The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 8, 1908, Page 1

LAST VOL. 10. NO. 245 ' ST ATTEMPT | p for the moral | fof the city of Seattle, shonid proceed at) Pthe doors of the Lyric at Washingtos | sts, where, under | & burlesque show, | Staged a perform. eral and disgusting as description. of rot- the mayor declared he peceh a thing was being the city, He will un-/ action against the; Evidence. is needed against | Star is in a geen Members of the staff last night) as 6 bur the title of “At the t was even niore as- ly vile than that of the the disgusting exhibitions | upon a stage, this entire Bice was the absotute itmit. | ination of the average re- 4 raler of the ¢ity and / thing or nobody never “show as putrid as thi tolerated right no has the brazen etfront & bid for general pu! The euntioome of) Was expressed Sunday Fone of the degenerstes | in the performance: d everything 0 | ae we might aa w Boys Attend. were unanimously the idea, apparently, ing laughter from de-} and silly, misguided | of them wae in thelr were achieving the f Comedy success. There Seurse, not 4 woman in bot even had one of med denizens of the been present she would @ for the disgusting | her sex who took part # show, and who vied in their exhibition of | “from its obscenity, de-| Eee 8D appeal to depravity, | has nothing in it to at-| A A patent medicine | ree performance mM hooted if it did not fur. | or atineement. And yet Me Was packed to the doors PRighix with men who made! irks to the performers, | Gnd screamed with de- filthy sent. theatre will not again fo advertise in The | the Lyric theafre should ited to give another ¢ iH SUMMOKS L, STROBRIDGE. dge, executive com-| ot Washington to the | ton, died yeuterday | the Providence hosph Meningitis. He had | last Friday, and was! ee Of Coma after the first ge was a wellknown | the state ing been in mere tWo terms, werved as” verett two terma, law there 16 years. Mt Trumansburgh, N ‘ Mduate of Cornell unt ANd practic ; th “EDITION SUCCEED WARD SERGEANT SAID TO. BE SLATED FOR CHIEF. | ition Says That He Has} Thought Over Several Possibilities. Clarence G. Carr, at present a/ | sergeant in the department of all Hee, will probably be appotnted to} | succeed Chiet Ward, ad oon as the latter's resignation is recetved and formally accepted by Mayor Miller. | Carr bas been a resident of Be attle for the past IM years, and Se ja time waa a on the city | street cars, on he the it. e-gatien | Ward's resignation the latter's probable successor. received any resigns tion from Ward up to the noon hour texiny,” snes eine the ma, or. ve you selected a new chief?" as asked. 1 mare thought over a number of names, but that ix all,” wag the| reply. Chef of Police Ward ¢enies that | he with resign, or has any intention of resigning, but the fact that there will be a change in the administra | tive head of the department fe gen- erally conceded, the chief to the contrary notwithstanding. Mayor Is Displeased. In bis statements to the press Mayor Miller has never acknowl | edged that be intended to remove Ward, or accept his resignation, but to close friends of the administra tion be bas made no secret of his dispiensure at the lack of organica- tion and absence of effective work by the department generally. In line with the genera! reorgant, lation which has been decided upon, Councilman MacKinnoa last night introduced an ordinance at the meeting of the elty counetl provid tng for additional men in the police department. ‘Thia bill calls for an increase tn the pay of the inspector of police ‘new desk sergeants, at a salary of $106 a month; two detectives, at a salary of $115 a month, and 26 pa trolmen. The police and finance commit tees will hold a joint meeting on next Friday morning at 1:30 o'clock, at which time this ordinance will be tak up and discussed. PORTLAND BANK IS HELD-UP Robbers Make Get-Away, Taking $17,000 in Gold Coin. (By United Press.) PORTLAND, Ore., Dee. 8-—Atter & systematic, al) night search, ex tended to every quarter of the city, including a number of lodging houses and resorts, for the three | masked men who late yesterday af ternoon held up the Eastside bank | and curried away $17,000 in gold, silver and paper, Portland's detec tive foree early today reported to Chief of Police Gritzmacher empty handed Last night three holdap men en- tered the bank, held up President Newhall and his son, and took $17,- 006 in cash. The robbery occurred | while the crowds were returning [home from work, but everything was done #0 quietly that it was all over before the alarm was given. Two developments, unimportant so far aa the search for the robbers is concerned, were reported by the police today, when the horse and buggy weed by the bandits were found on the far east side, many | blocks from the scene of the hold | up. and $200 in gold partly buried in mad was discovered near the bank. This money was dropped by |the robbers in running to the cor- ner where the horse and bugay were waiting. The rig was hired from a local livery stable shortly before the crime was committed, Leh eee: ON PAGE 3. + a * “Why Our Courts Are Critt cized” i printed on page 3 of ® this issue, 0 NS Se eM, x eee EEE in the Aberticon Ploneer Dead. ork courts came to| ABERDEEN, De &.—George «a mem-| Weatherwax, & ploneer of 188%, who order aod the | died Saturday morning, waa laid to Sirvived by } wife, yest yesterday under the auspices Be shipped to Everett \of the Masons, He was 86 years of preerment. | Mae. «| THE SEATTLE STAR SEATTLE, WASH., SENSATION MERRILY | MADE BY ALONG =| LETTE LOOTING OF OF “CITY IS) THE HOLCOMB CASE IS! | AS FREE AS BROUGHT TO A EVER. HALT, } | } / |Houses Are Entered Even, Document Makes Charges in Daylight by Against Attorney Burglars. and Judge. Petty thievery and looting of! The introduction tn evidence of a | houses and roome continues wna /letter purported te have been; bated, according to the reports/ written by Mrs. Eva Holcomb, in| which are dally received at police! which she expressea her doubt of jbeadquarters. During the past six) the professional integrity of her at j Menthe thousas 4 of dollars’ worth Bo Sweeney, and also. of of loot has bee tole by rowlers 7 va jorge dng be a) vrs ude Yakey f the superior court, j planted tn the “fences” which are|*"°™ she says became “weak th wo to exist within the city; was the cause this morm ii ing of @ sudden recess in the com ee aa > seggio as apes © \tethpt proceedings against Dr. | Lund, @ waitress at the Naught | AUsstus Holcomb before Judge hotel, Fourth av, and Spring st, | Frater for failure to pay alimony lace carried away $20 in gold and! The letter wan addressed to Frank Atwood, o former bondeman silver, a gold wateh and a mink fur boa, of Holcomb’s, and whe was lured }to a house in the vietnity of Green | Lake about @ week ago and assault- ed by an unknown man. The theory has been advanced that the agenult on Atwood was brought about by hig connection with the Holeom! Valuable Ring Stoten. Miss Trix Beach, who ts stopping jat the Plummer house, Eighth av and Plummer st. reported to the poltee last night that a diamond ring valued at gae Ay 3 {rom | fine. her apartment eseription of; le | the thet was furnished the police | ven ver tt ai Cerrone mites, we but as vet no arrest has been made. | quested Atwood to refuse langer te A roomworker eutered the apart: serve on the defendant's bead, Aa ti} monts of R. M. Reeves at 62/4 iegeon for the request, the writer Ninth av. last night and besides | o¢ the letter stated that she ie stealing & new suit of clothes, car | weary of putting up money tn her ried off © cashier's receipt for $76 Mont. | While K. Obuchi, a Japanese, wae | absent from his room at 214 Fourth! S., Inet night a thief ransacked place. A leather sult case and | $50 in bills were taken. Burglar Gets Clothing. J. D. Warsholdt of 900 Sard av reported t the police iast night that his bowee was broken Into |some time Yeaterday afternoon |The burgiar stole a quantity of clothing |, While Wiliam Barry, a chauf four, was standing near bie auto mobile on Marion st, between Bee jond and Third ava, carly this j morning, a thief slipped up behind the machine and “sneaked” two oy As soon an the poy was intro: duced, Attorney Bo Sweeney, serting hie beilef (hat the letter was }a “Job,” asked the court for a oom jeation of the oreewe tar i wot! the | Validity of the letter He said that if the iter i to have been actually written Mra. Holcomb, he will ina ney letter placed In evidence in the case. The text of the letter, which = jcomb denies having #rittes, * valuable auto robes Mr. garcep nyroray —Dear ) Thiew Visited the store of M.|—Won't you do me a favor | Shaffer at 86 W Washington st.| ing the doctor that you. wi yesterday afternoon and | to withdraw from his bond two paire of shore while the lhe need not look t you prietor was looking at them,|™more help in bis faht on Shaffer gave chase but the thieves, cripple woman with a [itt | four young meu, had little troubie| He ts a man and can alw in making good thelr escape. leare of bimaelf, while I M. Kapplan, who conduct hoe | hard time to get along. ye “i paid ‘Seema an If everybody ts after | e been the victim of shoe thieves for the pest several days. The police | it all in thie law business, I have hare been unable to stop thr thefts. | been all too easy as It fs. Proprietors of the Butte rex My attorney, Mr. Sweeney, du taurant, Fourth av. . proved to be easy for a man with | & $10 Confederate bank note last | night. The man paid for his mea! | would cost that mach te win my and received more than $9 in real| case for me and stick the doctor money, The police were given a for fifty dollars a mouth alimony good description of the swindler but | or make it eo warm for him that) No arrest has been made nats MORE SHOPPING Days UNTIL eighteen hundred dollar note and mortgage, making me believe ft t for this he (Sweeney) was to keep & reasonable fee for his work and the rest he was te wae to fix it] with Judge Yakey and to soothe | the Times’ bungry feeling and to) | suppose kaeed, for some reason, and turned the case over to another judge, I |muese all the justice one gets in what they can bay, and I am | ting tired of this kind of law tum on my side again jow, won't you please help me L have asked you? | have been in to see you quite a few times; have never found you tn, 1 will be }in to see you in a few days, and || will make another effort to have you help me, instead of the doctor Lemke; Second ward, W.-M “Please k thie letter and do not let anyone see ft, as I will ask | you for it when | come in. Yours truly, MRS. EVA HOLCOMB The attempt to force Dr. Angust Holeomb to pay alimony of $60 @ month has been in the courte if various forma for nearly @ year, and in the course of the procee ings Dr. Holeomb has been in jaf) several times on conte.npt proceed ings. He asserts as a reuson for not complying with the orders of the court as to alimony, that the work of his former wife against hin business, and the sensational man vy in which a newspaper has han 1 the various hearings of his case, has practically ruined his bust ness #o that be cannot earn the nec eweury money, HANSON SURE His BILL WILL PASS DON'T WAIT UNTIL THE CLERKS ARE REC AND CROSS, ‘TO SHOP MITCHELL 1s THE LOWEST BIDDER Extensive Repairs to Alki Go to Well Known Shipwright. John Mitchell, one of the best known shipwrights on Puget sound, was the suceesaful bidder among six large coast firme for the repairs to the steamer Alki, of the Pacific eee Coast Steamship company, the bids| “rhe enemies of the antirace being opened today, Mr, Mitchell's | track bill cannot defeat it,” said Ole bid was for $15,230, and a8 soon! Hanson, father of the measure, to TUESDAY, HAT DOES MR. HILL KNOW? REAT NORTHERN PRESIDENT HURRIES TO COAST RIC PLAY CRIME GOES FILTH ne C0 DECEMBER 8, 1908. PRICE ONE CENT RAIN THE WEATHER TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAYS FRESH GOU THERLY WINDS. RY EFFORT MADE TO KEEP RIVAL IN SPOKANE SECRET SGROVE IMPROVES Reports Sent Out Last Night _ Made Condition Appear to Be Worse. (By United Pr PASO ROBLES, HOT SPRINGS, Cal. wife of the governo .) Bec. 8—Mre. Cosgrove, ject of Washington, today gave the United Press the following atatement regarding her husband's condition: “Mer. Cosgrove is better today than yesterday, and | am much wore cheerful about him. Of course, he etil! gannot make any plans whatever about returning to W. ut if Mr. Cosgrove gains strength, as we hope he will, it, and we hington. is very “The cold weather makes it Impossible at the present time, be able to stand the trip.” Mra. Cosgrove éaid that reporte that the governor-elect was ‘pear death yesterday wi worse for a time. The doctors in attendance say that the case is a typical form af acute Bright's disease, and assert that it is to be expected that his condition will vary from one day to another. he is i well, but that there is little general change in his con i sdiibention RCT TEE = MESSICE OF RUEF'S CASE “PRESIDENT | NEARING : * WABHINGTC ate gave the closest attention today take care of the necessary witness. | the reading of the os and all this took lots of braine?/mesiage. Which followed the core. | uid have had) monies attendant upon swearing tu | no kick if Yakey hadn't got weak! gonator A who took bis dentials were presented by his col 1 IS HEAD DELIVERY. Sworn. me into signing over 6 him the | Pa ke eA ARERR EAE President's Message. A digest of the president's message ts printed on page 5 of this tseue rn at jeague, Senator Dolliver in the house | ness, and way things are now. Mr. | | Sweeney says | must get all my | mle at friends to belp me, or It will take more of my property to get the} There was a Seeretary o'clock with sae Dip seat and the words of th o'clock tomorrow The the house galleries both houses and the crowds listened with 1:56 ripple of Latta arrived the Hate xeoutl ve were The + ing began at 12:17 o'clock and was when adjourn. | jhe would leave the country, and | : de edindiadindin tn tnindiadndadindad The sen president's | Cummins of Cummins | axe nt Was taken until tomorrow applause | today when Aasist president's Neariy every member was in| 4 carefully At2 adjourned antil crowded last mes which lowe attention to the sage of President Roosevelt drawn many visitors huiect other cities DEMOCRATS WERE WISE: Offered Panama BOSTON the democratic wae offered about ment made today by the Canal Graft Story, But Did cre mes from he will were untrue, though she added that he was They say that CLOSE CONGRESS ADJOURNS|HIS FATE WILL NOW FOR DAY, AFTER SOON BE FULLY KNOWN. Senator Cummins Takes Caustic Arguments Made His Seat After Being by Attorney Ach in Court Today. (By United Press.) SAN FRANCISCO, Dec, §.—~A bit d vindictive attack on Francis y, the leader of the “graft prosecution, together with excorta tion of the Schmitz board of bood. ling supervisors, were the feature: jof the closing argument of Attor jney Henry Ach on behalf of Abra ham Ruef at today’s seasion of the trial of Former Boss Ruef Ach began with a resume of the prosecution's evidence. He then took up a diseussion of the methods of the prosecution with rising anger and finally entered upon # sarcastic attack on Heney, during which at times he spoke in his loudest tones My cifent is being sacrificed to the political desires and aspirations of court officers; like Julius |he was killed politically the ambitious of others,” You know that R Hen Caesar to satisfy erled Ach lolph Spreck ele guaranteed a fund to the dis | trtet attorn with the injunction tl to ‘go at R he roared angrily You know he tinued. that | prosecutor of national reputation |who has some feeling against Ruc 10 | ws as put forward by the money of others to destroy the existing state of things The result was that a stranger {9 to our land, with no ties nere, was jimported with his methods, to be come the living spirit, heart and brain of & prosecution which has re sulted in so much misery and « much dire distress In the hearts of men and women, so much disgrace to little children that, would to God 1 had never seen such things,” he character of Big Jim Gal lagher, Ruef's go-between on the board of supervisors, was dismissed by Ach with a contemptuous com. parison with a parrot. Gallagher's timony, however, was caref g yer in attempt by Ach to 5 ft to shreds. The boodling board referred to by Ach as “the worst band of conspirators known. with Gallagher as the master mind was attacked tn sarcasm and invec Not Use It. tive During the morning — session soores of women Were in the court (By United Pr room, while the police precautions Mass S.-—That) against disorders were constantly aational committee | aynarent the scandalous story A alleged Panama canal Capt. Hains Transferred. fraft as food for ite campaign ar WASHINGTON Dee 5. —Capt Kumentes last summer was the state Peter ©, Hain. jr,, stationed at Port Josiah Quincy,| Hancock, Bandy Hook, who ts un a mombey of the subcommittee of | der arrest charged with the murder the advisory committee. thittee thoroughly The com inventigated the been trans ny of Coast of Willlam 1. Annis, has ferred to the 62nd comp as this ts confirmed by the Ban/day. “It's the bill's friends that artillery, which is stationed at Fort Francisco office he will start work|{'m watching now. 1 am afraid | charges and decided at that time! Worden, Port" on the steamer at once and finish | |that there will be too much enthu that it wae not of political use and r " order will ae the contract within two months Jalaem, entailing riders and other} would not accomplish the purpose 1900, "It was | ate The pairs to the Alki will con-| stuff, that will work against It, But] for whieh tt was submitted eg el gl sist of © general overhauling, tak-|1'm watching all the time. The Gata ‘was collected by aj fer ls merely & ‘paper sasignment. ing out and putting in ray boliers,| “The yewapapers all over the{ number of New York men, includ caulking the huil, changing the. state are supporting the measure,| fue Col Alexander 8. Bacon, who} Grand Lodge of Masons. decks «nd constructing a new!] have enough pledges from the | laid the story before Mack, who in| OLYMPIA, Dec, 8——The Grand bridge. Mr. Mitchell will do the! members of the house to paws the | turn referred it to th sub-commit Lodge of Masons, meeting h work at the King st. dock, At pres bill, When | have pledges from two-|tee, composed of Senator Culber-| today in memorial session. / H ent he js making extensive repatrs| thirds of the house I'm golug after|son, @x-Mayor McGuire, of Syra-| Van Patten is making the princ|pal to the A. G, Lindsay, the nerliite,” cuse, N, ¥,, and Quiney address. LOUIS W. HILL. President of the Great Northern. TAKES THE PRIZE BUY AND PERHAPS NOT GET. Annual Auction of Dead | Letters to Be Held Next Monday. y United Press.) WASHINGTON, Dee. dead-etter office of the department is preparing today the ages that is to be held at a local avetion house beginning Dec. 14 and | lasting until the whole of the 8,784 | packa, advertised in the annual Jentalogue are disposed of. re a larger | kages advertised for sale this }yenr than ever before and night sessions are to be held in order tc dispose of the stuff before Christ mas. &.—The postoffice for noual sale of dead-letter pack Over 7,000 Packages. are 7,162 packages in the schedule issued | There “miscellaneous” catalog which was These packages repr from every walk of Every imaginable article from aprons, bi jeycle pumps, clothing, dresses, fans, girls’ hats, hardwa knives and phonograph records, to saws, ra zors, hypodermic syringes, neck ties, typewriters and watches, ts | contained in these packages. One package contains «hirt waists, scissors, a metal tray, a maic lante and some collars. | Another contains some damaged barbers’ shears, a cheap watch, some damaged razors, playing cards and dice Stogies for Uncle Joe. One prize package contains 1,000 stogies, and it is stated that Uncle Joe Cannon wil! be offered the first of the today chance at this. The automobilists are more in evidence than ever be bore, Several score of packages are ni spark plugs, axtto mobile and patent tire in fiaters. » are 492 articles of jewelry. Everything from ailver anu. boxes and cigaret ses to gold rosaries is represented There are 1,130 packages of books and they represent about 15,000 volumes written in every tongue on the earth. The Holy Rible and “Three Weeks” appear together, and books on “How to Make Money Easily" are grouped with Roosevelt's books and Elbert Hubbard's works. So of the president's books on animals are listed gside of Jack London and Ernest Thompson Seton's stories which are characterized by Roose velt as “nature fakers. Foreigners Represented Chinese, ( Finnish hoc rch aw Duteh, Danish German. ek artan Italian, Jay se, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, avonic, Spanish, Swedish, Turk sad Welsh are. come of the for ign tongues rey nted in the book cata Last year's sale netted the post office department about $10,000 and it is thonght more will be realized this yea Ever bunched to gethor re up, and al though all the ar scribed c za emons as prize packages are drawn by the bidders who attend the sales, A gentlent wateh” may mean an Bigin or a Waterbury STRAIGHTJACKET OF NO AVAIL T0 | HINDER SUICIDE | (By United Press.) | NAPA, Cal, Dee, 8.—-With hands bound across her brew a straight Jacket, Mrs. Lena 8 ance, wife of Former State Sena tor Severance of San Franctséo, hanged herself at the Napa State Hospital for the Insane. yesterday Adjudged violently inane, the unfortunate woman \ comniitted to the asylum three w ks ago and wa deaponder a ne the entire terday she managed to climb up on n chair and cat the lacin neck on a plieture button on th wall, Then she kicked the char away and hung suspended until J etrangled YOUR MONEY | Norther rm ATTLE TODAY THE BAR © COMMITTER | IS BACK FROM OLYMPIA. \Secured Evidence From Supreme Court Judges and Employes. How far up in the roster of Grea@ railway officials is the | Root investigation committee going Ito reach? MIGHT MAKE GOOD) Ie there anything fn the hands of those who hold the Gordon let ters and documents implicating oth- er of the Great Northern people than General Counsel Begg? Apparently reliable information given to The Star indicates that President Louis W. Hill keows thing of the Gordon-Root trans actions, and that there are letters in existence tending to substantiate |this statement Kept a Secret. Last Tuesday night, when the Root investigation committee wag in session in Spokane, President Hill arrived in that city on his spe cial car on the delayed 5:15 traia, reaching Spokane at 30. Every effort seemed to be made to keep his presence in Spokane a secret. The train was met by L. C. Gilman, general western counsel of the Great Northern, After a conferencd with President Hill, Mr. Gilman re- turned to the Spokane hotel, where the committee was in session, and was for some time closeted with the | Committee. | Couldn't Reach Him. Efforts of the one or two news papermen who knew of President Hill's presence in Spokane to reach him were fruitless, and no one aside from Mr. Gilman and other loca! officials of the Great North- ern spoke with him during his stay. He remained in Spokane oaly a f , going north on the Spokane hern road Root investigation com- is holding tts first session in and this morning Presi- de arrived In this city. This morning he was in conference with Mr. Gilman. Gilman Is Helping. Hill has had anything to re the committee it has n transinitted through . who has apparently doing all in his power to aid mittee in its work. It was who went with the mem bers of the committee to the office of the Great Northern western counsel in Spokane and secured the private correspondence note books ot Judge Gordon while he was in that office, which note books are said to have been of great assist- ance to the committee. People familiar with the & Today th mittee if Mr been the com Gilman situation in the Great Northern general of- fices in St. Paul are of the opinion that pral Counsel Begg, who is implicated by the correspondence held by Gordon, would be unlikely to do anything of as serious a na- ture is cha i against him with- out consulting President Hill, who is not alone his superior in the Great Northern service, but is alsq a cle personal friend In College Together. Hii and Begg were young men together in college. Hill sent for Begs to come to St, Paul and gave him a position in the Great North- ern legal department that ed him to attend the law of the University of Minn After his graduation he was ade vanced by easy stages until, short ly aft vuis Hill became president of the t Northern, his boyhood friend was made general couns ne Th have always continued fast friends, and it seems quite like+ ly, therefore, that Begg would make no me of the nature of which he is accused without consulting Louis Hill c pondence which is said to ) the of President Hill into thi Gordon-Root-supreme court affair—and not in connection with the Marris ¢ is reported to be now in the hands of Gordon's is, and it is this correspond- lence upon which Gordon is relying to saye him from prosecution at the hands of the Great Northern. Sullivan Has Them, All of these Gordon-Root letters P- documents are now in the hands of Potter Charles Sullivan, of this city, They were originally han by Gordon to Nuwum & Nuz of Spokane, who iv turn gave them Into the hands of Franks ve Why they were finally turned over to Sullivan is one of the mysteries of this very mysterk ous affal Yesterday the Root investigation committee spent the day in Olym- pia. They had as w ses before th Mi supreme court ste " Chief Justice Wi 1. Hadley, Justice Mark Fule lert Law Librarian ©, Wil and Assistant Law Librarian kK. Lonsberry