The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 15, 1908, Page 1

LAST EDITION CI\N\V CALLS ON EDDY ‘nation JOGE ROOT PETITIONED TO QUALIFY FOR BENCH PHONE WAR § EXPRESS CONFIDENCE IN HIS INTEG- AND ASK HIM TO TAKE HIS SEAT FOR TERM BEGINNING NEXT MONTH, it for Supreme Court Justice Milo A. Root are cireu- | petition addressed to Root asking him to reconsider his action | Be imatior of bis nation insofar as ft applies to the term for ier words. Judy is asked to qualify for the alx-year RATES which he ected last November Wriends of Root are ciroula thie and the impres | ‘weralls In sor rters that he Inter lity in case the ttee fon investigating com finds him guilty | COMPANIES CUT ON) | SCHEDULE TO PORTLAND. wk of the Bar Avs iaaiy Indiveretions petition, which iets and vel! t at R ! lo Root and fs now being freel Root where FIND BIGY'S BUDY Ih Judg rd ge rsa. ows ashing’ disap nage =A, Independent's New Line eme court. We Starts Fight That Is surrender niment to] in the reapectfully ont fog reasons for ask | mM to reconsider yor action | Mextending your resignation Not Yet Ended. sc eae in cheag somebody | Noah's time wald nerally che adage has been be the term for which you Neved, too, except by those anfor tly been elected | tunate persons compelled to hold We do not consider the} long-diatance telephone nversa bas been made against tions between Seattle and Port ir enemies as a uf land. Time was, not long ago, when the| | Sunset company had the conversa- FLOATING IN HARBOR) "8 tied up. Bt Jobne, of Portland for leaving your large * Your resignation wilt! any distrust the am ad calles up i | his brother John, in Beattk | co PO: ED. Hew-d'y back,” says John. | Bits te ceasten thas, your | MPOSED. Time consumed, two seconds, | will be created that your! We planned to force you} for their own Advance | Positively Identified by the ‘Those who elected you} Praliots expressed con Members of the Po- Your tutegrity and abiiity lice Force. been shaken, and we) that the fight put up| was made by the worst! y United Pre the state, and surren-| SAN i RANCIBCO, Dee. 18:—The demands would be @ |body ot cuit of roves betwee 4 print, wou! Bt was found im bad y Seer; = _ oe —— Goat Island today. Biggy wae lost orm the pol anch on Mond better element greatly coveetg- Al, . launch on Monday » | As soon as the Key We believe that there boat. from which the body : effort on the part wighied, arrived at the slip, the po Rate Cutting ine. . element to weed out of were notified, Sergeant James| Under the one-line regime, t | all men who favor reform, |Denovan. of the Harber station,| Sunset charged $1. for one minute the shore an@ many other — vot in a launeh and towed the or fraction thereef between Port And the Sunset charged a dollar! New Line Opens. But times have changed. Con-/ versation with Portland is growing cheaper. In fact, it promises to be- come as cheap shortly as ordinary real estate taik is in Portiand iteelf. | The Independent company has ap peared a pidder for long-distance business, and there le merry war on. While for the companies war may be just what Gen. Sherman termed it, this particular war is « cause for genuine joy to the out siders. Route ferry was ; b. to the foot of Mission st.) Innd and Seattle. You conldn’t get) we pray you to stay with onare it remained in the water untill. ay tor lems than $1, se matter ip on the fight for g004 | the coroner's deputies arrived. | how brief might be your remarks j it. A terrific war is now | Donovan positively identified the the forces of good and | body as that of his late chief. Jaa | The Independent pec began politics, and while | Mullaiy. seward of the Marbor operations November 1, and they Men will be @riven to | Emergency hospital, w knew | made their presence felt imme behooves us all to re | Bigey intimately, aiso identified the | diately by fixing thelr $1 posta.” — |for the first minute, but chargin Having been two weeks tn theloniy 60 conte for @ half minute Pe LS I te . 4 “ae Ton” decompesicion hutteg a. | and $0 conta for 46 seconds vanced considerably. It is probabie| Tht Sunset company was por miy has been floating for | turbed. Also it was lodignant and! ve. [it resented the invasion of Ite alien ken found the hands were|able right as a trut to charm | clasped at the back, showing that | just whatever It pleased. It begun! FAILING }the dead chief made no struggle|to fight back. Last Sunday the } when in the water, and this sup) company put the following sched-| . jperts the suicide theory into oftect: One-half minute, on Is Alarming to outs; three-quarters of @ min Physicians i | ute, 60 conte: one minute, 76 cents = KEW TRUST 1s And the Independent company Attendance. 7 }has announced that it has met the BEING FORMED | Sunset rates Int talk eg gene lt ien't certain that the \" fe ied Press.) | United Press. yet a 1h—From sources| new TORK Doe The John. D. ees ned reliability, it w5/ Ryan and Thomas F. Cole are the | today that the royal fam-| lreputed heads of e new smelting | RDER MY MYSTERY ne are deeply com! and refining company which Is be Gver the king’® condition. | ing organized, {t is said, to com Unites “Gales Brees) rd himself realizes the vere with the American trust's sabake. thee shoe voty ak Of his tiiness 18 indicated | pian: gt Gartield, Utah. HALIFA C. Annie MeCallough, aged 35, em ployed in # cotton factory, wae! found in a packing box outside t home of Henry Boyce, with whom she boarded The woman } = and filed to return, Clar Hoyee, a son of Henry, was fond dead with a bullet in his head | | recently ’ MINISTER GETS TWO YEARS IN PRISON| | United Press.) } i, Man, Dec. 16 snning, a German Hap tist minister accused of abusing 15-} ed for the remain” | vearold girls, was sentenced today ag sede Pag sae to ser A sentence of two years by the count | 4 "hin the penitentiary | LTH OFFICE |But Mr. Tatze Is Told to Change the Name of His) Suds Dispensary. W fact that he fs rapidly un his many governmental re ites onto the shoulders of of Wales. The court have jered their royal Bt to cance! all oe eoangeneme, { id New Hail. and Daughters of Nor- Planning the immediate | of modern three- hall and club rooms to 9 on Boren av., between and Lenora sta. BANK WRECKER IS DYING IN PRISON (By United Press.) CANON CITY, Colo., Dec. 15.—- John E. Coadings, the Rockyford bank wrecker, is reported today to be dying in the hospital ward of | the state peuitentiary. It is semi- oftictally announced that the gover: nor wil pardon him at Christmas, | llers of Cruisers to Dance. MERTON, PD 15.—~T Of the cruisers Milwaukee | Louis at this yard have is- ations to a grand batl, | ing 9200.000 of Swill be given ot Hagley’ hall, |Heattic school bonds 6 on Dee. 90. _tres urer this mort DER ake no OW ITS THE’EA Sper ACE ia Bond Bids Bids x SS MBER OF COMMERCE ACTS ON BOND ISSUE committee on taxation has taken the follow- which is being When is a health office health office? When it's a saloon. (Copyright applied for.) not a Down at 503 King st. there is a saloon operated by P. Tatse which the owner has cheerfully acclaimed to the passing people as the ‘Health Office,” Up in the efty hall are a few) rooms in a Katszenjammer Kaatle | structure that city officials apo! gizingly dub the health office. The identity of the places has | been considerably mixed up, owing | |to the similarity of names, and the fact that many people hurriedly tn- | quiring for the telephone sumber | of Health Commissioner Crichton’s | department, skim through the tele: | phone book to the Has, get the Health Office number d sudden: | \ly discover that they are talking |to @ retail booze emporium, Tatze promised alter much r- suasion to adopt a less objection: | able name to announce his place! BER OF COMMERCE | Views on proposed bond issues in a report wed by the chamber this afternoon issue of $36000, most of them E RAL FUND) a pate en amounts not un- bie. Pest house, comfort stations and Duwamish bridge ‘wait, paying for re- but will soon have to be attended to. ene 4 , ADE FUND a large proportion Of the $458,180 for ~ grade improvement, A fot be paid from the general fund, as it will only encourage Motown procedent SON STREET street regrade will have to be paid the general fund, as well as the Dearborn regrads, be of the unwise action of the city council, PARK FUND ye The amount asked for the Jackson The proposed issue of $1,000,000 for parks should be authorized, and the board should Advantage of the present real estate prices of bilsinoss to the world. He com: | promised by obliterating the capital | While the method of financing the #iff and now the piace is Balth Of-| NG FUND| Mghting plant ie wrong, the bonds [I flce.” The health authorities thin | ; oe ie this fs taking ® mean advantage of | ‘be passed, otherwise it will delay the work and embarrass ies coeata .n vier Ballon, onal My fieanctally have tost. registered another firm at | defies the police to make ifm Jatve | ing something of th | last SEATTLE, WASH., THE SEATTLE STAR TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 10 SUE ia THE WEATHER D WEDNESDAY; SOUTHERLY WINDS. RAIN STRONG (DITOR TONIGHT AN 1908, PRICE ONE CENT. NEW YORK WORLD'S CATCH GANGPULITZER IS NOW THE OBJECT OF UF YOUNG . IH POLICE SURE THEY) HAVE BURGLARS IN TOILS. Youthful Have Culprits May Committed Many Crimes. LA. WELLS, | Youthful Crook Arrested Last Night | be no more With the J. A. Wells, Bryant, James Agnew, alias Pierson, and Frank J. Eanis, aliaw Captain of Detectives Charles nant says he has under reswaint @ arrest fast While Captain of Detectives T nant and City Detective Bd. Grit- fith were waiking ebong . Bike 9 oar Fifth av. lawt ight, they met Me, who started te run, The youthful ex-convict only stopped hi | fight afier Ténnant threatened take hie lea off Adams, a pal of Wella wae ar ted later in the evening, Cap- ain Tennant says Adame #eala for a living He refuses to werk and rn the city, He is suspected of knew thievery which hi for several montha Rum With Crooks, City Detectives MoeClurg and Peterson last night arrested Jack Uryant. Bryant is & partner of “Matty” Matthews, a friend of Sadie Belcher, the woman who Jevineed much interest when Joseph | Garcia was shot down by loeul de- tectives at First av, and Pike al May, and who wan hernelf or- dered out of town a few weeka ago Ennis wee captured red-handed last night by Patrolman Fred Phil- fips, as he emersed from the Ort ental bazaar, 105 Pike st. after stealing @ et of furs, He is one of | the gang to which Welle and Maliahan brothers belong, and the police he has been respensttie for much of the petty thievery which has characterized the petice reports of Inte. Ennis is booked am may the | Charles P. Taft seer rd the World's challenge of : . Rgobeveit’s misstatements ‘of fact ax & personal ‘him if| Mection With Purchase | fan publicity of the facte about the Panama tr cate of the Panama Canal by aily of the Tafts, he only himself to blame i " . | Swilitess seein Gemadete weisiadlty recenoadile tor tie Yathe the United States Gov- ing of William H into tt atter, It Mr. ¢ wh ernment — Accuser De- }eonferred with M ft at the Hotel Mant he da Mr : , Maes ya Winetin ty oat oseagpeicovh a io ligag nounced in Strongest Mas Mr. Cromwell who visliod tH r Terms in the Presidential he Appolnte of George KR. Sheldor - er of th “ps rs May oy Res aie tie “thahamis oot + feng Vocabulary, as a “Liar the reput ¢mpalgn of National Reputation” t it a fi Mr. ¢ who re 1 he h ad 7 ae nl ' sry, eee “JA we Says Country Suffers but. infamous,’ Not ‘ it i elt said More Than Individuals PRESIDENT’S BITTEREST WRATH WHO GOT T HE MONEY ? President sends « Special Message to Congress to | Get Action on the Ac- cusations Made That | There Was Graft in Con- Under the above caption, the New York World of December 1¢ | Published the following in ite editorial column. This gives briefiy the| | @eeence of the charges made by the World From These False As- ‘The United States did wot pay » to any Ame ate. " 5 : he fice sertions Surprised at gartioslar lndividale Appointment of Con- he fh oe t koow ore wae ne erndlewte. i ; i i im be . gressional Investigating contradicts cach of thone stn Mr. Rooseve Committee. | JOSEPH PULITZER, To th y contradictions record le now added the en phdtie contradiction of S¢ ¢ Nebraska, the republics (By United Pre we) chairman of the committee on | who sa j | | Te 1 1 ; th th Qn i . € | R € ¢ ner se oe Craaweeit” un whe had anything te do with (hat wae William 1 name of the + Beare connie astead of to the French . 1 the purchase of the Panama far eet know, and } evelt today sent a gorously worded th which he transmitted rec- Another contradiction of Mr. Roosevelt statement that ‘the gov P the dea ernment paid this $40,000,000 direct to the Freneh government’ is found . eth fn the cheeks to J. P. Morgan & Co., and by them indorsed, which are : : ¥ on file In the treasury department In view of stant reiteration association of eral Hoyt in an inspired defense says that the mone rupt action th th ernment in t acquisition of the liquidator, M. Gautron, and that this was payment to ama canal. 1 dee t to submit to eoneress 3 ernment. According to Cromwell's textimony ODly| information 1} sag © submit to congress: all the $26,000,000 of the $40,000,000 was 1 to the liquidator of the de Les sla ave OM The seps company. Even had it all been pald to M. Gautrop, that wonld LIBELOUS AND FALSE. payment to the French government than a payment tc The were first br sht t “ night of | thé regeivers of the Metropolitan ‘Traction ix payment to the govern-|).. °! " E TOMERS SO Fy George Adama, Jack| tieot of the United Btates lished in anapolis News, which is edited by Delavan "The old de Lesseps company had failed and a receiver had been | Smith ten | soled’ ot Pj wagnt Ay! Whe fae ret wa godin gn Rig “The stories ate scurrilous, libelous and false. Mr. them. Then Mr. Cromwell, acting for the new Panama Canal company Smith has sheltered himself behind the excuse that he accepted the statements of the New York World, owned |quintet of youthful burgiare who| soli the property of the old Panama Canal company to th have operated in Seattle for sore) Staten for § 006 and paid the do Lesseps receiver $25,000,000 for! by Joseph Pulitzer. time what cost the United States $40,000,000 It is idle to say that the known character of Mr. Pulitzer Wells, who te only 22 years old. “Go far as the World's information goes, none of the rs Of) ond his paper are such that stateme he paper si h te an ox-convict, having served time! Mh Willian H. Taft was in the original ryndicate. The utors of | | paper are such that statements in the paper should }at the Walla Walla penitentiary for! Renater Gorman and of Bena Hanna might furnish information about| be believed by nc y t unfortunately there are thousands urglary. He was arrested on Avg./ the original ayndicators, So might J. P. Morgan & Co., Douglas Rob-| who believe statements they see printed, even though they © by City Detective Wickman near | ingen and William Nelson Cromwell. If any of Mr. Taft's brothers were/are in Pulitzer’s paper. Congressmen actually have been in- posteffies, after a hard ayndioators they came to later. | duce 1 to introduce esolution with reference tc } charges.” ogether with James/ ‘A public investigation by congress to find out who got the money | os peee's ’ 1 reterence to these charges. Mallahan and Ennis, were cel eee ws n censity SPECIFIC CHARGES. | for stealing several revolvers from | cams | The (6 . ee the Whites Mardware Co. severai| = 1¢ president then quoted pecific ¢ as pub- mortha ago. Welle was sentenced to lished, bringing in t names of P. other of aerve one year fm the penitentiary, SP RINC U || E }the president-elect, and Douglas Robineés, brother-in-law of but the sentence wae suapended, the president. He then continued pending goo — a i} f J INS TRI rs | f ‘The statements sometimes occurred in the editorial col- Btarte ju Pe A umns and sometimes in the news columns and in special con- trit trit ns “They are false in every particular from beginning to end. The wickedness of slanderers is surpassed only by their fatuity. The inventor of the Taft story evidently supposed that William H. Taft was secretary of war dur- ing some period of the Panama canal purchase. “He rig not become secretary until after the transaction write ROBINSON CONNECTION. of story did not take the ain that he was not connected with any phase No shadow of proof can be produced to support They consist of strong, infamous libels. In form they are in part libels on the individuals, Robinson and Taft, for instance. In fz they are libels upon the government “I don't believe you should concern yourselves with the individual writers of the articles. The real offender is Mr. Pulitzer. The great injury is the blackening of the good name of the American people. GOVERNMENT MUST SUE. “It should not be left for a private citizen to sue Pulitzer, | but he should be prosecuted for libel by thé government. In point the iniquity of wrong doing, there is no choice between a public servant betraying his trust arid a man guilty as } er is in this instance ; “It is a high national duty to bring this man, who only seeks to connect the government with wrong doings of the basest and foulest kind, to justice. The attorney general is considering the form of proceedings.” | METHOD OF CANAL PURCHASE. “The to deal stones inventor the Robinson | | trouble | of the the of encourag THORNTON J, HAINS. On Trial for Murder. aN | JUSTICE CRANE. Who Is Hearing the Case. prt: (By United Press.) FLUSHING, L. 1, Dec | feeling engendered was apparent to the spectators | During the morning Alexa Jardine, a plumber, of Island City The 15. state today sprang a surprise on the attorneys defending Thornton Jen ® disorderly person and will be tried} kine Hains, charged with participa.) Was chosen as the se ve mth juror The rest of the mess is taken up with a description ae such. The proprietor of the Ori-| thon In the shooting and killing of During a recess of the court! 4¢ the method of pure th ral he president d res ental basaar says he does not care} William E. Annis by Capt. Peter C.| Chief Counsel Mcintyre announced “i t , hod of pr ng nm canal. | Th pr ent declares cute the youttr ertminal;| Hains, Brother of the man on trial, | that Thornton Hains would take that the money was pi to the stockholders at the direction as he lost nothing. The quintet wilt} Justice Crane, before the examina-| the stand to testify in his own be-|of the French courts, and the story that Americans were in- Probably be ordered to leave the| tion of talesmen began, designated | half ; | terested in either the old or new French company is declared city when they appear in the potice| dames A. Dayton and Elmer 8.| Mra, William BE. Annis, widow of| 60. nate All the documents in the case were submitted ‘ourt for trial White a8 special pros#outors to ax-|the man for whose murder the de-| FTOUN™ ee he se ete ce ibs : | sit the state officials during the|fendant Is being tried, arrived to was suggested by Roosevelt that if congress deemed it ac Bn Rt et day, and will remain until after the| visable, it doubtless would be possible to. ge carane Gl | "fhe announcement brought forth | completion of the jury. She ts ex-|the shareholders from France throt the erican am- pacers? yet strenuous objections from Chief! pected to be one of the first wit) ),. 65 dor 8 BELLINGHAM. | Counsal Mcintyre, of the defense, | nesses for the prosecution is . re The ¢ . and - > — : 6 | BELLINGHAM, Dec. 16 the examination of Veat Elias Wife Will Not Testify, | Rather than go to jail in the | @” wverett, a lumber dealer, bY} WINTHROP, Mass, Dec. 15.—| 6,000 bonds, Em “Se atitestoadf 7 renga We ! P, Mass, 5—| ma Goldman and Dr. Bon Rett. @| Pmarcdtor White, began. Every ing. Peter C. Hains, wife of Capt man shook the dust of Bellz | question of White's wae objected to | pains, whose brother, Thornton 9 uh | bY Melntyre, who announced that jonking Hains, 18 on trial, today ham from their shoes and left for Vaneouver, B. C., at 1 o'clock this afternoon. If they had. remained, the charge against them of threateniag to talk to an unlawful assem bly would have been preased, They were given the option of going or facing the charge. Se ee | ee ee HF SSESESSEESE EE ESE EES WHY COME LOOKING LiKe Ths? ge ITN jing of the She made her way home, and the| worth he would object to every proceed court in which White said that she would not go to York during the trial, nothing to say against or for her} husband's brother She further said that she did not know whether she would testify at the future trial of her husband had AUTO REMOVES CINDER FROM EYE VANCOUVER, Wash,, Dec. 15.-—While stopped to pick a cinder from 1 h car, dragged 50 feet, sustaining a broken arm dent the cinder worked itself out of the eye. FORGOT MUNICIPAL ELECTION, WAPATO, Wash., Dee, 15. as she participated Bitter Wrang! ‘Aw a result of the objections, con- stant wrangles between opposing ll took place, and the bitter » motor the accel was struck b During This city was t bu with com. police and all the town have been mercial pursuits, and the citizens absolutely forgot to hold a mu searching for the miscreant since nicipal election December 8, Now the question is—do the old It is supposed to be a case of re officials hold over or what? venge and mistaken {dentity, al T0 FREEZE though not all are agreed upon this|f- INDIANS IN AUTO WRECK latter NORTH YAKIMA, Wash., Dec. Tommy Rot an In traded two city lots for a buz Tw ale wagon. accidents nearly killing those in the benszine wagon, have resulted, still Injun” ts undismayed and always says the “saddle turned” the bucking critter will yet be subdued. STATE OF MICHIGAN CAN'T PAY TEACHERS. sig DETROIT, Dec, 15.—The state of Michigan is so hard up that even the school teachers are waiting for their pay and wondering if Christmas will be merry or otherwise, State officials and em ployes have not drawn salaries for weeks. SUDDEN HEAT PROSTRATION, M’KF ORT, Pa, Deo, 15.—Isaac Clare critical condition at a hospital suffering from He was prostrated by the comparatively last night big and Murderous Fiend. Plying Nefarious Crime in Alaska. MRS, TAFT IS GIVEN HONORS ) Mrs, Wil selected (By United Press.) Alaska, Deo, 15.—This with a real mystery -Highbinder vartety Murray was on her way home one night recently after eall ing upon a,neighbor but a block (By United Pri YORK, Dee, 15. liam HM. Taft was today honorary National chairman at the ng of the Women's department NEW aged is in a heat exhaustion sudden sultry weather » Brock away. dhe was grabbed by a man PA <pnclat no MMR Shit HLARICALIERE CUATN who smothered her cries, bound her | officers were Mrs. M. Hatch of Wil- A Mepiad 5 the AB apg: isha is ; hinds, dragged her—now insensible | lard, N. ¥., treasurer, and Mrs. Mat : _NORWARK, Opto. Dee) th--Mre Dollie atotiays ified togay with fright—out to a wharf and/cus M, Marks of New York, seore-|fo rom exciton cause € ny . e dropped her there to freeze. tary. |} rushed to the upstairs apartments and commenced throwing bed- A dog aroused her an hour later|,,'% the new executive council are ding out of the window, 4 moment after she herself fell down P be bed with cold Mre. William H, Croeker of San upon it dead When almost benunt By Francisco and Mrs, Nicholas Long