The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 20, 1908, Page 1

LAST EDITION OL. 10, NO, 101, RON CHANCELLOR'S GRANDDAUGHTER SECRETLY ENGAGED TO WED A TUTOR COUNTESS HERTHA VON BISMARCK. (Star Snecial Service.) IN, June 10.-—The Countess von Itamarek, 22, the oldest hter of the “fron chan and a remarkably beautiful woman, has thrown the fam- ‘fy council Into # state of consterna tion by becoming secretry engaged to marry @ theological student who has been tutoring her young cous ins. The countess insivts that she will wed her sweetheart, whether or no. 4 | nopbte, were out to cheer “our | Meat president.” | There were cries of “Cinciumati’s ‘ ) president and “Our own prest- 1 dent” all along the it The crowd took up the “yell” of the convention, “Taft, Taft, William H. Taft.” The parade, led by the bande, made ite way to the residence of Charles P. Taft, but it had to pro ceed slowly. At Fourth and Race sta. a big bunch of American beauty roses was thrown {nto Taft's car riage and he received them with much apparent pleasure. A street hawker who had been following the Taft carriage, playing on a Nute-phone, tn a moment of enthus- jasm threw the tnetrument the carriage and {t fell into Taft's Turns Out and" Big Demonstration. PPA a where the demonstration lasted several minutes, The candidate |bowed and smiled and waved to |the crowd. There he sprang out of the carriage with surprising agtlity for a man of his size, light ly up the steps and at door crowd as Is Given Ovation esta“ te ad E i i Yells it is understood that Taft -is in @ quandry regarding the appoint- | ment of a campaign manager. The a for the octagon and Sherman came ( andidate. re at his request to take the mat- ed ter over. 5 To Select Chairman. The Ohio contingent holds that | the permanent chairmanship of the | national committee should go etther to Arthur I. Vorys, the first Taft | manager, or to former Governor | Myron T. Herrick, of Ohio. Many members of the national commit- | tee Insist that Frank H. Hitchcock, who managed Taft's campaign for the nomination om the firing line, z\' not entitled to the piace, but is x e best i RRR RARER vosted er | The members of the sub-commit |tee here are General Powell Clay- ton of Arkansas, former Governor Myron T. Herrick of Ohio, Frank Kellogg of Minnesota, Charies PPR Ret enenhhhae HITCHCOCK DECLINES. CINCINNATI, Ohio, June 20 H. Hitehcock was of- the ll republican campaign M but he declined and se far no * .. has been made. aeeeeeee (By United Press.) NATI, Ohio, June 20-—- f The center of republican activity today transferred from CB! wigie of Missourl, E. K. Hart of and this city has the a> tows, Senator Borah of Idaho, BE. of presidential election). Duncan of North Carolina, and $0 great (s the enthusiasm. | Frank O. Lowden of Iilinols William Hi. Taft arrived from ton at 8:20 o'clock “ READY BY WAS greeted at the station by a tre} Bendous throng who cheered and} SEPT. & wild demonstration. James so 1 Sherman, the vice presidential | adidate, had arrived from Chi Fe 16 minutes eariter, with) John H. Langton, manager of the ; P. Taft and the subcom- | New Washington hotel, stated today of the national republican | that the handsome edifice would be ittee which will confer here) 4 on the appointment of a per-| 9Pe? to the public either the latter S chairman to mandi the | Dart of August or the first of Sep ‘Gampaign | tember herman and the national com-| “We are making every effort to 4 Were xiven almost as great complete the building as speedily alien an Tart, kimestl, @s the possible,” said Mr. Langton 4 was primed and anxious to| Practically ail that remains to be {ts enthusiasm | done is the interior finishing and eo decorations. The decorations of the Triumphal March. first two floors ix completed and Two bands were at the station | also the cafe and rathakeller. If Carriages had been prepared| possible the Washington will be & parade through the city. The! open for guests late in August.” Of procession throngh bis home| The opening of the Washington was 4 continuous triumphal is being advertised In the eastern Pe. The streets were blocked | papers, and Mr. Langton expects to Slong and women and children|do a big business from the very $84 cther men, scarcely able to | start j H! RAH! FOR Peat ba THE SEATTLE STAR SEATTLE, WASH,, SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1908, HOT PRICE ONE CENT FATAL EXPLOSION ON STEAMSHIP! IGHT AMONG THE LAWYERS : SIX ARE KILLED AND/ORGETS _ OVER MANY WILL DIE FROM. BURNS Rescuers Forced Back by IRCUIT IS UT BY BIRDS. Ingenious Swallows Make Seething Flames Trouble on Police Which Rage. Telephone. ‘Ship Catches Fire and Hatpin Laid Across Wires Panic Reigns for Causes a Short a Time. Circuit. (By United Press.) One swallow does not make # PHILADELPHIA, June 20.—It is summer, but one ewallow can make believed that half a dozer men lost & lot trouble At least Chester Lynch, foreman ot the force whose duty ft ta to | thelr lives as the result of an ex Hamburg | day. The ship has been practically phone wires of the elty, thinks fo. destroyed by tire. | Foreman Lynch and “Reggie” Chief Officer Kruger, of the Ar Lillico, one of his assistants, were cadia, was badly burned about the engaged yesterday afternoon per face and hands while rescuing the | fecting the telephone connections injured, who would have been! between the Hallard pollee station burned to death if it had not been and the main office at Third av | for hie herolc work. Me rushed into! and Yesler way. The connections | the ship, amid the roaring flames. were completed and Lynch was oe ee ee a eaoere, oy | about to congratulate himself when | two dead negroes and 16 injured * Short clrealt was discovered. | men. | ‘Theo « “ground” was found. Soon | The roti call this afternoon shows ine wires appeared to be in good ee eee ae eine evertwccy | order and then the short circuit | a tumayens oes | Lynch started out to locate the | trouble. He spent several hours | below the hatches when the expto- yesterday afternoon trying to [sion eceurred, and it le not Keown | tinom the difficulty, but his ef whether ail of them got out before the Intense heat forced back the) rescuers. | | Thirty are known to have been! injured, according to the list made up by the ship's offices, and it is feared that onethird of these will not survive. | The steamer, which carried a deal of freight cargo, settied | forts were unavailing, The fore man thie morning determined to discover the cnuse of trouble or throw up his job, Patiently be made test after test until) he reach of Fremoot. At that point he finally located the wire trouble be- tween two cable boxes. Finds Bird's Nest. down into the mud and it is be) t what the trouble wae Heved the entire interior has been | trowbied Lynch. The cable box |destroyed. Fire boats have been connections were apparently all pouring water into her hold, but the ifire had spread beyond contro! be ‘fore they arrived. Nothing inflammable appears in) the list of the Arcadia’s cargo and the only explanation is that the ex plosion was caueed by gas. She steamed up the bay this, right, yet a short cireult existed Close to the cable box on a tele phone pole at Firty-third av. and Motor place the foreman found a swallow'’s nest There was nothing particularity startling in this discovery, aa hun. dreds of swallows build their aerial | morning, after completing her voy-| homes in or about cable boxes all lage from Hamburg, and was near! over the city. The nests hed never her dock at the time of the explo | heretofore canseu wire trouble and sion. Lynch merely looked at the bird's lw mean PRARaAh dt he w| Home With a cs is glance. | | The mother bird fluttered about, is MARRIAGE BANS OF | chirping wildly. Lynch moved clos. | PRINCE AND ANNA. *ler to the nest and. as he peered \* */ into the downy circle, three gaping | little red-rimmed mouths met bie gaze an though mutely begging for food. The mother bird chirped louder and piroutted about man and nest in a frenay of fear that ber little ones were about to be taken away ae (By United Press.) PARIS, June 20—The mar riage bans of Prince Helle de Sagan and Madame Anna Gould were published today ‘The marriage will take place in England and the publica tion of the bans makes it prac tieally certain that the wed ding ceremony will be per formed within two weeks. o *| man’s Pin Caw Trouble. person who known Chester knows that he would never despoll a bird's nest. As the fore hand rested lightly on the | nest the sharp point of what ap | peared to be a piece of wire, | stretching from one telephone wire / to another, a distance of about eight inches, pricked one of his fingers. i IS ARRESTED with a flash of intottion Any Lyneb eeeee eee se eeteeeeeteeee SPER Lynch knew that he had at least found the real seat of the wire trouble. Pull ing forth the plece of wire, he found ft to be a hat pin. The hat . _ | pin had been carried aloft by th With the arrest of Helen Rice-| young birds’ father and mother, Burleigh, who says she is a “spirl-| etretched acrows the two telephone }ual minister,” with apartments at! wires to form the first frame work the Hotel Vendome, Parlor 78, by! of the serial home. As soon a City Detective Lee A. Barbee late| Lynch removed the hat pin, he |yenterday afternoon, Chief of Po} went to the cable box, made an-| Nee Irving Ward fired the first gun} other test and found the wires of a war to be waged against al-| clear. leged fortune tellers. Foreman Lynch is carefully pre« Miss Burleigh wae arre she had demanded and r from a decoy sent to her by De-| tective Harbee to learn his fortun The “spiritual minister” was take serving the hat pin from that swab w's nest as the most unt puvenir in his possession Le to the police station and booked.|* o She was released on $200 cash * BANK CLEARINGS. + for her appearance in court Mon-|* * day afternoon * Seattle. * Chief Ward stated today that all] # Clearings today .$1,190,611.10 # fortune tellers, mediums and clair-|* Balances 15 lb voyants would be prosecuted under|* Tacoma. *- the state vagrancy law. The ¢ |® Clearings today $486,198 & against Miss Burleigh will be tried | # Balances 14,863 & under this provision of the law \* Portland. * | The chief has been quietly in-|# Clearings today $638,034 ® | veutigating reports that a number|#* Balances 45,261 & of fortune tellers have been operat-|* * ing on the quiet Ae a here to look after the police and fire olen) thie. 30 INJURED a ELECTRICITY | ‘Entire Water Distributing _~ System May Be Damaged. Investigation of Bad Breaks . Leads to This | Discovery. Blectroloysis tw believed to have | need the entire distributing of the municipal water sup how great the damage is even be estimated at this bat a corps of experts ie to “Appointed to make a thorough \axaminatine of all the water mains jana laterals and report their find. | to etty officials | upt. ©. BH. Youngs, of the water) department, was first made aware of tho ravages of electricity escap- . from the Seattle Blectric Co.'s , After an examination of the tepek in the Melrose ay. main yew fay For the second time in a month this big 16-inch pipe burated at ® point between Harrison aud) Repablican sts | oon as the terrific flood of water was shut off and the broken eeetion partially cleared away, an tnapection disclosed that the metal bands arownd the staves had be: eaten by electricity to a point where the esormous pressure from the water quickly broke through A canud) inspection was made of the pipe ‘along other points along Melrose @Y. and the startling fact that the entire main was practical Vy ruined by electrolysis was quick ly developed. | u Hae Caused Many Breaks. The water department officials | itmmediately gave it as thelr opin "Mat the same trouble was ac eguatable for numerous bad breaks im otber sections of the water sup- ly system. Ip the past numerous Preaice Nave occurred in the big feed pipes on First av 8S. in the | ¥feinity of Jackson st. at Fremont, |mear the Bryant mill, and at Bal lard. At the time there seemed [be no explanation, except that vlnes bad simply been defective ¥iew of the new theory that the pipes were weakened by the ravager of escaping electricity, and that thie canse was ajone respons) bie for the bad break and the en. ing ravages of the escaping tor rents. of water, Supt. Youngs de cided that aa immediate inspection oft the entire water supply system Was necessary in order to de) termine just how much damage had been done to the pipes. | Entire Main Ruined. } Tt was found that the entire Mel-! rowé av. main was rulned to all practical purposes and that the en-| tire line of wooden pipe would have te be rebanded if It was to be put into even ordinarily fe condi tion, That the same thing may be tra of other water main! lines is considered as almost assured, even before the examination which has | bean determined upon. The amount MH damage in dollars and cents caunot even be roughly estimated ‘That it will amount to a large sum ie conceded The city will hold the Seattle rie Co. responsible for all dam ages which can be shown to have| reaulted from the electricity which | has escaped from their system. | ‘This may amount to $100,000. It may be more, and again it may be| leas. Supt. Youngs says he has no way of forming any estimate Electricity Run Wild. Rlectrolysia is caused by electric ity which has run wild, 80 to speak. | Unless there ts a line on which the current ean return to the central | | station, or starting point, the tricity tw apt t ve the line at! some point, where It ts attracted to | any metal which may be in the neighborhood. It follows this metal! and often jumps again to another metal conductor of some sort. in the case of the Melrose ay. | main, which affords an example of the way It effects other pipes, the| wlectricity probably eseaped from) the street car line at the Brooklyn bridge, where the pipe is exposed only a few feet distant from the ear track, and followed the pipe |gouth to the point of the break yesterday. Here the electricity was probably attracted by another metal substance CAMPAIGN PLEDGE Mayor Miller Fails to Move As Promised. Inaction Shows That Issue He Raised Was Buncombe. When te Mayor Miller going to move the restricted district?” ‘The above is a question which is | being impatiently asked at every | meeting of the improvements clubs of the southern section of the city I will move the restricted dis- | trict if 1 am elected. 1 will not only move it, but I will move it right away,” Mayor Miller was fond of speeches during the last campaign Mayor Miller has been in office over three months, but the restrict ed district rem practically um disturbed. Following bis iuaugura tion the occupants of # half block of butldings were forced to move farther south, but, up to date, that ie the extent of the moving of the restricted district, which was made) the leading tanue of the campaign jby the mayor himself Vice Unrestricted. Within six blocks of the city hall, and in plain view of the King et. depot, the restricted district still festers with wnrestricted vice, The spasmodic effort to rid the city of the “pink cuff gentry” has practi- cally died away and those leeches have emerged from their hiding places again. The “white slave” traffic flourishes uncheeked as of old THE WEATHER SHOWERS TONIGHT AND SUNDAY; LIGHT SOUTHEAST WINDS. | NE ATS ‘Bar Primary Is Attacked by Mackintosh’s Gang of Politicians, Ex-Lawyers and Real Estate Agents Rushed to the Polls to Vote for the Race-Track Candidate for Judge. BULLETIN—At 2:15 p. m. the King county primary ; ave the following partial count of votes to the leading six | candidates : George Morris, 71; R. B, Albertson, 69; Mitchell Gilliam, 48; John F, Main, 46; Boyd J. Tallman, 46; A. W. Frater, 46. Kenneth Mackintosh had only 14 votes. —_—_— — Lobbying politicians tried today to turn the bar primaries into a lawyers’ convention. They did their best to thwart the plan proposed for this primary—that of getting at the true opinions of the lawyers | Of Seattle as to the qualifications of the various candidates | for superior court judgeships. Men like Kenneth Mackintosh, professional politician and race track habitue, were much in evidence in and around the | voting place at the court house, buttonholing voters and urg- ing their claims in a most barefaced manner. Mackintosh | especially carried on his electioneering with scant regard for the proprieties of the occasion. a EX-LAWYERS BROUGHT TO POLLS. ' Men who haven't practiced Jaw in this city for years, ime | who still hold licenses te | practice, were brought to the polls by lobbyists for Mackin- tosh and deposited their ballots to help out. While there are about 300 practicing attorneys in Seattle, | nearly 800 registered to vote at the bar primary. It was from the ranks of those not actively practicing j that Mackintosh recruited most of his support. ~The large | majority of the real lawyers were working and voting against | him, | cluding several real estate dealers HEAVY VOTE CAST THIS MORNING. Fifty votes were cast during the first ten minutes after the polls opened at 9 o'clock this morning, with electioncering All of which is but another dem-| voing on at fever heat. castration of the emptiness of campaign promises made with the! knowledge that they redeemed | Yet the restricted district must) be moved within the next two years. The railracds entering Se- attle will crowd it out of its pres. ent location, for it is the history of| all vicious districts that vice falls back as the current of travel ad vances upon It “When and where will the re stricted district be moved?” fe a question In which all residents of | the city are to a certain extent in-| terested. None wishes the stigma of vice attached to his district and no matter where it is moved op position will be encountered. Decided Long Ago. Appreciating this, the next lo) cation of the restricted district was) decidéd upon months ago. From | confidential sources it has leaked out that Mayor Miller has no in- tention of moving the restricted district until prior to the ex piration of his next term twenty months hence, and that it will be moved to a location along Ninth) and Tenth avs, South, in the vicin: ity of Judkin st. It was so under stood by some of his strongest sup- porters in the campaign. In preparation for the location of the quarter there, much street work is being planned and executed to make the district accessible. No move will be ordered until this work has all been done As the proposed new location of the restricted district is almost di rectly at the foot of Beacon Hill, and opposite the best residence por tion of the hill, there will be bit ter opposition to its location there on the part of the Beacon Hil! Im provement club. FLEET MAKING READY TO SAIL (By United Press.) SAN FRANCISCO, June 20.—The 16 battleships of the Atlantic fleet dually assembling in the bay ratory to their departure as scheduled on July 7, and today the streets are almost as plentifully filled with bluejackets as they were during the big celebrations of fleet week Ina few days all of the fleet will be again anchored within sight of would not be! jx¢ The opinion seemed to be unanimous that the present Iges on the bench, Robert B. Albertson and George E. Mor- ris, would lead at the finish, some claiming that Morris would get the biggest number of votes, while others favored Albert- son. The polls closed at 2 o'clock. The election was held in court room No. 1, where Judge Frater presides, temporary booths being put in for the occa- By 11 o'clock 482 ballots had been cast, and it was thought that most of the votes would be in by the lunch hour. The arrangements had been made by Election Judges R. S. Greene and E. N, Carr and Wilmon Tucker. After filling out their ballots many of the attorneys re- mained about the corridors in the vicinity of the balloting, and there was great speculation as to the manner in which the voters of the county would look upon the endorsement of the candidates for the superior bench. UNSUCCESSFUL ONES MAY RUN. The fact that a candidate has not been endorsed by the bar of the county will not prevent him from running for a judgeship in the fall. Several of the candidates said that if not endorsed by the bar they will make their campaign any- how. sion. At the election of jury commissioners, which was also held during the morning, Paul Holbrook and G. W. Gregory, republicans, were nominated, getting 104 and 189 votes, with John F. Dore getting only 26. The two democrats, Alexander McKinnon and Calvin §. Hall, received 82 and 201 votes. The names of the two successful. republican candidates and the two democrats will be presented to the judges of the superior bench, who will choose one republican and one democrat ta act year. poses which will probably approxi mate $20,000,000. The smaller railk | Way systems of the state not direct ly maintained as branches of the transcontinental system will ex+ ceed $20,000,000, so that the com- bined railway properties in the state of Washington will be figur ed at not far from a quarter bik | Hon. | ‘The railroad commission will sub- |mit these figures to the tax co mission which this year for the first time, has the power to fix the assessed valuation of railroad property in this stat for one This does not include railroad property used for commercial pur Commission Says Roads Are Worth at Least $ 168,000,000. (By United Press.) Fire Chief Harry W. Bringhurst the city, and it will shortly be joined by the armored squadron under Admiral Dayton The Fourth of July will be made notable by a naval the firing of the 21 guns by the Most of the depart for Honolulu on July 7 on August 5, the cruls for Samoa and the PI wembled ships and it is probable that Admiral Swin burne will take command of the Pa ciffe fleet before It Jeaves this port. celebration and | railroads in this state used exclus- national salute of|ively for railroad purposes, accord- Peter Atlantic fleet will| railroad commission on the value | will start | Exact figures will pilippines. As | shortly Admiral Dayton 1s soon to retire, | roads in round numbers are OLYMPIA, June 20.—-One hun- | tonight will hold an investigation cruiser | dred and sixty-eight million dollars of the charges preferred by Coun- lis the aggregate value of the prop erty of the three transcontinental cilman Arnold Zbinden against Fire Lieutenants Walter W. Murphy and Kumpf at fire headquarters. ling to the tentative findings of the Councilman Zbinden charges that the leutenants engaged in an alter- cation while fighting the fire which destroyed the factory of the Seattle Box Co., at Fourth ay. 8, and Spo- kane av. Thursday morning and .|that the dispute caused a delay which resulted in the partial de struction of the Fourth ay. bridge, lawned hy the aitw in this state. be announced The figures for the three of railroad property N. P., 000,000; O. R. & N, total, $168,000,000 $111,000,000; GN, $5 $16,000,000; ee