The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 6, 1909, Page 7

eee THEY witt B BE 26 PER CENT LESS THIS YEAR THAN THEY WERE YEAR AGO. | BALLARD TAXES REDUCED BY ANNEXATION TO CITY ' will depend upon the rapidity j which the with | ronds are disposed of Hiram Greiner, the map taken to | the courthouse upon a charge of In BALLARD, Feb Taxes are Jess this year in the Thirteenth Ward than those paid last year wo @er the Ballard regime. This an houncement, while bringing joy to Some hearts, will have a tendency to destroy the prestige of a few Ballard prophets, who declared with might and main that taxes Would be greatly increased if Bat Tard becamo a part of Greater Se fattle. Not only is the rate leas, but iderman Armstrong is anthority the statement that the differ @nce will be 25 per cent, a startling tribute to the economical manage Ment of the affairs of the city, coun. ty and state. Tf you want lights installed tn Four home, and your #treot is fitted Up With poles and wires, application fan be made to the lighting depart Ment and they will be placed at Once. The $25,000 loaned the light @epariment by the finance commit tee of the counci! was for this pur erg thus facilitating the work it otherwise would have to wait until the money had been realized from the sale of the light bonds If wires and poles are not already in your street, it will be necessary to wait until sufficient cash ts real ized from the bonds before your Nights can be installed Residents of the extrome north enil_of the Thirteenth ward wil! be Glad to learn that the light depart Ment has plans for placing a large Bumber of lights In that vicinity ‘The same is true all over the city sanity yesterday, has mitted to Steilacoom for treatment been com His relatives fear he has made way with some money which they knew he possessed. A diligent search of his quarters failed to dis close ita whereabouts, and they are afraid he either hidden else has been duped in some ner. Ten dollars in cash bunch of keys, with a few clothes, were all that could be found in bis room. man and & Winning from the Bible clase by the score of 28 to 23, the Ballard Athletic club covered itaelf with glory last night in a hot ly contested game of basketball The final seore was not a certainty wntil the last minute hi been played, ax the Good Book readers were da’ rus at all times. A re probably be played soon ation of thelr vic tory the B. will dance Monday night at Vestri hall, on W. Sixty fourth at Tonight the Ladies’ Guild of the St. Stephen's Episcopal church will give their entertainment and te at the s of Mrs. Roberts, on Sixte N. W. The Misses Rernice Campbell and Florence Hamel, Mra. Geo. Schram and Mr Eastman will all take part in fh festivities. it or} old | Young Men's} COUNTRY SLELPS UNITED STATES IS AT MERCY OF OTHER COUNTRIES. Merchant Marine Is Badly Wanted, Especially on the Pacific. NEW YORK SHAW SAYS THE STAR—SATURDA ALLOWED 10 SCAPE bY POLICE MAN ADMITTING A CRIME WALKS AWAY. | J. H. B. embrey Makes a Confession in the Pa- cific Hospital. A self-confessed murderer, who | tastte M. Shaw acknowledged that he w f treasury, today piterated " as & fugitive portions of ch Ww je | from justice, was permitted to leave rs ge oe the Pacific hospital on last Sunday in which a Japan| by the looal police and has disap 4 pine ) fiehting men in| peared for parts unknown alk withts wath, and f J, 1. B. Embrey, alias Adama, al a merchant marine subsidiz las Emory, an exsoldier, who was < taken to the hospital suffering from ja sprained ankle, and aroused | suspicton by his pecullar eft} it would take America two years to| forts to keep out of sight gather @ force and suppilea to op-|of sight, frankly asknowledged tn In a determined endeavor to send | a drill team to Portland to co: with other teams from the North weat, the Olympte circle of Wom of Woodcraft will give a progr Whore lights are badly needed. Just| whist party Monday afternoon to When this can be accomplished their club rooms in the old elty pec not ss) — ae that | hail siiaiineiiiines ieindinanien WILL SHOW THE NEED OF ANOTHER WIRELESS POST GOVERNMENT IN FAILING TO ESTABLISH IT CHEAPENS LIVES ON THE PACIFIC, “Are ves cheaper on the Pacific @east than upon the Atiantic!™” With this as 4 slogan, a demand @pon the United States govern Ment to insure a safer passage for re of the Seattle-Nome wilt soon be made by steam men of this city, steamship men want a wire- Jess station at Unalaska. It is Pointed out by them that some time 8B harassing tragedy of the sea will place, and many lives and thou of dollars’ worth of property iw to better the life saving factll- One _ shipping man, in talking be- an informal gathering of local Steamship and business men of Se attle, said: Big Liners in Peril. “is one of our big ccean-going | Mners to sink beneath the water) @f Bering Sea or the North Pacific Ocean, while there is within easy | veach, but ignorant of the danger) to such vessel, a fleet of revenue eutters a! to render any assist ance needed. “Recanse— “The government has not as yet established a wireless station at that most vital point where one could do so much good in time of danger to craft mpon the high seas, Unalaska i Help Within Call. “Picture, if you can, a more hor rible tragedy of Fate than that of} LOCAL UNION PAID THEIR jand southerly a a ares ocean Mner, crowded with humanity, going down while but « few miles away there are three or four vessels whose men are ever eager and willing to rusl lo a® sistance of the perishing. During the season when the vee ; sels of the revenue-cutter feet are | engaged in patrolling the seal i» lands, theae craft “coalship” at Un alaska. Heretofore the senior cap tain in command of the fleet Has | nae made 1.000 miles without de- i arranged it so that almost always | pending for coal on foretan ships | there will be from one to two vee | We sols at Unalaska while two more/ will be guarding the islands. Some- | times there ig but one at Unalnaka, bat there is always one within reach on short notice. one only of thene revenue cutters fa equipped with wireless, the Me | hurope Culloch “This is done for the reason that whenever ald is sought for vessels im trouble upon the sea, measen gere always seek Unalaska and the | Fevenue cutters. Depend Upon Chance. “It te a well known fact, however, that chance figures In & messenger | getting to Unalaska in case of ac cident to one of the large steamers in bad weather. None but those whe have sailed apon those waters know the intensity of the gules which blow along that section dur- ing the equinectial storma. “Death and death only would await those npon the Inckiews steam er which should happen to break down while passing through Uni- mak Pass during one of the terrific woeastors, gales which rage there during the months of Septem. ber and October. od EXPENSES Joe Daler and Charles Rose.) Neweastic miners, detegated by the Neweastie local union to secure cer. tain changes in the miners’ eight-| hour bili fr the protection of| existing contracts, providing | guch changes would not seriously | delay or interfere with the passage | of that bill, returned to Seattle this | Moraing from Olympia. ‘The changes wanted are the elim fnation of drivers from the list of Officers held culpable in the bill fo permitting or ordering men to wor more than eight hours, and an | amendment of that clause providing that no miner shall at any time be allowed to remain in the mine more than eight houre out of 24. Byery week or two weeks, or once & month, the shifts are changed, making it necessary for one crew to work two shifts in one day on the day of the change, and the proposed endment will allow this in ex- isting contracta. The men inaist that their local nd not the Pacific Coast company paid all expenses. TO FIX MINIMUM WAGE FOR WORKERS BY LAW BY PETER POWER. An industrial innovation that Is to attract world-wide atten- tion has just been introduced in Belgium. in the province of Bra bent. which numbers considerable gore than a million population, the legislature has enacted a law not only designating the minimum sal- aries that most be paid certain Classes of workers, but also provid- ing for the penalizing of employers who disregard the wage statute. For some years the workingmen of Great Britain and Austraita have Deen demanding the enactment of Jaws recognizing the principle of a minimam wage below which no employer should be permitted to psy. But Belgium appears to have taken the Initiative in this move ment While the soctalists brought for ward the proposition In the council of Brabant, many of the liberals and conservatives giving the pian ot al argu tient that an established and legal minimum wage would tend to abol fah poverty, while based upon on timent and alism, w strengthened by the practical dem onstration that the drain upon pub- Ne and private charity would be materially les ed and that the tax wHe omens AGO MISPTE RANLONS 400 WIRST AVE. Furnishin, Full Dress rent Ruylts for rate would likewise be considerably | reduced The Belgium legislative body ex- no'essters or westerly) |atnce then However, | pone the J. inuing he said Powers Have a Laugh. ughed | formed of this fact they allowed the | ships | man to go his way unmolested — it is a remarkable story, one of a tor » wiliere and sup-|@® most unusual cases that has - rotan fiaga,| ever been called attention inj} ed them and | the history of the city hem h firet smett | gen Ny Eh 3 Hides in Hospital, v st sal ie as weclens as a bat Embrey was a strange Heship without powder city. It developes that t And aking of the question of jin Seattlc only two days awder, if all powder mille ho, when, supposedly spraining his United States uld stop tak | ankle, he was picked up aud sent} opt Be versa tty ne | to the hospital as « charity case. wuld ony take tm 20 dave}. The man aroused suspicion when wer to last our navy two|he tried to get mall delivered to Think of & We id Might | him in the name of J. H. B. Adame. two hours a month. The police were notified of this on| H Japan knows It England knows It “Germany knows it For Merchant Marine. “The United States ix the onty na in the rid which has not a the presence of witnesses that he) was wanted for murder in Montana, and after the had been tn pollee ast Saturday, Detectives Phillips Byrees were told to make an investigation. Detective Phillips called at the hoapital. He was warned in ad a idined merchant marine at] vance ‘hates close wateh should ite dieposal on call for naval pabtic | 0° kept on Embrey purponen Tam for s merchant ma, {induries wore so slight that he rine at any cost, in any way, In every ry ‘Our battleship feet could not pull down our t i fine. tet it Jangerous situation. The history of the supremacy of | nations le & story of the conquest of the seas—the expanding meas, The ware of the ancient world centered in the land-locked seas of southern m modern times the Atlan wate reveal & most jtte has been the sonne, jcontest was for territory Ghifte to Pacific. “The contest has now shifted to the Pacific. In the last century the In this} Bhitpe | the past century, they dec struggle of the political century must have them. th We ‘PIONEER RESIDENT HAS ~ PASSED AWAY Prank Doran, & pioneer 9° Seattle, who died at his home, 162 16th av. Thureday night of hemorrhage of the brain, will be buried Monday at / 10 o'clock, from the Church of Our Lady of Good Help. Mr. Doran came to Seattle in| July, 1867, and has resided here wite and six children. He was stricken with his troable Tuesday night and lay unconscious unttl death property holdings in Seattle. IS FATALLY INJURED LABORER’S BACK BROKEN WHEN HE IS CAUGHT IN LANDGLIDE. Charles Albert, a laborer aged 24 years, was at noon today seriously and perhaps fatally injured in a landslide at Second and Virginia while working on the regrade crew. He was taken to Pacific hospital, where it is believed that his back is broken, and that fatal internal injuries have been sustained. Noth- ing is known of him—whether mar. ried or not or where he lives. LAND WOMAN IN JAIL ts and | mo. He had considerable Jcould eseape through the windo’ jand down the fireescapes unless [closely guarded. Confessed to Killing. seen today for & statement, but opened the window, climbed down | the fireescape and started to make his excape. chase of about two Liocks they suc ceeded in recapturing Embrey and} retarned him to the hospital. Police Notified. Mra. Corrigan, matron of the hos pital, says the police were called jap again immediately ana told of j the facta She says further that they ap parently paid no attention to the [ menaage. | Detective Byrnes says the de- partment did notify the hospital He is survived by a| Authorities at this time that there |i. 4 | was nothing on which they could |hold Embrey, ad announcing that tal Detective Byrnes adds that the department was not told of Em brey's attempted escape. Mrs. Cor- rigan says it wan. ie that Embrey has been gone for nearly a week, and If his finances permitted is probably thousands of miles away by thin time. ‘The police say they had nothing! to warrant them in holding him, af ter his confession of being wanted |" and yet they” arront | for murder, suspects almost every day and keep men in custody without charges against whom they have but the barest snaptcions. So far an can be learned the po-| Hee did not wire the authorities in| any of the Montana or idaho towna, asking whether such a man was wanted for murder. JUDGE GAY ASSISTS DAN CUPID TODAY Judge Wilson R. Gay, department No. 5, superior courk was this morning called wpon for the first [time since he assumed jurisdiction over the beneh, to weld two heart |ao they would beat as the provert one eretses the right to determine wages The couple married was Pearl! from year to year abd to make od Cop man eat Auidne Voneay of changes as it deems proper upon ent. Hivshingly the bride an a ate A | MRS. FREDE WILL NOW 88 lneanced that she and Antone” went ployers or employes. Wage rates BROUGHT BEFORE THE jed to be married. The judge asked are only fixed in such trades as pe- BAR OF JUSTICE the formal questions, after which tition for adjustments, wich & parting caution to be sure | Immediately gupon the enact-| After six days of clever plotting ood poe ted gremebnny ~~ ment of the law the following|!ntrigue and shadowing on part of) wito, They departed confused Sat trades asked for consideration: | Sheriff Robert T. Hodge, Montia| Coonrontly happy re Carpenters, pavers, glaziers, tap-| Bowman and Mrs. Sarah Frede now estry workers, glass workers,| recline in the county jail, the for Kefieetions of hetor painters, wood workers, saddiers,|mer to face a charge of jail break-| Anyt atawe bero ie about an] street laborers and quarry work-|ing ou top of & sentence of six | kind ers. All of these artisans had | months for petit Jarceny, the woman |{ ean at Ounce thelr minimum rates Increased | to face a charge of aiding and abet-| 1w how ma one-half to one cent per hour, | ting @ prisoner to escap ev nt any in Other trades that have filed pe-| Bowman was arrested day before ya there is w Mitte titions for readjustment of wages| yesterday at Vancouver, B.C. He eas he thinks it le are: | reached Seattle yester afternoon } in charge of Deputy Sheriff Zim Lithographers, bookbinders, | merman. Mrs. Frede was arrested bronze metal workers, marble pol-| on the steamer Whate which ar ishers and lithograph artists. In| rived from Victoria, B,C, this morn still other trades the working | ing. conditions, cout of Mving, ete., are being InVestigated with a view | Ie Reported Missing—Since he improving conditions started for Dreamland rink Wednes The great big question at the| Gey Night. Charles Lanroot of 126) Ten teachers bottom of thia revolutionary in| hoard of by bis friends, aad he wa wey fe LY novation is, shall the state assist| yesterday reported to the pol nd Pines laboring people to become self-|among the missing by L supporting and independent by | s——————— compelling the various industries Ph t hg to guaranteo thelr workers @ ite oO o ree Wanted, Wanted, Wanted oral iiving halt Che state Der. sentatin ue in We have $9 cach buyers for prop pauperized by excessive and —un-| photo of any ebtl Bn Bg competition, and then erect | fF three months | INTERNATIONAL ves and prisons to aD’ | YN @ CRAM, PHOT COMP ort them in the long run? ARAT HORS, TIT Sooond Ave 1000-10 Aw ank Mutlding i} BLOWN TO ATOMS that the man | Detective Phillips could not be bs Attendants at the hospital were! j immediately warned and after a/ | the man could be released from the | tive. pos! The upshat of the whole matter AC em FEBRUARY 6, 1909. BY DYNAMITE) nents LA, Mont, Feb, 6. hy General Foreman James Lepoceidean wan killed and ® laborer named W, M. Wisener fatally in bf red by an explosion of dynamite) the lower Yellowstone irrigation | Works, The secident occurred at 4ho rock quarry, about @ tile from the camp where the government pmployes are econatructing the big diversion dam of the project. A, tire had been started to thaw out) 15 sticks of dynamite, when one of the men called Donaldson's atten tion to the fact that some of the mite wan burning. The latter spot to save as much of) the dynamite rag could, and was bending ov when an explosion occurred Aili was running to help Donaldson and was only a few SOCIETY WOMAN TAKES LIFE PUEBLO, Col, Feb. 6. —~ By U, P. Mra. George V. Parks, a society woman of Pueblo, and wife of the assistant president of the Pueblo} Traction company, committed sul cide yesterday. Mre. Parks hi m in tl) health for some time. he Was 27 yours old. lh jb |MOVING PICTURES CAUSE DOWNFALL CHICAGO, Feb. 6. — By U. P. | Moving pictures are blamed for his downfall by Reinhold Kramp, who has been sentenced to three years im the government prison at Leay enworth, Kan. for counterteiting | Kram was arrested and Indicted a | fow days ago, and confessed that he had passed several bogus dollars | “I was hard up,” he explained to Judge Landis, “and could not get a job. One day I went into a mov ing pleture show and saw ple | of counterfelters, They gave me an | |idea and I made a few bad coins. I thought that I could live om them | until I got an honest position, but I jwas caught. If I had not a ome pictures I wouldn't be here w FATALLY HURT IN A CANE RUSH | ARAISO, Ind. Feb. 6 / By U One student is prob-| ably fataty tojured and four are! seriously hurt aa the result of the! class rush last night between the| #adents of the ecientifie and agri Peattural department of the univer | a. The pollee stopped the rush POSTMASTER DIES. PORT ORCHARD, Feb. 6.—By U P-—Postinaater € ‘orbett of Port Urchard died yesterday morn- Gi. after & long Hiness, He was the | prietor of a drug store in this) féity, He te to be buried Sunday | Under the auspices of the Knights ot) VALP Embrey confessed in the presence} Pythias, lof several people that he was | nied for killing a man in Mon This confession, or state- TF egw 9 Nhat by rH 0 jment, Ie said to have been made|tiaing ror ‘eapay ren Bai after the visit of Detective | Walla Walle the eum 60 paid ipa. + him for « hire while register Embrey was left at the honpital bof the federal land office there; aino Bat night unguarded. On)@® bill retmbursing the Hastings y Sunday morning, as predicted, he | Steamship < wnpanyY of Beattie to the Jamount of $286 for damages recetyed by aes of He’ womens through ¢ol- | Histon with @ government vemsel. Ask for New Federal Judge. WASHINGTON, Fob. 6 The house judiciary committes has re- |perted favorably the Cushman bili | providing for appotntment of an ad- Gitional fodera!l judge for the West- ern division of Washington. PRICES PAID TO PRODUCERS PIANOS—419-431 Untom st. TALKING MACHINES— 1915 Bee- ond Ave. | to remain und | United States marshals at Stearns | gulity parties | rooms and the race track people. per | the “get rich quick” sebemes. Bet- = impossible, but am curing at least «| ple’s Bank Bidg., Second and Ptke. MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE FILED W. C, DUDLEY MUST ANSWER IN COURT FOR KILLING ALEX 6. SMITH. After an inquest hold by order of Coroner J, M, Snyder yesterday over the body of Alex 8, Smith, the Northern Pacific apectal policeman, | who was killed Thursday in a duel with a fellow employe of the rail road, the coroner's jury returned a| verdict that Smith came to bin death from bullet wounds infiteted | by W. C, Dudley Charges of manslaughter were immediately filed by Deputy Prose: | cuting Attorney F. H. Holsheimer, and Dudley, who ts said at the Way-) side hospital to be certain of re covery, will be held on « warrant Pffortn were yesterday made by the railway physteian, Dr, P, W | Willa, to have the injured man re- | moved to Tacoma, on some pretext but he was informed by | Captain Laubecher that the man | was under arrest, and would have ry guard in this city or other GUILTY MEN SURRENDER ONEIDA, Tenn., Feb, 6. — By 1 Pr Terry Simpson and Reuben Weat, indicted by the federal grand | jury at Richmond, charged with be-| ing parties to a conspiracy that re-| sulted in the killing of several) taat Christmas, surr ered today The trouble wan the outgrowth of a strike at the Stearns mines. SON IS HELD-FOR FATHER’S MURDER COLORADO SPRINGS. ». Cony U. P—Paut Basick, « 16-year-old son, and Robert Edward | Piper, alias Arthur Davis, a son-in iaw, have been arrested charged | with the murder of Charles P, Ke Colo., sick, the aged clerk of Pike's Penk |}! camp No, 5, Woodmen of the World, who on the night of December 28 | . stabbed and afterwards shot to make death certain. This action at the police followed the announce. | ent of the verdict of the corone: ury, which id them to be the 4 that Mre. Fiora Resick, wife of the murdered man, | had guilty knowledge of the soe ] STOLE MONEY TO: Y PONIES a TT, Mont. Feb. 6 — By U. Richard Hocking, aged 20) alas unmarried, clerk in the mon ey order department of the post office, has been arrested, a short age of $1 having been discov ered by the auditors in Washing- ton. The local postoffice had falled to discover the thefts which Hock- ing, in a confession printed im the | Inter Mountain today, says extended over 4 period of 18 months, The Woy gave the money to the pool TO OBSERVE LINCOLN DAY. BREMERTON, Feb. 6.—By U. P ‘The local camps of the G. A, R. Spanish war veterans and women euxiilaries are planning to observe the centennial of Lincoln's birth. A Lincoln memorial sermon in to be delivered by Rev. H Oates st the First Methodiet church Sunday morning. A Lincoln program In to be given in Masonic hall on Monday evening, February § All passenger steamers leave Col- tan docks for Puget Sound Navy Yards. = ink twice before answering such ads. I do not claim to do the 90 per cent of my patients, using oateopathy, electricity, vibration, Nght theraphy, hot air bathe and other drugiess methods. Arthur Holt, Osteopath, 407-408-409 Peo- COLLARS : 2c, Fe ) sa A superior Suit made to meas \ thousand samples of the Secure irom. one Better 122 Spring Street ( Is Fine.’ It mething Knows What HI | | | MODERAT! | A COSY PLACE TO | 20th Century Tailors NOW Opening Today H, B. Kendrick. 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