The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 16, 1909, Page 1

saeee*-t| THE SEATTLE STAR f you are not a regular reader of The Star, 10. NO, 306 SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1909. PRICE ONE CENT. | telephone Main 1050 or Ind, 441 and have the | 1 ACCUSED WILL WALK THE PLANK SHAKEN DIE IN FLAMES — WHOLE LOAF OE MEAN | CHIME TODAY WANTED | MAN IS ARRESTED BY FELT EARLY THIS THE STAR AIMS To give you all the news as soon as it happens and in a way that will interést and instruct you. Theatre Burns to Ashes and Is Funeral Pyre of Scores—Survivors Commit- ting Suicide From Anguish and Suffering. THE SEATTLE | = POLICE. MORNING. _ Preyed on the Love of Poor | Parents for Their : Children. Vibrations Continued for Ten Seconds—Damage Is Slight. According to advices recetved | from Alaska this afternoon several | sections of the northern territory | jtelt @ witght earthquake this fore jnoon. No damage was reported, | MEXICO CITY, Mex., Feb. 16,—By U. P.—Not |less than 400 persons perished in the fire which de- stroyed the Flores theatre at Acapulco Sunday night, according to a message received by the government THE CITY COUNCIL IS offices here this morning. After being shadowed for some » and suspected of various Petty crimes about the city, Rd-| ‘Ward Stubley, an Englishman, was Srrested this morning at Fifth and | Main sts. by Patrolman Jackson, Gnd ts now held at police headquar as the following cablegrams show TO BE ASKED On serious charges. FR Studley is anid sae the man | SKAGWAY, Alaska, Feb. 16.—Ty TO ACT. SUICIDE ADDS TO HORROR. @vho for many months has been | | U. P.-A slight earthquake shock Playing upon the feelings of al- | | was felt at 7:20 this morning. There MEXICO CITY, Feb. 16.—By U. P. — Suicide penniless fathers and no damage, and the people are | Will Fix the Weight of a has added new horror to the dis | Nttle alarm tressing tuation at re in faraway towns and | , country hamlets, and thereby Loaf of Bread in Pe tes teil curing the blood money | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Feb. 16—| Seattl capulco following the holocaust of Sunday night. ,A which he has existed, | By U, P.~—Citizens were shaken out eattle. P < ‘a ’ . in selled vip @ dank cc lot their beds this morning. The | private message received here this morning says that eartiquake shock lasted 10 sec aitee te thie: onds, No damage was done [Ae ereinninee, seyvinting teeth FOURS WORat whose husband and small son had h de friends with a man | and quality of bread sold ‘ : ae ae ieety wale cal pRATRBANKS, Alaska, Fob. 10 city, and providing penalties been burned to death broke through the police lines mow bl rur om | rly this forenoon a rt weigh ‘ a : ett Remebly eprans from! slight rumbling was felt of the | stock dimponed of by Uh and flung herself into the hot ashes of the fire trap. te. od agth. The shock was very slight, |D¢ paened up for the at ‘ not afford to take a train,| and Was ko woak that few noticed it. | 0 ' ancl in - When rescued it was found that she had swallowed and come to the bedside of a sick | ehtid, From him or her he | ison, the Rome address, and using © 16 po! At least a dozen attempts at suicide have SEWARD. Feb. By weap | & bill be enclosed at once to medical ald, a bill the sick one was Fall for Swindie. Ta almost every case he was suc: and even when discovery jad came, Stubley was never used the same id certainly never of names in the hands Detective Frank Clark comprises | Rearly every cognomen in the cate , and information from eber tin many states, asking for the of a man of Stubley’s have led the officers; | to the belief that he has been work: | aoe.” inhumaa- graft in many Bomething ie already known here @f Stubley’s past. He has twice} ‘Betved jail sentences for burglary, and fn British Columbia He | arrested here a short time ago Detectives Clark and Adams, with conspiracy against} keeper of a lodging house on} ay. north, but when mY ‘ep in court, he proved an alibi At that time informat was at} concerning the methods one Jackson was using, a plan money, which corresponds that now laid to Stubtey, bat! @t the time no thought was enter that Stubley was the man. searched this moruing a “number of desk and office as well as 4 pass key, were on the prisoner. ARE IN DANGER ¥ A HEAVY WAGON DRAWN 8B ie RUNAWAY HORSES DASHES DOWN HILL. While a teamster whore name Ould not bo learned was adjusting fhe ster! shoe to the rear wheel of Bie dirt wagon, preparatory to down the steep hill on between Fourth a %, his horses took fr | followed by the heavily burden- wagen, which they were absc unable to control, they dashed Gown the hill at terrific ape ©) through a crowd of Third av. shop- 4 across the car tracks, narrowly ing & passing car, Swept by the momentum of the heavy wagon clear of the street and into an excavation being made St the corner of Third and Marion. Miraculously not « soul was in- and save for several bruises @nd skinned places, neither horse burt. | forward end of the wagon, however, is a mans of kindling STORY OF FIGHT IS BROUGHT OUT and were “FREEZE-OUT BILL” IS DUCKIE TAFT SHOWS A STRIKING DISREGARD FOR THE FEELINGS OF HIG GRANTING A FRANCHISE WASHINGTON | ie city charter, should / N. DT. GRANT I* ORPRRED HELD a / UP BY JUDGR Ghoner B. r $437 MOouais. that the . | matter of up at them y Asserting that the city council! On September §. 1968, the ocoune!) hog not ‘acted ‘in acgordance with passed an ordinance over the may: Art. 4, See , of the ety charter ors vete giving the National Dis- ten, Ki sane today, petitioned Superior trict ‘Telegraph company the right |} Judge George B Morris to ineue a |to install the protective eystem for| by tembeccey Heatraining otter pre: | benetit of the fire oud police Separt venting the council f rant ments of the city. should be franchise to the National Di Mohr claime that by right of bis | Telegraph com) petition the matter o ranchise | gieerier” company the right Beeaid come ue before the poopie ar] oawee next munieipal ¢iee electrica! protection ranted the city. The petition war the hearing set for February 24 of this year ot the Mohr in his complaint states that |Jud@e Mortis this mornts matters orn _this kind, secording to’ the petition of Mohr. NS PASSED BY THE SENATE Measure Amended So as to} | passed, notice must be given to 90/ Give Minority Some per cont of the stockholders of any intended sale by any corporation to another corporation, and another} ad amendment was carried that the OLYMPIA, Wash., Feb, 16.—-The | stockholders of the vendor corpora Seattle Electric company freezeout | on shall not be stockholders of the vendee corporation bill, senate bill No. 132, introduced ~ . This will prevent the frenzied by Williams, of-King, passed (b®/ finance game of buying the major senate this morning by the narrow ity of the stock of a corporation margia vote of 2 But what | and*freezing out the little fellows the senate did with the bill was sufficient so that it cannot be rec ognized now by its original authors In the form in which the GREATLY vielously ot Graves Favored It. Senator Will Graves, of Spokane, on the western distriet of The bill as first introduced Strenuous efforts terminal tax bili, # the senate, to have ople prominent |i is sald that the old rat antageniat reads Nave WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—By . Pm The house today by # under suspen. Washing. Representative conan \ Prewided that the new “@ resident western division of the western of the state, but this iricken from the measure ary committes. WILL WAGE WAR FOR NEW TAX BILL pit | MENG AND PIERCE COUNTIES Ans | INTRAMSTED IN THE MEASURE. PENS of “the ted in the ratiroad | to comeup tn | iy ec large « aree p Beginning late yesterday after-| 1.4) prominent part in the discus. noon, the senate devoted several sion Graves represents the inter hours to the consideration of the urban line running out of Spokane, | *{i\y Fepresentatives wi bill, and took it up again this mort) ang he gays that last year @ few | join forces with the railroad compa ing, Amendment after amendment Minority stockholders of one of the |hies hoping to have this measure was offered, and @ warm debate | supcorporations held the big com-|"'TP% vin in question provides for took place pany up for $5,000 blood money|an equity of taxation. I . Charge Is Made before they permitted a consolida-| Words, It will menr The charge was directly made on|tion. He wanted the bill in ite) }!Mi kine ane in order the floor of the senate that original form, to prevent ording) 2 £ - from west to es bara and Kelegy masa The inhabitants fled to the conn ty for refuge. Many walls were | efacked, a few butidings fell, b n@ other damage was done LIMITED IS WRECKED NGINE ROLLS INTO DITCH AT LATONA, BUT NO ONE 18 HURT. What otherwise might have pro: reriour accident ccetffred thie morning at Latona/! when the engine pulling Northern Pacific train No, 1, which left the union station at § o'clock, jumped | the track, rolled into the ditch and half turned over on its side, teart up the rails for a long distance, ani |nedesnitating the sending trains around by Renton No. 1 Is the train known as the| North Coast Limited, rried a being em. | iatee number passengers. None Stliclaia [Of the coaches left the rails, how- ever, and no e wae Injured in tie least, even the engine crow escaping unscathed FAMOUS ROCKS SINK IN SEA J08 ANGELES, Feb. 16.—By a the Begs rocks channel “jiarbare dM have recentjy | arriving at ots that he came whe are showing 46 taal pbove high tide, snd found them but four feet inest low tide above the we at al | bill was in the special interest of corporations being gouged by min and " Rozovich, now | cts ss FOR FIRE PROTECTION Biiier. the . Was shot an « — ameewe Broveht out pviaenes Residents of West Seattle will 7 hates Friday night to devise means Berens msete, | " is, and a . ing of the fire station which has v as gulity clals, and as they will meet her | bee The approp ) him in the | > Senator In Stephenson was months ago, bt 0 h When fully | ING WILL BE HELD HERE lthe fair iw just opened, much te @X | the firnt witnes day { Fos ‘a ox- lequipment has yet been installed charged betwe IN JUNE. pected in the way of advertising |ecutive comunittes of the legislature | @ix fires recently might have been ¥ Hherift Matt St | Beattle and the fair to result from|which is investigating 1 cor-| prevented, they say, had a chem ited the he heard Bos —— [this meeting rupt peactiogs in the prim *eNA~ jeg) engine been near to lend as | Hungarian that | What promises to be one of the} " maeenesieee Btephenson was prompted than tener will be held in Seattle during the LL plained. the expenditure of $107,705; 8% ** ** RRA RR HH & id A-Y-P. exposition was announced | during the npalen, but ‘evi | ‘i er eearalon Ghote te sesiat boert CANNOT AGREE ON dence of corruption developer \* THE WEATNER *| WOULD PUT STREET lof a telegram from James Chart | si |#* Rain tonight and Wednes- %| ton, chairman of the Transconth A TIME reg FIGHT ied day, colder tonight; high ®} nental Passenger assoctation j | Y ROADS IN # wouthwest winds, * RAILWAYS UNDER Mr. Chariton wired that the as a war of words this morn-| ae Re sociation had accepted the invita: | ing Int Dr. | BAD CONDITION igs | Coast terminal lines and by the A! hout in atill in the alr. Itt eth LE Y.-P. officials, and that it would| that the patr will not me ls are | | , eon June The execu: | Har futuro, If at all coming 14 thick and fast to OLyMrtA, wen, 19 the| meet here on June 8 The execu | Mean futuro if wt all f : in CASE ENDING visionn ot « bili Introduced in the | tlve committee will moet here Juue| he mould te wiowed nates cling as | qgcmuulaaloners, RE by Heprosentative Thompson, 5, and Mr, Charlton will be in the | get into condition. He consented to| hama That .the + BT. LOUIS, Feb. 16.—By ecomne, the railroad commission oy June 4. At the same time| Ub! Dr. Koller not before March 15, | chance ¥ ‘the ditfiouity The taking of testimony in the Asp given complete diction in ve. | CILY Jew [Aa no AMoUnL of wrangling could | long ax the tains kept up. He at }tersults of William J, Lemp, the mil to atreet © mpantes, Mr. hariton wired to the New| shake the husky policeman from his| that to attempt rep ring the roads liionaire brewer, and his y ended ih proposes that they be #ub-' Moore hotel for reservations: for | stand. now would only work a greater evil, | tod. During ‘his up, A 9 the heme legislation and con-| tie yatlway officals who will at-| Pf Koller oxplatned that ho prob-| us were heavy wagona to be driven ey, Dung He MENS 1 Bt ne 8 cee Fetread and Inters| i, y m | aply would be touring the east by| over the roads in fixing some of the |tnney on behalf of Mrs. | , ¥ What time and he did not feel ike| bad apo ay would on st emp, charactert ihe | He ii. becomes a In As 53, all of the transcontinental | eomt 4 the coast (0 give |the thoroughtare ered in mie |Wehe “couldn't be | ¥ ; i lines, will be represented, engh by | Hag tu make $250, There | pi Nothing can be done, the (admitted that he had signed an y [ous or more passenger traifle oft | WA Zeavon in the stand taken by | commiaxionars Ray, until the dry |i agreement hfeh he had not intend-| ~ nissioner’s depart ment Want « Uniform Loaf. } INCUBATOR Earthquake in Europe. me eOO ; : FRIEND, CONBSTANTINOF Feb, 16.—|way of maintaining « uniform loaf ; By U. P—A hea th oof bread in this city President Taft to Form His!patticularly over tho refusal of} When Henry Cabot Lodge beard| shock ie reported today to ‘have |the officiais on numerous necwelons Taft to seat Loeb in the new cab-| that r was included in the) oeourred in the vilayet of Sivas,| ut nothing definite has ever been Own Cabinet, Slighting inet. [ doom of the Roosevelt]! where many buildings, including {20% When he was a member of — adv he hastened to Augusta, Si c “ | the city council Health Comniiaston Roosevelt. BY GILSON GARDNER. Ga, and addressed Taft in this/ SUC"! Sovernment — structures, | ¢¢ Crichton introduced an ordinance |) waseuneToN, D.C i pol were badly damaged. Thirty per jaiong that line ut it died in the WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 16—| That Presideutelect Taft has deter: | Meyer to Stay. SL Outage te “GumeanE Onder wrenent oneaitinns: the broad | By U. P.—Although no outward | mined to make a ciean aweep of the! 1 insist that Meyer boa member! wrought by the temblor, communt.| business | nthis city is entirely un indications of friction are apparent) Roosevelt cabinet, and to surround | o¢ your cabinet. | am not asking,|catton with the stricken country | *atisfactory, from the standpoint of today, {t is being rumored at the himself with new advisers, is news 4, recommending. 1 am insisting |is difficult, and news dispatches the purehaser. There are all sorte capitol that diffprences have arisen whieh {s just beginning to be be Understand the perfectly. 1 don't|are fragmentary of loaves, of all qaality between President Roosevelt and leved In the inner circles of Wash thing about the Roosevelt Heavy shocks were reported PS oa sy of which weigh within | his successor, President-elect. Taft, ington. For a while astonishment as @ whole; but 1 do careimifies trom Budapest, where the|the minimum weight under the new over the selection of the cabinet! was overbalanced by incredulity. ahout my own polltical standingand| people fled from thelr homes in | iaw 7 — nw br Fea be advisers to the = now such is found to be the te tones ta grey ey Both ieee arene yaar * Will Stamp Their Bread. ° e. ne fight to secure n CoUuntr lundreds of people) ‘The proposed ordinance will prob It fe said that Taft ix framing up| All membeM of the Roosevelt) for you the nomination, 1 cast my|are catping in the bills, and it t* url tie ihe ieee ee ne will prot his cabinet without seeking the ad- cabinet have received orders to walk | iot on your side. 1 wan bitterly op-|balleve@ that many of them are|two and four pounds. This will a; vice or counsel of Roosevelt and the plank; and alt will go overboard | yo.c4 iy ott " SS da abeeriiis euskia Tames shen . pow nator Crane and all who| threatened with death from hunger. | ply t rything except fancy #tock } that this action has caused the with one exception—Geo. von L. land odd shap. It wil no were Opposed to you and Roosevelt The population of the vilayet in| ¥ ih not apply president something of a shock, It) Meyer, And the case of Meyer)... ~~—~—~ |eattmated at more than a million|'® What t* usually termed small is rumored that Roosevelt ia piqued | stands by Dain it te this way (Continued on page 7.) "ons. J etock, bun cookies, etc EAM per “6 A Clause may be inserted in the | mer lordinance compelling the bakers t Ten Seconds’ Duration. jetamp their initials in all loaves BUDAPEST, Feb. 16—An earth.| bread turned out of their bakerion qupke lasting ten seconds visited the city of Kecsmet and the dis trip@ of Hadju Boazormeny, Oroez and an untutored wing} U. PA x earthquake " # a Woehd welts a letter to} ahock occurred in this section this ’ been made by the distracted survivors, several prov- Shem, telling of the pitiadle plight morting. Th nh was troubled : ti ight an : m/s a: Bs paired aly om _ thant og a co and waves three feet high were sud: |Ponnible. The enforcement of the ing successful. There is little possibility of prevent dently formed vibration was : bt lene sa Rl ing such results, as in the face of the great disaster the death of one man or woman seems a matter of small significance to the dazed and half insane population. City of Morgues. ar relative or friend, MEXICO CITY, Feb. 16.—By 1 milies were wiped out. P.—With reports of the dead reach rs hgh tho Bene ing an high as 400, Acapulco, with eature of the scenes its 7,000 population, today is a city *t their senses and of morgues and hospitals, Of the 4 in some instances 600 persons who ercaped in the wild te { extreme expressions of grief stampede from the Flores theatre The bodies are being handled fm whe the best way possible few ities. Those which identified will easly burned be n trenches, » wnieation Ix gradually being plies of ‘ re-e but the wires thag There is no means of prepa ' put into operation have a for burial in the u been used mainly by the government, place where the Medical supplies and physiclans are rked merely by ashed to the scene f the bodies the ruins could not possibly tified. Nearly all are bur No Americans Killed. erlap WASHINGTON 16.—By U, P 4 Moorhead af Whole Families Wiped Out. A fe », informed the state. ‘Thousands of persons, in fact, department by cable that no Amare ‘practically every "eitizen of Acapul- leans were killed in the fire KING COUNTY SOLONS IN CLINCH OVER MEASURE BLIZZARD IS INCREASING OHIO 18 TODAY THE STORM CENTER—TERRIFIC GALE 18 RAGING. ee cL AN hio, Feb. 16.—By U. P.—For the first time in the his- tory of the local weather bureau the | forecaster is unable to issue a report today, The storm conditions are much that every avenue of communt- cation i blocked, and hundreds of points in tht and her central states @ isolated. Ohio today is the hold-up point for the usual means of communica- tion between the eart and the weet A terrific biimzard, accompanied by wind and sleet, raged all night and today All kinds of traffic and telephone services are disrupt- The in middle west will masiderably more than $1,000,000 lows « business and the rtunity to tranwact business i taken Iate consideratt m, ONE MAY HAND OUT LEMONS OR THROW EGGS CHEAPLY NOW has a great big grudge and telegraph If anyone Against anyone else, and wants to get even, now is his chance. Send him a crate of lemon According to the market report this morning, you can get them cheap—the price has literally drop ped out of them. A drop of 76c was experienced, and the very finest grade of the fancy fruit is $8.50, per crate, and the rest of the grades are selling at $2.75 and $3 And in speaking of eggs, speak quietly please, for they are sinking rapidly. Yes, they sank to 29 cent this morning, and the dealers along the market streets are tearing thelr shirts to get rid of them, glad to wet 29 And they say it will be] atill worse—-or better—for the price will probably drop to 22 cents be fore the first of March CONFERENCE HELD ON TARIFF REVISION INDIANAPOLIS, I Y 1 The Nation sion ¢ tific taritt " 1 by ¢ Senor Marsnall and Mayor took ter Without dele gates, Jaime pre dent of ¢ assooiatt Ile succeed c Indinnapoll y chairman. At the meeting of board last night it was the chool decided not to oppose the petition of the peo: ple of Oak Lake schoo) district No. 51, for the annexation of the west half ‘ot seetion 86 to the Seattle} school district, as it was shown that at present there are over half jot the children of the district at | tending the Whittier seheo!, paying a& small tuition, B | Hanson and Jackson Near- ly Come to Fisti cuff ‘STANDS FOR THE JOKER OLYMPIA, Feb. 16.—Staff ‘i fe a respondence.—Representatives Ole Havsco and FC. dacheon Gath or] COTTRRILL. BAYS HE OID © AND |S NOT ASHAMED TO OWN IT. t | King county, clinched in the carri-| | dors of the house this morning and | | were prevented from indulging in| what looked like a rough and tum-| OLYMPIA, Peb. 16—Staff Con ble scrap by the Umely prevention | respondence.—Conalderable interest of bystanders. is being manifested over the so Kil! Labor Bill. | called joker in Cotterill’s harbor tm The trouble arose over the defeat | provement bill. Cotterill says, in the house this morning of the | frankly that he is the author of the bill which reduced the legal hours | Joker, and put It in purposely, He of employment for women in fac-|@ys the bill was drawn by Corpof tories, laundries, mills, ete. from | ation Counsel Calhoun, of Seattle, 10 to 8. The bill was defeated by | and that he (Cotterill) was not ta a vote of 46 to 42, and Hanson, | the habit of introducing bills that were thrown over his transom, oF slipped into hts hands by strangers, | after the session, cornered Jackson and charged him with sidestepping the vote. Jackson grabbed hold|He said the bill looked pretty, of Hanson's collar and retorted thar | but he, as a friend of the Lake no scurrilous motives actuafe my| Washington Canal association, conduct, though they do yours.” | thought he could improve it a little Hanson countered with a blow on | bit, so he © slipped in the joker, the chest and the crowd pulled es BEETS j them apart The defeat of the women's em ployment bill was one of the slick-| est bits of legislative jobbery of| FOR WAITRESS |the session. The bill had already | beep passed by a decisive majority Nv, enn ee oe en Sims of Jefferson, anothe standing before a mirror, er ey gar sepwnt ecg vel, 30 years old, cut his representative of the cannery in it with a razor todas. He died terests, begged for a reconsidera-|a few minutes later he enuse tion on the plea that it was only /the act is attributed to the m 4 just to exempt the canneries with|love for a waltress in a restaurant their three months’ run from the | Where Strocbel was employed as @ provisions of the law cook pas fe Broke Agreement | be possible to make this exception in a constitutional manner, the bill FOR FING ER should be passed again without any opposition As a result of losing two finger Since the bill has been under re ( an, th at 4 s labo oree Bult againet @ consideration, the antt-labor forces ‘opent have been busy and brought over Seattle. enough ve their side to ktlt ast ports, for the bill his fins machinery, LAWYERS PROMPT suite holut t prominent feature today of | } Fe ueen Anne boulevard condem- | through a block. tis fingers were |nation proceeding Superior | drawn through the block and ample |Judge Wilson R t into the t ids lyr for deli in | x t 4 1 ca ts of a ‘lengthy alled for a nightly intil 9 until Court alse con at 9 stead of th jal hour 1 formally Buy Play-Ground Site, . ti ay witch Ne | At the meeting of the park board | sketehod the \merican ester¢ rT eport ¢ © CO) preattes «nc prs Sp pe thas yoaterday, the t of th i) the agremimnont ing to @ mittee on the university play inicat the various ground site was heard and aceeptgd | matters af ona tt purchase of 24 lots beowgek | Wastiugt Jent-olect vate ne ) A received the of the board i Mast ATth and bast Goth and [ee Conmultle ' ,, we Does between Soventh ay, N. 1B. and the! Gay Sing thatthe canat Ba alley between Wighth and Ninth ave. Tock plan complet N, 1, was recommended | osldpnt-elect Pagt The site is lw enough for a Te OB ibe ee {ball ground, and leaves plenty of Midd cuttes the inabeane room for other recreations. * house passed the ans bill, carrying Dix WHE Sal! Thursday The | morning army transpor will probably ne sal PRIETO leave for the re Wands eon’) Named as Constable, O, Parker jhorses (iat are to 4 have | Way appointed constable of the Kens rived in Beattie, but have not yet; nydate precindt by the county conte been taken to the docks. misator Oils morning,