The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 24, 1908, Page 1

ISUNCLE JOHN BULL GETTING SUSPI LAST EDITIO NO. 52 N | F 10. vol ALLS HEIR 10 GREAT WEALTH | road Stock Never Seattle Girl Inherits One’ Cost a Dollar. Million Dollar Estate. Hiss Nellie Greer Named In the Will of Great | ‘RYAN TELLS 0 WATERED STOCK ‘Says 95 Per Cent of R ‘Startling Statement Is Made Before Grand Jury in Met, Case, (By United Press.) | NEW YORK, Aprif 24.—Thoma F. Ryan, before the special grand jury investigating the affaires of the itan Street Rail aie ss , | baby, swore that $5 per cent of the It you were & We , {stock of the railroad corporations rdinary clreumst what w n this couutry never coat q dollar you do If you 20" 4) There was great surprise, and ty |many of the Jarors questioned Mr eae Li a a yourself posse 0 4). | Ryan, believing that they had mis worth In the neighlx aderstood hin. ‘g90,000? Ryan figured out that the 92 There te a gir! in S ew 00,000 of Metropolitan Street Rail as deen called upon answer|way stock represented ca pe hat qecaticn, and she has answ ments of 83% per cen ite par ef it by continuing in der px val of chabler and bookheepe in a As Distriet Attorney Jerome read fecal reall store this statement Ryan interrupted ‘Miss » Greer ie he a aying and With ber mother eh: me Gentlemen, that is the anawe gaily in her home « © the statement that has bee of Howard and Harrison «'» the last five years that the Me is employed In . v politan Street Railway com Bridge & Co. on F “ any stock ts all wate been there for ' ‘ ) e then anh fea Valued employe of (he firm Kyen, you have been con Beginning of Fertune ected with large number of cor te 14 Pear Greer, the grand | DOTate ventures, Both im street rait Se tis Greer of th ways and steam railways, have you att oo mperty * el y opflones part t You, str,” anewered Ryan. , it these @ And as a banker you have been Se than York wee a wilde. | familiar with the calculath of ‘ 4 ing even the goats that | Many of the railroads of ¢ ” Te tier to roam over the rocks |tr¥, have you not? “ged clear away the shrrbbery Yoo, str.” ter wes 0 fo man| “How will that compare—that Milled to be tem by the Percentage of water, if you call it Hrequently made him for his | seh? Ninety-five per cont of the stock after the city had begun Geaeep away from the victs ¢ {of the ratiroad corporations of this Battery. He sat right down |COUntry never cost a dollar,” was watched It creep and lived to | Ryan's declaration Te the day that the wilderness | “You mean, -~ Jerome jet purchases soome «| 95 per cent of ¢ stock of the ate ; a on allroade of this fe all Breates @f the heart of ¢ Fond of Nephew i a nephew of} aod it was ab to make this | This nephew Mine te | Greer, tull} hree years age! peared and has| About a/ : and al the uncle, Peter} pasted away thet came to Nellie Gree and cashier, word that (By United Press. ag Ber brother, if he ie) MEMPHIS, Tenn. Aprit % come the great fortune | Three persoos are reported killed "Ge watle, Back in New York and several injured in a cyclone Are closing up the | which swept over Walls, Mina, th While this ix being 4 morning. All wires are down Beiress, is contin athe people's money and! NEW ORLEANS, April 24.—A! Other people's book» tornado swept over Rapid parish Maik to you of her good today No details. FOU are not a repor won talkk to reporters Sopokces, ice. SAYS MAN AND WIFE Seaith, and declined to be in ASSAULTED HIM HOLOUP MEN TAKEN. (By United Press) W. W. Judd on te, M of Champoeg. Ore, had Mable James Shan ma charm Up and robbed of $760 of assault and battery preferred by The tollce creed ne W. H. Harris. Both were released afterwards by Mil pe = ae nad bes wt ; arris sayn Judd and his wife angled be captured W® sesauited him at their home, 11th IMG Wilber. Mix companion c. 2% 2nd Newton st. The case will H Tes arrecr nnion. ibe heard before Judge Gordon to . morrow afternoon WASHINGTON The euate today bill author ng the Coppe and North western Rail ympany to con stroct a bridge across Behring lake, Alaska. THE LLL eee FOR THESE KIND WoRDS | THANKS! } Editor Star: 1 wish thank you, on behalf of salaries committes, for your splendid ed@erial on “The Une’ derpaid Schoo! Teachers. The committee thoroughly appre clates the value of cordial Press notices in “molding gab Hie opinion.” Very respect fully yours, ADELLA M. PARKER i* * . to | ® 419 Boylston Av. N Beattie, April 22 Editor Star: 1 wish to ex pr my appreciation of the work which The Star has done in connection with the city Garbage plant and the Madison ark saloon. Stay with them and we will stay with you. HW. V. WHYBORN eee eee eee eee eee eee ” * * ~ - - . » * . * * . * * * * * * - * * * * . * . * * | FAIR STILL UNFAIR Denies Settlement ] Werk on the exposition buildings ie still uninir to organined laber, ac cording to the statement today of Hustnese Agent W. i. Murphy, of he Pullding Trades assembly The statement vaunating from off h of the Wustlake Conetrar tion company, which has the con tract for the permanent structures for the fir, that the trouble with the wnlous was settled. is flatly de nied by Mr. Murphy Denies Settiony We have reached no th twith these people,” sald Mr. Mur phy today, “and gny story to the te tule So far an the Trades assembly tx con the exposition work im stil on the unfair list. There bas bee no agreement reached and the sit nation is the same an it has been the work was declared un Situation Unchanged George Sexton, general superin tontent of the contracting company stated during an interview that t company bad agreed to bire upton bricklayers, carpenters and strac ture! tron workers as a means of settling the labor troubles. Mr Maerphy dowe not speak for the brickIayers, who are independent of the assembly, but he denies that either the carpenters or the struc tural tron workers have setiled | thetr grievances with the company DESPERATE BATTLE (By United Press.) SIMLA April 24 perate between fir troops and rebellious tribesmen and imh Afchan allies wae fought on F thetr the northern frontier today CIOUS OF HIS FRIEND | SEATTLE STAR SEATTLE, WASH BANK ROLLS ARE HIT HARD Moneys and Credits Are to Be Assessed This Year. FR Assessor Gets Instructions From State Board to Proceed. All mone and credits in the state of Washington are to be am leame from (axat ‘ i newwed the an other property despite the act of the marae for thin yea lant and ¢ legislature. exempting moneys dite from taxation. Th an A. Par immediately begin a reas seownment to include the two Liemn exempted by the law, which ia al leged to be unconstit nal The action will be taken fn ae cordance with the following letter of this more structions received ima from the state board of tan com milestoners Parish Gets instructions. April 1908. Mr. Thos A. Perish, Ansensor King County ‘Beattie, Washington Dear & The Honorable Jon D. Atkinac attorney general of the © of Washington, having on the 18th day April, 1908, rendered @ voluntary opinion to this board to the effect that a direction should be made to the county samessors of the sta instructing them to disre ward an act passed by the last sem sion of the legislature known as Chap. 48 of the Session Laws of 1 ing from taxation cer ' { personal propert are, therefore, directed by the State Hoard of Tax Comnlesion: ors, under resotution of said board this day passed, to assess for taxt tion for t year 1908 all mene and credits upon the same basis erty im your co ea copy of t hey general's letter Very truly y STATK BOARD OF MISSION ERS fy The letter the office will mean a large al th work With seeement of King county an thet completed me rm 1 property for year over cont said County Assessor Parish, “the anertpected instructions of the State Tax Conmminaton at this late day, tt assexs moneys credits and sieflar property in disregard of the alleged unconstitutional law of 1907, pur porting to expressly exempt the 10 per mense amount of additional work m the part of this office, and the mn, involves an ten | IDAY, APRIL ASMUSS LICENS FIGHT | Ring Is Still One Vote Shy | But Has Not Yet Given Up. [Improvement Club Takes ; aHand in Lining Up Councilmen. 1908. ' | FOR THE LICENSE. } J. T. Armetrong, Thirteenth ward |) James Conway, First ward. | Hiram C. Gill, Third ward. } Twelfth ward i Jackson, Fifth ward. nder McKinnon, Ninth ward. W. H. Murphy, at large. Frederick Sawyer, Fourth ward. 2. rkman, Eighth ward. | Eugene W. Way, Second ward. Arnold Zbinden, Sixth ward. AGAINST THE LICENSE A. 4. Goddard, at large. | F. H. Hurd, at large. ) F. ® Mullen, at large | Alfred €. Parker, Tenth ward. | Thomas P. Revetic, Seventh ward Max Wardell, Fourtee@th ward | WH. Weaver, Eleventh ward | | A® a result of the agitation re garding the Asimussen loenee fight, several ward profement clubs will hold meet ings within the next two days to pans resolutions instructing thelr Councilmen to vote against the i Heense Hoth the Tenth ward . the Kleventh Ward Improvement clubs have called spectal mee ae to o alder the question. The council mon from these two wards have already declared themmeelves as t the Ucense, and the reso lutions in these jastances, It le sald wil b iy to instruct both Comncitwen Parker aud Weaver to Jinaioiain the stand they have al {ready teken on the matt Hines and Armstrong. Ht is believed (hat a majority of jthe residents in both the Twelfth and Thirteenth ds are in favor of # ining the veto of } apd will instruct likelr counctimen throagh resole Tienes emanating from thelr im provement clubs, At present beth }theee counclimen, W, M. Hines and 43. T. Armxtrong, are placed among the supporters of the license mayor's Heense ~ While there has been no ¥ leetnally taken among the council {yin as to how they stand upon the Mieense, the ge a!) expression in munteipal circles places Une pro and on forces as given in the above ‘tiet, leaving erven againgt and eleven for by depaty assessors of Still One Vote Shy. heretofore sencteed. } As a tworthirds vote is necessary Has No Option J te pass an wer the may The assessor bar we jon ih aor veto ring” forees the matter, however, but avast, am Pare #tfll one vote shy of being able der the law, comply with the ex to put the license through press instroctions of sald commis} All sorts of efforts are still be son. Lapprehend that the instruc tion ie in the natere of @ preeaw measnre. fo anticipation of tionary |i made to gato the required vote end the members of the ring claim lehat they will have the 12 votes hefore the council meets next Mon. WEATHE R LIGHT FR OST DUC DE CHAULNES DIES ONE CENT TONIGHT, FAIR; COOLER; SATURDAY, PAIR | UNEXPECTEDLY IN PARIS «ey Oy, Wipy Ly / TO KISS AND | MAKE UP Frank Gould and His Wife | Will Soon Be Reconciled. DUC DE CHAULNES AND HIS wipow Formerly Theodora Shonts. COLLISION (By United Press NEW YORK, April 24.—Mre. Bd ward Keity, mother of Mrx. Prank §, P, Owl Crashes Into J Gould said today that oun » ieuht, ‘wha Wonk. tok. Reta Rear of a Freight Va., soon after he bis wife bas barvhd “Slt papi fw ¥ Train ee paratic will n to New ad York Mow at an bave a um ae ty with Mre On 4 . (By United Press.) The meeting between by daugh = at a ter and her b A will be 007 | core on the southbound Ow a efter bis arrival,” sald Mra. Kelly. | oo a. gouthern Pacific were hurled 1 he ada telegram MY. | trom their s¢ and injured, and Gould, and 1 have no doubt the oo”. ini deateht cael troubles of the young people are | néaee at an end or alm bg Srey wenger im crashed into a f ght ¢ much fe love , jeparated train late wt night at Me ta, 30 long, bt crag this experience { miles from Fresno. One end the hope they will be wise cnoust Hot | preight train had been left on the to é = 2 quabbh main track and the other end on a WEST VIRGINIAAT BREMERTON #iding. when the “Ow!” came than dering along and plowed into It. | (Star Special Service.) Mrs. A. J. Stewart. of Los Augeles, BREMERTON, April Ld fot ng EB gery) Sagar codes armored cruiser West Virginia, the edgy $F alg greet ace flagship of the firet squadron of and she i» sufferir ant the Pacific f arrived b ye® injaries. The others who were at terdéay tn nmand of Capt. Alex- and bruised Mra. J. G. Mitch. ander Met With the com- eli and M HH. Smith, of Fre ing of the W irginia the entire G. B. Libby, of New Rou first squadron, consisting of eight Moore, conductor, E. W. Sommers. armored cruiners, te nbled « brakeman, and Porter Whidden Puget sound. These ships are, the West Virginia, Nagehip of Rear Ad miral Dayton; the Mary i, Pens sylvania and the Colorado, com prising the first division, and California, fingship of Rear Ad miral Sebree: Washington, Ten nessee and South Dak ompris ing the second division mm @ decision of our supreme court In monger detatte received here it Ialthe near future, upon the constity.|day Might. So far as could be as| EX-PRESIDENT IMPROVED. | : tionality of the law in question lcartained today, however, there had | | + et tee Pettich = tees If said law is declared unconeti,}been oo change in the Ineup as) (By United Press.) were caught im a defile by the ome | oional cod thére | given above | LAKEWOOD, N. J., April 24 my and were foreed to fight over in, having Deon duly assessed, -will | | Mra. Frances Folsom Cleveland an - —e whelming odds They fo stout. be ineladed in the extension of tie | Jnounced today that her husban sehen Toba, 84 yeies ot wheel ly and routed the ow t net tax rolle, and omitted therefrom "REAL WILD GAME Grover Cleveland, was slowly re-| or prank Todd, who was mur ontil 60 Englishmen were killed or declared constitutional covering from indigestion. He will hae : wounded T anticipate a fall and fair retorn lremain here until he is convales-| dered, according to the confession Furthe ne ie certain, and of this additional class of property TH $ TIME | cent of his wife, by Norman Steele, at 1 of @ hard campaign | from all taxpay Hoquiam, was crushed to death by Mor tamped out _ HELIE WAS THERE failing piles while in bi neh ats have been ssked for Choo Choo, at the foot of Eagle st La’ Kiteheser is now in per = i ‘ oan) (By United Press.) late yesterday afternoon command of the Piritish Preside R It Will NAPLES, April 24.--Anna Gould Todd was single. He lived at the ox, and ix confident that with | nt ooseve Se today and was met at the/Schenley hotel, Fourth ay., near an ineres the upriniag will . |gangplank by “Prince” de Pike st. A brother, Otto, lives at soon be J Seek It in South }@agan. The “prince” embraced and | Redmond. City Detective Frank ee —_— | \kianed her, and escorted her to an Clark and Deputy Corene John o automobile, which carried them to Honeycutt made an investication Africa. the hotel. It is b ved here that | and ted that the accident was arrangements are made for an early unavoidable. The body ey Watson und Bor rtaking pa | wedding ee od SD . | (By United Press.) j Prosecuting Attorney $| waswinotox, Apri 24—| brrestdent Rooe It has made up! Scored by Lawyer hie mind to have « big game hunt | jn South Africa next year, unless | fe Def unforeseen circumstances prevent. | the subject with his visitors re-| leently. clit plah is to sail for] It is ride 6 to spend lan Bnglish port, but to make his county's money attempting to prove | Stay in England brief and informal thie b a vagrant,” sald Attorney |, Mr. Roosevelt may make a world John F. Dore today in ae visiting oe capttala ot ; urope to stud ‘oreign govern Fite ort ett ne” saute lments at close range. He may also,| Through The Star and the United /howev they saw we were Brown, who lives at 1 Yealer fit is reported, re-visit Australia and | Pr Hilly Neal, ‘on behalf of anxic os a lebgeestem oy way was “an hablinal gamester anapwew Zealand. But his one definite | Tommy Burns, says that Burns | quit cold. t was the worst case one who wandered about with nepplan is a South African big game | stands ready to meet Johnson any | of crawfish you ever sa ou ean- rwtal ; : ®hoot, and it will take a radical | plac mn earth in a 16-foot ring, for|not imagine how they showed the baetel memes sf enpeert Feacon to keep him away from |45 rotnds or a finish fight, Burns | ‘white featner weg age ee Hy ¥ % oa | to receive $30,000, win, lose or Rob Edgren, of the World, cer yited to be worth more tainly roasted them good, and Ore See MIRACULOUS ESCAPE says Burns can get that/once the Journal could not come The prosecuting attorney hell c in England for meeting | back with ne sin gle thing y sing a thek it 16 ttonanaiein te oo (By United Press) Johnson, with & responsible ayndi-| | “And what do you think? balm the Georgetown pool rooms out of} CANISTEO, N, Y., April 24.—Rum- | Cate back of the offer R le A bye RAR on ape AP gaa business because they are notiging 60 miles an hour, the Chicago ihn a teu he ea . within the pale of the law, Yegifimited Erie ex, ditched 4 Regge : oe aged pinay BER i the end out deputies to arrest! here this me No one : athena - neh ate yr San gad ac te einer io pore nw wee h spe A aac * killed or fatally injured done a ean la eee a wal. ae : nse pd = rows ee . ’ t n iting tre wen Hore are two ¢ ve when number of deputy sheriffs} SCOTT FUNERAL HELD. ro Be Bec dhs Hod reid te ~, 2 Bae lh coger The fF were charged with }Glity officials and acquaintances, the tad return to London. joln ; pated ee agrancy under that state laws body of former Prosecuting wns ; af Brown. t titled that he “had neea be W. T. Scott, who died at Ju Neal's Letter Journal office in pool rooms at Georgetown twige/nedu, Alaska, was Interred at Mt etter follows; Switch the Bets in his Mife. Pleasant cemetery this afternoon.| “rommy Burns Is willing to fight At the end of the second a L. ft. Kletnidet, who sa¥a he fe|The funeral services were held at| Jack Johnson any place. The pub-|Ing, Fitepatrick . had 1 to an undertaker, was taken slon@ to|the parlors of Butterworth & Sons. | lic knows that Tom was offered leverythir The article wore Georgetown by Peyton... Kletnidst | | $20,000, real money, understand, in| drawn up. Then Fitzpat a was the principal witness againet LARSON CASE DISMISSED, §|fusland. Hut we could not coax|he would not bet $5,000, would man accused. - 4 | Johnson to fight | bet $2,500. Deputy Sheriff J. C, Hin stated} The ¢ gainst James Austin] “I was seat over here to cover} “At the third meeting, when thoy that he sa® Brown pass some ailver}1arson, “Telecont expert,” charged | their bet, and to bet them $2,500 had to show me that they had thelr to another party with obtaining money under false| more, as Burns and myself ompet® i snovey with Hicks, the stakeholder If it is a erlme 4@ pase money |pretenses, was dismissed this morn: | or it stealing the money ~ Jand my money was there, they jast to another in @ pool room |ing in Judge Gordon's court, It was no bluff with ve We | thought things were getting too se or race track, then some af our F wanted that 65,000 down at even/rious for them, Then they de county officials ate vagrants President Receives Delegates, money, a Fitzpatrick had said he clare@ they would not bet @ cont Attorney Dore. WARHINGTON, April 26.—Dele- | would bot that Johnson would stop | nor sign anything gutes to the congress of the Emugh-/ Burns 9 20 rounds sked that ‘1 roasted them» all goo@ and Raid of Mapted Robbers ters of the American Revolution | article te be drawn up and Pvery | lett the ‘office in disgust BANDANA, Ky., April 24.—Mask- Lwere the guest#-of Presideat Roose-| thing cinched, so they could pot Tommy Burns will fight Jack ed robbers today ralded tee (ele Tvelt at the White Howse today.) back oul, an@ then wait for the Johnson, make this announcement phone exchange and then compelled | After recelving them (pe president | purse to be offered, which sure | please, any place, bit Burns must the cashier of the Bandana bank to, delivered a brief addréss, in which| would have been offered, @ither| have $30,000 win, lose or draw, ppt lhere or in England ‘one cent less, in a 16-foot ring, 15 open the vault, and he complimented them on the patri- thelr “When 1 janded in New York, }rounds, or a finish fight,” ° Peet, ene eee * 'AMERIGAN BRIDE BECOMES A WIDOW ‘Deceased Was Son-in-Law | of Theodore Shonts of New York. Won His Bride in Face of Much Opposition From Father. (By United Press.) PARI April 24.—Duke de Chaulnes, husband of the former Theod Shonts, was found dead in bed today ide his wife in their apartments jn the Langham hotel, Heart disease was the evident | cause of death | The hour of the duke's demise jis uncertal The duchess awoke Jat her usuad hour this morning, aad |seeing the e apy nily sound asicep, made effort to awaken jhim. After de her dressing |xown, she ed to his side of |the bed « ed into his fac The nic he wore frighte sping bim ightly by the shoulder, she shook him, but there was no response Feeling that something terrible had happened, she screamed and hotel attendants rushed into the om. One glance by the house physician sufficed. The duke was and had been so for some The duchess is com ptely over- come and r ses to be consoled The duke and duchess were oc jcupying apartments at the Lang- ham hotel, pending completion of their residence | (By United Press.) NEW YORK, April 2 Duc de ( uines, th ti i Frenchman, who re y married Theodora Shonts ahter of the New York traction expert, died suddenly in Paris last night, according to two cable * received in New York today One announcing his death was re ceived today at the town home of the Shonts family, and the second was sent to a Wall st. brokerage firm. No further particulars are given. The cause of death is not known on this side, both cable- grams simply saying: “De Chanlnes died suddenty night last Shonts Goes to Paris. Theodore Shonts immediately wired his daughter that he and his wife would leave at once for Paris, The Duke de Chaulnes came from one of the most aristocratic fami- lies in France. He won his bride after a most insistent courtship, her sving refused to receive first visit ng people met in Paris a case of love at first ght When Mrs. Shonts had satis- herself that the duke was ac- as a man, she advised him fled | ceptable to come to New York and win her hushand’s consent, advising fully of Shonts’ antipathy to foreign sons inlaw, The duke crossed the ocean, bot Shonts declined to give him an audience. ‘Three weeks later the duke returned to Parte. They Visit the Duke. | The following year Mrs. Shonts and her daughter visited Europe again. In Paris they were the guests of the Duchess d’Uces, the dukes sister and a leader in Part- sian society, The courtship was re- newed, the duke being most de- voted, but Miss Shonts refused to wed him without her father's con- sent The duke declared that his dig- nity would not permit him to make other effort to win the father’s consent, whereupon Mrs. Shonts ared that if he placed his dig- before his love, it would be y st that the engagement be de- red off Duke Wins Shonts. The duk pitulated and folloms ed Mrs, Shonts and ber daughter to America. A meeting with the father was finally arranged by Mrs, Shonts, the occasion being a dinner pa at the Shonts home. Miss Sh who had been {ll three w er her father’s refusal to | me her lover, left: her k bed jto attend the dinner Shonts was much taken, against his will, with the duke, and finally i. On February 15 of this marriage took place. juke, who was a physician of bility, was 28 years old. was Emanuel Theo- r d Marie d’Albert de da Ally, ninth duke de Chaul- nes and Pioquiny and Marquis ee ee ee * * * BANK CLEARINGS, * * 2 * Seattle. » * ( 1 $1,163,687.58 & * 1 130,338.80 % a oma. * * Clea t * *! * * Portiand. * * in a $ 876,503.00 * . ce 211,467.00 & * * * * ee RAILROAD PROJECT 1S TO BE ABANDONED (By United Press.) NEW YORK, Ay 2 The Rock . Island company of New Jersey, the $1 uion which the Moore Bros, organized to hold the securities of thelr vast railroad sys tem headed by the Chicago, Roel Island & Pacific, is to be abam bandoned. The attorneys and offie cials are busy devising a plan wheres by the holding company, which hag been a curiosity im the financtal world for several years, may be suc. cessfully dissolved and the steck of the companies which ts hr a jreturned to the original o 1,000,000 corpo’