The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 9, 1908, Page 1

“LAST “EDITION hae 10, NO. 24 Council Wants to Learn Where the Money Is Coming From. Al) Seeking information aa to the | #tanding and reliability of the peo jple said to be backing a now subway street ratiway franchise proposttion japplied for through Councilman | Sawyer, members of the council's ) committee today cabled } corpora: TION WILL to Paris London to ascertain BE MADE, IF whether the franchise applicants were financially able to carry out [the proposed un Tt has been orted to the coun cll that the money for the subway is to be furnished by Lloyd, Etl taking en Weeks’ Trial With Issues Is Near End. eel © (By United Press.) PPRANCISCO, Dec. 9.—"It ts Bat of ridiculousness fur us | @ four months trying this | Bes confessed his guilt,| Solemaly through a com to determine whether oe when he has ad INJURED Ih FALL OFF CAR |\YOUNG LADY BADLY HURT WHEN SHE ALIGHTS. { Soearee, in the face ot] to declare this man by the living God, we | ithe reason why.” } the statement of Hiram B, counsel for the people argument to the jury ding the conviction of id the jury in straight, | ange of the attempts} He minced no words. | Clear that an acquittal be followed by an in mand he promised that News of Accident io voted to free Ruef! fo answer and have a Is Suppressed. ; his action. the addreas that | delivered bY) Deapite the fact that the night .if he had not been | syverintendent of the Seattle Gen Haas. was arrested covers of Trial. | weeks ago for violating the city or fate of Ruet is placed/dinance which requires all horpt Of the jury this even-| tals immediately to report to the the longest and moot al of victims of any of the before | orda. 15 inary moves were made, p days have clapsed.| the neglect and contempt of the ial have sprang | hospital authorities for the city or E Two of the lawyers | dinance came to light today, when hy Newburgh, | from private sourees it was learned ficted under charges | that Mixs Bertha Coleson, 4 Green to bribe a prospec | Lake school teacher, was seriously or. | injured as she was lighting from ragedy. la Broadway and Pike street car at iggy a | Howell and Broadway last Thurs Pabile, interest cad ao a {Gay night, shortly after 6 o'clock exposed by Heney, shot | Carried to Home. ly wounded the latter.| Miss Coleson was carried to her s was taken to the| home, at 1810 Harvard av. Her where he killed him-| condition became worse, and on ' Friday she was removed to the Se attle General hospital.” Instead of reporting the arrival lof an accident victim, the hospital authorities made no mention of the against police officials the suicide, and a dem was made for the re f Biggy. A week af. ty xy was lost overboard | affair to the police. | tem is * further pensions will be iplice launch and has not) At the Hospital. Dare’ eal Seer pervene over 731 from since. When asked if Miss Coleson was! years of age in the country entitled | have been in custody | an {inmate of the hospital, am at-/io the weekly pension of five shit-| eo and extreme precau | iondant told @ representative of || but Tecords show that we been taken against the |r. wror that much was the case, | 195.000 have applied for the money of (ne approach by O8t-| When asked if the case had a |e os bo side of additional c Following the at-| orted to the police, the attend: | “*Manes ® 2 Bc rnc y, heavy police guards pecsiver ant hung up th thrown about the court Wher the mai was brought pt will number 9,000-| 1, the attention of Police Captain fot including the pi Alex MacDonald, he said Steering and other records ° If convicted Ruef will tence of not lews than | oF more than ten. AMER WENT NIN GALE "Oh, they always do that io all} those Seattle Electric cases, Several weeks ago, when the | night superintendent was arrested on a charge of violating the ord! nance governing hospital reports to the police, the attorney for the how pital told Police Judge John B | Gordon that it was all a mistake, and would never occur again BURGLAR MAKES $7,000 HAUL. (By United Press.) United igo sat BAN FRANC 1sCO, Dee. 9—-The Dec All) wolice are today searching for the f 25 men com iorgiar who entered the home of team | John A. Britton, president of the andoned |i, Francisco Gas and Electric came) company, last night and looted the went down mansion and robbed. the re than $7,000 worth of pelrlooms. family of w 8 na ee and Prov, [Jewelry an that they SESGION BEGUN. ANZ! COMPANY TOAN ON SALARIES tee wan appointed Brain © "coy PROPERTY PURCHASE “eilic| STARTS NEW RUMOR (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.--The National Rivers and Harbors Cob: gress began ite seasion at the New Willard hotel at 10 o'clock today, with President Joseph B. Ransdell in the ¢ r The invocation was pronounced by Cardinal Gibbons, employ mmit bilde v ‘orien. | this means | (By United Pr BELLINGHAM, Dec. 9—Tho purchase last night of the Red Front block, one of the best busi saad ness blocks in the clty, Is belloved Another guarantee of the early con- | struction of the Nooksack Valley that the pro- L yments of and thowe ia >? “\ interurban tine, The property was | . bought by men closely assc chated | Dead. with the new eompany for $75,000, ick A.| The building is to be used as & lest com- | depot hav- | pata jg Pian Dancing Party. «| The Lady Rowena club of tho Heart fai s Brotherhood of American Yeomen 1, 1841, in York | will give a prize dancing party t Thursday evening, Dec, 10, at Ren 9 lton Hill club house of Joseph Zimmerman ELEB, Dec. 9. —Jonoph Girls Do Metal Work, Once & well known| Coveds at the university ore | middio west, ts|have taken up metal work under BE sity of wpoviexy at tho | Mis» Inox Woed, and will pound ae, Yor 40 he |brass, copper and other metals into ty la Cr Wis, {ornaments, The class meeto every Fort Madinon, 1a,,| Wednesday afternoon, from 4 to 6 And Tampa, Mla o'clock. Taken to Hospital, Were. The facts which apparently show | THE SEATTLE STAR & Co., of 6, St. Swithins Lane, Lon don, and A. Benditty, of Amsterdam, Ramors had reached the several counclimen that th did not enjoy the ears degree of credit firms | SEATTLE, WASH.,, WEDNE is i} ISSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1908 CAPTAIN AGA RAILWAY MAN READY GLINGAN OR CARR TO GIVE HIS EVIDENCE. which would assure out of their p Councilman insists that he hes every reason to believe that the carrying omises } awyer the principalw in the enterprive are fully able to provide all the money necessary and to carry out any ar rangements that may be made with the city manner The franchive ia applied for tn the names of W. L. Dudley, of Se attle, and W. 8. Roody, said to be of Philadelphia, Dudley has lived in Seattle for a number of years in @ perfectly NEW ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE NAVY. HERBERT L. SATTERLEE. He ts a rich New Yorker, nephew of J known yar nteman HUSBAND THREW KNIVES AT WIFE trials in the history of manageme Sfurisprudence will be | same hospital is again guilty of the} From the time the | offense, according to the police rec Aliee | uaed ne that her that her hesbend often | her as & target and threw knives at her, besides abusing her! by calling her vile names, and tn other ways, Emma Rees filed a dt vorce complaint against Elijah | Rees this morning The complaint states that they were married January 27, 1902, and they have two childrem The wif asks for property in King county | jand for the children PENSION FRAUD IS FOUND IN IRELAND (By United Press.) DUBLIN, Dec frauds in the dietributh age pensions in Ireland ha jsuch a scandal that, until aafe- guards can be placed on the sys ot JUDGE'S NOSE | (By United Press.) | KANSAS CITY, Dec, %—~The three county judges are occupying the bench today after a squabble, when Judge Moss pulled the none Doda jot Jude An argument arose over a sativfactory Plerpont Morgan, and a well} GETS PULLED HIS SUCCESSOR AS CHIEF. Says He Is Anxious to|Police Leader Promised Get to Bottom of the Root Scandal. President Loule W. Hill Great Northera railway, denies that there are anywhere In extatence let tere that tend to in any manner fm pitcate him in the Root-Goerden sw 1 preme court scand President Hill denies also that his trip to the coast at this time bas anything whatever the inquiry, but ates that if the committee desires it he In quite willing to appear before it as a wit tees and ald it in any way in his power Wants the Facts. We are just as anxious, td t Hill last night. “that ail of the facts bearing on this matter be brought out as are the people ot Washington. To that end | have instructed L. C. Gilman, enr gen oral western counsel and executive officer for the company, to tender mittee all the assistance In his power With my approval Mr. Gilman laid before the committee every- thieg of record in our legal depart tment at Spokane and I believe this was of material benefit in the in Veetigation. | also instructed Mr Gliman to inquire of the committee it desired my presence, in- dicating a wililngners to appe al any time desired. | am quite wil ing now to appear before the con mittee will do so at any time Tam went for. ney or le on Record. It In not believed that the com | multtoe Will seek the testimony of Mr Hi, If he has placed him- seif on record {n the manner re ported ft te unlikely that he would admit it and if he haw not, there te nothing be could tell the committee | that would be of any assistance. The committee ie not in session j today but will probably meet to- | morrow and within the next two three days complete its work and j begin the preparation of ite report to the president of the State Bar as- | noctation. pa @ ANIREW CARNEGIE : 5 dames J. Hill, Gifford Pinchot, An ipoiné Judge Dodd intimated drew Carnegie and John Mitchell |Judge Moas a ilar, Moss] Are Among the Principal Figures larasped his aesociate by the neck jto give him a “sound thumping,”| &t the Conservation Congress. then took a tweak at Dodd's pro oil a boscta HORSES ARE TO | HAVE BLANKETS: Meeting with the Humane society last night, the Team Owners’ asso. | elation of Seattle declared that they were in favor of compelling all drivers to blanket their horses dur ing the cold weather wh the horses are left standing for any jongth of time, A committee was appointed to draft a set of rules | governing the care of horses, which | | will be posted in all barns owned by the Team Owners’ association. |The owners said that the failure to blanKet horses was generally due 2. — lessness on the part of the wners entered a protest ‘against the laying of creosote wood blocks on Fourth av, Councilman Max Wardall explained that the blocks are to be put down for a bioek or two only, and are to be merely in the nature of an ex periment. A resolution was passed | protesting againat making the ox periment on such a busy thorough fare 50 YEARS WEDDED; SUE FOR DIVORCE (By United Press.) SAN BERNARDINO, Cal., Dec. 9 Alleging that after 50 years’ devo tion to her husband he attempted to rid himself of her by sending her } to. the insanity Sede of the county hospital, Mrs, Mary Mucher today ppears as plaintiff in a sult for di reo from Joseph Bucher, one of the wealthiest ranchers in this part of the state. ita work laid out In four seetiona, devoted to minerals, lands, forests and waters, the joint meeting of the national conservation commission Kress today brought out many in teresting facta, and emphasized more clearly than ever before the need of protection of the country's ural wealth. | ‘The morning seasion was devoted | to a discussion of the mineral re. sources. This afternoon the gen eral tople was land. I te will be considered tomorrow, and waters tomorrow afternoon, The report of the national conservation com mittee made to President Roosevelt was read by Gov. Blanchard, of Louisiana. Representative John Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, chairman of the min eral section of the commission, mado a report showing that . the | mineral production in the United | States annually exceeds $2,000,000, 1000, He said that mining supplies 65 per cent of the freight traffic of the country. Waste In mining and the treatment of mineral suly stances, he said, annually In this country is equivalent to over $300, 000,000. Presidential Nominations. WASHINGTON, Dee. 9. The president tod: sent the following nominations the sena Vice governor of Philippines, W to the Cameron Forbes, of Massachusetts; | members of the Philippine commis |sion, Newton Gil t, of Indiana, | Rafael Palma, of the Philippines. Detroit Gets Pennant. NEW YORK, Dec, 9-The Amer ican league directors today official ly presented the Detroit baseball club with the league's champlon- hip pennant for 1908, ot the! to do with! PLANS TO. and the national conservation ¢on- | Old Place When He Took the Job. Chief of Police Ward, whore resig | nation has been tendered to Mayor | Miller, tw to be given hin old jaa & captain of poltee, and either | Sergeant of Pottce Clarene Carr or k Clingan will be named as | the new chief, The question of the new chief rosta @utirely between Carr and Clingan. The latter is a personal friené of Mayor Miller, whom the Mayor wanted to appotnt Immediate ly after he was elected Carr bas | not wad a great deal of experience In police work, but Is said to be & map of executive abliity } Clingan Reluctant Miller personally would prefer t eee Glingan take the job, but latten is nomewhat reluctant to ac cept the position, fearful of adverse } per criticiom if ho falls to give Gatiafaction. Provided he def initety declines to take t jod he ) win bably be made a detective, or lem some position tn which he Cold act as a sort of confides. | tal #aviser to the chief. ard Had Understanding. 1 & known now that when Ward aceeyted the permanent appoint meptas chief of police he did so wil the understanding that he could get hie captaincy back if bh fat to make good. For this rea son, if no other, he will be returned Qs @eaptaln of police as soon as Maytr Milter determines to make his tpeignation public and bame a eucegasor Oe ee (POPE BLESSES TAFT. | (By Yrited Prose.) ROME, 9.—Pope Pius Xs today ones President eheet Taft and his famtly in thd presence of Archbishop , of Bt. Louls, who in the holy father of friendliness to Catho *. * * * * * * * * * * Seer eee es ef See eee eee eee ne PRICE ONE CE jmay now b will report great lumber, st yulp and works of art ’ be drawn maximum the Dingle en OD hy ated above Chairman Payne that would be try The r This Is THE WEATHER FAIR TONIGHT AND THURSDAY; LIGHT NORTHERLY WINDS. CONVICT RUEF OR BY THE LIVING GOD ILL KNOW THE REASO WYER THREATENS JURY IN THE FRISCO GRAFT CASE N WHY ATTORNEY JOHNSON HILL DENIS WARD 10 BELYRIC THEATRE IS RAIDED: TO RUEF JURY, PERFORMERS ARE JAILED Revision. d.C,T Said to the Real Thing in By GILBON GARDNER, WASHINGTON It »¢ stated authoritatively emoval of the $ professes t a bill of this ob satisfactory to th that the ways and means committee @ bill for the removal reduction of duties on eel, coal, paper, wood The bill wil! on the principle of a and minimem tariff, with y rates as the minim ont articles not enucr be acter run duty on lumber and the 66 per cent duty on structural ote, it in © fron, nalls, ald, Ww wir rails tend to reduce the cost of all kinds of building con. struction and will meet the demand for revision in the middie where it is strongest The question wh r hides n the f wettied hardly be = ngland revision satisfied ur husetts shoemakers get this Jatin Mi TCHEY ‘Lb. ree Met de west will es not Reem to It is admitted that New sentim ory ee M°RE ent the JUST TAKE NOTICE. SHOPPING DAYS BEFORE RISTMAS: will Mas con NO HOPE OF REMEDY FOR CITY’S CAR SERVICE — Management Could Be Condemned, Says Committee. street car service of ot destined to come up int where & patron ean That the Reattle ts to that » sooure A weut during the rush hours ie resolution the Seattle of a by one paragraph ppted last night iemereial club. “We appreciate the fact that, as 4 committee, we might condemn thé present management In general terms,” the report reads, “but do not think such a course to be wire of any tan, and practioal suggestion of the remedy.” Members of the committee re ported cities on the coast and in the never prevail In Seattle. Municipal ownership was consid ered as @ remedy "But o thie (ily was not thought to be panacea of many of suffi- ean whore & patron can secure a@ sent. for the whole route, but, in thelf opinion, “euch conditions will | efent present inc | A letter from Ole Hanson, to totally a conveniences, void asking for the support of the club in the fight againkt the race-track evil |Was read by Secretary Boos. The jcommunication was referred to the legislation committee, whieh will jreport upon it on Deo, 16 munDE S KORBAN Six (By United Prens.) SAN 10, 1 9—M. W Chun, the who was jointly used with Whan Chang of ne murde f Durham White Stevens 1 March, has not been woen for four months and the district attorney's office has just discovered that the man a fugitive. Chang, It wax proved in the proiiminary hearing, fired the fatal bullet, while Chun struck Stevens. ¢ the super Just comme wi An open ment will jeamp, N lof Amer nm [Seventh ay., thang wae bound over to r court and his trial has enced 1) Give Smoker, smoker and be given by B 6188, Modern at Columbia on Thursday, entertain Woodmen hall Dee, 1414 10. DOWN GOES THE TARIFF ON LUMBER, STEEL, COAL - VICIOUS ( % on the f mit the Nova Scotia prod w England mille and wil | over the Canadian b rer for the states of the m and west The reduction of duties on man ufactured paper and the placing of ed to fy the double ‘otection to the and removal of | paper tr Presid reduc which of the tariff. It is ha any com this sched tory to Mr rested » importation of would result fr le which Taft without fre rotectl t Taft is n providin aw The ary than the will be r will t we ways .gar umer wering i that eached 0 e sativfac admis sion of the Philippine st Th American market {8° necessary t the Philippine sugar industry, and there is no prospect that the Phi! ippines w produce enough sug ar to disturb ice th Amert can market, where the consumption is very much greater than the prc duction. ACTOR Bits BY PISTOL AUUIE HUSBAND SHOOTS HIM DOWN WITHOUT WARNING. j Hov | BAKE Fatally Wounded by Man’ Whose Wife He W: With. (By United Press.) R FIELD, ring between life Ca and death to- Adrian Von Plank, an ac jfrom Portland, Ore, made an ante mortem statement im proj ations with of ker, a who shot him last night k jinto a room in the Grand hotel here and 1 his wife with the actor Mra, Blacker steadfastly nies that ber conduct with Von Plank wea improper. Blacker is heart ) Immediately after shooting v rrendered himself. | He he did not care whet he 1 or died q Blackers en married for years. Well Known in Portland. LAND, Ore Dec, 9—M Ron Marche, is jan Von Plank. 1 here for the 1 was formerly the Baker Theatre BUILD FAST SHIP Queen STAR STOPS PLY EXPOSE OF VILENESS CAUSES OFFICIALS TO ACT. Management Quickly Put an End to Obscenity on the Stage. As a result of the exposure im 'The Star of the unutterably filthy show which has b ucted in and Washington st tb wa led thorit t t and every one ¢ cted with the theatre placed under arrest The d was carried out on or- ders from the wecuiing attor- ney's office Bpecial Deputy ton. The w “Beputy ry by &. of The perform Women In Audience, Probal because of the de puncement of t play made ip this paper yes’ y the theatre | was packed to thi doors last night, a large proportion he spectators giving every evidence of havin gathered to see something “racy. A few women were in the house and several hundred young boys 1 seats who h counted repetition of the filthy of previous nights pre disap- pointed, because the management, following the appearance of the ar- {Ucle in The Star, had made a des- urried attempt to avoid Those on a exhibition perately trouble from the authorities by eut- ting out the profane and smutty talk and questionable scenes. Ap j® result, many left the theatre jearly, we & why they had | been foolish ough to spend good iculously rotten per » only drawing pow- ‘ered in its revolting dialogne and disgusting climaxes, Actors All at Sea. it was humorously pathetic to see yon a ri ANC the “actors” struggle with their parts and try to make the show tn teresting without the rotten fea- tures that had been depended upon to amuse the audience, The people on the stage were so evidently un- easy and rattled that tle unin- formed in the audience became mystified at the ragged way the any had about d its presentation of “At n Ball,” the principal the program, Deputy ton gave the signal and the detectives and deputies walked back on the stuge, placing every one under arrest. One of the actors appeared before the curtain, which had been suddenly rung down, and explained that the house had been “pinched.” Thousands Watch, The police patrol automobiles buzzed up to the doors of the FOR SOUND TRADE theatre and as fast as the “actors” jand “actresses” and chorus girls seme Nia aetna could de their street attire they Arrangements ba been were escorted down stairs and by the Puget Sound Transp placed in the autos, while a crowd | Co, for the letting within three days | Several thousand people gath- Jof a contract for a $300,000 turbine | &red and excitedly watched the pro- passenger steamer for the longer | °¢edings |sound runs, The steamer will have} Of the men arrested only two | a speed of 21 knots, capable of mak-| Were able last night to give bail, ing the run to Ve ‘avert or Vit | Peter A. Tremontin and Edwin R, torla and back by daylight. She! Beeson, who deposited $100 each will be about 250 feet in length and | t© tmsure thelr appearance in court. modeled after the H. B, Kennedy The chorus girls were all placed in Jone cell, where they immediately ALLEGED MURDERER | O™exced to sing. All but two va | gave bal) this morning MAINTAINS HE | Those s ted in the raid gave jtheir names as Frank H. Cann, IS INNOCENT. | William A, Lang, George Margh, | Geo: ge MoFee, Peter A. Trem ontin, By Laited Press.) Euge M. Howland, Edwin R SAN ‘FRANCISCO! Doc. 9.—| att Dan Shields, Thomas J Despite the mass of circumstantial | son, Bethe! Boyd, Frances Gillette evidence that has been aceumulat ag 17 Minnie Lilsay 18 Dot ed by the police tn the endeavor to| Daniels, 18; Crystal La 2 connect J. Walter Wilson with the | Carrie Ztbble, 18; Belle Wasser |murder of Harry Boas, the victim | 5 a Skinner ; Lillian Ru of strychnine sent to him through Bleanor Burke Pauline the mail, the suspect today main-| Powell Dollie Beeson, 38 tains a stoical alr and affects indif-} Gash bail in the amount of $2,550 ference to the actions of the police, | was deposited with the police today He has recovered his self-possession|to obtain the release of all the after his breakdown of last night persons arrested last night the Wilson has made no admissions | raid on the Lyric theatre. The pre- to the police that have tended to| liminary hearing has been doe |ineriminate him. He has been con-| December 22, at 2:30 o'clock in the ‘letantly sweated by the detectives | afternoon at work on the case, but so far the interviews have given them no SEASICK MAN SUICIDES. valuable information (By United Pr New Captain for W YORK, Dee. 9 When the steamer Queen, which}and despondent because hag taken the place of the Prost-| rough ocean voyage, Bene | dent the San Francisco r ar-|dorff, of Tonopah, Nev rives next ty attle she be | cabin passenger on the st in charge of Capt. R. Jepson. Capt. | In Gouging, formerly. of the| Finland, shot and killed himself | President, who took the Queen out| While the Vessel was at sea om on her last trip, will remain in San| November 30. | Francisco with his « is laid up for the winter wn boat, whieh Sheriff Hunts Record, Ww. J county veatixate rious or of Detec ning checks aning, Balley Idaho, e the now Air tives assed hore. sheriff of fy in Soat record of er sevoral arres says Sh tle to James © t for va Captain Man worthle KING EDWARD 18 0. K, (By United Pr LONDON, Dee. 9,.—The ? ‘condition of King Edward is reported today to be greatly improved. He has j been uffering from a slight cold jand an attack of rheumatism, He engaging in dis usual ectivities toda Ay \ on