The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 17, 1908, Page 1

vol fue tet 10. LAST EDITION NO. CONTROL OF THE FIGHTERS. the country tree grove tino, M , California peninsula 12 to September Pane, 8D 1 to September § Loss, $3. district, ‘Loss, $2,000,000 . fires that the northern part of Mich. | the past three days dead to date ts |< Teast 2,000 families have homelees today that in addition feported destroyed South Rogers. , Rad several smad villages of known Bolton, i on rs City, along the fon shore. In Presqy " quad If to August 24 ey tor 1 to September 7 Lows, $2 September . Eswex, War counties. dead, § 2 to September Northwestern Pennsylva- ‘Southeastern Virginia. Lose, $2,000, eke eketeeeee Obio Pee eee eee eee ee eee ee ee eee eee eee eee eee) 203 Have Lost Their and Hundreds Are | Injured. Arcee eee ag RECORD. prineipa have been The was to yes The fire is now citizens Alpena, in the ling to advices are county about way | Great areas of ‘fanihilated Already the iting the And a night Mackinac three land « intense heat Of VeRnely Trains For Het train t nigh iB of the Hed to strate b Ratiroad the cou _ i a Se ae ee SF. Believe B feared Preatly MR are | Twenty F Mhovg Metis (Continu OyRAN, on th and childre that Petoskey Fires Defy Fighters Oct fanned by « stead City, on Tt ale barying old effects and tugs Eto remove the people by the fire get too close Alpena Farmers Settlement are fighting P thelr homes. City and is Messages that are FLAMES ARE (wreari RNC ON AGAIN ARE NOW BEYOND THE Why ce Why We wre draped aft k Our we praise hi ear is deafened by » we always m it that our athe « words Then The S as many nic g writte em obit It will the good tl be much me All the h wary they w votes. Here I des subject of ORD FROM good works « (Signed) tar will print ¢ things as w n These taries be intéresting to the gen held until the bier is prepared the arrival are leath mpla an be said al THE SEATTLE STAR SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, OCT. 17, 1908. PRICE ONE CENT wait until a man is dead before roses onl neve Our fellow citizen goes hurtlir an article al uld be saic s will be lat sont cach one, saying 1 if an obit in the eral natu blic se me mary were re of ante to know n re interesting to the men themselves readers of The Star have ¢ twelve to do is te > filbout a coupon with the name of the man whose ante-mortem obit The Star will print the lives and receiving the highest number of is the coupon ire t an ante-r BOSTON, Get infidence of uc oP the Post, wht the letter. The Etah, A jane ae © are no ation with ue Hew the and again the sturdy little I prow, Etat ave, in the ont in the w four skin tents the Eskimos We have take supply #hip, the leave today for (By | Un ALLEJO, ¢ in the last vend forth for at hing for a cess in hie dash Captain Peary bas written ch today published letter, which word I W severing a civilization great fee Er ted Pre ROM eerereer eee esse ees of «ol uttines and she willl on A S shall | mur Arctic pack and by E. Annts. ing each brother, " have been f murder for the killing bd DIBA Se ee ed ABRUZZI PPEARS. (By United Preas.) 1B, Oc) chasing $60,000 worth of jewels from a Turtn firm and present officer of his ship, the Regina Elena, with a pair sleeve d@ Abruse! bas disappeared. Aj though absolutely nothing cana be learned of the dui abouts, it le whispered that he will soon turn up in America After pur joke, Duke where ee ee ee eed HAINS BROTHERS : INDICTED FOR —_— Ind adve (By United Press.) YORK, © ICOTTAGE CITY HAS NARROW ESCAPE CHIEF WARD HAS AWAKENED Q INEFFICIENCY OF POLICE FOR THE LIVING ) TELLS THEM T0 G0 10 WORK COMPLAINS OF LAXITY IN CONDUCT OF OFFICERS. No Effort Being Made to Keep the City Rid of Criminals, f of Police Ward has at lat awakened to the inefficiency of the department under hi nirol. Ever ther citizen of Rea has kne nthe, ard in addition to knowing positively of its inefficiency han been morally certain that it t# thoroughly corrupt. Chief Ward hae either intentionally or through ix horance been blind to conditions, with the result that the strictest violated openly and flagrantly Criminals of every sort have oper: ated with astounding boldness, con fident of easy escape from poliee- men who knew that dereliction of duty Would bring them neo repri- mand But ¢ their onthe of complaint have had | t and Vike the wearing | of tegen water upon a stone, the ofit-told tales of the de walieed mdition of the police have finally worn thelr way through the official cranium. Lectures Hie Men. Last night Ward read the depart- ment @ lecture, He called officers and patrolmen before him and di tared that unless they paid more g ttention to the rules and regula # tions « thorough shake-up was cer @ thin to result. Sergeants were told # | they would be by a thelr res @#|trolmen were in turn notified that @ it was up to them to save thelr @ official scalps &| The chief referred particularly to! . * * * . . * * tive districte The pa- the habit uniformed patroimen have | Had he made an | have « of entering saloc investigation which woul jeupied him less than two hours tm) Any one evening, he would have die | covered this to be one of the mild- eat offenses of the members of the force Gambling Is Open. re are teday more than 4¢ operating in thie offy, the in the business die n-town lodging houses, cigar stands and saloons, where card | gambling is carried on These games ate for the most jpart run by fessional gamblers, | many of whom are known by sight land repotation to practically all of the old-timers on the police fored, Burr Melntosh’s Monthly, at the oUF | Bayside Yacht at | volver, h ut Jenkins at nm the iding | Captain Haine kith uid be hel go " SHAFER’S PLEA ARMY SURGEON IS Ot eaty ' which he Shafer was ering f t Sound lat ente charge the officer was present he merely | Down ir basement at Batters & Smith's, 906 First av, three abesale are running ¢ Th the # ne ning. bite at acked a interposed ene av ation, but 4 t. Shaft t is from the | tur by the t silway, of| There are « rt of agent n. Chin e , F person can # " Va et ' at CONDITION OF KILLED ed TYPHOON °;;, “D By Un ted Press.) Assis ron ¥ VAN DENNIS IMPROVES °°". <>" XCURSION SmCRWTARY Police Ignore Orders (Continued on Page Seven.) rules of the department have been | k) reaponatble for | THE WEATHER FAIR TONIGHT, WITH LIGH® FROST; SUNDAY, FAIR AND WARMER VIEW OF VESSEL SHOWING DAMAGE | he COLLIDES WITH UNKNOWN BOAT AND IS VERY BADLY WRECKED One Man Is Knocked Overboard and Passengers and HODGE NOT HAMPERED Officers in Their Staterooms Are Mixed Up BY PROMISES OF JOBS With Breaking Timbers and Some Are a Injured—One Suffers Broken Leg. Candidate T Tells Just What 1 om 2 He Will Do If Hels rrice untiampered by promi Elected. will select the best men avaliable to verve as my deputies | voluntary sup I will go int In a head-on collision last night; the night and the consequent lack jabout 11 o'clock, the steamer Cot- Of knowledge of their exact condb tage City, of the Pacific Coast |“ the officers remained perfectly | cool, and soon at Rodert T. Hodge, republican Economy and Service. — Steamship company, was badly | chaos that dolloned the Gear tt ndmiinee for sheriff, proved himself 1 will endeavor to sive ae wrecked and had a narrow eseape| Close behind the Cottage City was tote loyal to the new era in polities county the best administrat ol trom total destruction. She had | the George E. Starr. Signals of dle barely sta 4d on r econd tri tress from the wrecked vessel at rth, reaching a point opposite |tTacted it and it hastened to the ferson Head, when she mew with |Tscue, transferring the passengers, & tug having two lumber schooners |#0me of whom were still so badly n tow. She missed the first of frightened that they deserted the these, but struck the second, pre-| ‘eck of the Cottage City and were umed to be the Blakeley, of Port, brought back to Seattle, ciad in Blakeley, a raking blow on her port | their night garments side, the bowsprit of the schooner raking along the upper works of the Cottage City shing the pilot house, breaking the foremast off lush with the upper deck, caving in a life boat hangin the davits and ma « splinters of everything ane ele by the operation of the the sheriffs office it bas ¢ election law, in a speech I will run the office ax |Udfare republican voters in Beth- cally as i# consistent with ‘aay Presbyterian church, Queen service | will endeavor Awnp bill, last night ed sheriff, to increase th “1 went through the primary cam-| of the office by more diligence bi \petgn without violating a single the capture of criminals, I wil previeion of the primary election sot abandon a chase to save ex jiaw/ eed I intend to follow the pense as soon as the popular out | samie course until the election No-|ery following a crime has died | Yember 3,” be declared down, but will follow a criminal ae A Dangerous Support. jong aa there ts a chance of cap “1 have promised no jobs in re turing him. I think the best pre tute for support during the cam. ventative of crime ts to make peo |paign. I deem it un-American for ple realize that they cannot escape amy man to work for a candidate punishment for erime. én the brides. | They had troubles of their own to in the expectation of getting a job Pellowiag the on Hod — Quartermaster Oscar Nelson, who |*t24 to, and when the first ex- i of the local aerle of the ar Nelsor >! citement hb r 5 adie candidate e cloted.. Auch «guest of the Woe! serie Mir |war al the wheel, wan ‘Knocked “Hement had eubuided the lamber \city are apt to go to the oppos!- hall, a courtesy tended because | COW? eo Be prvi rg dn Bs Pilot Ben Craig was in charge }ti@n party if the promise ie not of his membership in the Black Shand einen ‘the Ges of the boat at the time, but can mide or kept Diamond aerie make no statement concerning the City about and the bulge of |" ee ina” jabeaas starboard (cause of the accident. None of the crew is any better informed, as aide, laying be ge open from | * the rai} to the water line, and| most of the men were asleep at breaking the leg of Frank Matico, |tt.time. Arrangements have been an Italian passenger, Another | Made for the transfer of the pas Italian passenger was slightly in sengers to the Jefferson, which Barese Richard Jones, | Sails ight, and the freight not- wh . “ damaged will be sent north on the was on the bridg ‘as knocked |. he bridge, was knocked |7ampico and the City of Seattle Schooner Disappears. The schooner with which the vee sel collided went on its way with+ out stopping. Whether any dam age was done to it, the officers of the wrecked steamer do not know, ia District overboard and into the wa b In numerous cases it le quite gen- ‘s y er, but ° f Brooklyn oe ed e believed her to be ¥ a line was thrown him and he was |", the 20th of this month Pt a erally reported that the games are| Judge Says | Man Is Not : r sed ber h . REE ae te et | err en carowe Miia and he was | ""niis was te. have heen: the: eh ae Safe With the Bi ‘acch tute F od sary son's second trip north of the Cot- Jenkine t hard to find the games u ie Dig Mare ha ae ire, Bee Avene Panic Barely Averted. tage City, which was recently put 4 en th > a wm Of or ng from the Philipp! J . ae icted th ¢| Many of them are almost in plain Woman. hailing, from lg ~ yay Pile Passengers were hurled from/on the run in place of the wrecked f William | sight of the throngs passing along aimed to be her son their berths by the shock. Intense | Humboldt. Capt. Jensen, who cot rising manager Of the busiest streets of the olty __o ry of a new father was as much mary thrndangon “ . a av Li 0 com- eats tae saa to the One excitemet railed, and it was|manded her, was also making his ub, at Bayside, L. I Officer Watches Game. “It is plain that {t te not safe for = ce tae buake con was to thal’ ya of remarkable | second trip since the return of his th a harged with! In the rear of the cigar store this man to live with this woman pret ‘and the boy told his mother esence of mind that the officers | license, which was suspended for iret degree 104 Ptke #t. gambling has been car-|said Judge Frater this imorning, | 10h see it ot stay with b prevented a panic. Men and women | 20 days early in the summer, when ad by with drawn re-| ried on continuously for months. A | after listening to Willis E. Kincaid’s | (hat be wou Hoe Kay Tl eaming » the deck, many|this same boat ran aground. The 4 | Soe on S the Teporter for The Star visited hte réhearsal in divorce court of bis ad cant need that the ve was | Cottage City is one of the oldest tales that ey | Place, watched money pass, and saw | ventures in the matrimonial field | °*® : ii ae i a and that they were ned |and best known steamships on the equally guilty Patrolman Phtilips enter and gase | st hie marriage to his wife,| Kincaid testified that, npon (h Despite jackness of | Alaskan run at the game for several minutes |Graoe, three years ago. Kincaid | his wife ordered him tc ee, ae The dealer had about $20 tn afiver| testified that his wife was a large | he has not lived with he « stacked up in front of him. While} woman, several inches taller than said that marric SSS ON 1909 TAX LEVY 1 r came to the | fora hime office « A where he was employed severa }monthe ago and gave-bim a se ting Ye also stated that when he ma Council Financiers Fail to | Contractor Pleads With be ferred to th engineer's) both & minority and & mak ty re vn RSNA Se / Board for Extension Moa of ¢ t the cou h i which to establis W bridges, of Time. ne ‘ ’ wi it | » t pres ting the ie BURNED TO DEATH SUICIDES AS FORMER crior court tor an injunction to| WUST KEEP THE SWEETHEART WEDS me mares crree,<!| STREETS CLEARED! '" THEIR SLEEP | OU C. J. Briekson now has w (By United Press oO GELI Ar ' c , t m 1 t of f t " 1} ea y , a ‘ 1 be ‘ in wh complet 1 ° itt . i WHIST CLO TONIGHT a ox , : A at contract jefint The 1 t