The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 29, 1908, Page 1

LAST EDITION THE SEATTLE STAR VOL. 10 SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1908. PRICE. ONE CEN ALY HORROR Lae ENCEeeERE situation, It gets to the point so well that it Is printed in full INING inina succumes rol SRP ERE RR Ree *Y It complains of the conditions of which The Star has complained ES RECEIVED IN \* THE WEATHER. * and for which The Star will within a day or two point out a remedy THE CITY JAIL. * «Fair Tonight and Wednes * If the remedy ia not put into effect we will know, at least, upon a * * * + Cooler Tonight; Light # | whom rests the greater responsibility for the evils we suffer, Here East Winds, * le the letter: ne a a | " * } the bio - if * tat " . _ . red i: dick RRR itor Star: T am eo much interested in and so commend ROME, Dec. 29.—By U. P.—A late edition of the Tribune here today es- aller 3 4 ay toa your attitude in allowing the women of Seattle an opportunity to : h b. f h k Jd tidal + gt b 65,000 d on me at his home hort | express themselves in regard to the street car question, that I am timates the number of eart quake an tidal wave victims at between bd an 1 o'clock this afternoon adding a line if you will accept it 75,000. eturday Hast we att ny ior aaa ahd ial gat tons Twied wi gos The Tribune says that twice that many are injured and are suffering des- ‘ | | ention, nor #0 old and ugly as to repel wice every é : S 4 Even Grrtanes Chnsstmae tid om. the car. My experiences added to those of friends, who perately from hunger and exposure. Relief committees are rushing food, sup- |plies and medical stores to the stricken sections. hat it le high time the matter was taken up and thoroughly rators, and was promptly | ,, live, as I do, in the University district, have been so disagreeable the next morning by Po-|"MAN WHO KNOWS” SPENDS}. of into Gordon. He appeared all TWO HOURS WITH ROOT gone into. | LOSS OF LIFE IS FEARFUL. nm he was in the police INVESTIGATORS. at Immediately after going with his last conscious | STNero wens & tleve nen t Wins gerry TOF She Fer: Sires Men | King Emmanuel is on his way south and will assume direction of the relief Judge M. J. Gordon, former state me very tll. He declared | oo ame ¢ Sameer ae who stood in my place and allowed me to sit in theirs, but that | % ss A yee “4 He the morniug when Jailer nvr me court, ehlet Justice, and 1 time has gone. | have come to the conclusion that the ‘Lorde of work. The fearful loss of life and horrible suffering of the victims is appalling. gpa eh agpa ot break | sel at Spokane, also distinguished | Creation’ have the running of thie clty and the giving oF with Reports continue to increase the horror of the disaster. Hundreds of thousands setteae ot aloe the tele, 2# the-tnan-who-knows, spent nearly || holding of ite franchises. It is theirs to say, as voters, whether or Ree ar * privilege of using the tele: two pours with the Root investiga eee are homeless and most of them are without food. All the seismic apparatus in and in reply received @| try wurmiticn tales Ine ate af Mat thie standing on street cars shall be continued or stopped THE FAKE PRIZEFIGHT the head that laid him ou hocuton held in the offices of Harotd | | DAYe never seen such @ condition In Canadian cities as preva Italy was broken by the shocks. eleased him, he returned | "ston here Gt ‘the ‘present time, The mon will not Gand for ht GANG IS STILL The soldiers are doing good work in the sections visited by the disaster. would be the height of im “The Seattle Electrie compa pre ety for me to tell you any thing of the proceedings while I it courtesy | was before the committee,” was the | ebject of righting these abuses at all, he does it before election Skull Is Fractured. nswer made by Judge Gordon to After election he votes In favor of ar Mharies BE. Cumming, who! the reporters after leaving the ¢ to attend Manning, found mittee room akull was fractured. Since| Members of the committee sy the unfortunate man has dectined—as they have ever do ding eraduaily, and it was to talk of Judge Gordon's testimony they marly this morning that he | They would admit only that they ive the day through. would probably not bear from any v the dying man this other witne and that they gasped out with difficulty hoped to have prepared and ready Of the attack upon him,|for transmission to President|} home enough germs from every street car in which whe rides to fe nothing short of murder, Bridges, of the State Rar associa kill off the ¢ ‘i ist hae been suocessfully | tion, within the wext two or three fap by the police. Manning days, thelr report was dying, and he stuck They dectined even to Intimate evitable and no one can help coughing or sneesing up to almost the fina! | what the nature of the report would |] the person crushed up against him ieee he lnpeed ato us| be. | “UNSANITARY ie the feast of the charges to be made against does exactly what it ploases *. If ® councilman orates on the OPERATING. In nearly all cities orders have been given to shoot down looters, and the orders have been carried out in many cases, ar uerer | Names of Furth, Chilberg TWO CITIES ARE SHAKEN DOWN. and Hemrich Used on Chicago Victim. labri headquar his treatment, but met * to protest when it pleases and how ft pk 1 every trie company asks for and waves hts real stree pduetor before his beamingly bala a The heaviest damage was done at Messina in Sicily and Reggio in Ca- across the straits from Messina. Few reports have come from Reggio, 4 continually and the Packt. P of Butte, who Dut they indicate that the city was shaken terrifically and that the loss of life Pilling, wan fleeeed of #18.000 by © ene was heavy. It is the capital of the province of Reggio di Calabria and is a city of fake prise fight promoters whe of about 50,000 inhabitants. pulled off thetr t near George town lagt summer wae present time, phystes! contact is tn convictedat Tacor germs over ago for attering a bogua check the $18,000, has received a letter from Herbert A. Suttle, a wealthy Chicage Eeainess promoter who was on their toes all the way home—if he haan't secured a seat be ration on the cars ts skirts of a woman are never short enough to escape the places deftied, No woman in this supposediy elvilized efty but carries ». In such crowded conditions ae NAPLES, Italy, Dec. 29.—Ry U. P—Tw y-five thousand deaths is the best estimate made today of the low the earthquake and tidal wave ) devastated Southern on the Unive al week ey ee 7 — |] this state of affairs, as it involves other and more unspeakable Jiaiso “stung” by the fake gang Italy Sicily yesterday. King oe yoo dangers and disgusts to every woman who has to abide by the exte@t ef $3,000 Victor I anuel passed through 4 “ Enel i letter were t it @n route to Rome, , choy: : ‘A WOMA) Eucioned with the . had been living for Eastern Rewspaper clippings whieh f w he will proceed to fol the affected districts w thd trail of the “gang” as it Years with Mr. and 7s =| & peaceable lshowing that by teans of fake price | ignite asd horse races they have Pest aed isin DYNAMITE USED TO CHECK is NOT PAID T TAKE THE izawed Gp over $190,200 since they of Councilman. Arnold; FIRE WHICH THREATENED F TH SE ON TR ~ mot Pilling a — ttle Men's Names ue "Edam Who wrote Piling for who ts greatly incensed | TO DESTROY TOWN. s outrage, and who has tak-| potse, Idaho, Dec. 29.~By U. P Affair with Chief of Po-|_Fiames that estroyed eight | ian te |partioulars, lost $2,000 by the time It tg known that Ward | yuiidings, entailing a total loss =, FLUSHING, 1. 1 worn prige fight fake. He caused tly issued a caution to! g56.900, and threatened to wipe out i - the arrest of three of the men at against rough handling of of existence Sliver City, the big : Wiltkesbarre, Pa. for swindling him " if to eledee of the attack: on eee ee eae ety taday’ | death.” declared District Attorney | Attorney Melatyre, of the do poy ym AE hey Tatas ak the ster dots, (eee foer hows — aay} Darrin today, before the beginning feuse. insisted on & separation of Th taliowing letter from Buttle to a eeabis ‘ther the ance |[2t, dete Fo er rrnneak | of the day's session of the trial of | witnesses in the court room, setting| pitting will explain the method b oe ' te, b " 4 t bes will result 10 & rigid| The use of explosives in other| "wormton Jenkins Hains, for al ithose of the people apart from those | sagpieg by the sharps in fleecing pad that the wean whe | the; mete eS loged participation in the shooting of the defense lair ieee chores Marderous blow will be| pict tad ether structures in the | Of William E. Annis Witness Tierney was confronted [Mn OP ant of @ letter trom hotel and other structures fo the | nesrin had previously sald that/by Mre. Annis when the hearing — when once the proper| poth of the flames. The 1 8 your brother ot Richland Center Tofficial methods aro ap-| Pn, oe che general | | ieee he was peremptorily ordered commenced. He sald: “I did not | *° . ‘ : i atore of Charles Caldwell and two | | ‘ ~¢ Wis, saying that you wore ncoed y the court to continue in the see her at the time of the shoot “ 7 jadjotning bulidings were among) j/,i46 trials after the expiration of ing. 1 #aw her going from the dock | “Ut °f P14.000 last August ih he #ina saying that the ti had left a two-foot layer of and slime over the city, and # were smothered wave »roken out in Messina, and Names are spreading rap over the ruined city ve wrecked and shattered bulld- ings are food for the fire, and, ag the water supply been cut off, there Is no means of checking the conflagration. Even if means were provided, there is no organization of any kind to carry on the work The dispatches indicate that the city is doomed. A squadron of bat- teships left here today for Mes sina, where the ships will be divid- ed and will patrol the coast in the Vastated sections. By U. where the ‘shooting took place, were Iam no man $100 | present in court at the beginning day to help wend a man to his of the morning session. ‘Andy Mahoney satled jthone << > A ch his term on January 1, he would |to the club bouse after I was eject-|(Om* EL wish to mate that vag | Messina is the second city tm from San Francisco tor oe et cad trend catdtn | Wetae at thal Gms ed from the float.” ee tase ome Pies | Sicily, ranking next to Palermo. It ROA AES ROTORS HOTS “Should 1 remain,” he : James Smy testified to the a6 | pore ei the same way ae yours | s an ancient city, sald to have been — Ses Se =a |t will refuse every cent of com-| tions of Captain Peter C. Hains pro. | "**2 Dee? Im i a a jestablished by pirates from Cumae in the eighth century B. C The convent of San Gregorio, con- 1 ° lieve by a man here. Mrs, Annis, widow of the man He declared he met the captain jiceistanding friend, that his | tor whose death Jenkins Haine is every day prior to the shooting and is ss . taining a museum of inestimable ‘ lhe itie@, and a hamber of mem-|that: hie nations wore these Of an| "em ee ry rich MAP OF ITALY AND SICILY, SHOWING CITIES DESTROYED BY | value, ix said to have been so bad- Mites apadienta: ¢ attle. «men nan j i maz hes apse | lpere of the Bayside Yacht club, “exceedingly eccentric person Mericn amar ve Newt. Bek room : : Sees CARTHEVARE. a i | ly damaged that it is in danger of rf od My, : ; Bs viy, pene nieces a Sear abetnat they ted come east - mums | Coliapee | The city is at the northwest cor. ner of the island, on the Strait of enh Hp RAILROAD BLUNDER |iior ior ss tasks ta. veld “1! BOLD THEF T “COSTS EIGHT LES See z=. | WORST EARTHQUAKES OF J 5-5) lent By U. PAs a reeult of @ head-on Through their confederate here in SS ROME, Dec. 29.—Bulletin by U. Hl 4 collision between a freight rain | Cnt they jured me to Penney! > G |COUNTY TREASURER WELD UP|504'a work train on the Great\comis and led me to belleve that 1869—Cachar, India P.—The complete destruction of %4\ AND ROBBEDIN OFFICE IN (Northern, cight men arc dead and|they could give mo the title to 7 eption, aH Iu may 9 Messina, the largest seaport town y four injured seriously. The wreek | : * + Ba anila jof Sicily, with a population of 150,- | BROAD DAYLIGHT. wr , ne wreek | piece of coal land was to turn | 1880—Agram, Hung 900 | pag . 4 / i occurred because the freight, |around and sell this land and re ; 1880-—Valpr Ce ee , |. SIOUX FALLS, 8. D., Dec. 29—| which was coming north, did not| cova a good comm'esion {fom then ' 1880Yokoha patch to the Italian government to- £ | By U. P--Two masked men today stop at Mideanyon siding to allow|The only condition Was ast 1 wh a 188 Gay j |tobbed Michael Meier, treasurer Of 16 work train to pass, but who in| to pul up a dollar, but Just show 1884 e dispatches express the fear j | Sanborn county, of $5,087 ~— ne 12 blame for thie failure bas not| through the bank that I had « go: ate 4 “ ' i at _Regglo, across the straits of q \caped. The robbery was one of the 144 teen decided. The work train|financlal standing by depositing a ae 1886 easina, has been hilated and % | boldest on record here H te paad the thelkht train (evaue Bek weveral theusend doliai 5 “a, by that of the towns on the % The men entered the office of jst aidcanyou ; |wiet ~ gels nays Ae nrg 1 Naples. ? hog r n destroyed. @ | the treasurer and p re cote: ony helpers da grb re z “ 1906 munication into the volvers at him. 6 sons oh Sn hide wanes. 2 has been establish 4 dite made no noise @ nana ttle jto the inging in of supplies, and Meier walk into the vault ys, and to the tak eight, } blue nt OR HAS ELOPED anna Z \was forced to hand over te nw: ning alon Pe ut of refugees cash on hand. Then the robbers Foal oh uate wat ¢ hen we : locked the treasurer in the vault ee a cee Refugees Tell Story. and fied. A posse is in pursuit Soe, ae on . The destruction of Messina was ian working for hin t : more the result of the tidal wave rae n v wat olal or than of earthquake cording : be wealthy men and fond of a li load BEHIND THIS CURTAIN KIDNAPER IS tle saa ithe way of tax = i ROME, Dec, 2%.—Ry U. P.—An official dispatch received this {0 the testimony of a trainioad of IT’S GOING UP TOMORROW ten are t from & afternoon by the minister of marine estimates the number of dead |"efugecs who have arrived at Catania from Mes a. They say ported at Mes d 1,800, but asserted ne be 60,000, This makes the extent of the cal ster than any previous reports indicated amity nr the dead officially re amity even «re } Several hundred foreigne including many Americans, were in Messina at the time of the disaster. No word been received sina numb | th WATCH IT! und doom the framing up of the fight « et estimate, which they said | | UNT VERNON, Dec BARREL OF WINE when he gets y where he wante from any of (hem, and it is feared all have perishec | should be least 12,000. Hetore Judge Geo. A jolaee you. | —<— KRRRKARAHRRRRE The rinaeria, in which RAR PO RarcSre’rwrrcessy Leo Beamer, charged with kid aro ON. Cat “s 1 havesthree of them arre Jand| ROME, D By U. F The lwere 90 guests, was destroyed b ing KB. G. English, a well os "ee aioe Oe ean hold th ntil the grand jury | captain of the Italian ship Washing APPALLING DISASTER. tear qual po) 1 te be Ny whos jumberman, of Skagit count Hon *|meets, Jag. 4, and it ne that I/ton, which arr 1 at Palerr . spaggeen te. . ‘One arraigned by fF outing Attorn ns oe aot ations Will aaainet 13 n wv. today, onid that he belleve Forty towns of Calabria and ®/of the occupants are believed to ¢ J Chriatmas # ot agate em & ity, tad . Sicily are practically de have escaped, The telegraph of- M. P. Hurd, Bear sented by his attorney, J. B. f of Bellingham, and his plea be insanity. Bezmer’s bond has been l fixed at $10,000, and his trial wiil | ty, de- | This man that te the "brains’ of the|he was entering the straits of th wan| bunch goes by the name of William | sina just as the first sh n attempt to|Courtney, ‘Your prother gave me | curred which he hadtine name of MeCormack and that The ship quivered as if she had fice, the post office racks were destroyed City Wiped Out. If the reports received through official channels tonight are not aggerated out of all proportion, nd the bar stroyed Every town in Calabria and Sicily has suffered Between 65,000 and 75,000 people lost their lives, and twice that number have been injured. drink @ barre! of | ¢ recently made, The man had been | ‘ held during the February term of | f° Way. drinker for youre H) name was used by Courtney in send- | lost one of the screw propeller court | - jing a telegram, which toads [hk eh th i te tem we! believe that he is one of the f me to|immediately we were enve lows |a fog,” he said, “We continue mee the urtain went up. SHARES EERE ESTEE REESE EER EE HEAAARAAAAREE EERE RE EEE EE EE EE! ¢lear up, of course, but far « give us a glimpse of K ILL: RUEF SENTENCE #| Who drew you in, Write me at once| ward Messina, but soon came upon " » destruction of Messina will D. Memix * AGAIN POSTPONED. | #04 Kive me full details of how you | floating wrecks of houses, ships and The disaster is the world’s €/iake its place beside Pompeli and Star seid it would print a picture of Mr, MeMix toda NF recy were caught 1 a description of | scores of bodies. greatest tragedy since 1783, Hereulaneum and Martini Be- 6. p p y *#* SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 29. & hen 40,000 lost their | ° hoped and expected to, but it perhaps didn’t realize what it PRISONER iS oe 2 “poh * each man that was in the = «| — when 40,01 08! cir lives at tween 4,000 and 6,000 wounded have Cone iz 3 : Superior Judge #| they wore all well po rf ROME, Dec Ry U. P—Pope * Messina by earthquake, aan eaccuntnd far by the readers think, nobody ever has printed the ploture of A. D. McMix BUTTE, Mont, Deo. 29.—By U.P.) & Lawlor today ee poned the * a, Heattle and sg Rey nay | Plus X today gave $200,000, and Messina is one of the cities */anqg they report that they believe i we fell a bit short of cur high ambition, we at least Lawrence M. Ve nm was shot and ntencing 0 ne Ruef, con * run up that way Write at} King Vietor Bmmanual gave $400, that has suffered in this earth: there will be 30,000 requiring at» Pa killed by Detectives Parlin and Lat * re ted of attering a bribe, until ® H. A. SUTTLE | 000, to start the relief fund for the * quake tention. 4 kin, while endeavoring to eseap 40 thie afternoon, Exten- # hquake vietims The king of Italy has order " 7 without the slightest fear of successful contradiction | : " earthquake 0 y The last census taken at Messina We have sont mak ei song this inetant of writing no. other | fe hed just been arrested for hold- | w sion of time was granted in w] Painters’ Dance Saturday ed all the battleships to hasten #! howed a population of over 90,000 hes ever succssded in dting—nene other hee ever tied—. |'"6 0? & Stree! COS “Me be! % order vo allow counsel for the | ‘The 14th annual ball of the Paint Wil Auérege Engineers to the scene to lend aid. He */ hut it is believed that at the time actoaily published and printed the first authentic picture of MINERS’ STRIKE ENDS, ® defense an opportunity to sub- &| ers’ union will be gtven at B® | Mayor Miller will be a guest and) ® himself will direct the relief * jor ine quake at | 150,000 made of A. DO. McMix. STEARNS, Ky,, Doc. 29,—By U,|* mit affidavits in rebuttal of a ®) hall next Saturday evening, The|one of the principal speakers at) * movements, their homes there Blar iw satiefied, It Is content with the victory won and |P.—The strike of the miners bi * dozen such documents present: *| committee on arrangements is R.{the annual banquet of the Pacific Mt. Aetna threatens to add rho first message from Palmi on with high hopes that tomorrow—temorrow it will be | was practically ended today, 30 per ies by by : ae District At ®/ 9, Orchard, Charles W. Doyle, Wal-| Northwest Soctety of Engineers te to the horror by eruption. brought, to Rome nawe of tba de spite of every obstacle, to publish the picture of Mr. A. D, |cent of the miners returning to mretnjeneinea titer ed Stevenson, R. B. Rankin and Ki.) be given at the Perry, January 2 ~ ~~ a work La ROR ORR OR Oe Marchand {1909 [RRR OR IR RHR te (Continued on page 7.) ° ee * ° ° The king received reports from | just received say that |