The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 10, 1909, Page 1

Wt you change y address, tell the carrier or telephone the olty, let The Star follew yous advanee. Tel, Main 1080; Ind. 441, OT GAS SOMMITTEE HOLDS UP gt... ON THE ORDINANCE. the * n Await Pleasure of the Gas | Corporation. Dpeapita the foct that core leet few nthe Corn bg slot gas meters as be : 2 menace to life, of the corpora s ve decided the pres Baga the ordi nance prohibiting Tee eee of these death traps jn Beattie. K action vic possible excuse or or wee there can be in Gut what outside people jaw applying only} mber of i today certainly be- | 7 The corporations com 2 is either very obliging, or Mag else jals generally, outside P@erporations committee, at nize the constant danger is im the “community gas Mhether in hotels, a t vate residences, i is that the Which is sidering pre ordinances drawn up by nd utilities department, can ying the | What Bouillon Says | Committee apparently only Mtoe hold up the ordinance a ld write and learn e said w of tact, a for the very good reason slot gas meter te just as One place as another OF CONNECTICUT 16 ON HIS DEATH BED TODAY. Pres) Conn, April 10 Liliey, governor of | fe on his death bed to- iriling to & statement given home. He has been un- since last night enlied to his bed | has been it for some | for several days there hae pope that be would re Been prominent in Con for years. He neta | office in 1891, when to the state legisla Me has been a member of the Mate central committee Gnd served as congress fom Covnecticut from | ae os been inaugy this year pw = Prem.) SAG, Apri 10.-—Kumors are ; 44 in financial circies that the Kovernment’s ution of t for a ped to the reports the al which the based con f damage FROM WINDOW rebating H. August Anheuser on, and ry at itted th LET THE STAR FOLLOW YOU aboard here were put ashore on the and hie | Bo peat at all and p@ excitement, it | 1, this morning. | Judge Reid and forward the papers LAST EDITION VOL, 11 METERS WILL NO, 40. CLAIM MORE LIVES HERE LOVESICK LAD ENDS LIFE On) SWEETHEART’S DOORSTEP TACOMA, April 10 er and writing a note to his young After purchasing an automatic Millard went to the girl’s home revo sweetheart, Spellman, a former high school boy, last night and shot himself. His body this morning when Mrs. Mark White, was not found until mother of the young man's sweetheart, stumbled over the corpse in an out building No cause for the suicide is known, but it is believed that Spellman was te nporarily insane, resulting from an Operat ‘or the removal of mastoid absces Phe note left by the young suicide follows “Dear Lila: I have taken this course as the best mean of ridding myself. I have been true to you for eight long months, but I have tried to live beyond my position, I have always loved you, but could not withstand the temptation ose with more love than ever (Signed.) “MILLARD,” PATTEN CREATES ANOTHER WILD WHEAT SCRAMBLE BUYS FREELY AND BOTH JULY | Wheat commended to Flee, and Without stopping, shot to record AND CaPTRMGER WHEAT prices for the crop. July hed GO SOARING AGAIN. $1.14 without any trouble, and Sep i were | Miners placed between 160 and 200 }nel to May | pines of anfety, 500 feet away, | | ~ or soared to $1.0 With My Untied Pree.) steady buying these marks CHICAGO, April 10.--Aftet win-' soon passed and July closed at ning nearly two million dollare by $1.16 and September at $1.07% taking profit on a rising market In the last half-hour beh the James A. Patten created another clove the day's trading. wild scramble on the exchange to wheat was forgotten fn. the mad @ay by buytng freely both July and + ace orders on July and Beptember wh Despite the rush for A ot as May wheat closed to buy, both 6y ao am oe = | Will Beautify Lot Becanse the tit BURGLARS LOOT RESIDENCE By prying open a window with a timmy, burglars entered the reat dence of T. Jerome, 503 Belmont av rary board will not have sufficient funds to bulld the branch in the triangular plot in front of the old efty hall, corner of Third ay. and Yesler way, the board has asked t park comm’ stoners to Improve the property se as to make ft presentable to tour ists during the exposition N., last night, and carried off a pair ca sorte cient aetee |G) TREASURER SS and pearia« | ALLOWED MORE CLERKS AGROUND BUT NO | The city treasurer's department DAMAGE is | will be allowed four more “refund clerks at of $90 eac! per tmonth City Treasurer Proeser big Alaska steamer North western, Capt. John O'Brien, which ft out Wednesday night went aground yeaterday afternoon on Birch point near Semiamoo light, but backed off at high water and proceeded on her way | Spee defisitely by Advices received at the offices of | 't # not thought itkely that the in the Alaska Steamship company here | eases will be allowed say that the big boat was pot dam aged in the least. as Capt. O'Erien Wan proceeding very carefully when she strack. Nine stowaways found asked for four new men at # salary of $100 each, but the committee of the counct!] this morning lopped off $10 from this figure The an increase in salary for nearly every man tn his department, Teamsters Entertain. The Teameters’ union will give & smoker tonight at the Labor Tem ple, Refreshments wil) be served and several boxing cards are sched | uled point. The Northwestern had 500 pas sengers aboard, most of whom were river coasurwetion werk, “Thers’eas (ALLEGED EMBEZZLER IS! ARRAIGNED IN COURT STORE AFIRE F.C. Williams. Damage to the extent of several end treasurer of hundred dollars resulted from a} ducers former secretary the Poultry Pro union, beid on a charge of fire which started from an un-|jseny by cmbeasioment, wae thia known cause ta i the groc ery atore Of | Horning brought before Superior M. Lund, at 924 26th av, &, last! juggs Mitchell Gilliam, and placed night under $1,000 bond The blase spread to # cottage a4-| Ie ig alleged that Williams, on joining, which ia occupted by Land. | august 7. 1907, appropriated By dint of hard work’the fremen/ 2 . suceseded in saving the house. The | *#*!%2 of the jogs will not definitely be known juntil an tnvemtory of the stock is | taken. George a Elliott, charged with criminal assaait on Mra, Blanche Rosbarg, enterea & plea of) not guilty before Superior Judg Mitehell Gilliam in department No inion’ Funds. city must PAY. Superior Judge A. W. Frater th morning approved the Denny Him Assesamnent roll, with certain modi- fications. In a number of cases the judge decreased the assessments, charging the same to the general fund, bringing the cost to that fund to about $60,000. exons ae e ramen NEWS BULLETINS] GAN FRANCISCO.—Alfred Swensen, manager of the Swedish American Mercantile company and Cafe du Nord of this city, was shot down early today in his own office by Special Policeman Thom as Mulvaney, who mistook him for a burgiar. Swensen is in a pre carious condition at his home in Oakiand. Mulvaney declares his re volver was discharged accidentally. WASHINGTON.—Following brief services held here today, the body of Ethan Allen Hitchcock, secretary of the interior under Presi dents McKinley and Roosevelt, who died yesterday, was taken to St. Louis for burial. SORRENTO, Italy—it Is announced that the funeral of the fa mous novelist, F. Marion Crawford, who died at his villa in the vil lage af Saint Angello, will be held publicly under the auspices of the municipality, Crawford died last night, surrounded by his entire fam ily PHILADELPHIA.-President Lewls of the Miners’ union this aft seued a statement expressing regret that the anthracite op and miners’ representatives were unable to reach an agree nference held this week, ernoon orators ment at the ¢ WAGHINGTON.—Attorney General Wickersham today wired United States District Attorney Crossley at Fairbanks, Alaska, to secure affi davite from those persons who have preferred new charges against s00n as possibile | | | The elty treasurer also asked for) and, | pando, near which Hardison oweed while the question was not settled |@ ranch. the committee, | At 1 | | } | | | | THE SEATTLE STAR SEATTLE, WASH., INHUMAN AT THE F a us “lant TEAS a Baa FUMES SATURE) Y, APRIL 10, 1909. PRICE ONE CENT } THREE ARE INJURED | IN DISASTROUS | EXPLOSION Serious Mistake by Men | Inexperienced Cost Loss of Life (ity Velted Pree) JOUNSTOWN, Pa April 10.5 | Seven men are dead and three tie | jured, one probably fatally, as the of an explosion of dynamite | While company's mine et Rerwind, near here, late yesterday Inexperteneed miners placed overcharges of the high ome plosive in «ix holes in the rock and maid for thelr mistake with thelr j vou. | When the holes were dritied the sticks of dynamite In them, lit the fuses and retreated down the tune what they thought wae a Wher the dynamite exploded teh of the men were dazed by the con cussion and before they could re cover their senses the fumes caused by the explotten had closed ip around them and smothered seveg to death, Two of the three still living have a fighting chanee for recovery, but there ts little hope for thelr companion KILLED WELL-KNOWN MAN REPORTED | TO HAVE MET DEATH IN HI6 OWN AUTO, IN SALVATION ARMY | HIS LATEST AND BEST PHOTO GEN. WILLIAM BOOTH AT HIS DESK MEADQUARTERS IN LONDON. GRAPH. | LONDON, April 10-—“After spending 80 years in this world with | aimost counties opportunities for observing the purposes for which men ppointments they so commonly suffer, it that I should have formed some opinion to the churee they ought te follew if they are to have any real succe said | Gen, Bosth today. my eightieth birthday, on this eve of the resurrection tell the American people that if they will seek the he Ged, the reign of righteousness, the wel of the friendiess poor, | jand the riches that endure forever, with the eriticing avid | ity with which they seek the w * world, they will have @ good chance nor of LOB® ANGELES, April 10—A f finding that life of satisfaction which so telephone montage received. hore | Stier studes them, and ef building up « pattern nation for the world to thin afternoon indicates that W. L, | ‘tate. Hardison, vice py ident of the Co | @@atimeeze ETE = a OU Products company, for es * proprietor of the Los Angeles Herald, and « former ol) operator of Bradford, Pa. was killed In bie automobile today near Roscoe sta tion by a Southern Pectfic trata. Roscee station is near Ban Fer USTEN TO THE BIG BAY HORSE ] IN HIS PLEA FOR WATER TROUGHS J | His bome ts in Pasadena. | o'clock no word of the re More water troughs for horees thir randall i# dead right,” said one ported accident had been received | @iinmer—this is the very sensible | oid bay. “We work hard an et the ranch or at the home. wugatstion made by FB. B. Crandall, cetve only our keep. The city \@ Wauneter, today least should furnish plenty of water our uso during the day. That anc | “S watched 26 teams crowd about | for 1 « : ie water trough at Broadway and) Pike st. pull i# pretty tough, and| (Pike 1. yesterday,” said Crandall.) by the time we reach Broadway we | With the approach of warm weath ready for a long érink of er the dumb anlenais will surely euf-| water, Let your Humane society | fe@ Gniese provision is made to pro-|take up thie matter and do some-| (Ry Valted Pree.) [vide water troughs, and plenty ef thing us, We deserve it SAN FRANCISCO, Apri! 10.—~TY| them, aiong the much-used avenver the catehing of her hair ip a atiteD-| of travel,” Of course the old bay did not} ing machine of an overall Aad jodi to sound the. horses | *Pt#* Tieht out in piain Engiish, but} era where she works, Mise Gamseites upén Mr. Crandail’s wug-{'t Seomed to the reporter that he | ken wae completely seal; £0487. | géntion, a reporter of The Btar vient. | "Ult have SB spoken if he could] Even her eyebrows were tom onnlee {he teonad at Brosdway anid Pike} !V* tiked Ike his driver. #t, thie morning. Think It over. and her left ear la completely gone, It te eaid whe will recover. { SS ae te ch teks phe ee SUBSIDIZED STEAMER’ Py asi sy FROM MEXICO TO r ane 266,686.31 n Clearings tod: Balances 153,385.57 & * * * . * * * Tacoma, I & Clearings today * * * * * * - SEATTLE mexie ‘ertY, Mex, 10.—Indications today are that $ 695,693.00 «| 69,745.00 w| AROUSED Balance Portiand. % | included Don't forget to give the carrier your new address or tele phone The Star, Main 1060 or Ind, 441. The Star will be de livered to you no matter where you go THIS IS THE CHARGE M SIBLE WOMEN WHO HAVE BEEN I | Ask for the Privilege of G Commerce Committe Mistreatment and The women who for month conditions at the | tion are Mr A Follett, York Station Presbyterian ct At the cor pe f paralyze and @ he ges 5 incl and act poss c oth n this j and be k he I 1 as enough ¢ erved Chicken and ¢ o Failure to provide neces ev an utter disregard ATTLE IS NOW THE Al NEW MAIL DISTRICT « CREATED BY ORDER. Headquarters Will B Moved From San Fran- cisco to This City. (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, April 10— Postmaster General Hitchcock today signed an order making Seattic the headquarters of an additional division in the rail way mall service. The new district will be known as the the Montana and Idaho, tory of Alaska. With the exception. of Monta which was formerly @ part of th tenth, the new district has been thirteenth, and will include states of Washington, Oregon, and the terri |earved from the #ighth district The formation of the new dis | trict was authorized by the postal law approved March 1. Ite estab. lishment necessitates the appotht ment of an additional superinten dent and assistant superintendent Actual operation at the new head } quarters will begin July 1. Aside from making it possible to handle with greater facility the postal business of the states the new division will be thw ee R. yooe ATTACKS UPON THE GOVERN. # Clearings today. ..$1,181,442.00 | especially benefictal to Aleska i$ @ ine of run Ba 159,19 } With headquarters traneferre between Seattle, San Francisco MENT OFFICIALS WILL FOL. | jan 191.00 2 aieatdai, Heomtase te. deatas 4 and Pacific coast ports of Mex- LOW GOLDMAN TROUBLE. whe RH AA HH eH HHH) HiIl bo mach easier to meet the joo and Central America, whieh a leonstantly changing mail sched wes introduced in congress yee. (By United Pree) ules. tergay, es ae t+ ogee CHIGAGO, April 10.—An- ine will receive a subsidy rary ay threatened in this 95,000 per month. ite steamers ind attacks upon the ‘PIRATES LOOT A will carry Mexican mails free, aeornies officials with bomb, pnd will chip Wwo.neval sppren- dagger and pistol are predicted _ ees cach. by leading anarchists today, if the government's threat to de | port Emma Goldman is carried | out. j ; Dr. Son yore meoebenes, the FLAMES BREAK OUT ON ALAS | nner circle of the American branc | DIES of the “Redes,” and righthand man| “A CRAFT AND ONE MAN | of the anarchist que declared to BURNED TO DEATH. day that the deportation of Emma Willis W. Harner, the jafent 800} Geldman would mean retalfation | of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Harner, of | with vic | (By United 519 Dakota st. who was severely “Lam Mise Goldman's manager BAN FRANCIE AX 1 | burned while playing with @ bow) an@ her friend,” said Reitman. “1| Fire, which broke out on the steam fire Inst Thuraday afternoon, died | wnat to say that the temper of our| or ‘Tacoma early today sae at the family ne yesterday MOTD | Heople will not endure the outrage tas haath ae Asie hehe < ing, The funeral was held from |o¢ her deportation. Just as sure as , A the residence at 2 o'clock this aft-|i¢is attempted, there will be seflous | Pieved a» nd cook, and 4 ernoon. | troubl pe ed practically the ent tock (By United Press) aneso quarter, but in what manner MIDDLETOWN, N. Y., April 10.~- | is @ mystery Ferdinand Pinney Earle, whose “at-| aM PERISH ‘The Tacoma was t depart- | finity” wife recently sued him for today for A 1 and Bristel Bay divorce, haw left his home at Mon | carrying ” ¥ ngere, mostl roe, and his neighbors are wonder By United Prete.) Chinese and Japanese, It will be| ing where he is. It was reported, CLEVELAND, Obio, “April 10 noveral days before the steamer wil but not confirmed, that he had sail.| Wreckage bearing the name | be tn condition to leave ed for Burope to avold the further| “988,” picked up op the beach atg rvice of legal papers. Witlourhby 20. ttle . from here,)% # # ¥ WEEREERER KEY indicates tha er shing steamer | Today's Treasury Report of that namé was lost during the|* WEATHER FORECAST ‘ | WASHINGTON, April 10.-'The| severe gale which swept Lake Erie) * Showers tonight or Sunday; * treasury report today shows: Re | Wednesday, The little verse! car | # tight south to east winds *) coipts, $1,767,126; disbursements, | ried a crew of eight men, who are | ® * $2,200,000. | believed to have perished Panne a a a a a a a a ee SALVAGE BOAT While Coffee & Duffy, salvors of San Francisco, we on their way jto the sc of wreck of the British steamer Aeon, on the coast of Christmas island, to secure the salvage whic ey had bought at auction, looters boarded the Aeon and not only carrie off every bit of |malvage about the vessel but de etroyed the shiy elf. This is the strange news t comes .on the | British steamer angi wal h ar |rived yesterday in orig GRAND ‘ARMY _ MAN DEAD ty United Press.) ORTING. Wash, April, 10.—Wwil liam Miller, aged 81, @ member of Stevens Post A. R,, Seattle, and formerly of Barron, Wiseonsin, died at e Washington State Soldters home. He was the oldest of six brothers, all of whom served in the elvil war with him, Miller will be buried Sunday afternoon Will Open Bids. Bids for the construction of the three branch HMbraries at Green Lake, University and West Seattle will be opened next Tuesday at noon ARE YOU GOING TO MOVE? which are | ITY REIGNS POOR FARM ADE BY TWO RESPON. FOR MONTHS PAST , NVESTIGATING oing Before Chamber of e to Tell a Story of Abuse at the Farm. € ty « nen and pit, some otherq death utter lack of care for the sick hat bathing has been anc t impossit for the rrit f ndition d only be fed to hogs, and nof ther products of the farm dis being given to the inmates ary medical treatn: and in for the age and helplessnes« Louis Joned ty from the county. The ht to sell products from | With @ story of inhumanity toy wards gray-haired and decrepit old mer and women, a story so bow rible as to be almost inconceivable, Mre. A. A. Helper and Mra. C. @, Follett last night appealed to The star to get them a hearing before e Chamber of Commerce taxation nittee which has taken up the vestigation of conditions at the jcounty hospital and county poow | farm A few days after Christmas jyear, Mra. A. A. Helper of 3 | Rainier av., a Sunday school teach- =. in the Presbyterian church, de it ned to take her Sunday school | class out to the county poor farm, to visit with the inma! |», thetr lonely day es and chees Woman and the boys and «iris of the class armed themselves th flowers and baskets of fruit, and on a street car Ay afternoon not anticipate,” said Mrs, that these poverty-stricken re living on the fat of the land, but I did think that they were | being accorded half-ctvilized treat. jment. The actual facts were @ rev- elation of neglect and inhuman | treatment that made me fairly gasp with horror | Conditions Beyond Description. | “It would be impossible to seta ally describe the conditions we found. Upen entering the building, & ramshackle wooden structure, where the inmates w kept, I was most felled with the noxious odors, display of filth and general dirty appearance of everything. “We made our visit that first day and I was glad to get the boys ang |sirls away. I saw that there was an opportunity for a «reat work, And 1 spoke to Mrs. C. 8. Follett, of York station, who has helped {me since in relieving the dreadful conditions at the poor farm as far jas it was posstble. “There were thirty men and five women at the farm. They were un- kempt, dirty, filthy, only half clad and badly impoverisheg from lack of food “There were no accommodations for them, not a single rocking chair or lounge. The inmates had to sit down on wooden planks laid across empty boxes and ranged along the sides of a large tom. | No Medical Attention. | “Some were paralyzed, one wae | blind, and all were weak, feeble Land rapidly passing Into the grave, | For the sick people it seemed that | no medical attention was available, unless they could nerve themselves to walk the half-mile to the county hospital. The doctor from the late ter place presumably visited the farm. If such was a fact 1 did not learn it during the months that { visited the place “There was not a single change of underclothing for these people, the beds were so dirty and the sheets so filthy that the odor was almost unbearable, while the food was 60 soaity and Inferior that it hardly merits being called food of the men did not have sh many of them were abso- lutely without socks, and none had {handkerchlefs. These people could not go outside unless they walked in their bare feet Dies in Neglect One particularly pathetic case }was that & man named Smith, who wa ffering from rheuma- tism. This man died a week ago last Sunday. But when we visited him at the farm he was in psthetle shape, ragged a suf. fering untold He did not even have a ¢ est on, nor a lounge upon which lacd his pain-racked f upper room charge of the farm numbe f cush that were never used 1 that looked as if wad inter for display We wanted to di hing fou | (Continued en Page Seven.) aint sill