The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 29, 1908, Page 1

LAST EDITION vol NO. 108° ° | iasda ~/e2842 1 ers Gaim That Be Has 703 Votes Wow (By United Press.) P PENVER, Colo Tune 29. James Dahiman, of personal representa ef Wm. Jennings Bryan, announced his authoti- r prediction that Bryan Mf be nominated as the demo- Matic candidate for president p the first ballot by the demo- national convention with} st 703 votes. This is the official statement from headquarters that the kan's friends are so sure are willing to announce result in advance. They} predicted it before, but) = with the present alr. of paigning since 1904. He has ad-| dressed thousands through his per | sonal organ, the weekly Common er, and he has filled hundreds of lecture appointments in the Chau tanqua cireuits. It the idea of | Mr. Bryan and his friends that) these lecture appearances will) |have done mach to show the more timid that be has no hoofs and/ horns. He has been moderate tn} is platform utterances, and has |tatked on sociological subjects jrather than indulging in abuse of jthe party in power or discussicn | lof political texts. Ret more in | portant than this, he has lost no loceasion to place the stamp of his approval on the course of Theo dure Roonevelt. Bryan Mas Plans. Bryan's purpose ip constantly tn | doraing Roosevelt is now apparent. | He was wise enough to believe Roosevelt sincere In bis declare tion that he would not run agai: and he, ryan, proposed to fall het: to the Roosevelt popularity—or to as large a share of it as possible. Now it ts the bope and expectation of his friends that the raass of independent voters will look to him as the logical successor to the | Roomevelt regime, rather than to Taft and Shermas. Nothing ip the coming campaign is more important than the diree tion in which the “Roosevelt inde- | } } BY GILSON GARONER. / DENVER, Col, June 29. na campaign, and by sheer of his personal bold on the and file of bis party, Wm. J has been able to dominate democratic national conven of 1908. years ago the organization | | } wd BURTON HARRISON, York, Whe Is Being Talk ‘of for Vice President at Den- ‘the party was in the hands of anti-ryan democrats. At great it had been captered by | | | Bennett Hill, Jas. J. Hill Wall st. backers. The jose for which the organisation ‘eaptured, and for which it was ‘Was the nomination of Alton Bryan protested against doings; but he was help heagreed to be “regular.” & prefunctory part in the convention, and gave per- support to the ticket. At Re Was not in aympathy with the candidate or the plat | | Bryan Has His Way. twas the tacit understanding of i reactionary democrats their effort failed, should torn about and let have bis way, Pryan has this promise in mind during tm case Conran! te ar Heo MAREE AY, LEWIS &. CHANDLER, Of New York, a Vice Presidential Possibility at Denver pendent vote” will go. This vote is| sufficient to determine the result. | If Roosevelt's Indorsement of Taft! swings the vote to Taft, the latter ia likely to win, Ef Bryan ciation with the Roosevelt policies lewings the vote tc ‘im, Bryan is | likely to be the next occupant of the White House. | In his four years of ante-conven tion campaigning, ryan worked with the democratic organ ization when he could, and inde pendently of it when the organiza tion proved hostile. In New York state, when Tammany wa =" him, he pleked out individw not associated officially with the party organization, and did all bis organ: | izing through them. The same method was practiced in Ilinois, When Roger Sullivan, democratic | bows of that state, was unwilling to | work of Bryan, the latter looked to Millard F. Dunlap, of Belvidere, and others in private life. The result bas been that the or | ganization, starting out hostile to (Continued om page 7) W. G. CONRAD. Candidate ie for Vice B four years that have slipped es the disgraceful Parker de 4, Bryan bas been cam lother boats was as follows THE SEATTLE STAR PRICE ANOTHER FRISCO DYNAMITE OUTRAGE LECTION ON FIRST STRIKING AND ODO SNAPSHOTS OF WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN. THE CENTER 1S ONE TAKEN WHEN HE WAS FIRST NOMINA TED FOR PR START IN RACE IS Motor Boats Leave Harbor in Race to Van- couver. Leaders Expected to Reach the Finish Before Noon Tomorrow. ——— Promptly st noon today the Adoriam of Vancouver crossed the | starting line at the float of the Eiltiott Bay Yacht club, end “ehug chugged” her way down the sound to Vashon Island. She was the first vessel to start im the International motor boat race from Seattle to Vancouver. At 1:27 the Somner of Bverett crossed the line. The Adoriam could not be seen, At 2:17 the it lof Vancouver started In pursuit of | the Somner, and three minutes later the Shamrock of Seattle raced across the ling after the It The Widgeon of Seattle left at 2:25 and the Restless at 3:18, The Talisman of Vancouver left at 3: 26. Order of Departure. The order of departure of the Allen Mildred, Seattle, 4:10; Vancouver, 2:56; 4:01; Welcome, 4:06; Beatrice, Vancouver, Homespun, Westminster, 4:25; Lark, Seattle, 4:41; Travellor, Se Vancouver, tle, 7:11 The Victoria and the Yankee Doodle, which were barred out of the race because they did not con Ree, Seattle, form to the required measurements, | will race for a special pennant The Victoria will lease at 4:45 and the Yankee Doodio at 7:06. Course for Race. ‘The churse will be down and ‘asso around Vashon island, then up the sound past Port wneend and through Rosario straite into the Gulf of Georgia and up Georgia strait to Vancouver. With smooth weather and no accidents, the first has of the motor boats should arrive “k | t Vancouver betw n tomorrow morning and neon jast of the boats will trail in nightfall The Bi Primero of Tacoma will act as @ consort to the racing fleet The by The members of the Royal Yacht) club of Vancouver will act as judges at the other end of the line BURGLARS ROBBED SALOON. ced an entrance bar, Bighth av. & and Cloverdale st. South Park, early yesterday morning, aud after ransacking the place, made away with $8 in cash and & quantity of cigars. to} SEATTLE, WASH., BALLOT i | THE LARGE PICTURE IN SIDENT IN 1896. aS RE SPOKANE HERE WITH TREASURE The Spokane arrived from South- eastern Alaska this morning with $1,500,000 in gold consigned to the! assay office ‘The Victoria, arriving last night, | brought $650,000 tn treasure from | Nome, and the Humboldt te due | tonight with $20,000, all being pert mieten eth 2 ae } | i jot the winter's cleanup Reports were b ht down by! the Victoria that Jafet Lindbore and Captein Johnson had struck it rich on their creeks, near Nome, during the winter Climbing the glaciers, riding to} Indian villages, purchasing of me mentoes, baseball ashore, dressing up in Indian costumes and having basaara, Were some of the inter eating things done by the exeur slonisis on the Spokane. INSPECTORS ARE BUSY Look out for the water inspec: tors. The zealous scouts of the munic- |tpal water department are working jaeven days a week now and the | property owner who tries to “oheat™ a litte in sprinkling his lawn over time, must matatain «a sharp watch if he wants to save Limself from being caught and fined About 100 citizens, all equally in- |dignant and unanimously of the lopinion that the water inapectors were altogether obnoxious, Hned up in the water offices this morn- ling and paid fines for having ne lected to observe the water reg- wlations It ie tn the evening that the heavy. fest drain is made on the water service, The evening hours for sprinkling are from 7 to 8:30 o'clock. Without a atrict adher ence to this time limit the water officials say there would be danger of a shortage of water for domestic purposes The fine for the first offense is $2, and for repeating the offense usually about $5 Heavier fines are imposed for sprinkling without 4 nossle and for sprinkling with an automatic sprinkler, unless a meter has been Installed Special permits i be obtained from the water department for sprinkling out of hours, in order to lessen the drain upon the water supply during the regular sprink- ling hours. TAFT QUITS TOMORROW By United Press.) WASHINGTON, Jane 29.-—-Secre- tary Taft is at his desk in the war department cleaning up the things 4 his personal attention ory to his resigning tomor- le passed a busy day sign ing hundreds of papers and getting things in shape for his successor, Gen. Luke BE. Wright, who will take charge July 1. Gen, Wright spent the day with the secretary getting an idea of his new duties, Mra. Taft is preparing to go to Hot Springs, Va., to spend the sum- mer montis, | | } MONDAY \ JUNE 29, 1908. RUNS INTO | A BURNED | BRIDGE Trtin Plunges late Creek Merchants to Be Made to Entire Detective Force Is Put to Work ‘ ; whole detective force at work on the latest dynamiting out- f ordinance compelling proprie tors f meat market fish stand r . diev - Milica prolenged: chelek of the|ané delicatessen stores to keep| e" believed to have grown out of the graft prosecution: willetie, indicating that the engi | {heir wares covered a oo Assistant District Attorney Francis J. Heney said: “This neer had seen the di ony cols: Rag ee ae A mee ing of the elty ex ar} we Sire osertngp reve tog Re ee sree Map lh ~ is the most dastardly outrage yet perpetrated by the agents of Westbound, on the Santa Fe rail: of spreading disease germs will be graft.” feed, traveling at terrific speed, FTO*UY lewsened with this extra | fen into # burned bridge a few "5 | eee miles east of here iate last mivht,| hearty approval of Health Commis SAN FRANCISCO, June 29.—There is little doubt but and plunged with fearful force into mone fi on and the officials im) the explosion at Chenery and Dimond, which killed four peo the dry bed of an arroyo. the city health department. The| , ‘ nvest ons « ed » r Ple and probably fatall red anoth ly today, was Three ii i ge ego tay stigats a arried on by De f y fatally injured another early today, was the e864 40 passengers injured, many|the passage of such an ordinance | OT® Of the dynamiters who twice blew up property belonging ef them seriously iosdaumeo tbe ito James L. Gallagher, the former supervisor, who turned The Dead. ae iF ; i mn Engineer Currin | Provides for Cases. | state's evidence in the graft prosecution. The property blown Fireman Thomas | As contemplated now, tt in i | up today was leased by Antone Dissmeyer to T. J. Gallagher, iC. L. Partridge, passenger, Red-| tend Mi Fk ‘Cal -, » sep to have an ordinaace which | brother of the former supervisor, and S. F, Johnson, who come lands, make jt necens to have) f , . , ho meats, fish and delicatessen foods | , a Bonin gle a | wept under glass cases. At prese ducts the saloon. The property adjoining the wreckage on practically all of the shops which | the oth ; , hn U " BF Taylor, of Los Angeles | handle these articles of food have | e other ate ts owned by the United Relways' company, . . t ne mn | ‘ ¥. Grieger, Pullman car conduc-| Counter aPAyed 08 Open Threats Against Brother. ter. | The wreck occurred just east of Hardy, which is 12 milex from here. The train was on Ume and ripning st more than 50 miles an hour when the accident ccourred ‘The fire that burned the wooden treetic work of the bridge had died out, and there was no glare of flames to warn the engineer of the hrapending danger ‘The huge engine was almost com. | pletely buried in the sand and the) three front cars of the long train, be a leed hew!l of protest rainad dyiver on by the force of the heavy | when the propowed law te taken up} Pullmans behind, were completely by the counell demolished and plied in a heap of #iderable extra expense to fit out splintered wood and twisted fron | the shops with the ginas cases, Wil! also be lowe converient for the and steel on top of the locomo tive. ‘The escape of the clerks in the| the rush bourse mall car from sudden death ie a) miracte, as the coach was crushed band thet the Inw will eliminate one possible avenue for spreading discase germs and it te injured | generally belleved that the elty of fictals wtll consider the ordinance & Wreck train hastily made | fvorably to a shapeless mass of splinters, the roof falling clear of the wreck Aid came to the within an hour after the accid w at Winslow, reached the scene. The injured persons, together with all of the passengers, were taken to Winslow a8 soon as por sible, where they were placed in the railroad company’s hospital and given every care SUSPECTS SCHEME it, Georgetown Thinks Seattle Is Seeking to Force It Into Annexation. Believing that the proposal of the Seattle city council to purchase the | property of the Georgetown Water company is a yelled attempt to force the annexation of the suburb | w Greater Seattle, a number of} property owners In the suburb are | preparing to ask the Georgetown council to acquire the water plant and service through condemnation Proceedings ‘The suburb obtains its entire wa # supply from the Georgetown | ister company, and the alarmists fosiet thai, with this in the posses sion of the Seattle authorities, it Would be a simple matter to force | @ town to annex. To avert this pposed danger, they are now ure ing that the Georgetown council get | busy and start ndemnation pro eeedings before the proposed pur chase can be effected Seattle officials insist that the only object in acquiring the proper ties of the Georgetown Water com pany is to serve water to the newly annexed territory, including South Park and portions of the Valley district. At present there ts) no immediate hope of extending the Cedar river service to this country, | movement, and the guard about the The cost would be tremendous and| royal palace and all public bulld- they figure they can serve these |ings has been reinforced The demonstration by the repub- conveniently from districts more the Georgetown system, which could | leans be purchased at a reasonable figure, | speech by Alphonse Costa, in which they believe he suggested that King Manvel @b-| In every case the explosion has taken place at night, and absolutely, Tke matter will probably be| dicate the throne an jeclare @ . cain: al brought before — the Georgetown | republican form of government. |" ‘Tee pte — ar yg Fa bon ard oli isnt: council when It holds its regular) The speech was followed Kreat That the men are experts in their wor 4 foregone con: 2, meeting tonight. All sorts and conditions of peo ple purchase supplies cbope to make any distinction ae between people who are {il and thom whe | life are well. Most of these stores have | pont gh jthe head of the commissary department, a lucrative position, from th , trom e street Sets ready neeees | and the feeling has been bitter against him from his stand germs are often carried amd trans mitted to the next victim clerk Bor WHO GOT COIN? John Sprentala, cripple, hobdied | Dissmeyer was so badly hurt that there is a strong probability inte room crutches this morning and was put on t jeeny, after baving been back “| id are t on im the county Jali for 44 days, wait ing t Sprentals was employed jast fall | by John Duchateau, a rancher, liv. ling north of Ballard | panie out of the bank, as did many gold his eo small depositors. He put $ in - a re . 5 ; j tas te oom s08 Gant os eee floor, where she had swooned. I carried her into the velar street. The money disappeared on Jan. 20, 1908, and about the same time Sprentals left for the Bast, and a complaint him const said Sprentals had any knowledge as to the whereabouts of the money treated,” said Sprentals. His left leg has been amputated the | been ankle, and he claims that it ts rot at ting amputated again OUTBREAK IS FEARED IN LISRON, June Rainier | outbreak of terrorism, the govern- ment dore excitement throughout the city. 0) GUARD uchauteau on THE WEATHER FAIR TONIGHT TUESDAY WARMER; ONE CENT GENTLE EASTERLY BREEZE FOUR KILLED IN MYSTERIOUS - EXPLOSION AGAINST AL on Most Dastardly Outrage Yet Per- petrated—Ptot Grows Out of Graft (By United Press.) SAN FRANCISCO, June 29.—Bulletin—District Attor- ney Langdon has requested Chief of Police Biggy to put the Gall en acting q ii recaigy | T. J. Gallagher has been acting as a bodyguard for his it is said to be impemitie brother since the repeated threats have been made against his In the Ruef-Schmitz administration T. J. Gallagher was with his brother in the prosecutions. It is understood that T: J. Gallagher also has received threats recently. Protest is Expected. fs anticipated that there will John Sweeny, the grocer, wi conducted a grocery store adjoining the saloon conducted by Johnson, and was killed, it will mean ee | with his wife and daughter, appears to have been the victim Kt) of a plot of which he was not the object. * to handle the meats during Dissmeyer an Innocent. tt will be urged on the other 4 Dissmeyer, who lived in the same building, whose baby daughter was killed, and whose wife is perhaps fatally hurt, also has no connection with the laghers further than that he leased the property to T. J. Gallagher. Fred Sweeny, who was blown 50 feet through a window jat the rear of the grocery, is expected to recover, though he is | badly hort. It was said today at the German hospital that Mrs. Antone Jodge A. W. Frater's court on ta the eupectey ceunt that she will not recover. Her condition is extremely serious. Can't Explain Outrage. ; | Antone Dissmeyer, who was able to leave the hospital ere aes aaa 2 ba »| after having his injuries dressed, said: “I have no enemy of any kind in the world so far as I Sprentais to The Star. “They | Frying to send # cripple to pris! know, and can assign no possible reason for the attack on I have already been locked up| rial charged with grand lar brought my life and property “I was awakened by the terrific shock, which tore away | the front part of the building. At first I ran out into the | street, but when I did not find my wife there I turned back jand, rushing into the wreckage, I found my wife lying on the rial.” Daring the took his money her Duchateau Burned About the Hands. “In making my way I was badly burned about the hands, was sworn out against |. . ~y face and shoulders, and wonder that I was not more seriously He was captured In the Wis-| n town. | injured, as I had on nothing but my night clothes. the stand today | . net kawe thet “The body of John Sweeny was thrown clear across the He must have died in- Istantly. His wife and daughter, Ella, also must have been killed by the first shock,” Dissmeyer said there that he did street by the force of the explosion went Bast to have my legs gas connection in either building, and that the explosion could not have been caused was no knee, while the other has cut off a little above the | by gas. away so it will have to be Dynamite Expert at Work. Chief Biggy this afternoon detailed Frank McManus, a dynamite expert, to work on the case, and four detectives are gathering all the | information obtainable (hat lead to the discovery of the dyna- | miters who was in the neighborhood of the property at the time of the explosion is being examined, and a watch is being kept on the place. McManus would not say what opinion he had formed when asked thie afternoon, but will make his report to Chief Biggy tonight. Chief Bigey may Fveryone said 1 will ferret outrage if it is within the realm of human possibility LISBON this thing out and find who is respoxsible for this 1 ill put as many as are needed on the case.” Entire City Is Shocked. ‘The entire city ts shocked by the dynamfting outrage, and it ts arresting | ty. consensus of opinion thet the same people who blew up Galle | gher’s house {n Oakland last April and later blew up two vacant houses belonging to him in the same city are rpsponsible for today explosion, There is talk of a vigilance committee, and the police would doubt- | less have difficulty if the guilty party was to be caught. The fiendish | ingenuity that guides the dynamiters has completely baffled the polloe. (By United Pres 29.—F soldiers are 8 of leade today of the republican followed a remarkable for none of the three jobs has been bungled.