The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 11, 1908, Page 1

LAST | ED’ NO, 248, BMS STILL GAN DECLARES IT T VICTORY FOR CITY. and Associates _— | | | | United Press.) | ICO, Dec. 11.—-San fs celebrating today ‘@ecent San Francisco is ve of “Guilty as charg by the jury in the Bt 4 o'clock yesterday Goming after the jury Rout for 14 hours, was the Meable surprise San Fran- ever had had grown nervous over as the afternoon began | bourses passed without « dared to hope for a con jie! D Ready to Report. Thoments before 4 o'clock f word that tt desired The big crowd in the first learned of this Lawior came through bis chambers and the beach. the jary came down om its room above eediet was handed to then to the judge and) clerk, who yard: } Jon Checked. | he reached the fateful MWe, the jury, find the de fta the above entitled case ‘ebarged,” there was a as though a demonstra fe foliow, but this was) announced that sen | need on Sat-| motions followed, Ruef, one of San powerful eltizens, | court room to t aad with plans have a Fates ct | trick 4 pg the United Rail- be the next man placed; @ charge of bribing seid District Attorne: mot yet decided on} r indictment the United Railroads will le probably ‘will not try | on one of the remaining | immediately.” Supplemented his state | iB the assertion that Cal-| Once will be summoned New York. ion Satisfied. on of the directors | prosecution over the| of Ruef is shown cleariy the following four state- Prosecutor Heney said: of San Francisco and) California owe a debt to the twelve men who More than three months | and submitted to| iy tmprisonment | of the most in- dvoty which an nh can be called upon it is needless to say ¥ gratified.” , Johnson, who made the up for the prosecu- “Yesterday's victory to San Francisco than triumphs in warfare. We 8 that our law Is a OUr adainistration of jus . Kuef's race ie run Attorney Langdon said of Ruef is but a of others. The graft! will go on until it is} that Of enforcing its laws, and 4 and juries are not a Qnd a sham. The arch Of Ban Francisco is now to the penitentiary.” Wm. J. Burns said: is 4 vindication of law- It was plainly the ‘Wetory.” iutors to Res NCISCO, $e i of Attorneys Hiram W Matt 1. Buliivan and J. J Mpecial prosecutors of the will be laid before Dis- Langdon today, ac- the announcement of At last night. Speaking And his colleagues to @ of citizens, Johnson Dec ‘The Completed the work for prosecution trust. We Case where Honey was leave off, and we toel.that aang with the con- Res.” the then do Drosecutios Rot merely to punish per- Srafters to jail, but eronent #o aa to lity of ten in the a €n4 in ite applica red that TION ROOT WILL SUON BE CALLED ‘BAR COMMITTEE ABOUT DONE WITH INVESTIGATION. Is ‘Gordon May Be Asked to Testify, But He Will Decline. While the members of the Root Gordon-Supreme court Investigation committee decline to give any ta formation to the public regarding the progress of their work, It ts ® ly belleved that they are about through. They are anxious to give Judge Gordc of Tacoma, an opportunity of appearing them, and will also yubtedly hi Jodge Root as a witness some time within the next y or two. The committe: t to ro anything it ta of the ¢ stood, that G sire that, should the judge submit te an examination, he would tell them nothing of valve. Gordon Silent. Judge Gordon went on record some time ago, and since then has added nothing to the staten made at that time. This is what he sald then “There in no shortage In my ac counts. Aa to the chargos against Justice Root, | will say that t Bave never made any charges again’ him. “I am antisfied that an sina tion of my dealings with the rail road company will satisfy ite offi cers that there has been no mis appropriation of funds or a short age In my accounts. t confidently rely apon the fact that the raltroad will be enough to say #0. “In the meantime, I think that all fair minded people should withhold judgment, and I predict that the he | Outcome will not be a disappoint. | ment to my friends, This is all that Gordon has ever had to say of the scandal that be has stirred up. He could tell more if he would, but he has shown no inclination to | do so, Root WH! Explain. Judge Root is likely to be an im portant witness tn that he wil! of fer an explanation of much of the correspondence that passed be- tween himself and Gordon. To friends, Judge Root has made the statement that many of the let ters which may be construed as referring to the payment of sums of money relate to other subjects entirely, and that these he will be able to explain to the complete sat-| | Isfactfon of the committee. HOLY ROLLER IS GIVEN THIRD DEGREE Claims He Shot the Police on Inspiration Direct From Heaven. KANSA ’ “] did not shoot any of the police,” protested “Adam God” Sharp today, under the ordeal of the third de gree at police headquarters. “It was God acting through me, He called upon me to do his work and protect his lamb James Sharp, self-styled “Adam God,” is badly wounded and will probably die as the result of an en counter between his band of “Holy Rollers” and the police last day, His wife, a devout follower of her husband, today publicly re nounced her faith in the tenets of the Holy Rollers, declaring that her belief must be false as “Adam God” seems doomed to dle. Two policemen died in the pistol battle with Holy Rollers, Several more were wounded by them when the authorities broke up a meet ing of the sect. Louis Platt, self- styled “iijah 111,” one of the “lemba,” died yesterday of wound received In the battle, Lola Pratt, his daughter, was killed by the police while with her mother, attempting to escape. HH Ok BANK CLEARINGS. ttl $1,662,629. 204,878.4 Clearings today a4 Balances 49 Tacoma. Clearings tod Balances 5,000 873 Portland. Clearings today Balances $1,174,498 93,375 * * * * * * * * * * * * * eS ee. HEPES EERE eevee ¥ WASHINGTON, Dee. “i ‘The treasury statement today showe Receipts, $2,415,698; disbursements, $2,260,000, Juat ‘Tues- | his! THE SEATTLE STAR TWELVE PAGES IDANCE HALLS R AN FRANCISCO REJOICES OVER TO. NCREASEFUL POLICE FORCE ‘ORDINANCE PR PROPOSES TO GIVE THE CITY MORE MEN. Salaries May Be Raised | and the Secret Fund Added To. Jn Hane with the reorgantzation of the poltee department determine spon by Mayor Miller, t council's finance and poll mittoes this afternoon recommend. od for passage an ordinance pro- viding for a substantial increase in the existing police force The ordinan provides for 25 new patrymen of the firet grade. increases salary of the inspec tor of police from $140 to 8150 a moath. allows two additional de ives, an assistant secretary and four desk sergeants The salary of these additional on was provided for ta the annual P p allowed for the municipal partments was decided to Increase the ot servicer $250 « me fund from $150 to bh and i was under stood that # statement would be kept by the chief of police as to how this money was spent, so that any time a council member desired to inquire, he could ascertain just for what purpose and in what amounts this contingent fund was disbursed. The increase © secret service fund will probabiy lead to a bot fight when the ordinance comes before the city counc!! at its next regular meeting, as a number of the councilmen are inctined to orft feixe any method of permitting a | chief of police, though ever so hop est, to have the unquestioned dis bursement of money for any pur LIBERTY BY FORCE Inevitable Rebellion in Fin-. land Unless Ri, Are Granted. (By United Press.) HELSINGPORS, via Frontier, | Dec. 11.—That Finland will send an ultimatum to Ruxsia, warning th cear that a rebellion is inevitable unless the Finnish constitution ts} | restored, ia the bellef of diplomatic hts } jagent# of other European powers | | here today | There will be no formal deciara tion of hostilities. Unless the peo |ple’s Mberties are given back to them, revolutionary outbreaks will begin throughout the country, grad. ually spreading and increasing in violence until all Finjand is in | arme ers of the evolutionary |movement plan to wage so fleree ja warfare with plot and assassine tion that the pressure of the world’s opinion will finally foree the czar | ‘© come to thoir terms 17 KILLED IN COLLISION (By United Pre Pre BRUBE Dec, 11,—Seventeen men are dead and more than a score in a collision betw \o train and & workmen's! jtrain near the Tourtaxis station to- | day. Seventeen bodies have been taken |from the wreckage and ene is be |iteved to be under the debris stilt SEATTLE GIRL TO WED Miss Rosa A. BH. Wald, daughter of Mr. and Mra. F. W. Wald, was |married to Mr. Theodore W. Kling- enberg Wednesday evening at the | Wald residence, 108 W, Galer at. Rey. J. D. O. Powers officiated. Only the immediate family and close friends were present, Miss Lillie M. Wald was maid of | honor and Mr. William B, Allison acted as beat man. Mrs. Allison is a member of the | Gamma Phi Beta sorority of the University, ful practicing attorney of San Fran. olaco Mr, and Mrs. Wald will be at home at the St. Francts hotel, Gan | | Francisco, after January 16, Marriage license tseued in Louis to B. T. Clark Buster and Magnolia Percylile Sookers, both of Chicago. Back up, Charley Hoyt! | | st During the panic last year 2 000 persons purchased steel whl shares, | where the steamer approval of Corporation Sage a a a Calhoun. nance calling for WASHINGTON, Deo. 11—-"EX-lthe extablishment ¢¢ city scales | Jecutive encroachment of the power" | uote which to wele ‘All coal sold | of the exesutive and juiictal) i the city wae sidetracked today branches of the government” is the | by ‘the eorporations committer in| keynote of the appeal of Sttorneys | tavor of the new meéasnre, which, for Oxcar W. Read, « nogro soldier |i: was thought, Womll be of more of the Twenty-fifth Infantry, from #| material benefit t0 eltizens court decision following an order o' of! Mr. Wald is a success | 4 SEATTLE, WASH,, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1908. meres rr em ARNT Counsel Declares It to Be Rank Injustice to Try Thornton First. hief counge) for the Mains brothers |"Diwt. Atty. Darrin isn't giving |*Phgentan @ chance for his lite dosen't want us to Lew 4 leapt. Haine inte court, if he ean help it, while Thornton ie being tried, He oe want the jury to see Capt. Haine. } “‘Mornton wae present when Wm, | i. Afule wae shot. That imi«ht make it look if Thornton Hains wae responsible, if the jury didn't Know? that Capt, Hains was craxy But the jury will have only to see) Capt) Hains to know that he le an | jineat® man, whom Thornton could | not €amtrol, That would exonerate IN | Thorpton "Why, I can try Capt, Haine’ case | by pHtting him alone the stand. He's mat ms x March hare, 1 tell | you fs all Mr. Shay and myself can }do t@ get any words out of him | The Restore any he may get better, Its |» at 1 Goe't believe tt it he wee crany when he did the sheeting, how can Thornton be} held feaponsibie’ Yet, Darrin te/ ltrying fo Arrange It #0 that no | question ef Capt, Hating sanity will) be Introgueed tn Thornten's trial IP @et Capt Meine into court, by some manne of other, if there Is any Justice tn thy taw. ‘Thortiter feads & great deal, but | Capt. Malne worrtes, Hie memory | ji gone, Ad he worries about ts that he oU@ht to be at the fort, and that the Jathr won't let him out “He stys pow that he got his/ wife's lottery tn Honolulu. He's never been to Honolulu in his life He got the fetters when he landed in the Unite States, “The dotiers tell us it ie danger joue for anyoue to mention the name Of Annis ih Capt. Mains’ hearing [Whemever we do, he has a storm. We tmve t@ bo very careful of him.| jitie Piatt is pitlablia. He won't be piahed, and i don't belfeve that Theretes Haine ought to be put in | Seopardy for se deed of his mad- = (By United Press.) | NEW YORK, Dee. 11--"It's not | justioe to try the c of Thornton Hains before the case of Capt. Hainn # trie” declares John F, Meintyre. UUT ON CAL WAS ARRESTED SEATTLE FOR AN ABDUCTION. | Kidnaping Case Has Final Ending in New York. (By United Prees.) NEW YORK, Dee. 11.——Robert H Fullerton, son of P. Fullerton, the lumber millionaire, whowe arrest tn | Seattle last spring caused a great! sensation, was released under $2,000 ball today, when presented fm court on the charge of abduct log Mise Gladys Hobart, of Yon- hors, N.Y. His trial will soon be started. It fe alleged that after they became sequainted at Corpell, where both were students, Fuller ton made love to the girl When bis father sent him to Panama on ® business trip, it ia charged he induced the gir) to acoompany him, promising to marry her at the first port of call Miss Hobart alleges that he deserted her at Kingston, Jamatca, and camo back to the Untted States | an prother by way of Panama and the Pacific) whe wom: P | const. Mies Hobart was sent back bo. a pall LA | v Maing first? bs on ed, then | to Now York by the American con-|try "Thornton (f ther me ipen sul at Kingston. Distriet Attorney | is peawen tnaat t Th i * Jerome became interested in } The eaes wit ap peng - case, and Fullerton was found to/| a Hr COA MEN was taken to San Francleco. In that city he wae released on| a writ of habeas corpus, and eluded | COUNCIL MAY TAKE STEPS TOWARD REGULATION. it he} bed officers, He recent wi ben arraigned he pleaded not guilty, but ry to make & statement. His lives tn zis, and is preaident of the Chicago Lumber company, which has big interests fo the Northwest. Rushed Out of Seattle, Robert Fuligrion bad offices in the Lumber Exchange butiding, on Seoond ay. and Seneck st. One Sat- urday afterncon two men called and asked him to prs) inte the hall for & moment's eration. Fuller. ton donned his hat &nd went out of his office. In the hall he was selzed, rhahed to the elevator, taken down to the street, thrown into a hack and hastily taken to Pier 1, Watson a8 waiting to cast off her lines for Franciseo, Fullerton was rushed Ordinance Planned Which up the gangplank and hustled tnto Will Prevent Short & stateroom. The steamer sali and it was many hours before Ful- hts. lerton’s friends knew of the kt napping. Weig' An ordinance making coal dealers pesponsible for any xt weight" in coal sold t6 Sonsumers In this| elty will be prepared by Counci)- man Goddard and submitted for the “People have no absolute w owing whether they are getting 1 welght,” declared Councilman Prosident Roosevelt discharging him | 5 dishonorably from the service of the | fut United Staton because of the al % Goddard, “when they buy coal leged participation in the Browns: |though the dealers may be entirely Read brought sult in New York | honest it leads to oriuicinn and the best way is to have some means of keeping @ close tab om all coul as tt is weighed our. It # fo the benefit of the dealer as well as the con sumer,” Councilman Armstrong said that he had received reports of drivers | deliberately stealing & ack or two of coal fyom their loade while out | to recover $122.26 for pay he claimed wes due him from the thme of his | discharge to that of the expiration of his enlistment. The New York court dismissed the caso and tho matter is pending before the su preme court of the United States, RRR * * making jel verion. * GOING SOME, *| “Homething must be don he * *% | declared, “as at present the people * COLUMBUS, Ga., * Triplets were -#|have ho way of telling whether they are siven short weight « or not.” Dee, born yesterday | * to Mr. and Mra, Ambrose A ec * Calhoun of this clty, This t * couple now has 26 children, ‘TRI $ T LL A * The father is 82 years old, PRREREREREE EERE HE, MORE | SHOPPING | De +4 Bre at the residence of J Munson, 1810 Harvard av., yester. day and borrowed an ax, was sen xi tenced to serve 63 daya on the chain | | gang by Police Judge Joan B. Gor |don this morning because he at- | tempted to sell the same ax to the woman's husband, who ia a rege of the firm of Munson-Noah, jond-hand dealers, at 601-7 Pike y's White told Mrs, Munson that he was a poor, hardworking man and | had a chance to earn 60 cents chop: ping wood at a nearby neighbor's house. Mra, Munson ‘willingly loaned him her ax, Hardly had half hour elapsed | when White appeared at the second. hand store conducted by Mr. Mun son and offered the ax for sale, Munson Immediately recognized his tioned White. The man Was unable to give a clea account of his ownership and Mun- }son detained him while he tele- phoned to Mrs. Munson. Patrol | O'Brien happengd along and Whi | was taken to jal TO ITS LAWFUL OWNER Thomas White, a laborer who ap- EVERY THING EARLY. PRICE ONE CENT. — aT THE RAIN TONIGr “CAPT. HAINS IS CRAZY; SHOULD BE TRIED FIRST” LATEST PHOTOGRAPH OF CAPT. PETER C. HAINS, SHOWING | HIS VACANT, BROODING STARE. | HUGS HOUS OF ALL IT HOLDS BUSY THIEF TAKES EVERYTHING HE ' CAN MOVE, Bedstead and Mattress Are’ Only Articles That He Overlooks. An industrious burglar looted a three-room = dwelling owned by George Engler in the rear of 1480 Norman st. early last evening, and about the only articles on the prow- feos the nocturnal visitor left be- bind were the bedsteads and mat tresson When the owner of the house on- tered the piece after dinner found everything topsy-turvy. The of Mating the stolen articles Was simplified from the fact that practically nothing was left Bven the bed clothes, sheets and iliows had vanished, together ith clothing, underwear, odds and ends and a lot of trinkets, The burglar had made @ clean aweep, and Mr. Engler believes he must have had an express wagon to earry off the loot. Violins and accessories valued at $150 were stolen from the show eano in front of the store conduct- ed by C. H. Rose, at 1318 Second av., some time last night. The fact that the robbery was commit ractically on the street in the heart of the city, where police pro. tection is supposed to prevali, will force Mr. Rose to restock no more show cases. H. B. Barker of 141 39th av. N reported to the police yesterday that & man posing as a purchaser of old gold entered his house yes |terday without knocking at the |door. The intruder’s description has been furnished the police. ON TEDDY'S TRAIL House Appoints Commit-| tee to Take Action on Insult. asfttod ) WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 he first action by the house of repre sentatives today was the adoption of a resolution introduced by re Rep tative Perkins, of New York, providing for the appointment of a/ committee of five to consider what action should be taken by the house with reference to that part of the president's message which mates that mombers of congress may need watching by the secret service. The following were appointed members of the committee: Per kins, of New York; Denby, of Mich. igan, and Woeks, of Massachusetts, republica: with Williams, of Mis alasippt, 1 ldoyd, of Missouri, democrats. SENIORS TO HOLD A PARTY TONIGHT The seniors of the Broadway high sohool will gather tonight at the Renton Hill lub house and enjoy thelr annual party, It will be very informal, and all will meet for a Jolly good time, No boy is to be allowed entrance unless he has with him a young lady, and, as there are more boys that girls in the olass, some of the boys are sure to be loft in the lurch, It is, however, arranged that, as those who come must have a partner, they may bring a “male” lady, and so get in the ga Robert Leigh ts chair. man of the arrangements commit he) inti. | WORKS FOR GARBAGE TRUST VOTES ON PROPOSED ORDINANCE BEING SOUGHT. | Councilmen Who Oppose Measure Prepared to Fight. Agents working in the tntereste of the Seattle Garbage Co., whose appiteation for a garbage monopoly is now before the corporations commitice In the shape of a fran chise ordinance, have been kicking jup a tot of dust during the past | week trying to “line up” enough! to work the bill through the Every possible influence is being exerted and every person whom it is thought might have some ties on ‘council! members are being ap proached and requested to put in & good word for the ordinance. Councilmen who are opposing the franchise on the ground that it i« acleverly concocted scheme to foist a “garbage trust” upon the people jof this city, have determined to! | fight the ordinance to the bitter end, believing that the people as a whole will be with them. Scale Price Unfair, The scale of prices fixed by the ordinance, it is said, is alone enough to condemn the bill in the eyes of fair minded people. At} present the maximum price charg-| ed by the oft-referred-to “Italian | jgarbage combine” for residence garbage ie but & month In the bill of the Seattle Garbage Co, the maximum figure for house gar bage te fixed at $1.50 a month, or just twice what the present garbage combination dares {o assess the people. Th vital objections to th tle Garbage Co.'s proposed fran chise is that the scale of prices will permit them to charge approximate ly twice what fs now charged on 8 jall classes of garbage; that there will be absolutely nothing to st the company from assessing the maximum scale once the franchise! is passed, and last, but not leas that the garbage business should |be conducted by the city, as a municipal enterprise, under the su | pervision of the health department Bond Vote Again. | A proposed bond Issue to establish Ja municipal garbage collection and | destruction system failed to carry | at the last general election because it did not get the three-fifths vote, although a majority of the people voted for the bonds, and it ts the| intention to put another bond issue! proposttion before the citizens in the Immediate future, when the question will not be clouded by oth er politica! ine ues | BANK IS CLOSED CASHIER SHIPS By United Press.) SPRINGPORT, Mich., Doo. 11—| The Springport State Savings bank | was closed today by order of the state banking commissioner, Henry | Fogelsang, the oashier of the insti tution, has disappeared and the amount of shortage in the “bank's | funds ie not yet known, The de posits were $500,000, Mra. ne Roberts, president of the bank, was the largest stockholder. Value of American crops will ag gregate $80,000,000,000 this year Secretary Wilvon, ‘Nother cord for United States Government will construct wire losa station with $,000-mile radius at Washington. When a stamp Slacks mucllage dampen the back and rub on th mucilage on envelope flap, then ply to letter, | TRAPS WHERE | truth of the x WEATHER 4T AND GATURDAY; WARM INCREASING SOUTH WINDS. UN AT EXPENSE OF VIRTUE AND CITY’S DECENCY POLICE PITFAL ALON GIRLS ARE LURED ARE FLOURISHING. |}Owners Make Big Profits Out of the Wretched Business. Safe from interference at hands of an administration seeks to pr t the city from o1 such evil a flaunts tteelf o the public dance halls, driven out of the city, are makd their appearance again Stirred by the fi which one of these tutions ancial sue pernicious f encountered from the inde | ment {t opened its doors, other peg» sons seeking to acquire. suddety wealth, and caring not in thelg greed for gain how many lives ar@ ruined or how many homes dese lated, have searched the city o for available quarters, and as a sult four or five dance halls running at present, and there ba rumors that several more will Bg open in the near future. } Dreamiand Running, ’ Th Dre nd pavilion, Sa enth and Union, is the largest, perhaps, the most patronized. hall st Fourth and Pine, once ducted by @ man who ts now | the be entiary, and closed mont ayo by order of public officers influe recognized its immoral yen again. i ans are making, according ort, to Open up gies’ hall blic dances, conducted on same style as the Dreamland pat fon, In the near future. The mae jority of these places follow the plan introduced bere by the mam agers of the Dreamland rink, charging 6 cents for each di and completing one dance every | | nim utes. Vhen tt ts considered that at the Dream land pavilion there are free quently several hundred perses® on the floor at one time, sor is « j thing of an idea of the amount money which one of these places | takes in each night can be gained, Are immoral. To outward appearances th dance balls are conducted stri | within the bounds of respectability, Yet there is no ome who has ever visited one of them that has quickly discovered the undercur of immorality that exists. Yor girls, jured by the music and myriads of lights and the w pletures of pleasure painted them by companions who become voluntary “boosters” for the dance hall game, are thrown Into asso ciation with men of the class and women whose lew are concealed under a thin mask decent-for-themoment behgvior. It is not possible to avoid either these men, who are professiona) stroyers of virtue, or these coh 5 who, having fallen themselves, joice whenever another falls. “introducers” are on every side, sual Visitor finds himself {ne portuned to dance and has the og» portunity of meeting anyone whom his fancy selects. Refreshment Booths. Of course there are refreshmeng booths, but aside from “Cineinnatl, & beerlike concoction contain{n such a slight percentage of pepe. | as to be classed as a non-intoxicen there are no objectionable arid sold. The refreshment tabk merely afford an ortunity for the continuance of conversation be gun during th and for the nt uaintan, ally end in degradatio the developme which | and shame for the girl lured to t place by her love dancing of music an Easy of Admittance. While the managers declare that they permit no disreputable chan acters to enter, and while it is tr that | following the recent exodus scarlet women from the old re stricted _ district, special officers kept watch to keep any of the refugees out of the ance halls, the that any mag ft who conducts himself with outward respectability, and any woman whose moral rottenness is not pub licly known, {8 admitted to the dance halls without question, Seattle has had experience of thig ame sort before. The public tg awakening to the fact that an evil which it was thought bad been en- Urely rooted out of the community has returned, and there is a demand that the authorities take steps ta put the dance halls out of business, ELECT OFFICERS tle lodge, No. degree of auxiliary of Columbia lodge, 2, A. O. U. W,, held the regular annual election of officers recéntly, Mrs, Eliza Tyler was re-elected to the sixth term as chief of hono Mrs. Abbie S. Turner past chief of honor; Mrs, Rose Havliok, lady of honor; Nola R. Mo Knight, financier; Dora N, Riddel recorder; Clara Lotka, recetve Mary Hoppe, chief of ceremonies. Other elected officers were: M, McConnell, Dollie Thayer, W: Hapgood, Bila Wilson and J, Klette. The delegates to grand lodge, held in Seattle the week commence ing June 23, 190%, are Mrs. Bi Tyle Nola ©, McKnight, Addit Philbrick and Jessie Oliver, was elected “Woman ts the white Chinaman of industrial world,” says a lead- unionist, "Wherever she papens the worth of hue the x trades he ¢ ) labor,