The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 7, 1908, Page 1

AST ITION 244 VOL. 10. NO W-MAKERS RESUME TASK . A. Wiley resolution them was tomorrow WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 Tesounding whacks of @) sentative Townsend, of Michigan, mallet, wielded by Uncle teday formally announced that he nd three gentle tape wilt not be a candidate for the gavel in the hands Of | epeakership of the house. ‘SUM ft YARDS -Repre- the solons form- pready for the business of s Unele Sam may beat 9 be odd dollars next wer before the beginning of the galleries were pack- majority of the spec- anda they were latest fashions. finery ‘erm Senators. senators are starting ast term of duty. d there are nearly | on the apparently that they would be/. upon the accomplished | FOR REPAIRS AT BREMERTON. who are probably | jest terms today! of Washington: (By Uniteo Presa.) WASHINGTON, o- 7 j Condress will be asked to make ape hose reelection has ai- cial provision for the improvement accomplished Fe poe lat we {actilties at the Puget Sound Brandegee of | and Mare Istand navy ya: on the of Arkanses, Clay of | Pacitix foast so that battleships of Vermont, of the deepest draft can dock at of New Hampshire, Gore | ether place for repairs was made Hoyburn of Idaho, | evident when the report of Rear of Ilinols, Lattimer of | Admiral W. L. Capps, chief con yt Melinerny of Louis structor of the navy, reached con- of Nevada, Overman xress today. The report of the Carolina, Peurose of | chief constructor contains his first Smoot of Utah, | official statement since his visit to ot Wisconsin and Stone | Hawail and the Pacific coast last #. The latter and Bran-| July, and it is made plain that the a fight on thelr hands. | navy department will recommend " beget ap be provided on the Pa. jeifie coast for docking the large Peipanks, 8° | test that will eventualiy be mate March 4, was carly OD) tained in the Pacific He was all urbanity and | ap ebtopae - After the opening prayér | $200,000 Wanted. Wenerable chaplain, Kdward| Rear Admiral Capps recommends Hale, and the roil cai), the | that $296,000 be appropriated for Feastomary resolutions, whieh | repairs and improvements at the the beginning of a new ses-| Puget Sound navy yard and a tke . adopted |amount for construction work at fixed the hour of the| Mare Island. This amount is need lings at uoon. The sec ed, he says, for work that js ab the secretary to notify) solutely necersary and he makes that the senate was inja recommendation that additional Spd the third authorized | provision be made for other work dent to appoint a com- The docking facilities on the At P join the committee ap-|iantic coast are being imprdved, the house to notify the | says the report, but it adds: “There that the congress was) is only one dry dock on the Pacific Fecelve any message he} coast which can be used for dock Wish to send. ing battleships, and that is located to Geanter: Alliecn. at the navy yard, Puget Sound Dolliver then arose. In Constructing Two Docks, Words he depicted the grief} “There are, however, two other a ke and other members of the| docks in course of construction WS @elegation felt at the death a rewpeet the | BH rey maceh'ine $200,000 IS WANTED) WATCH OU HOH FAKE AGENTS SMOOTH GRAFTERS ARE WORKING IN THIS CITY. Worthless Articles Sold) by Stirring, Tearful Stories. Probably attranted by the equable climate and the open hearted man her fn which moet Beattle fc their Meney, & Dumber of a2 and wing visittry are pow oecipyMg their time sell jing “fake” piano polleh, waxhless lotions and ‘arveral other labor saving articles usual ly wud enumerated fm the clase et in “Handy, Hinta for House 1 by the numerous re }porta of Chowne who have been in duged to part with some of their ready" cash, moch to thelr later }obagrin, the field has been well and thoroughly worked Such Fine Potish | | Im the exclusive “first hill” die | trict, one particularly affable young man has been selling a mixture of ordinary white and graham Nour | for plano poll He claims to rep | resent a ae of plano dealers | on Third ay. which doeg not exist, | has some splendid examples of the printer's art in the shape of artis tle folders, and uswally comes “dt rected by your dear friend, Mrw Smithson Smithers, Just around the corner.” It is sad to relate how many of our beat ladies have been separated from $3.00 of the family funds by the very taking way of this piano polish agi | And Solder, Too. Then there ts a boyish |chap who has’ the very lat king in @ patented solder, that “requires no acid,” and can be used instantly He Is trying to earn enough 1 to pey bis passage home. in com | fidence he telie you that he comes| from a wealthy family In Yonkers, throws in a few hinta about being too proud to write home for help, | jad Ub, ete, ete You pay any-} where from 10 cents te @6.00, based on your measure of aeympethy, for | the solder.ewhich is composed of ordinary lead, and close the door | with a sneaking impression that lyou have aided in a worthy cause. | There {x no tabulated Het of the! | farailier involved in the deepest } and most pitiful depths of poverty, but there are a mamber of fake agents for charitable Institutions | collecting fonds to axiist "a worthy | object,” In some family of miator tune, whose trials are sufficiently sad to bring tears from eyes of @ brass monkey often loosens the t and which vety tender hearted | § |Hatener from some of hig weekly wage Easy Marks Plentiful. There may be some “fakes” that! have not reached this there may be cities where the peo- | [ple “are readier to help tWeir leas fortunate brothers and sisters, but | }the long list of victims who have) pocketed their pride and openly joined the ranks of E. Z Marks would hot confirm such a bellef The police Bepartment bas paid very little attention to the constant complaints about these fake agenta, jand in consequence the number of }thowe engaged {n accumulating }some of the needful from the gulll | ble public id increasing at a rapid | rate | | Blg SUM I WANTED Appropriations Asked of Congress Amount to $824,408,948.01. than @ name city, and |h semen eae A PRICE ONE CENT A PULL-TOGETHER ARE AFRAID CAMPAIGN THE UNITED PACIFIC STATS." New 9 but there's a ound of aip and strength and mutual boosterahip in it, don't you think? That is just what it is bound to.atand for. In the « we of the next few years co-operation on broad Commercial and industrial lines between the seven Pacific in and near Paeifie stu a fact All for éach and each for all!” bound to be more It muet be ‘That in the slogan of the commer HUMES ola! organizations and citizens who are welding together the vast in mais of these seven far Wentern commonwealths i Washington, Idaho, |CITIZENS WILL NOT Oregon, Utah, hd VENTURE OUT California, Nevada. Artec AT NIGHT. These, with Alawka and the island’ possessions of Hawalt and the Philippines, « titute—-or ought to eonstitute—the Wnited Pacific} ‘ nom Merchants Say Busines Not that the seceding from the rest of the country, merely Saturday Night W that they are to stand shoulder to shoulder in boosting each other and} ry S i seenring the united support of thelr 30 congressmen and 14 Unitea] Very Slack. States senators for the appropriations necessary to make public im-| oe provements all along the-tine, from Hritish Columbia to Mexico, By| Fer the first time in many iting woldly, these offtetale can get about everything they go after; MOnths, merchants of Seattle com If they are too slow in goth after what any of these states and terri-| Mined today that the crowds torion want, we propose that out readers help-to send them after it, |/#*t Saturday night falled to come This’ te & movement of the Je to put’ a local Jenlousies |" (© expectations, They were un and suicidal bickering and knock Ket together in the face of SMe (© xive any reason for the ee a iatines falling off of business, especially Wholesome emulation ts often a stimulant, Keen rivalry ts gooa—|8t tie time, when holiday shop Hil It Rete to hitting below the belt) Then ft ts disastrous and we | PPTs + ae tein eee the beogme own oppressors | Although a heavy fog enveloped We believe that the fountains of co-operation are not plugged! the city Saturday night, it ia not up. We want to ne the other mam'’siworth and the other community's | thought thet the inclement weather needs joytully ended by hig Aelghbor, We will strike a higher Slime dhespene” ased the Saturday averagé of prosperity only when the strong help the weak, and when dela uk kc. ne Shee Denes, peta: together: |. The real reason is belleved to This te ¢ epoch of associsied endeavor, All real nucceas comes! pe that hundreds of Beattle fam. from this; You are dolug somethitig for somebody, benefiting x ilies do not care to leave their ortion of humanity, not all of whieh dwells under your hat nes unprotected while the pollc Fraternity 1s never @ vain word when danger presses on all alfke, | he ubarently be ragrryto yi if the Coast's Interests are not merged, they must soon be submerged dences which is now relitag. On The Japa have swept our small commerce from the seas; our con-| the firet hill and on ( pitol hill eress must be competied to help ue bulld up a merchant marine. Our | Police protection 1b a joke, and the 2,000 miles of coast ling are open at scores of points to the landing | Tbber# m to reatize that fact. | As one well known resident of of a Invading ariny; we must have fOrtifications, We have no place | Capitol hill said to for caring for a fleet trust give us at least three navy yards 1 don't feel like going down equal to Ports: folk. Ove harbors need breakwaters and| town with my family any night river channels need deepening Stedaing. Ov Our arid lands need | fT, never know when | am going to be ‘gaspiped’ or have my home irrigation, the whole country needs Better roads, and the tariff needs| entered and everything carried to be altered in the interests of our producers. away in my absence The total For years the Dosst country has) been heid back by a lack of | !mabiilty of the police to p: te mutual understariding, and by an absence of unanimity of action be-|#PArtment house looting as well residence ae th looting ef private tween our larger cities, descending at times to campaigns of narrow slowly learned by. the. cit backbiting, whereby the interests of the whole Coast have suffered. isens of Seattle and their disin The Star beligves that a strong Eeaction is coming against these|Clination to go down town of nights is bein ing partment exhibitions of narrow jealousy—that Bo section ca knocked with owt hurting every section, and that o@ city or harbor, or river, or arid off of business at the big de atores saption, can be improved and boomed without benefiting all While not All of these seven stafes (for Arizona will noon be a MRE state) touch th® Meeific, their larger interests are identical, and cli SHOPPING DAYS BEFORE of them wil) prosper because Of tif) big things that are coming The commercial bodjen of these s@ven states are formulating plane for getting congressional aad Ideal aetion on al! there details of which from daytsday we ghalf lay before Let us from this propositions. our readers. y start the cry of the United Pacific States ere seers were : SLEUTHS SLEUTH WHILE BURGLARS BURGLE Things were quiet about police jcold, bat stuck to his post man headquarters last night | Seity. } J - an ‘That is, things appeared to belinienal” 1 FO J Pon a Cannon Conference quiet Hud, after the paved district had}, WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—Vie City Detective Ed Griffith wae been covered by the automobile. Somaya eset 8. weer holding down Captain of Detectives | “Let's go back 4 fy. ag 86 a r a 2 aaere haar nat, e Charles Tennant's swivel chair with ray Dee atte: please rp ih Med Msetivane Wenetica tau the alr of © man right om the Sob. |i” Nowa” ordered eit ee | Taft and Speaker Cannon had been Aw Ed sat meditating upon thug. | Nee | sy ‘ae bed “i agreed upon, to take place here gery and its ramifications, a gigan-| 004 (it Diels. Male rots | me. time thie’ w The exact te Idea, shining with pristine brit)" 8l¢ date has not yet been determined Nance, emote midships And in the Meantime, | rats Sacred erent As Ed eat hugging the inepira-| But while Griff and Hud were tion, his face wreathed in beatific Meuthing about Capitol Hill in the smilen, in walked City Detective H.|chief's auto to catch burglars and Curtie Adams, the 400-pound sleuth |stick-ups, something did happ whose picturesque handling of the | after al) mother tongue in a thing of beauty| For instance, while the Big Red} and a joy f Auto was buring up gasoline paid! “S-apostrophe-death!” hissed Ed./ for by the city, a ourgiar smashed What's yuh now? quoth|a@ hole through the kitchen window H, Curtis fat the home of W. B. Williams, Dim Red Lights. prewident of W. B. Williams & Co... “Draw near, fellow worker, and yo goa brokers, at 1219 Hast Tit Dut you bib. ryavanded Oritt.t “ths setber, apparently unaward yy reign Boy that Griff and Hud were hunting er go,” said “Hud” inter him in the Big Red A entedly. “Silp me the dope. Any.| im !o the Big Red Auto, took his | time and sorted all the solid silver AWAY body's dump been tumbled? Any L : 9? {| Ware from the plated stuff prith Rsgoatery oo t with the info! 1) WhoneM?. and Mrs. Williame 7 Liet!” said Griff Mothought 1 | TeWehed home last night they t | a poe Aah ov ‘olte phoned fo police headquarters that ; heard & newspaperman loitering | tate touse had been looted, and| THIEF LEAVES LOOT near-—well, since none of those | that they thought the burglar might bloodhound’ are at hand, 1 wilt give | 18) ee lone IN HIS HASTY viz.: One on Puget Sound and one te i it to you right fellow colleague, the late} at Mare Island, which, when com-| yn vVniine Rtins dase ak You know, Hhd, that the feative Thief Gets Away. FLIGHT. tor William B. Allison. He of. | Dleted will accommodate the Jarg: yey pol er ye ont ona |prowler fs at large and is tearing| Olty De tective Lee Barbee and & resolution expressing the| est battleships now in commiasion Po gi narnia sf Pracgmutonsy to. | the residence district In a fash-| Patrolman Frank Speir were at " of the senate in the lo#s|or laid down. It js not probable|day by Secretary of the Treas fon altogether too fresh Wasernl it's a & soled to bike to the scene|Feline Then Guides Its Mistained. The senate adopt-| that the dock at Puget Sound will re B. ly | up to us to stop these robberies. \of the crime, but when they entered 3 Fesolution and adjourned un-| be available for use within the |wre™ asd Fo uecessary | ““f'en #0," said Hud in a manner |the barn, alas! the Big Red Auto Master to Discovery *, next three years. The new dock |." = ee oe ine fOvern’| which showed that he was follow-|was goné>and the officers were | ma oF Albert HB. Cummins of/at Mare~ Island, however, under | ment the coming year he repor' ing Griff's plaintive tale compelled {6 ride to the Williame’ of Crime. Be chosen successor of the| favorable conditions ought to be | Pecities the following ibportion:|'“sNow, here's my plan,” resumed }reagence in the slow-golng police Sash ba lor Allison, probably will) ready for une within the next year|sistr8 17) oe, eoseatiy “tani \ariff, “You and | shall go to’ the| patrol, When they arrived there fn at tomorrow's session.| or 18 months.” |$13,178,1 pi htee. Capitol Hill district and show those }ud gobber was in sight, but he had| Frightened by the family cat, a in the House. | Admiral Capps calls attention to| fre $211 099 1eo 10, (BewEDAVEr guys that we can catch | carried off about $250 worth of solid | burglar who entered the home’ of of re tatl were on | the fact that during the recent visit | ‘tutertar $ a robber once in a while silverware, a Smith & Wesson re-| Homer Bull of the Bull Bros. nt aannghany Hardest 9 , c » : lerior, $200, volver and $7 in cash Prinuing Co. 911 Third av, fled Of the house before noon, | Of the Atlantic fleet to the Pacific | 5 postoffice, $1,741,040; Hal’ the Auto, it how Griff and Hud minsed|trom the house some. tit be Cannon's office was 81 othe fedt wor ie “e snols agriculture vain aeereemense |. ix) foe minal sngried qce [this thief is hard to imagine, as|tween Saturday night and Sunday i They crowded the Bee ure docked at & Prl-| and jabor, $13,043,845; justice, $9, |“None of the Big Hike—me for t | the | § C ‘ maok: @ doe! f 4 eh yitiiee yg ¥ were looking for him from the| morning without completing bis act ’ 4 cigars and cracked | 78° Gre stan Waler oon | 600,020 Big Red Avto or nothio’ doin!” | ilu of the street in the Dig Red |of.jooting the premises. As it wa hes | Bremerton Water: Depth. Among the tmportant individual | wound up H. Curtis, hia face like |MGdIe of the Fo is, Rag oeieotins she. premabent. Ad. It wan, eS ininute to twelve the gaze Pag Sg ysngge d - hin {nanection | oxtimates ander an increase in the | the full moon on aa amy wigs ‘ Gilli Another. One Gon at adee ai aieall ‘Extiolen » navy ards o é "a J . 24 8 79 e ‘ dee eoxa P nd y Ay ig “ at the rest : th eaker's | Const, Admiral Capps says ae 33 esata “080 408 19: as # | orl aD antt We'll take the oblet'e About two blocks away from the} Mr. and Mrs. Bull left home Sat - u 4 € pera Bi ‘ yo oe ’ 79; an ed , : a 5 . dle 4 sat They were looking for Un-| “In conformity with the depart-| tortation for navy, $5,000,000; navy|auto and sleuth about the paved |Wllama’ residence ix the home ot} uray he Sa Be Psy at 10 J At the first gumpse of his | Ment's Instructions, the navy yards | varde and stations, $9,811,720; the|streets of Capitol. Ml and eateh | Edward A. Nelson, at 728 Bleventh | Wn esterds ‘ ; ui 4 Pountenance, members and|*t Mare Island, Cal. and Puget! iension budget 1s named at $161,-|enough thieves and prowlera to|@#N. Strange to say, the Nelson | O'clock. It is bé Haved think, tbs 4 in'w big demon-| Sound, Wash., wore visited on my|bisnoo; fortifications and other de.|make the rest of boys nurse /hotie was broken into while Griff] burElir smashed a hole in a rear b speaker mounted the| Féturn trip to Washington. While|sonsen,'$17.263 261; rivers and har.|the Green-Ryed at way you,{am@ Hud were autosleuthing, Tho} Window some time Saturday night his throne. He weized the | Conditions at these yards are con ae on propriations necessary, $41, | brother?” jbufgiar carried off allver plate | and started systematically to loot Bd held 11 aloft menactngly.| *antly Improving, there is still | g4y 108, ‘ You betcher life," answered the} Valmed at $175. It really was a| the irae SRS atau Fa Mention being paid to this | om for considerable improvement, | 400-pounde shame that the robber did not walk While oa ig x po eee he aulet, he ba sered | Cepeclally with respect to docking WON'T PAY THE FREIGHT, With that the patr of peendo Vi-jim the middle of the street when| the cat probe nly i n mpet upon MY, Ad the honwe satire land pler tacditles and appliances| docas repaired to the barn, yanked }GHfE and Hud wore in the Hig Red | table and went n tin’ pan crush to order ; for handitng heavy weights (By United Press.) Chauffeur Murdock away from al aug. ‘Need! he rotuer wh bs lthis trig toned. tha’. Dinkior and Henry Couden, the blind]. The ehief constructor takes up| CHICAGO, Dee, 1—Agents of} game of piteh, and gave thelr or-| Was found of the robber who loot, Hie ima eens Ht of the house ered pray | the mooted question of the deepen-| eastern manufe turing firms are ac: | der Whisking merrily up to Cap |@d the homes of r iiiames an¢ af bas Th nih’ filaht Ba’ apet SF which the speaker ordered | 128 of the approsehes £6 th Mare credited with the statement today {tol Hill, the Ble Red Auto carried | MB Nelson looked several valuable articles of L & proceeding that required | Island navy yard concerning whieH |ithat many of the eastern business |two Sherlocks, cach of whom wore eo half an hou | there was mach a diversity of opin-|houses intend to withdraw thelr|an air of self-watisfaction " HAINS MUST GO TO AOR ae oe ane ne New Members on on the Pacitic coast |goods from the markets of the} pack and forth, across ale ab oye A gr: “he embers Sworn in, | “While,the depth of water in the| western states rather than pay the! gtreets and back again, went the TRIAL MONDAY. — waltag ta. seaaita” Due ge Slected to fil vaeanetes| approaches to and at the navy yard | increased freight rates that will be-| Hawkshaws : A ig er pe geo ne Wer worn. in./at Puget Sound is all that could Jaavary 1 , i (By United Press.) Ugualfy the os . are: 0, ( K.), New| be desired,” he says, ‘thenavy yard or eee The Villains Cower, INDW YORK, Dec, 7. — Jus purrs when mentbers of the family OHA, Bary D.), Indian it Mare island Is not nearly sole ee RAR AHR ER ® & ew] “I fall to nee Any robbers come | Cane of the supreme court of] return after an absence of several Aaine P.| fortunate in this respect, and the|* *\ forward and bes us to arrest) Pushing, N. J, decided today that! hour Yesterday, however, the ert provision of an adequate depth of |* ON PAGE 5, *|them, my dear Watson,” said Griff|the trial of Thornton Jenking| oat acted strangely and walked a 4. M. Dent,| water In the approaches thereto is |* *|to Hud, who was all huddled up in} Mains should go on next Monday.| few feet towards the kitchen as W. Martin) « matter of the highest importanee|* The second of Mr, Reynold’s *| the tonneau Heine is the brother of Captain thov asking the m % nore Mr aud it is recommended that the|* articles on “Why Our Courte #| “Your powers of deduetion as-/ Péter © Hains, the slayer of Wm, | Bull watched the eat for a fow sec tical vn Perens ett teat VED Aen Mettiataed! will he found &ltewnd me. Holmes.’ reniied H. Cure! Anis, whose trial is delayed pend-|onde and then. followed to the flected tn the fall-| *" n} THE WEATHER RAIN TONIGHT AND TUESDAY; MOD. ERATE BOUTH WIND. ee CS tee RR etme meet en er me EF WARD'S RESIGNATION IS READY FOR MAYOR'S DECISION GIVES UP HIS ° LOSING FIGHT ~ SHAKE-UP 1 SURE TO COM vine y wane \|EAZY DETECTIVES TO Resigns as Chiet of Potice| GO BACK TO OP ie Sin a+ cane BEATS. Who J | Soft Snaps Are About to Come to Sudden End on the Force. | ee ee ee eo * * * CHIEF WARD'S HISTORY. *& i* * * Chief of Police Irving T. & * Ward came to Seattle in 1900; & * was a street car conductor for & * three years. On June 1, 1904, & ® entered the police department; # | * was patrolman for two and & rs; sergeant for # * years, and then a captain & *® until Mayor Mitler made him & |PRESIDENT AGAIN IS) acting chiet of police at the # % time the present chief execu- % | AFTER A PAIR OF [3 tive took office ‘In. March, % } EDITORS. |® 1908, after which he accepted & j IT |* the permanent appointment. * | * * Denies All Charges of *********¥¥¥¥H# | As announced ex vely in The | Graft in the Panama | Star, it has been determined that | Canal Purchase. | Chief of Police Irving T. Ward will resign : of the prea- jent he police department eee ee ee 2 oe th hands of Mayor Mil- * % |Jer tomorrow ‘* (By United Press.) *%| Chief Ward acknowledges that * WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.— #|he can no longer stand up under ® A resolution providing for the &| the criticisms of The Star regard- ® appointment a committee of ®|ing the general.inefficiency of the * five members to investigate #| police department. . ® the purchase of the Panama *| “I am getting to be @ nervous * canal property, and ascertain * ck,” the chief sald to one of }® whai portion, if any, of the #/|his acquaintances, “and appreciate ® $46,000,000 paid by the govern. # | the fact that I am not securing the ® ment went to an American #| best results from my men. This ® syndicate, was introduced in #/| constant pounding from news. % the house today by Represent- # | papers has made me almost crazy.” ® ative Rainey, of Iilincis *| Willing to Quit. * *| More than a week ago Chief Ward BORER EERE EEE HH) announced to the that he mayor | was willing to resign whenever the “ey i city’s chief executive thought that HOT SPRINGS, Dec. 7.—In a]q change would Improve the work | letter William Dudley Foulke,|of the department, or benefit the President Roosevelt denounces the os Gee A sition “esh At that time Mayor jer did not Panama canal » published {n | meet accept the proffered. resignation, | the New York Sun and Indlanapolis | goeiing that there was still a chance News during the recent campaign |for Ward to make good with the as a bundle of scandalous false. | 4 “agence one Po gm —_ hoods and he scores both of the|the very last before even tacitly jacknowledging a mistake in Insist- papers for printing the articles. |ing upon Ward taking control of the Late last month Mr Foulke | police department wrote a letter to President Roose: | Began to Resign. velt, stating that the Indianapolis | The beginning of the end came | } (By United Press.) | to News, even after the campaign| When Ward announced, through an interview in a morning newspaper, was over, was continuing its a rey nuing its At-/that, inasmuch as he had never tack against Mr. Roosevelt, Presi. qualified for the office of chief by dentelect Taft and the administra | filing his bond or taking an ex- tion in connection with the Panama | amination, he felt that he was still purchase. The pa alleges that |legally entitled, under civil service | private citizens including relatives | rules, to his old title of captain. jot Roosevelt and Taft had made} Mayor Miller, while never dis- j big sums of ‘money through the| cussing this question for publica- purchase. .It was charged that the | tion, further than to take issue with United Sta bought from Ameri-! Chief Ward as to the legal conten- can citize for $40,000,000 prop-/tion involved, felt that Ward had erty that cost those citizens only{ taken an exceedingly ill-advised po- $12,000,000. sition, and was displeased at the President Roosevelt replied in!way the question had been given his characteristic manner and said | publicity |that both the editors of the In Has No Objection. | dianapolis News and New York! At another recent interview be- Sun knew that the articles were /tween the mayor and the chief the absolutely false. The “inaccessible” liatter announced again that he papers referred to could be seen) would resign, and Mayor Miller of- by anyone who desired to go to! fered no objections to such a step. the trouble of asking for them. | it ig understood that the resignation Mr. Roosevelt dented in toto all of | will be placed in Miller's hands to- | the chargos and espe y that bis) morrow brother-intaw, Mr, Robinson, or| ‘The name of the new chief has Charles Taft, William H. Taf€s!neen determined upon, but will not brother, had eived any benefit! he announced until after the resig. in any way from the ‘sale of the| nation of Ward is received and offi- | Panama canal. Mr, Roosevelt em cially accepted. It can be stated almost authoritatively that the hief of police will not be selec of the present members phatically stated that the editors of both papers knew they tied and| |those who wrote the articles knew |from any |they were stating untruths Jof the department | As a beginning, the entire de- } Mr. Laffan Replies. Itective force is to be reorganized, | NEW YORK, Dec, 7.—Mr, Laf-|although the exact manner of this }fan, editor of the Sun, replies*to| reorganization will pot be deter- the president's letter as follows mined upon until the mayor can | “Notwithstar the directness|have a talk with his new chief of his challenge, the editor of the} about police matters generally Sun declines a controversy with! members of the present detective Mr. Roosevelt. He is by no means/force will be relegated to a “unt- indifferent to the. implied compli-| form and beat” as ordinary patzol- ment discernible in Mr. Roosevelt's} men when the change takes place tirade, but Mr. Roosevelt has} There are several of the detectives shown in his former collisions with} who have always been regarded various pers of distinction that | consistent. workers, and agal he has an overwhelming advantage} whom their superior officers have over any respectable antagonist In| had no criticism, but the mayor his (Mr. Roosevelt's) complete|oniy coustdered the work of freedom from any sense of per-| department as a whole in his crith sonal obligation in respect to the and the individual men now truth | working in plain clothes who are In saying the things we can-|pgcognized as good men will be not disguise our chagrin and hu-/ given fall credit when the time miliation that the person who is|comes for the culling process met nit Pe aay : | (Continued on Page Six.) me APPROPRIATIONS FOR STATE OF WASHINGTON, -- (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, Dee, 7.—The following are the appropriations asked today from congress for the state of Washington For the navy yard at Bremerton, $1,391,000, The appropria- tion for Bremerton last year was $560,000, One million of the appropriation is recommended for drydock construction For the aval magazine at P Sound, $4,250 is set down, although last year the appropriation was $34,350. For the completion of the arine garrison at Bremerton, $210,000. For vepairscand constructio of plant at Puget Sound, $20,000, the ant as last or the improvement of Tacoma harbor, $40,000, For work at the mouth of the Columbia wiver. 825000