The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 17, 1908, Page 1

THEY SAY The meanest feature of exchanging presents te | the way exc h person figures on getting the | “saul of the deal. | yicTIM OF THE! ‘AL CROWDING | "WANTS TO ACT. — tion for Self-Pro- on Is the Idea of Hilda Bergstrom. a new ¢ 1 jere’s 3 name and wants gers’ 2 ‘ gory of Bergs' She v der she d cars dant th p so mucl that he soy SER tag An, ee in wit ‘ Straphangers Suggest may be the pe sid am a Unantmoualy hare tho women of ere Seattle risen to commend The Bta M proper organization We | ror caine attention to the indlgni tie up the entire system | ties and tanita they encounter on ke street car company any the street cars of the Seattle F i ‘ Hicials t j tric Co. Just as quickly, too, have and bring the officials ithe decent men of the city re sponded by doing all tm their power to protect the women from the vile brutes who are a source of con stant fear to every feminine car patron and whose conduct ts a dis gusticg reflection on masculim | morals, of Wealization the fact we are awakening. We all be late for our din- that one night, but it Mi be worth while. : ‘. ‘ +. aet night a young woman got ‘want to organize this | op Raltard ear O68. th charge to spread the ‘No | conductor 755, catbound, Two weil- P he |dreseed hoodlums were behind her D fare’ propaganda. It /ohe"Yas no sconer on the car than only way of securing | they endeavored to foren thetr at I want The Star to | tentions upon her. They made sug "y tha gestive remarks to each other, but to the women of Seattle | designed for her ears. They even "| went so far am to pull the feathers in this movement.” | "her hat. The otras ote. request of Miss Berg- PThe Star will receive any | Isddressed to her. If y stood the insults as long as she! jeould and, finally, turning on them terested in this matter, to Miss Bergstrom, care iministered a reproof that would have made them hang their heads Star. |in shame bad they hed a speck of manhood left in their breasts ey, United Press.) IASHINGTON, Dec. 17-—~ Select committee of the # x Flee in Dark. But they answered with further ingults, until men on the car inter fered and called the conductor to aid them. Threatened with arrest the young toughs took advantage of the car's first stop to jump from the car and dixappear in the dark ness, STRIPES alleged insult to today agreed upon a calling upon the presi. }to aubrnit to congress the jon on which he based iy ion that members house were afraid of be- igated by the secret in this way it ie ex- id that the whole matter ‘be aired, as it is believed president has information Abolish the Uniform of Shame. | Within the next five months not xX ready to submit. Walla Walla will be weartng the ie afternoon the resolution {striped suits that mark their by the select committee | ghame. B adopted unanimousiy by | Superintendent C. S. Reed, for y he with the exception of | merly chief of police of Beattie, was upon which the vote [in the city today, and announced 370 to 14. } that by May 1, 1909, the Inst of the! j old prison 6 will be cast aside $ OF DEAD | Instead, all convicts will be wear- | ing suits of blue-black cloth, of/ solid color, and no more conspica oe than many @ business sult number of the convicts have iquestion as to whe ent, on an to what extent. i) new “humane” suits, Whose deceased husband | mainder of the men who are serv removed from the niche | ing time for offenses against the| for in a S in « different pert of | ty as the sults can be obtained. ing, wae atgued before iffin in the case of Clara | Against the Washington | r & sonoeiation this m taken und M by the court 4 The Royal Highlanders will give their regular monthly dance tomor | academy, ar merce ar az DEAD CHASING THIEF. MONTCLAIR, N. J., Dee. 17.~-While pursuing a thief whom found in her hen house, Miss Fannie Mayer, aged 60, drop 1 the etreet. The thief escaped with the chickens. i, SWEET HOME” ENRAGED HIM. MOBCOW, Idaho, Dec, 17.—Fred M. Stoward is on trial here the murder of Mrs, Clara O'Neill. Witnesses testified that fart killed the woman because she persisted in playing “Home, Home” on the organ. TED HIG CLOTHING OFF, VANCOUVER, Wash, Dec. 17.--While blasting stumps with Db. Cory was blown ten feet into the afr, his cloth from his body, hia knife was broken to pieces, but ground uninjured, TH DREAM CAME TRUE. MONTESANO, Dec, 17.—Mias Hazel Douglas dreamed Tues hight that she would die the next day, Wednesday night whe only burned by the explosion of a lamp, and died that iM WOMAN; CHIC AC Brot a r 1, ONE NIGHTIE; DIVORCE. Dec. 17—-On the testimony of three maids that her inted of one night gown, one corset cover, one pair two hats, two dresses and one suit of underwear, Mrs. Beeler, wife of a wealthy man, was granted a divorce. 10, VOL, 10 HILDA BERGSTROM, NO [S WOMEN TO ORGANIZE BIG STRAPHANGER’S LEAGUE WOMEN PRAISE STAR FOR FIGHT FOR DECENT CARS LAST EDITION | THE SEATTLE STAR DECEMBER 17, Theee youths were not drunk They did not even have the excuse the man whose depravity is yught to the surface by overin in Mqnor, They were w, contempuble who f tended for thetr mothe an m is aieter seh not wulte,” Star this mo: ably not a agreeable praved familiarities on } Sutter “Th Ne to tel of Too many men, sometimes our hus | ¥Hl witness the rev way, ‘You deserved it, no doubt, for no} insult a woman bands end our man ie going who does sot have b a th again, and it men do not kne “The drunken working girls pelied to submit to tn. declared ong woman to The “There ia prob | if-respecting woman in| gnited from the past efforta of the | Seattie who has not had many di* | civi) government to make the native exiperionces wretches nig. as for themeely with who the street care. in Silence. theae experiene fathers, will to give him cause.’ ie sald time simply proves ow each other brate who drutes | ment was estat oe that street care are in ra and their /of firm rentratnt o* alone | dent-elect Taft is the conviction of de attempt Jerty and ieenre is candidly admit trouble fp that We do not! a. put jort the Queen Anne car went per jhaps @ little farther than the ma lgortey of bis class, but women are constantly Insulted on the care and not always by mon who are drunk, either. scoren to the seats, beasts selves.” and take because the indignities we can’t help o S.E. CO. Information on the Equi ipment. We have to crowd in with of men of every clase, hang straps because there are no ot ver A ES CONVICTS TO LABOR ABOUT BE FREE OF | TO PROBE State Penitentiary Is to|Asks the City to Obtain| The Central Labor Council! inst ing ot Mayor Public Mi ult | nals and appu Seattle Blectr j daily papers | The report reads last three Blectric | pllane 4 \* |* THE Physical | Not Girls, would | waves, | your and you “rate,” jnow in hearing If Mise La Isn't her hair pretty?" ler, les rtonances te ot company, lines, and ‘olumbarium | law will be similarly clad as quick . SOTTO TT Hk WEATHER, Fair Tonight and Friday; row night in the Douglas Dancing|* Light East Winds, top floor Silver building.’ ¥ 4 ¥¥ ¥ ex HH He ® cares aes wees RRORS! FOR THE CO-ED Fashionable Couffures and Culture Will Work you rather or some one say: vyina Rudberg, a man tn the state penitentiary at| nikht adopted resolutions petition. Superintendent | Bouillon aud members of the elty council to in-| Vestigate at once the rolling stock | and so-called safety appliences, sig- the and} make the report public through the! “that during the! years several fatal acet dents have occurred on the Seattle | company's it | aeaar been provided with these | most instances the blame has been and the re-| placed on the faulty mechanical ap in * * *) . * * + oe: be healthy and give up your Marcelle pompadour and or would you Just as soon knock a few years off the end of your life and have your reward wo: |men's physical director at the Unt the de versity of Washington, ts correct, you've got to do one thing or j other Modern hairdressing, clares Mise Ru to health her university dbverg work, is & menace | the Study and Pre She has found it so in The fair co-ed is always enthused | over physical culture until dhe finds ‘that during the violent exercise her learefully cons won't etay up. wanes at once. | The freshma berg doclares, their persona) enough of thoi Miss Rudberg in vogue at Sm the sentors set | arene and the tructed pompadour Her enthusiasm n girls, Mies Rud think too much appearance and not r physical welfare favors the system uith's college, where the example freshmen follow. of | Alexander for TO CHANGE SEATTL », WASH WAR iS NOW DECLARED ON DUTCH |Venezuela Throws Down the Gauntlet to Holland. ( United Press.) * wasHinaron, 3 Tee ezuela h chines war against Molland, acoording to advigen received at the state department today from Beare tary Paxton Hibben, secretary of the American legation at Bogota, Colombia, Tho meswage from Hibben sys that the Colombian minlater of for elgn affaires ha ceived the follows ing telegram from Caracas, under the date of December 14 In view of the blockade entaty lished, and the captu by the blockading veasela of Venenuelan Vossela, the head of the goveraniént of Venezuela, aftet assuring ex traordinary powers for the defense of the country, has declared a state ot war.” POLICY IN ISLANDS Taft’s Inauguration Will Mean Improvement in the Philippines. (GY H. LEE CLOTWORTHY,) Staff Correspondent of the United cating pole: attitude of th tion toward tb tator ever has marked the ingular political agt sinee the civt} govern. Hahed in the Philip replaced by a polley immediately fot towing the inauguration of Pres! pines fa to b those officials who are in touch with insular affairs. That a grotesque failure has re close | politician differentiate between Ib | ted by every official connected with | the olvi) administration. It is also expected that the tnawe uration of the Taft administration it of a number of the native governors of the prov | thees and the filling of their places with Americans provinces murder and assault, with ang} American citizens as the vietima, that | #P¢ becoming alarmingly frequent, and invariably the perpetrators are shielded from arrest by the native offictals. Days Berore Pick POCKETS ARE THEIR HANOIN ALLREADY MAY REMOVE BOYCOTT ON A.Y.P.E. Federation May Take Ban Off the Exposition. \Labor The question of whether the | Washington Federation of Labor will remove the boycott agatnst the | A-Y-P. BE. may be taken up at the annual meeting of the labor Jeaders, which will be held in North fakima next month At the convention |coma last January the placed on the “unfair” list because of alleged cutting of union wages Under the labor laws, union men cannot work on the exposition jobs jor attend the fair while the ban laste | Frank R. Cotterill, president of the State Federation, stated today that only the unions which were affected in the original dispute | could have the question of an amie able agreement with the exponition Management brought up at the State Federation se ONE BED FOR 20 NEW YORK, Dec. 17.~-There are jonly 15,000 beds in the United States to accommodate 600,000 con sumptives, according to a statement fasued today by the Assoctation for notion of Tuber. culosts, The figu are presented as the result of @ searching investi gation of the needs of destitute pa tents and are based on statiatios gothered in every state in the Union. held in Ta Attacks His Keepers. FRANCISCO, 1 7 Duffy, @ patient held on | SAN suspicion of insanity at the Central Himergencey hoapital, assautted hte keepers last night in a desperate | attempt to gain his iberty, The at- tendants had their faces so badly clawed they will probably be mark ed for life, | THURSDAY, HALL W at the pla | MORE SHOPPING |) big talr wan | n{and Mero adraigtetra- | Ga the very oxts bad been third | teaeher “The ht line sta) blurred and defiantly \"Qod there is no Santa Claus.” “Then the littio hand got to wav- @ring again and there ts another) avoid prying eyes, don't you? blotch. hatipx the validity of in several of the | Cigys articles of faith le & public echoo) wrote his arraignment when aeked for « composition telling what each child Ghristnas last year. No Gifte for Him, “| got nothing for Criamios jast | #hall bring-—~you know there's 1908. PRICE ONE CE The Star about it. WOULD YOU REALLY Like to ride on the street subjected to indignities by brutish men? cars without bei Ta E MORTGAGE OUR FUTURE? YES, SAYS TEDDY “THERE AINT NO SANTY CLAUS” BY MERLE WANE. ty there really a Santa Claus? Vt there dots he live? éve all the children? who is he? And does he fa, ally answer to these questions the Santa For the mnce of this beloved saint} challenged makes the charge. He puptl, in the ado. Hoe in only §& He the got for “only a stok & big, smeary bloteh that ae if somebody had blinked bat couldn't quite keep that you gnatch a fow Where | working. | was glad | had some j And he is real er and thing to eat for Crismos with- | happiness 0 His out anything.” abiding place ix in the depth of Now how about those articles of |Your hearts. If you believe in bim | faith? you @ anta Claus, T dear old | Something is wrong? What is it? lf will have just as big a heart as For you other Httle boys and girls You give him. He will {nspire all jwho are “being good” and writing | the faith that you let him inspire ore to Banta and going to sleep far-off very olght lalled by th Py jingle of his Silvery belle that lead panes don't your hea post swell |to the dreamland of scudding rein. t© bursting with desire to be Santa deer and streaka of bundle dotted Nght shining out across the black ness of night—you know there's a Santa, don’t you? And you grown-up boys and girls | who kiss and snuggle little up raised faces with the Santa us eyes, as they tell you what Santa no make-believe in his existence, don't | jyou? | Go After Bundie. For tred out with the day's work a a o i minutes from) as he wrot closing time or the home duties to js out uml elbow your way through the it reads: MOriemoe my father was not BLOOD sPoTs a es ON HOLT’S | Worden, murder « moet damaging testimony James Harvey Holt, on trial for the Fort Worden, May 8, Post Surgeon’s Evidence Is Important for the Prosecution. Dr. Marris, post surgeon at Fort this morning gave the againet BE. Johnson at yet brought ot Henry out by United States District Attor ney Todd. Harris told how he inspected De blue ane, on his was. Deputy the tan shoes Holt wore uniform quiry trial and on which he had aft erward found hardened clots of hu |} man blood tn the eyelets and in the besides the spots on them | Ife also told of finding soot én the | top of Holt's head and blood spots Riddell | brought out that he had neglected | to determine blouse. finding Holt lyin |auidon on the be: eend, May Fred Harner, saloon, and Captaln Harry Newton were also on the stand TAFT VISITS with his at the board wf in Attorney the kind of soot Sheriff McGinnis told of down beneath a % Sheriff MeCumber, owner of the Prescott ROOSEVELT | (By United Proes.) Wasi dent. élect afternoon Prosldent way Ga, whe months. YOUN Frank Olympta was tnjur | year ago 26 years ‘om ly @ prominent |home of his parenta, |the. Univeratty of Washington Hit ts thought | rewponst ble NQTON, Doc Taft stopped for a Roosevelt New York e he will 17 hore conference with He ix on his to Augusta wpend two Presi GQ ATTORNEY DIES IN SEATTLE Bartley former of Hannum young attorney state, died at Bighth av, W. or at. this morning, He ed on the hand about one while playing football at and wa this that for his of ald. the injury death, He was it} ch at Port Town: | jowtiing crowds and stand and wait | w j for busy clerks and sneak round to | Ic the back door with’ big bundles to | w And all for what ase Claus real hoon be it? WANTED FOR MURDER because Banta didn't come the right kind of ring in your Just to make| ry Christmas” if you prove that you jare Santa Claus. w on you see d against t for the world of the little fatheriess nd homeless? Give Desire Chance. desire little Well, then, give t hance. Hunt out se © Tom or Girlie wh Their joy will give you the happiest moment of your lives. You'll look far Christmas mern- Ing as you haven't since you hunted breakfastiess for the merry oid elf’s treasures your- . Christmas dinner will taste as it no There e bone in your handshake and wed to taste. The day will onger bé one of memories Hi tb “Mer TONY? FAILS TO APPEAR | Lort—One man, « to the name of Tony Rich: has florid and y » ne of wtaw: if you sight them make ® 1 k rabbit and youll get them. nformation to Joba iH frman Root tvertigation comunit Richardson {s wistful little faces window a Karl faith is gone last year. CONGRESS IS SCARED OVER PROPOSED BOND ISSUE. Big Struggle Coming Up When Money Will Be Asked For. BY GILSON GARDNER. A ques vide the ia that nt by, involved al The pal al im a part rty of the ething the e. Cur ed for rivet s and for the coms whose verne f roads syas by, 1 credit it 4 “historlang since the natic noted by most radical | Opinion Divide | It may be wise; or it may not, Opinion on thia is bound to be dlr vided. Much will be said on both siden The purpose of this diss patch | call att jon to the importance ¢ the fact that th¢ president-elect announces his fry tention to push the conservatiofl rogram even to this extent. Up to 1860 this question was one jof the « party issues. Pres dents Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and Jackson opposed such a policy as unconstitutional. John Quinoy Adams was warm advocate of such a program. In 1806 a construc- tion of the Cumberland road wag actually begun in pursalt of a fed- road buflding program 1841 Prestdent Tyler vetoed @ law to distribute the federal sut> plus among the states. That was the end of that particular scheme. The introduction of raiiroads led a modification of the idea in the nd subsidies to new westt at ral te grant of } ern roads. Question of Revenue. | The whole internal improvement | program—which includes conservas tion of natural resources—reall hinges on the question of revenué, Today the government faces & decreasing revenue and an increas ing budget. The ordinary normal government outlay fe rapidly out- | stripping the ordinary normal reve jnue. To carry on any such great jundertakings as that involved in \the Internal waterways improve | ments and the conservation legisla ‘tion, means an enormously increas ing expense. How to raise it? The president- elect says: Borrow. Mortgage the future. As the benefits will shared by coming generations, iet them share the expense. . Congress Stirred. Members of congress are much stirred up. A lot of the newe members are not yet think! about it; but the old heade—the members of the appropriations and mepus committees—are ways "(Continued on Page Seven.) THUG’S HURT 'GAUSES HIS ARREST Tony missing When The Btar said yesterday Man Shot in a Hold-Up | afternoon that he was before the | " oot investigation committee The b Saloon Brawl Ends With 2." choauat it was tolling “the | is — y Making of a Serious =|‘ | cca 509 Tony was supposed to be there. ‘ } In fact, the committee met for Accusation. the purpose of recelving hitn |_ With a bullet hole in his abdomen, And it waited for an hour, but| Patrick O. Conner, alias Dick Con- John Blake, a laborer who was| Tony aid not show up jners, the highwayman who fought Arrested early this morning by City| Word had been sent to the com-|* Piste! duel with L. B. Keene, @ | Detectives Wiilfam Peterson and| mittee that the gentleman of sage |™!! carrier, early yesterday gg nit | Jeff McClurg for fighting, is wanted | brush fame would be on hand at 3, |!9& Was found by Patrolman John at Madison, Ill, for the murder of| It was good news to the commit. |Poolman in & roum at the yer ltwo Austrians, according to John|tee, for they wanted Tony to tell ci ne oe are Coamer, who was badly beaten on| them of his friend Palmer } go A cased oe the head by Blake during a saloon} And it was “the surest thing you |°clock last night ra brawl in the basement at Second | know,” according to Tony. He was! Conner was takon to the Was av. and Yesler way going to be on hand, and when he |*4° Emergency hospital | immedi- Cosmer told Captain of Detectives finished telling the committee |S*¢ly after his areal mnant that he has known for a| What he knew he was going to re-| W6nt An ~ ng time that Blake shot two|Semble an encyclopaedia with the |@8@ the bullet was ext | Austri during a saloon fight| leaves all torn out 5 cans rd |three years ago, He says Blake set} But Tony suffered a change of |* (inne is pelleved tobe the same fupon him last night without provo-} rt, His friend Touy Mack came | | h led on Fred Bockman, cation and to retaliate he told the| to town and the two Tonys wan- |) Who called on Brod toekwun detective captain Blake's true rec ed away Saturday night and assa im, per io far as the committee knows t thi catechins ae | Blake declares he is guiltless of| they are still wandering lone Ad, Miceey Wookbinn ie’ Sane any murder and professes to know | | Perhaps Mr. Palmer knows where | DAU’ 1° | Conte ty Conners |nothing of tho affair, His photo-| ™ey are. | " |graph and measurements will be| This is the second mysterious ais- | Victim: of Barthquake 2 ent to the authorities at Madison,| appearance since the birth of the ye h a Seattle i, Root —_ investi, n committee wing . —_—_—__—___ Judge Gordon of Tacoma, the-man earthqua He worked | who-knows, was the first’ to disap- | tone n duking pear cent att | don ‘and Richardson, ‘They haven't f icf) Gil, preaident ot 80e | yet offered a reward, but they may Council; pomitively sdensitios do so after a while.’ And it would us the man who attempted not be a “dead or alive” proposition, |t© held him up at 28th av, and They must be living and in fall con- |" Union st. two nights ago trol of their mental faculties Conner claims that he received For they are filled with informa. | te bullet wound as the re bed (By S Uatien Press.) tion. his experic nee with a highwayman SAN FRANCISCO, Dee. 17—The ————_—— A Figth sy. '@, and Jacl t, oney, remains of former Chief of Police es ole , Holy Cross cemetery, the services mestquarters this aternen . Gag being held from Knights of Colum DIES SUDDEN Rositively ddentitied Couper ap tam bus hall, where the body lay in LY eu | state yesterday, the cortege moving 3 IR MESS |}to St. Mary's cathedral, where a| RE ee solemn high mass was said, Every (By United Press.) (By United Press.) | policeman who was not actually on| TOKIO, Dec. 17 neral Inouye BERKELBY, Cal, Dec, 17.—Seeret jduty was present at the funeral, | the Breat strategint the mikado's |service agents of th vernment | army who distingulshe himself | toda it the reports A special meeting of the Seattie|Guring the Chir war, and wholby fed wirele operators that {Improvement club has been called |fUsht from the beginning to the | offi patches are be- for this evening nt the rooms. of (S84, Of the Russian war, died sud | ing: int ind that fle the Commercial club to consider |at G o'clock, Ho was by yagea ud | tk pelag. ort ane he proposed | of bonds ew ; payee Me ptagee ab binhainy Bethe’ =>, | the prox age. |transaction of government business,