The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 8, 1909, Page 1

HAVE IT _ HOUSE WILL TEAR LOCAL OPTION BILL TO PIECES IMPROVEMENT CLUBS WILL DEMAND IMMEDIATE ACTION STEVIE AND MOVING PICTURE NEARLY SPOIL LAWSUIT “WETS” CLAIM FOUR VOTES GAINED BY THEM. Harold Preston Aids in the Fight Against the League Bill. OLYMPIA, Feb. &—3 Pp. When it came to a vote in the house thie afternoon the wets were unable 96 deliver their vote, Three test Ballote were taken on motions to Permit amendments. On each of these the “drys” mustered sufficient Strength to vote them down, The ballots were 50 dry and 43 wet on the first two motions, and 51 to 42 on the third ‘The bill wil! probably be finally Passed this afternoon o” OLYMPIA, Feb. §—The ladica tions are that the loca! option bill Wil be torn all to pieces in th house this afternoon. The wets have been busy ever since adjourr ment Friday, and this mornin Giim they have switched f Votes from the “drys” to thelr side and others are wavering. This will give them a majority end enable them to entirely re Mode! the bill as they wish They Rave formed ay organization to Vote as a unit, and announce that they will defeat every bill urged By & member of the “drys,” and @t the samp time will work to Bother to further al! bills proposed BY members of their organization Preston Aids “Wets.” Considerable strength was given te the “wets” today by Attorney ong Preston, of Seattle, a for ate senator, who has a high pataticn as a legisiator. He was here on « case for the Puget Sound Nationa! bank, and tn the lobby at the capitol stated publicly that if Be was a member of this session he Would voto against the league bill Because of Preston's standing the “wet are enabled to use this SMatoment with teiling effect upon the wavering and weak ones. The Bouse will meet at 1:30 o'clock. Loan Shark Bill. Im the senate today Cotterill's bi to pat the | sharks out of business by paying all city em DPloyes at least every two weeks Wan sent back to commit bee cause of attacks made upon it by Ralph Nichols, of Seattle. and oth- ers. Polson said bis firm employy 700 men. and they pay these men every day or every half day, they want their money. He de Clared t' st the proper plan and the only plan, to defeat th loan sharks, Is to pass the bill, and that the extra expense he had proved in his own business amount- ed to little or nothing. Three Bad Bills. Amoug the new bitis introduced im the senate were three bad ones by Graves. Under one bill Graves authorized employes to contract thelr death warrant—that is, he legaiizes a contract between om ployer and employe as to the dam ages to be recovered in case of fajury or death of the employe. In another bili he provides that in civil sutts for damages, street galway or other corporations may force the injored person's attend. ing physician to testify, and thus Fepeais the common law and stat te law that one’s physician can hot be compelled to testify against him Right of Appeal. In ‘the third bill Graves ‘would abolish all the laws granting the fight of appeal to the supreme court, and provides that the court by rule shall provide what cases May be heard on appeal and how Appeals may be taken Cotterill introduced a bill which prohibits any elty councilman ap. pearing attorney before the city Courts or city boards, and provides & penalty of $100 fine and one year's imprisonment RESULTS IN 7 Stabbed by a man whose name 4 they pretend to have forgotten and refuse to reveal, two brothers named Petocciaia were found yes f terday in the Belmont cafe at Sixth r fernnd King sts, and taken to the Providence hospital. They declare that the man who stabbed them Is &@ farmer living across Lake Wash fagton, but refuse to give his name For soveral days floating tales of & vendetta among Seattle Ital fans, have come to the ears of the detectives, and they believe that the | ed men are parties to the feud, us they themselves were im pli ated nother cutting affray al we ago. Detecti 1 ting the Will endes ace princi ple b exists, DEADLY FEUD ; EWING THINKS THAT HE 1S “IT” as) NEW YORK, Feb. § y of how Stephen McGorty SENT HOME If you are not a regular reader of The Star, telephone Main 1050 or Ind. 441 and have the paper delivered by carrier. ty Mites F THE MOVING PICTURES SHOWN IN COURT. 18 THE BOY tN THE LIGHT CAP. —This is a M4, saw his own picture at a moving pleture show and how it cost him thousands of dollars. One day Stephen went the kids tn Eighth av, play with near him home. and his moth which ever since he was thrown r in 1906. five mb street In about was sitting on th ing a crap appeared a coup! er out It was a holiday permitted him Jo lay aside the brace for his knee he always wore of os sidewalk wheo of men wit moving pieture machine The men were disgruntled. The people who were to pose for them did not come. Well, ture pack up, man at Those aetors won't show this street.” sald the 't h pl to school Stephen | fateh suddenly a te to his assistant ap on Then, suddenly, the assistant had an idea Who's the fastest runner of you fellows?” he asked the boys. 1 am,” said each kid, Stevie in eluded Well, you fellows have a race and we'll take you,’ said the big Man, pointing out two boys "We'll give you tickets to the show when ft comes off.” So Stevie got into the ra Then the men made the boys jump as high as they could, and march, and box and wrestle Stevie outdid every one of the kids |FURTH’S BANK GETS USE OF RIVAL'S MONEY AND ALSO THE FRANCHISE ft t By a #trar 000 which Edwin C, Ewing deg with City ¢ r Carroll guarantes in he j franchise, Iv now ar depo: din the Puget Sound National the depository for the funds the Seattle Bieetri mpany wham the elty eouncil awarded the franchise, over wing's higher bi Ewing says he gave the certificat deposit for the money to t comptroller to be “held in ew until the franchive Amn & until the ordinance learnc passed city tre immedi Furtl al 4d. Wh nt Carroll had that Compt the certificate over to the urer, and that the latter had | tely turned er to ‘ob | bank for collection, without of those t having spiled sith, he ordered pay | ed, but the Washington | ra n whom the oe had alread | nia | LAST EDITION THE SEATTLE STAR 10, NO. 299. SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1909 j WANT BOUILLON’S RECOMMENDATIONS | ADOPTED. ‘Officials of Clubs Say It Is Up to the City Council to Get Busy. | Improvement clubs throwghout the eity, armed with the recommen tations for Wetter street car serv tee furnished in t tof AY} Boulllon, superintendent of public Uilties, will be praetiontly @ unit in jemanding that thelr ward ¢ 1 the # THE STAR AIMS To give you all’the news as soon as it happens interest and instruct and in a way that will you. PRICE, ONE CENT BILL AT OLYMPIA PLANS A BIG GRAFT FOR THE CORPORATIONS — WOULD MAKE THE PEOPLE BUY THEIR RIGHTS-OF-WAY ELOPES WITH F#1S vrovives ror purcuase By CITY OF LAND STENOGRAPHER TO BE HANDED OVER FOR SUBWAY, SUR- FACE OR ELEVATED RAILWAY PURPOSES PEOPLE TO PAY FOR LAND DESIRED BY CORPORATIONS. ‘ot satisfied ‘ 1g control of nearly all of the im portant street the f corporate intere have caused to be ir n the he < f re CSC es at Olym- pia, a bill ex wering th ty to “condemn prea property and rights of all kinds whatsoever, including state, county and school nds m alf, for the purpose property and other rights for subways, ele- and to exercise the right of eminent domain, j of acquiring lands vated railways and surface street railways, for the purpose of acquiring such necessary property and rights for franchises to be offered and granted to the bidder who will pay for any such franchises the highest percentage annually of the annual gross receipts under the same in the exercise and use thereof.” provide the int of cere designated ch cities shall hay |! dof the utilities dep h cities sha a peresenry to secure adequate serv pe to acquire y ce. MR. ANDO MRS. SAM TRATTNER ' - rights Mf. Sam Trattner, manager of the }ron was to Mr. Tr n ch franchise, notwith- the Pertiand Card company, wh ner <Tapher, but such cities to the ef e the & card concession at | they ¥ to “WHEN -" effect ithe A.-Y.-P. exposition, ix branded | They ause th be first made, and not- } a THIEF THIEF didn m” he We) When he arrived at his office, ‘getting hin” today y charter contrary to the a be gulaes bi Arcade Annex, this ing, his as Tl will five at 1505 12th # Hh report ’ wi ope - lauciates made this aceumiion fact that tt are “New i , : ‘ | He jones — and Bam baingy = cou .. Tor all over The passage of this bill would mean that a city council, ; 4 am R turn bir t t r . Bd ay, & the pot ret ' such as Seattle has at the present time—a council seemingly pomee '0 Big Dog Show Today interested only in doing what the corporations, notably the Se- brand of The “Newlyweds” Were guests € and he | honor this aftertoon at @ monster dog |attle Electric company, desire it to do—could acquire by con- et for 1 ict } P mote, for the theft of which he in|tvm im When nearly 4o0 dows Mt”! demnation, rights of way through city lots, private property for et ly ssh Hidy i* that of the hand and heart , UC An ‘ea’ te Us yD y their “te jsp m fe sid in any rr Se te orazwhrt pretty Mins Jemsie | Pr ann ser epdete ‘ted a waten | Subway stations, or property for the purpose of widening streets, an wae ot teat Bleghenson, whe untll inst Wed é ane amee-a ; nish on * “ " o i - ‘ | eopeal said Homer M IUll secreta: (day us wtenographor for Mr. T cae nd tee SPs) making the people pay the enormous figures that would have to | Fy-Ch@paurer of the Generel Confer but whe te now MRS BAM Venow doge, bul be paid for such property, and then handing it to the street rail- ence eommilion Of the seattle Lin. | PRATT NER. frst nA pes prov giggne. Slab Baeretation. "204 They Etope. Sencasiil hacia ian wy way or subway corporations desiring its use. Ties tet Wetereday ts <oaple tock (come by men. Bivee t Aaaies BRAZEN PIECE OF LEGISLATION were jained together in the holy advertinement suys this so nk gti jee 2 : daa - as of matrimony (only | Mra. couple want to adopt a baby boy, and This is pe he most brazen piece of legi a cor. A CE ee sl aga a A oe ofan Ragefire ggpapteg te interest ¢ evet attempted to pass through Washing- ‘ahey” in the ceremony) The sance, as mort f them are ' f 4 Of the offing force were |him around this evening to 1 tate legi e. Not content with every important thor- pe fact that M 1ath ‘ S . oN arose es wo ughfare in this they come to the people of Seattle A io, raaniae eee keke eee ee ee and ask them to purchase private property that they may use ward Brady, unt!) recently prephe dent of the Capitol Hi th raver HIS vd THe WEATHER. vd it for their own purposes. They ask that we place in the hands hen % ‘Wein. or ene tonight ond * of councilmen, weak or corrupt, our pocketbooks, that they may colder; moderate * take from therein the price of the property that these corpora- Pictures ae oe % tions want. terres Midnite ddd Representatives of the corporation, or councilmen perhaps, “Do we get tickets?” asked | j will call atter the fact th property may be used Stevie and the kids, when It was wt, only by “the bidder who will pay for such franchises the over. } ) * | Thureday | highest ntag 1 . \ rross rec s.”" Sure,” said the man | Queen Anne Rataler Hgts. ‘Rain | sy highest percentage annually of the annual gross receipt |ler Valiey, Unive “ominunity | 4 é a aes Pe jand Vesier Way clude. | ra THE COUNCIL'S LIBERALITY. Stevie got hid ticket the other | Bouillon Comptine ont day. It was @ subpoena to Indge| CW. Meivitie, president of the |MNIQUE CEREMONY 18 PER: / arose | be enacted at this They will tell you this in spite of the fact that the Seattle Aspinwall’s court room, where his | Bighth d Taxpayers’ Club, se FORMED ABOARD NORWE- | F } ‘ i , hi few - | . wi w weeks, grante - mother was suing the Coney ts! 1 am ve GIAN TRAMP BHIP. | city council has, within the past e gra ed to a cor. aud Street Railway Co. for Ste } H | poration bidding 2 per cent of its annual gross receipts, a fran- nae ree ee tga Dil geek he. nt toast the the | chise for which another corporation bid 10 per cent of its gross | ex of my chilthood eae The moving picture man was | the wate | Pee te eaten decob A leon Of ees there. He put tp & screen, atart- [0.1 Wilett, pres w Mtoreated | Betwen, Norway, the owner of & fleet Let the men wlio pay the taxes in Seattle send to Olympia ed his machine, and in the dark | {fy property in a her of dis laf reven tramp Norwegian steamerr - € « rg te —_— big crowd of their numbers, there to protest against the enact+ room the judge, the jury and/|(riets and T know Boor street [one of the wealthiest sea dogs of the a big g Stevie saw Stevie rncing. fighting |Ge" service bas been a great han- |Smndinavian pehinnula, to this day|MOTHER WHO WOULD ABAN-| oe digep te values, Ne vid homestead that ” a uch reg and throwing the other kids, al he only thing that My Se nau Ianttte OON HER GL OREN 29 et the ¢ of this city make it known to their repres mont as lively as any of them, ex oked te the Mt ver 40 Years ago, with his blush MENTALLY DEFICIENT. . ti m ule copt for a tittle Hmp ae at is, flaxen haired bride tain Ol en sentatives at they are tired of corporation rule T he show almowt floored Stevie. ement ¢ We seed |sen deserted the ™ ar ttled « Further examination Into the | that they have d for all tha nev intend to st i for. Did it hurt you to do all those ~ 5 es ye th a pomantend pe deg case of Mrs. William Huffing, whe things?” asked the street raliway | pupite utilities tntendent seen |e ee eee itage, that he might be evidenced a rkab * of RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE. company’s lawyer, after the ple be general ¢ = pe tid ax posible to the life that had | heartlessness toward b five small - tores had been shown. on Ete ee M pee rerentiy | Been hls children in Judge Gordon's court | Let then ke known that the time has come when they Yes,” sald Movie, weakly pavers Club, sald that ‘the wack | “But the call of the sea was strong | iast Friday, has convinced her hus: |.) sist that the r nterests of the people shall have You smiled, didn't you?” | which Mtr, Houllion had “ite him, and he deserted bis little! hand and the judge that the wom-| >! . f asked the lawyer pide ag Sriant one. one ee nae hp! hor Aad em ‘*\an is mentally deficient fluence at Olympia than the professional lobbyists‘of the Yes,” whispered Stevie. The |‘Wouaht 'hat exersone should oo-| puiows, taking with him "* | Mrs. Huffing this moruing stated | coo 44) steer , ia ether. compoentinen sea pletures had shown his stile dations were carried one, eye hix pretty mate Hine, {that she remembered nothing of />cattle I lects ih teh oe ee oe eck 4 nc Why aud you smile?’ asked ica aa a Mn , her wor RS the con _ room tn t | control the legislature, as they control the city council o —s ihe lawye him and he 01 again ¢ ‘1 riday, and that she had bat a dim y honest men in our city council, the pi Because it hurt,” sald Stevie IGHT D E | som making tiie home in the beauti-| remembrance of having been tn With ‘only ‘he m9 — re | ul city of Bergen, but deepest in his | court at all he gave other evi-| such a bill as this would be bad enough, but with councilmen } 5 [heart were houghts of the little) denee eo wa ot on i Mr McGorty sued for $50,000 as BA ge oo at x a nas _ Sisty Sy om "owned body, boots and breeches by the Seattle Electric company = 7 : onjentes 4 o ion, anc act sald the Py gnaw ie ithe ‘that See ene ittmer Bir Cap. Mt times she was very lonely with. | its passage would mean that we had thrown up our hands and > onwegian up stearme o , Stevie limped It in Marcussen, with Captain Hoh out the bables, but that. at other | were ready to submit our bank books and wallets to corporation This was the first time that 1) ae pilot, sailed past th times she could not bear them 7 moving: pictures had over been a reat site on the way t William Huffing he father, | and official thieves. used in a law court in the world jierineet * Harbor apd in oon a re ye ? © weens of his wife, yetrayed great emotion, and j,, DESLOC Mo. Feb. & ies, Capital og ™ *loneciiation was imme P- George Ketcherside and iss go ke of dynamite were hoiat- | fected Mughes fought a duel in the ain} |e lest in the air on the masta, and The mother will not be examined | street of Iaadwood, a small eal |e hundering. roaring explosions | on a sanit charge at present, but is - asa tn te « rocket, which, in spite | nospital to secure needed medical : friends reached his wid }Of the bright daylight, made @ beau) aid, which, it is thought, will re! —___—___—. the money ver ‘to the Puget. # The shooting took place in front | ttyl showing, win wi ee utes, ana |store mind and body to the normal, |GCOUNCILMAN WAY Y PROPOSES ia! on of $85,000 from the general imi the edie Of Mrs. Agate, wit nolemnixed, the | TO CALL FOR $500,000 ISSUE on pote nt City Comptrotier ¢ Il today ex-|anw Hughes talking to Mra Adame dev Bos | WITHIN SHORT TIME lr unelimen are’ oppesell plained that he had turned the cer- | and} eof Jealousy he tm natd | IB erews with ao ites | Jo starting out with thts «um, on jeate over to the city treasurer,/to have abused Hughes, who went | ml , | the ground that it is thadequate, and and had obtained In leu thereof a |to his home and returned with a re pe oy hae of Captain wt n steps | that the only proper Way te to 7 unteed deporit aiip, which would | volver ar often 6 ‘1 nies way to Ha «t bond | Vide enough money fron permit Mr ing to withdraw hi«| Both men began firing at the faced H. Oln reten Ret ina | M : t ‘ Sue $0: install Gee Sani money at an ent that the ques-|time, and at #0 close apot, just no often | \ hich can be extended to tion of the f was decide one fell crows the ceremony be enactet po italia vt ; 1 ye MA wy attends of Ewing argue that thes five bullets [SEAT TI WOMAN NerHEHED 00, coe hal cokaa ite bunt th ret thee RAILROAD TRAFFIC THAT SHR WILL HECEIVE [Garbage collection CHINESE TO LOD a eed TIED UP IN SOUTH ae ce oe mptrolter declares that | | ANGEKLES, Cal, Feb. #.—<By | {pieritance that belonged parmanent Fandweye aha vove i red there wa | SALEM, Ore., Feb. 8—By U. P. U, P-—-All railroad traffie to and eived word trom cousti In jer incidental Items, contuined in t - amrcrenasaennenal no trick or subterfuge in the deal,| The local option interests suffered from Loa Angeles js practically cut | Wurgburg, Germany, t if she wil |general fund bonds that were defeat AN PRAN 40, Fe, S——By Uh 1 simply refune to be custodian tor | stback the house tod off today the result of the terrific | return he Hivide up an estate at the last ‘general election be A lengthy telegram embracing ny money,” he said, “and have no| 4 Setnaek In cin tt ond n | oe cums of yesterday and last. night.| Worth $500,000 with hor, Mr vat they were mixed up with the |ogmptainte of what te termed oute tight water - the harter totais bill to authorize & separate vote fo Han Joaquin valley line of the | Will Teave next month t 1 or fictt. be which a mas | Een tof theta . harge of funds of whatever desortp- | tO be taken on permitting ales ¢ thern Pacific is blocked on the ih 4 aTinipat of tr ni) pagh nh cal sons | beer or whisky, at all future the nofth-bound trains are ' nett | ter w to President Roosevelt by - tions under the local option law ut Mojave kiving the | tes of this | was referred to the committee on} “The coa Is put of cotnmt aoa woot 1a attorney, O, with | @leoholic traffic, a committee that] sen & gp Fede Hos fibelleen, care: ty the ms Vab-| bers will have to go on record |e ie ce held at Santa tar were ectior pure, andl against the organized hopgrowers orl para, and all north-bound train 4 ‘ And singgered evergone against the prohibitiontsts, from here are annulled. die, he wants (6 divide up, | There n av An ApP an t aw