The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 5, 1908, Page 1

LAST EDITION VOL 10. NO. 192, LIVES ARE LOST IN INCENDIARY BLAZE = q -YMEANS OF ESCAPE CUT eee ALL OFF AND VICTIMS ww Senn 00. re Can PLUNGE INTO FLAMES nant with a ven Se eke crewed thelr de to take the three from Boston by deat. today by @ score rally came in the tot. | The big rally ork’s found THE WEATHER FAIR TONIGHT, WITH LIGHT FROST; TUESDAY FAIR AND WARMER, E SEATTLE STAR SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1908. PRICE ONE CENT WILL ASK FOR BOND ISSUE. TO GET OUT OF THE HOLE ROVES COUNCIL SPENDS TYPHOON PROVES GREAT BLESSING 10 PEOPLE BEYOND INCOME WOULD ADOPT "THE BOND BOND ISSUE METHOD IN ORDER TO SECURE ENOUGH CASH TO KEEP UP RECKLESS EXPENDITURES. Mike Jehnner of 7600 44th ave N. W,, reported to the Ballard police | | today’ that picked of | in gold and| jour Saturday night | City Is Cleansed by Its Streets on Sunda: Staggers of ‘Rain That Swept ight —- Big Fleet Natives. | ANTI-VACOINATION MEPTING. Chairman Sawyer, of the council; phase of the case might not sq finance committee, will this evening readily be carried out. at the council meeting presemt a|, Councilman Murphy and ® nuns ents of the compulsory vac to hold a meeting yh AT PHILADELPHIA NATIONALS | PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 5.—In the! game today Brooklyn scored on 13 hits. The Quekers ee- ed but one run, although thei made five errors. The ROLLED BARRELS INTO BUILDING (By United Press.) lesenens (By United Press.) of independence for | ie Philippines, It has staggered minutes before the fire broke out. Two explosions followed al most simultaneously, Kelly says an attempt at extortion had failed and that certain inmates of the place had received threatening let- ters bearing the insignia of the Black H. j NEW YORK, Oct. 5.—Victime of a fire fiend, who started the | Mames *o cunningly that the stairway was quickly destroyed and all means of egrees cut off, 10 persons were burned to death, several were fatally fnjured and six seriously hurt today in an east side tenement. | jrode out the gale in splendid man- ner, Much damage was done to the j#mall craft and houses were blown down ashore er given in hon of the news | ¥ correspondents, sald: “There | uid be no Independence for Ur jlippines for generations. The | After ple are not ready for it. When! witig is granted, it will be necessary the United States to retain ter ‘orfal interests and maintain a | CLAIMS PROPERTY « living 1m a comfortable home at Ballard for two years, and believing that the prop erty belonged to him because he paid the delinquent current taxes. Hugh McLaughlin was arrested Sat BY H. LEE CLOTWORTHY. (Staff Correspondent of the Uniti Press, Aboard U. 8. 8. Georgia.) ' torate.” MANILA, Oct. 5.—-The typhoon! | ‘This wan the first announcement resolution, ;an ordinance, of the to fall due That another furthering certain Big Fight in Co big public permanent laaproveinents, and sec ondarily for the creating of a sink ing fund to pay off a large portion bonded indebtedness about nell fight to be followed later by calling for @ special | bond issue is to be used primarily and in the ber of others are going to fight the proposition down the line, “Gene” Way, from the Second NEW YORK, Oct. 5—Fire Marshal Kelly announced today MANILA, Oct. 6-For twelve eleetion fo yard, said i * “ - ” r another bond iesue,| Ward, sa n a mild side to Zhime that the Black Hand Is responsible for the incendiary tenement | hours yesterday « 100-mile-an howe | aris tea teak power. ot tel \aiematiie 6 tabeiee |den today during the discussion: fire early today. He saya his investigation developed th fact Tityphoon swept this section, The! Matted States. MISSING OWNER | ‘The money coming trom this|,,,.2 ‘! 7%, Arnold, we'll have ta two men were seen roll ing a barre! into the building a few |battionhips of the American fleet Governor General Smith, at a look out. They will get us on end of the cracker and snap off sure if we're not careful.” Zbinden set his foot down on con tain phases of the proposed im debtedness stunt, especially tha part {In which it is proposed to us certain of the money for carrying }out some large street improve | ments Far From the Limit. ST. LOUIS—AMERICANS., | The fire was started with otl-soaked paper In several different| which swept the bay Sunday night a the government's policy and the LOUIS, Oct. 5—In the final! Places about the house. When the inmates realleed that the piace and caused the battleships to @peech caused a sensation through Gf the season on the home| ¥## on fire they becanse Insane with fright. The whole nelehborhood | weigh anchors and get under way | the isiands. The native Fill E presse is bitter in ite attack Cleveland will endeavor te) Ws bo excited that no one turned in an alarm until it was too late to/to protect themselves, has proved while Det in to} save the building. & great blessing to the city, having Americans and resents the lead Most of the dead were killed by plunging madly into the famen|cloaned the cholera diatricts and lpttitnde taken by Governor Smith for nem Fo Mins wn Dig | when they found that they were cut off. Three jumped down the |today the prospect of controlling War Talk Disturbs. iad trashane te the pointe] roasting stairway, without the least chance of escape from sudden|and exterminating the disease te "gana Sg eo | dea! | better than ever before, The storm |, Reports that war with Jap | was terrific at times and wae ag [i@tmtnent have caured much anx Most of those who escaped companied by a downpour of vais had throughout ‘the native | so heavy that ft cleaned up the city Pal The babies were saved by being thrown from windows to the po 3| tee and firemen on the sidewalks below 2) Sot through the roof to other buildings |more éffectually than the govern DIABOLICAL CUNNING. ment could heve done in many Seldom in the hundreds of such fires that have taken place here, | weeks has one been set with such diabolical cunning. When the inmates The moral effect of the appear: | most of whom were foreigners, awakened they were hemmed in by the ance of the feet here has been tre RM. 4 prov Al ’ AT BOSTON—AMERICAN. ON, Oct. 5.—The final score! Commissioner Gilbert today said that the world’s map has been mod fied by the world crulxe of the Japane: Jap saving China from ation and preventing the “$$ fj fames. At the rear of the building the fire had been started in such | mendous, all the agitators of inde ol ae sae py cng etary . & way that it was impossible to escape there. In front, to Jump to the| pendence being overawed and at oe ~ ore “a oo INGTON—AMERICANG. | #tfeet meant instant death. Those with the most presence of mind lenced by the display of power at the white man ener jelimbed to the top of the buliding and escaped on the roofs. The fire | Minister Arenata, who held the the Pacific has been such an extent that Its effect be permanent The health of the men Is perfect fa little complrint now re “The visit of the fleet shows the ing the restrictions. | sae Sega portfolios of justice and finance ie Aguinaldo's cabinet, sald today; qgers Native Leaders. . Sa The £ EPnTOM, Det: Se Fhe O> | mea seco GHeNIS tS reach thoes ta the balldiag when the department ar rived as al! means of entrance as well as exit were cut off The ectives are making an Investigation and probably will make | #ome arrests today as they have been on the trail of a band of sus pected fire bugs for several weeks | BODIES ARE FOUND, When the ft detachment of firemen made their way into the building they encowntered om the first Moor the unconscious form of Anailis Sealino, and two others, fatally burned These three were | rushed to the hospital, but there is no hope for them On the second floor they found Rosa Sehelline and her yearoid | boy, both unconsctous and fat: burned. The charred bodies of the entire family of Dominic Forcello were found on the fourth floor WORST FIRE IN HISTORY. ; Petro Magiiactio was killed by jumping from the third-stery win dow to the roof of a shed below at the rear, every bone tn his body being broken. Other members of his family escaped by way of the | | roof, but it is believed he stayed behind In an effort to save his valu jables and was cat off by the fire. | i care she became ca.mor | Woman Forced to Flee for) and toid a story that speedily re sulted in the arrest of Brown on Safety From Drunken [4 arank and disorderly charge Husband. Mrs, Brown says her husband }eatne home Satarday night in an Seantily clad lumly mood. He had been drinking ed beavity and threatened to kill his 4 bait Fire Marshal Kelly said that the fire i# one of the worst cases! on esrosure, the wife of Davidiwite Bhe fled for safety to the of incendiarism in the history of the elty ji Bicwa cf Beit S0nt OE, W., GAGE tn the oonatinst ettire mercial Bodies of the) ais:rict ant was tu the heart of. ip the Mulberry st. tenement | tound wandering about the streets] Brown was fined $20 by Police nd was in the heart of the Italian quarter of Pallard late Saturday night by} Seun B.. Gorden yentordas: Coast Gather in — res" $7000 GOCART PRESENTED -EDNA BY HER FIANCE the Ballard police. It was at first) released sald his wife) thought that Mra. Brown Was men- Peas a fool for wandering about the tally unbalanced, but after a a. ear DEBS IS NE BY THE | Unparalleled Scene Takes Place in New York on Arrival. RLY MOBBED ALISTS great that the poll swept away and men, children bad thelr clothing torn in the rush to get a glimpse of the can ly United Press.) SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. the purpose of uniting the @oast cities in an effort to obtain | solid Pacific coast delegation at ington to work for the inter- of the far western states, rep tatives of 12 commercial or- ations of San Francisco, Oak: | Los Angeles, Portland, Seat-| coma and Spokane met today Chamber of Commerce rooms lines were women and | effect an organization The | didate. Debs finally stepped through was attended by prominent | the crowd and made bie way to a men from those cities and | } (By United Press.) hotel, Last night he addressed two irit of harmony was preva-| | NEW YORK, Oct. 5--The social! monster audiences, Deaplte the lists here are enthusiastic today jfact that over the chances of Eugene Dae the halla were crowded. lthe soctaliets’ candidate for prosi- P ;. lent getting « larger vote in the| One of the moetings wee, Bold a jeoming election than has ever been | the Hi ppodre cond and a one os : fon e pialiet tle! most remarkable meetings ever he | PDs eivet bare im New York When the candidate; Debs arrived here yew his “Red Special” from appeared he was given an ovation Bpflesire was expressed that the | tities forego rivalry, make| sts of the coast para. | | Over local issues and pre Pa united front at the next of congress. day on the west re tomes, i abd the crowd that met him at (he) Men and women waved red flag of Commerc grand central station almost mob-/alg.wept, Edwin Markham, Upton Governor Jotm H. Me bed the candidate before he could) Sipecia and Rose Pastor Stokes RE Washington. headed the Beattie | escape The enthustaam was sobwere tn th: audienes tion. Yandell made an ad-| fecommended unity. He| especially the policy of WPovernment’s sending coal from | ‘Atlantic to the Pacific ocean} He + tters | Samuel H. Piles andj } W. L. Jones, of Wash-| ' he} | . the declaration of independence o nn me Prince Ferdinand Has! Shabaria whigh was have realize sme concerted fove Announced That He ed Bee ang io? her on If of the interests of _ s to force a HRs Pacific. coast and while 1 have Is a Czar. ose, ot ne trom 4 mare Weclaration of war from Turke Maye found a willing spirit on the By United Press.) Depart of each section here to ald in| ay er agree Ie Expected Mb lexisiation and consideration! SOFIA, Bulgaria, Oct. 5—Prince} War Ie Expected. congress from the depart Ferdinand, the reigning prince, to , CONST ANTINO! Li Oe The ‘Ment ament ould | t m 4 1 Bulgarian situation was the t a m of the 4 ene would day progiaimed “ore i es of @ cabinet meeting today and it Be helpful to a thee Gna pendent kingdom and formally an : 6 tods , : has always been a lack of| nounced himecif czar of the Bul.) was decided end egiments elie and org 5 wen. gariane, The announcement was)at once the Bulgarian frontte an ganiz work made at Tirnova, the ancient cap. to mee regiments of Prince Jones Will Help, Ital of Bulgaria, amid scenes of | Ferdinand Congress: V. L, Jones, in his reat enthusiasm, The action was ne Witter says: fuily roaltze the tm EDNA WALL ACE HOPPER great enthusiaem Tmbined action |PLONGH HBADLONG TO ‘DEATH.| mercial delega (Star Special Service.) Brown, to whom the stage favorite of the cabinet and Prince Ferdin (By United Press.) Pacila éonat: work NEW YORK, Oct. 6&—One item, |!8 afflanced and, who joined in the prociama 5 ante Se , a, th / & $7,000 automobile, figures largely | o.4 41 in no one’s busines anid! It Is not known here what action ft M Ne in the hearing of A, O. Brown of| Misy Hopper.“ gaged, | will be taken by the foreign gov —: és ine at ‘ way possible | the met firm of A. O. Brown & and although the date of tt ed n is expected tha € erce ia composed | « Hdna Wallace Hopper by | our plans and Roumania and it te thought TAFT WINS STRAW VOTE ‘ nrres MIS ADVERSARY ‘ r with HY | to ewtablist ave empire "Et a iene ballot taken at a 7 “ ; aed and naan ance given in Redding’s } att . A , P fined Proposal of Mediation and Jn 5, Baturday nig at « y BARRETT COMING TO SEATTLE ouncement was issued from the Five Unt nate : : | By United Prose an a, member f the new |» pie . ' E vil awed ’ i . t triple alllanc have agree Hale, Maine, March 4, 1881; Wil s } go BS. Gordor Harr tor of the Bure f/ proposal of mediatior 1 farch 1 FINED FOR SHOOTING Stan’ t6 We ’ t - Turk 1 Bulgaria . Ald Rhode “ i t England Hears New 1 March 4, 1 He ss are bree , ONDON, Oct The neé jer, Colorado, Mareh 4, 188 Bebb wwiion: admission was charged, | ¥ council is to be precipitated by this | action of Mr. Bawyer was made Sawyer and his aide in the coum clear today at the conferences of | cil say that the present bonded tm urday on a warrant charging him with trespass. Two years ago McLaughlin vinit- ed Ballard, and was much taken the city officials held on the sub-| debtedness of the city is but a little with a smal! vacant house at 6642 | ject jover $7,000,000, while the limit ta 22nd av. N. W. He failed to find| Sawyer, backed by other mem-| which the city can go ts $15,000,000, bers of the council, proposes to| There is a present deficit in the ent out of the coming tax levy | city finances of something over everything of a permanent improve: | $500,000 contracted last year ang ment character and defray the cc | Ut and in addition there is the by resort to the bond issue crib.| necessity of providing for a fund This will reduce the size of the|to meet maturing bonds to fax levy about $1,500,000, and this) amount of over $1,500,000. A sin) sum will be left to carry on the | ing fund, according to the old bond the owner, and, upon visiting the court house, learned that the property was plastered with de Mnquent ta: He paid the taxes and took possession Several days ago Herman Nilson returned from a long sojourn in Alaska and went to his home. To his surprise it was oceupled by Me-| Current concerns of the city. Saw-| issues, should have been started Laughlin, who refused to vacate. Yer hopes to divert some of the | four or five years ago. Nilson immediately swore out a bond issue money to the sinking| The special election will be held warrant for McLaughlin's arrest. fund, but there are members of | about the first of the year if the the who think isc ibs sestirer this | measure carrieé in the saan FOUR THOUSAND TOKS OF COAL DESTROYED counell United ta BAN RANCISCO, 5. fire smouldering in the bauka re ot the Pacific Coast Coal company at| Beale and Bryant st. burst into flame early today and for two hours thre d neent warehouses and shipping. After a five hours’ Might the firemen had the bia Ae" Toe: under control although relief ii Will bo manned for a week or more until the mags ix thoroughly drench ed. The flames devoured 4,000 tona of coal, and destroyed a portion | of the company's offices and ware ' Full Rapeits Are Not i. ficial reports from those who ha@ charge of the sales in the outlying But the Estimate districts convince those in head- Is Close. quarters that but very few tags will be returned. The women and girls who sold the houses on the Te at. wharf. The| Twelve thousand dollars was (#88 Saturday in many instances damage is approximately from $60,| raised on tag day for the work of ¢xhausted themselves and are 000 to $100,000, Several firemen! the Charity Organization society hardly able to be about today, but were overcome by the fumes of; ‘This ie the amount in round num- SY tomorrow it is expected that burning coal but pone was #e-\ pers given by Mra. William £. | 4ll the reports will be in and them riously injured Humphrey, who had charge of the !t Will be possible for the actual os |day. The final amount may be a! figures to be arrived at. MAD NO LICENSE. hendred dollars less or a few han Thanks Volunteers. Deputy Warden J, w.|4red dollars more, but Mrs. Ham- sedeninth ae Saran (wou bors Guy | phrey ie satisfied’ that the actual | op't,,?Prrcmuon Of the loyal wort Hatha 4 Star, in the amount of cash will be close to 1, the public for ite support, Mrs. on ; $in.000. at ’ Out a license, Hatha: ay Humphrey has written thanks, father told him not to & BS ed $8,000 ow oe im the | which she expresses her regret e| eet Breese arrested ¢ nk already, and checks are com- 4 St ing quali on the University /ing tn with every mail dard | one MARNE 2 eet eee has not yet been heard from and | “"3 “If everyone could know the noble acts that were dong on tag day, they would have great- Ballard ts certs » swell the sum Few Coming Back PLEGER © ENDORSED. many we 2 + ee ak the| The estimate of the amount re-|er faith In people and more love book binding department of the gov-|celved is "based on the number of and charity from humankind,” said srnment . paiting orice by the | tags still unaccounted for. Unof-| Mrs, Humphrey this pecatsn 8 typographical unton, Mr, Pleger just returned from the Phill ASK FOR MALL CARRIERS, A NEGRO FIEND over to the superior court, Debell quietly walked to a place near the door out of which the officers in- tended to take the prisoner. With a cry of rage he Mung himself upon Martin and attempted to drag him Keatdents of the district north and jreen Lake end north f te the elty limi tions for livery ayntem, bution fn this | t station "| | |A Los Angeles Mob Tries to Take Man From Police in Court. ‘m the mafl 4 faily dint atmo Wat iting be the point tm No TROUELE away from the police. Four burly ies deme’ Trae) officers pounced upon Debell and s on | tried to break his hold. This was w tynohing Edward Martin, a negro,| the signal for nearly every man in } tenced to life imprisonment at the court room to arise and rush San Quentin today for assaulting forward with ertes of “Kill the Nig beautifal Edith Ralston, Thursday ger,” and “Lynch him.” night, a mob of 100 men, led by The officers held the crowd at W. S. Debell, the girl's sweetheart, bay while plain clothes men spirit: attacked a cordon of police guard- ed the prisoner away ing the prisoner in Judge Austin's Fr ng hat another attempt court room would be made to lynch him, Mare Martin sat in the Gdurt room with | tin begged that he be taken before an insolent smile on his face which the superior court immediately, He infuriated the friends of his vic-| appeared before Judge Curt tim Wilbur, entered a plea guilty At the conclusion of the hearing and was promptly sentenced to life »| after the court had hound the negro | imprisonment = SNAKE AND CAT FIGHT TO DEATH ON WATERFRONT Foor CRUSHED BY Can | When Friend Comes to the Rescue. ror LNoTUnESs A pale gray, hung t nd | its feline opp« 1p a garter sni ) inche ne bated the question of wh eat the othe Pier 4 this mo for 1 seo CHALLENGE TO DEBATE while it € and tienes. tee oo the while tt the water front. It 4 toss-up, | Just " oe ante po = when a longsho n ian't | beginning K anx ven like snakes, Inte F ar vad , kn 1 He 1 he BOY IS MISSING ing ' f ated nt f whe est figh ve ed off on mil Herman for congress fr THIEVES TAKE CLOTHING ked fi t KIRKLAND: 8 HARTSELL GOns TO