dead. * Tacoma. # | alicged confession, implicating Tan-|Retepted to break from hie grasp| ‘The district attorney's office and | Byer ee ine ying enenine the) MeGreachy ald his relatives in & Clearings today ..$ #|aka. Nakayama and Hayashi were |@® hot ber through the neck and | city counell are unmereifully flayed, | Goo" °F te Gying | mane = room,| Michigan are very wealthy, | and * Balances & | supposed to have been hired by | then turned the weapon upon him-| the criticism of the district attor ~ ae oe —_—, at her = waaee the neve bat his mother, * Portiand. @| Tanaka to collect money frome, firing « bullet through his | ney being so severe that Superior! psig he aa hi one Posed deter es mg, Bh ag so Lahn ® Clearings today ..$ 996,206.00 # | Chinkiehi Yokoo, whom they killed |B As he fell Gibson fired | Judge Conrey added a supplemental | /AN@, Be sald, his voice almost |io know of his whereabouts, even # Balances 142,125.00 & | during a quarrel. Hayashi's evt seer the bullet striking ‘Thomas | cgport to the jurors’, correcting “un-| "Arie from weeknen | though she had long so given * a ce Was very unsatisfactory from | Gethe abdomen, Gibson surrender. | deserved charges against that off! | enat ~ rage “<4 om ~ : re. roe him up for dead He said he has RR a ee ew! (ho Hlandpolnl of the prosecution LX, mal pleads seit dotegse Jolal and his assistant.” years ago, in his home town) several brothers in Michigan. } The report states that District At of Imiay City, Mich., be and bis, Imlay City is @ town of about torner Phoderiche and ‘hig denaties | brother held responsible posttions | 1,500 people, miles north of oney Eredertcke and his deputies |in a bank. Trouble occurred, he | Detroit. An will be made fury and adds that pollties cntered (28a OVer money matters, and he| by Coroner Carroll to get into lets the disposition of many canes was compelled to leave hurriedly | communication with the dead } and change his nawe to avoid man’s friends. trace of his whereabouts. He said’ The body is at Butterworth’s — some FOR CITY APPOINT MENTS Position of Health Commissioner Probably the’ | First to Be Filled—-Much Interest in Selection off Successor to Wappenstein. | terms as chairman of the health and sanitation committee of the counct!, and ts probably in claser touch with the duties of the office | than any other man in the city. Dr. Grant Calhoun, who recently re- signed as city health officer, te candidate for the appotntmeat Dr. J. H. Lyons, #ho was a mene ber of the Miller campaign commit tee iu the city campaign, is looked bility, though not candidate. & Successor. At least one pressing emergency will confront Mayorelect Joba F. Miller when he becomes mayor at 12 o'clock on Monday, and that ts the early, if not immediate, ap | polntment of « ctty health commis |aloner under the newly adopted charter amendment creating ‘hat | position and abolishing the present health department The emergency artees from the fact that the entire health depart ment was abolished by the adoption of the amendment and a serious Of all the appointments to be oo honey a “a etanee made by the incoming mayor, the P cua? te Fey Rempel po ele Y Chiel Interest centers in the pereee, fT * : ality of the new chief of police. i cee bew commit iy understood that Chiet Wappen | steln's resignation will be present | Miller lenmediately, is making prepares] Several Tt is even a question whether the city can legally pay the salaries of the present health foree until such a time as the members of it have been reappointed. It is even sug | gested that the appointment of the | new officer be dated back in order to cover the Interim, but this wtil not be possible, since any appoint ed to Mayor and the chief tions to leave the office men in the department have bees mentioned as pousible suecessors to him, among them Detective Lee A Harbee, Chief of Detectives Ten- nant and Sergeant McDonald being meat dated before the appointing pa ged ps pa ge Poa. Officer assumed his office would| (ie are being urged for. the not be valid |place. These latter are Carl M | New Health Commissioner. | Anderson, pollee reporter for the | The newly created health com-| Post-intelligencer, and James A missioner will be one of the most | Wood, active manager of the Miller campaign and « well known news paper man Two other be filled by of superintend important places to be filled by the incoming mayor. There are several candidates for the appointment, but as yet there has betn no intimation | dropped by the Incoming mayor as important places to. Mayor Miller are thoae of public utilities to who will reeetve it Jand superintendent of bulldings Couneiiman J Crichton, who| The former must be a competent was ntly defeated in the Kighth | civil r and the latter either lward f renomination, after 16/ an architect or a builder of expert years’ service in the council, is be-| ence, and these qualifications some jing strongly ur for the what narrow the field from which Dr. Crichton has served these appetate nis can be made Sn TD ES ES eo LA FOLLETTE CLUB ASKS PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY ———____— NEW NEVADA RAILROAD <= MARCUS HANN IS MARRIED (By United Press.) SAN FRANCISCO, March 14.—As another evidence of booming times jim Rawhide, the new Nevada gold} THROWN BY CA | ’ center, a new railroad will be run BA LY INJURE ning trains into the camp: within four months. The road will be Back of the story of the Wedding inten ong. and will conneee wich StOFY Of Shattered Romance ss "ssccver a sactered” romance the Southern Pacific at some point and sohie sscrifice. Mise Pratt wae George T. Williams, a laborer, #1008 Walker lake. The promoting | and Noble * engaged to marry Dr. Arthur We company Was incorporated under | e. | Pratt, leading surgeon of Elmira, West Virginian laws, but the cap ital was raised by western capital | tots several years her senior and a | friend from childhood, The engage- ment was announced last fal) and Mareus | Dr. Pratt fitted up @ luxurious home A. Hanna, grandson of the late Sen-| for himself and bride-to-be. Several ator Hanna of Ohio, arrived here) months ago Dr. Pratt's health today from Bridgeport, Conn. where fafled and he was compelled to » was married last night to Miss seek strength in California because | Adel Pratt, of Elmira, N. Y of weak lungs. Learning the ma The young couple will spend their ture of his trouble, Dr. Pratt im- honeymoon with Hanna's mother at mediately released Miss Pratt from the Hotel Gotham, which is owned her promise, declaring that victims Wee thrown to the ‘ound and ily injured last night while ati@mpting to board a car for hin home at 1200 First av. South. He was taken to the Seattle Gen : } @ral hospital, where it was found thal, weveral of bie riba had been | brofen and bis head cut. (By United Press.) NEW YORK, March 14 Press.) ; | SAN DIEGO, Cal, Mareh 14—! py he of tuberculosis should never wed. The postoffice employes here are sas satan euaieeapeeemmicinlits overwhelmed with mail from the | 4 - ern ee batUeship fleet at Magdalena bay. | | had been practically retained in the |Faices eon sucks of xall arcived PURCELL Case on the supply ship Culgoa and it | Purcell and his new wife, the Hilective work on the part of the ts unlikely that the mountain of | DIVORCE | former Mrs. A. T. Van de Vanter, fice department prevented a de ae — i distributed before | wit eave in a short time for a orkn Sunday, The missives are destin | trip to Europe, Mr. Purcell was in @ructive fire in the creosote works 4 to every pert of the country | Guat | Portland today and could not be @ Fourth av. W. and Harrison st.) The bine Jackets of the cruiser | about 11. o'clock last olght Efforts to compromise the case| Tennessee gave a big minstrel ‘The blaze started in the outbulld-| show at the Garrick theatre last | brought by Mary A. Moss, of Bos-| ings of the plant, and when the night, neiting $800, which ts to be | ton, to secure the annulment of a) firefighters arrived was threaten applied to the fund for the relief | marriage which she claims to have fag the main plant, which contains of orphans and widows of the entered into with Frank Percans | Several hundred barrels of tar and pavy's whose real name is declared to be creanote 5 - Patrick F. Purcell, have failed, and | (By United Press.) Hngine companies Nos. 4, § and PLEADS “NOT GUILTY.” the divorce case will probably be| COLUMBUS, O., March 14.—The 12 and Truck company No. 1 an — jaired in court Taft boom managers declared today ered the alarm, and three streams! Jnck MeQuade, the former! ‘Today it was announced that the that their candidate gained 30 dele- of water were quickly thrown on deputy sheriff at North Bend who | parties concerned had been unable! gates to the national convention the’ blaze, extinguishing it before was recently placed under arrest to reach a settlement, It is under. | tn the last week. According to their Muth damage was done on & charge of accepting a bribe, stood that Henry W. Lung will re-| figures, the 178 delegates named was arraigned tn the superior/tire as Mrs. Moss’ attorney, and| thus far stand 146 instructed for court today and entered a plea of | that be will be succeeded by Jay | Taft. 26 for Fairbanks and 6 unin- {not gullty !C. Allen. Mr. Allen stated that he structed. = ——] SHARP TURN | FOR CASTRO (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, March 14 ident Castro, of Venezue! brought up with another short turn by the next move of the Washi nment, according to well ore in cireulation about the state department today je hinges on the failure ela to live up to her meet the asphalt claims Caetro has fallen back on his old poliey of procrastination and recent efforts of the United States to force some action have ie FINE BALLAST FOR THE RAILROADS! Pree is to be eith been | “The LaFollette Club of Wash-;lican voters of the state,” continues sig oli pa gyi a er lington has appoluted a commit the letter, “and has reason to hepet eres or Tene With contoms jte co before the republican st that they will do so. ] committee and ask that ar This method ‘of determining To PLEAD |rangements be made for holding & public sentiment on the question ssidential primary vote t this of presidential candidates was first] says « letter which the La proposed In Ohio by the supporters GUILTY | Pott tte club is sending out to the of William H. Taft, and appears to newspapers of the state. have worked very satisfactorily in The LaFollette club has asked that stat It is in accord with the William H _ + ~ wd ~ bg bent pty coon ca though!) Dominic Umbra and Basquale Washington, and the iiliam wrtant ques |. T aft ‘ rs » of Seattle, to join it in, tions direct to th voters for their | @uerinl, two of the suspects arrest this effort to procure the submis | decision i#, in fact, the LaFollette | ¢d in connection with the attempt ation to the repud: | idea of. politics. 6d murder of Joe Vitero at Black aumediill aoa - Diamond last month, will plead} = == = | guilty in the superior court fo @ | MINISTRY | ANOTHER REPORT OF charge of assault with a deadly JAPAN'S am el Frank Rosa, who was also taken | TO BE OVERTHROWN BIG GOLD STRIKE 1°, se" held by the authorities, was dis | | charged this morning by order of | j Judge Frater. It developed that the | man had really tried to interfere ‘ Lg Maes gy pi a : (By United Press.) win the other two men-shot at } TOKIO, March M4 * a TONOPAH March 14.—In-} Vitero and was not implicated in tions of the general election returns the attempted crt ow belong received indicate the| habitants of this city and vicinity) Ay the ring held before aj overthrow of the present ministry, are excited over another rich gol@}magistrate at Black Diamond } evidence was to the effect nd make the selection of Marquis) strike that has been made, this] eng fight had started ove pa ene a en” Next Premier PFAC*| time in the Round Mountain camp,,Attamey Tworoger represented the There is considerable speculation | Reports from there today say that] las to who the successor of Hyashi|it ts the biggest of the kind ever} NORWICH, N. Y¥., March 14 as foreign minister will be, and the struck In this district, Bight inches} Federal Judge Day today vacated general bellef is that honor will go of ore, practically pure gold, was] the temporary injunct ve Resorting to the courts as a means to evade the law is the latest e of the railroads. game ve heheeeene Sere, one struck at a depth of 100 feet. iting the ¢ f the Dela is to go into the hands of a receiver—a nice friendly federal judge receive ad then to thu your present representative to at | 1s estimated that it will run $200,| Hudson rat! om pa nose at state commissions and small creditors, and complain that “it is all to the Hepburn law."- | Britain 000 to the ton revently declared dividend | Washington Dispateh