The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 30, 1909, Page 1

T ONE LITTLE |TIFF MARKS HEARING il Hands Out Some Sarcasm to Mr. Howe ty to expectation, a nothing of unusual Ing of the In Judge afte y seeks Ww there Interest in foreclogure pro Main’s court yes which noon, by James foreclose a figured, the in a method Mr. Howe called the legal learning into ques of Mr fees an irish gentleman “| have practiced at the bar Great Britain for 20 years,” Mr. O'Neil, “and fee! 1 am perhaps just as cap as Mr. Howe. Of course, honor, you understand anyone who does nct with Mr. Howe, or who not Interpret the law as Howe interprets it, is of y deficient in legal ng. Trombull, attorney for James ¥. broke Into the ring just with Mr. Howe, while Mr held his position and landed the opportanity , the dignity of the court be. slightly ruffied, and al} ip invited to resume their seats, they did. Howe Resists. Howe, for the Mercantile In company, @ ion by Mr. Trumbull of the upon the Sullivan block, the for inct tenders had been made ‘Trumbull, acting for Mr.j , Of the amount due on the! that these tenders had | mortgage held by him the Sullivan block | the exception of a tilt in Charles P. O'Nell and James proceedings | al sort of a} andthe latter replied as be | fA moment and exebanged » biow | offered. | of | JEXTRA | te RRR” | the court q j postponed unt!! next Monday morn: « fter the formal | ing ‘when the arguments of counsel p neure proceedings | Stound that three separate | @eclined, and that, therefore, rage was now invalid Denworth, Iaw’ partner a testified to an agree ported to have been made Trumbull, for the purchase Later Mr. bull that Mr. Murray was to aceept the offer made, ony to the effect that in gold had been carried to nbull's office and tendered t of the mortgage obliga- d declined, was presented by Gleason Testifies n P. Gleason, president of jAmerican Savings & company, who holds pe as agent for Mr. Murray, that the only tenders made of the mortgage, and not for | fa on. ai any time the amount due ‘rum ball to that gave testimony | controversy between Mr. solicitor. Mr. Donworth | by Mr, O'Neil whom he ited at the time he wes ne- of the Mercantile Invest- company, and, after a ve he paus had never been able to) ie it quite clear in his own mind | they can Identity he represented. No Further Move. Mr. Donworth whs still on 4, Mr. O'Nell inquired of if Mr. Howe had aban. bis efforts for subrogation rt propounded the question . Howe, and Mr. Howe in. the court no further move pel subrogation would be Then it was that Mr. O'Neil the wrath of Mr. Howe. early part of the afternoon ings were devoted to W. F. Who, upon a contract with }Carrau, one of the claimants estate, claims an interest Mr. Hays appeared as one defendants in the fore- guit i) Mr. Howe called the at Of the court to the fact that SMsys had been enjotne Previously from clai any Pio or interest in the estate some delay, the court records W procured and the decree of rt read by Mr. Howe. Judges thereupon notified Mr. Haye phe must at once withdraw. To Disbar Hays, the clerk of Judge Main'’s away securing the rec the Hays matter, Corwin 8 Moved the court to cite Mr. eh canee why he should Gisborred for his falinre to the injun further participation in tel anid Bank &/ the | ; } | tion restraining | for the purchase or assign- | which greeted Joe Bowers and ty Mr. Gleason stated at Western av. and Spring st. had always been ready to ty after 12 o'clock this morning | given by Mr. | black gun in their direction a sec | and Mr. Howe arose from |of the day's receipts, amounting to! py chance, and finding him in an asked Mr. Donworth by | $48. for the purchase of the Hambty . which was before the or | notht ry |white maak fel! from the face of Mr. Donworth sald |one of the highwaymen. Bowers and | and was getting along | SIXTEEN PAGES NO. 5 LE, WASH., FRIDAY, APRIL, 30, 1 CHAIN GANG FOR THE SULLIVAN BLOCK CONTROL F*°RESINEN ilo Thy LAST EDITION THE SEATTLE STAR VOL, 11 SIXTEEN PAGES PRICE ONE CENT | | EXTRA | STORM KILLS SCORES GHT IS CONTINUED FOR EIGHT STATES SWEPT BY | TO HOLD UP VISITORS | Judge Gordon Hands Out we never days neo Stiff Penalties On the afternoon of Warren agreed to pay & Today the waterfront to 4236 Nee Judge Gordon immed voneed! a fitie of | Both Shea and Quilty of extorting money from C. E. Warren, a recent arrival from Los Ang Cal ae Se VICTORIA WANTS JAP | TRAINING SHIPS (By Ontted Frees) VICTORIA, BC April HEIR TO CHARLES P. O'NEIL, From a Sketch Made in the Distr ict Court Room by Artist Renfro. movement on om —x : eenincieenieaiinammmenaed tion In thin city on May 24. The | Japanese consul at Vancouver bas av. & and Jack-| intimated that it is pomaible that during the A.-¥ the arrangements m be made for alidating ticket | them to arrive bere on the Jd end HAS $200,000 TO His rn ratiroad a temporary At the conclusion of yesterday's proceedings, further hearing was structure at n at. tO be used xposition as a SALOON AND OCCUPANTS ROBBED BY TWO BANDITS GT. WESTERN SALOON re ABSTRACT CONSPIRACY [eather Broughton Brand. cording to & statement Brandeniurg today The fortune, it ie wal femnaat of the great Shepard Cabanne |. Th. SCENE OF BOLD when he becomes of age, Branden-| HOLDUP / ‘Nore received a letter from his wife » last night stating that Attorney » | per arcamy Mee St. Louis bas given hin,» ‘i emma Pan inion that her chances to secure Men Lined Up in Front of CARLTON 18 SEVERELY CROSS — Fotiowing an investigution by a Custody of her fon are bright be Bar and Forced to EXAMINED AT SESSION special committee, the board of pub: | . Mra. Cabanpetivandenburg will | ; ToD. Me works today decided to ¢o away |6° © Bt Louls next month to be|# Deliver as arg neneed cg sewalbad: AY | prosent at the divorce hearing, and © The conspiracy cane of the Title bn itn BA daria ata | ToL make. avery effort to regnin | © Trust people against the Tithe Guar.| ‘@ined on Firnt # A dump will omegeneg of the boy. It ie stated) « “Throw up your hands and line! antee company, which is being tried | Placed on the west side of 19th | bere that Attorney Jacob Meyer, re- # up againet the bar!” in Judge Gilliam’s court, will prob-|®* % W. which wilt increase the ltalsed by Brandenburg, may go to # This was the startiing command | ably go to the jury before night, al | "*4! @ distance of one mile. &. Loute to ald id the Mant. * though the cross examining of D. E.| ~ Carlton, the first of the defendants to stand trial on the charge of patrons of the Great Wentern saloc short- | frauding the Title Trust people wu Bowers and his companions, & mortgage, and when such | Hambly and D. G. Johnson, did not) court adjourned at noon today. was made to cancel the | stop to argue with the two masked The defense this morning spent waymen | considerable time attempting to iw: | While one of them pointed @ big) peach the testimony given by Kirk-| man. During the cross examination ond highwaymen went behind the | Carjton stated that on the night of} ber and emptied the cash register) January 6, 1908, he met Kirkman | One out of every ten persons ae Who dies in [Intoxicated condition, attempted to} Seattl A f tub loni Pi a — ny sours meee make him go home. This Kirkman | eattlc is a victim of tuberculosis. ie cee Oa! See vk ® | refused to do, and Carlton sald that | jqold watch and $8 in sliver, From) he at last took Kirkman to a room.| se gurl rte he obtained tt was while he was attempting to o , get him to bed that he found on While engaged in their work the the goor the data and pages which are part of the evidence, This data, ‘he told the jury, was in Kirkman’s Ten per cent of Seattle's deaths are from consumption. And the people have not yet awakened to the seriousness of the situation Consumption is not a spectacular plague, On his companions are positive that this particular srpebbinws piedlaly soy. of cer: | stomping over the land with startling fanfer. | doesn’t highwayman if they lay eyes on him ade, It never gets big headlines in the news ompany’s books, These pages, he cart his trunk ava one bundle 14th av, N tranecontinental Might of hin ate from Los April 22 hea $1 to! trom | Bhea testified thie morning that This yer of robbery must he wae pable to deliver the trunk cease in Geattio. | have toler ‘and bundle that night, and turned | ated the high-handed work of | them over to C. B. Conner, another i expressmen in this olty long expreasman Gan Wee ‘ek ae |the next day with the trunk and | bo ve he next expreseman | hundie and demanded $5 before he brought before me and convict would rélease them. } od of or wit corye | After % wrangle, Warren paid ays on the chain gang.”"—Po | over $4. ‘Them he had Conner and | lice Judge John @. Gordon, | Sie) Sve sted from the bench thie morning | Th hia practice is waid to be prev when H. Shea and C. 8. Con | sient along the waterfront, and Po ner, expressmen, were found Hately ae 00 in each case, ‘ouner gave | of appeal, and deposited $150 bonds | Chain gang punishment will be) ONeR for their appearance in Mic meted out to waterfront exprese | P" me who have been in the habit of “This high-handed robbery extorting money from patrons on| ust cease,” said Judge Gor. threats of confiscating their belong-| @2M% “@epeciatly as the A-Y-P. ings if the cash they demanded| e*pesttion le drawing near, It were not paid has been « regular thing for | these expresemen to gouge | Judge ts Determined. Wasir-aemomere, ond it me The ultimatem was served this| stop. The next expressman morning by Police Judge Joba B. who te brought before me, and Gordon, when H. Shea aad ©. B.| 1 feet certain he in guilty of waterfront @<pressmen,! extortion, | will sentence him ought to trial on complaint te serve 63 days on the chain Warren, who reached Be | gang.” STOLEN BOY IS A eee crutpers Ago and to the wordy dispute | k here on the way | the Sullivan estate litigation. The Special Ticket Office uver and take part im And the wartare | motion of Mr. Shank was denied by sbile works tode: annual Victoria day selegre LAO KIONAPEO FROM 8ST. LOUIS CRED 1'T WHEN OF AGE. | wil be heard. iffice. remain all the next day (ig Cnited Press.) um | SAN YPRANCIBCO, April 40 James Shepatd Cabanne iil, who played & conspicuous part in the jenburg, te} heir to @ fortune of $200,000, ac made by id. henler «# jtate, lett by the mother of James lad will i inte possession of the money notice | ie the) Claim that Reattle DEVASTATING CYCLONES =: WANT CITY TO ASSERT SEATTLE WANT PARK Company Owes It Promises Made. Land in the vicinity was * thin pr od int a par plate hot ity, the inst on ’ jahows the land “reserved | purpones.” It ix claimed t lof the pec who bought jan induceme Efforts t OWNERSHIP Improvement ahead at have beer janation owns the contend that thix signifies that the ompany is going to back out of its the property as Recent Decision Cited In a recent devise euprome urt held that where property has been reserved for park purpomes the efty park board has auth an sert tithe take. porsexsion. |RESIDENTS OF WEST) to Them On w-claim that the Wont Seattle Land & Improvement compan years ago platted pro for park | purposes to which It ts now attempt Jing to axsert ownershis sumat |will be asked to aanert title to be tween 20 and 40 acres of the meet valuable land in West Seattle. The property le worth, at the pres market value, between $200,060 beet scenic land in the West prove the land thus reserved — fe parks, The park board will prob ably be requested In t ta medinte future to amnert title to this] t Boattle land by virtue of thin e reason hurt our own gates; scandal eee reer ee ee BANK CLEARINGS, Beattie. Clearings today . .$1,687,832.11 Balances » 490,302.14 Tacoma, Clearings today $692,542 Balances 26,000 Portiand. Clearings today ++ $970,614 Balances « 180,809 ed ==. WHAT IS SEATTLE GOING TO DO WITH HER CONSUMPTIVES? Nothi this is that consumptio: Bubonic plague attached to our g, absolutely nothing. | And remember that ten per cent of our deaths are due to consumption ; ten per cent of our deaths are therefore premature; cent of the lives lost have beer: simply thrown away with criminal recklessness. for business With a bubonic ten per n does name, Wi ad ea A ted an he Dos List of Dead Will Reach Into the Hundreds, Towns are Utterly Wiped Off Map ‘South and Middle West Suffer Loss of Property That Will Run Into Many Millions of Dollars--Chicago Hit MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 30. — Twenty thousand persons were injured and a great many killed by a h swept the lower Mississippi valley last night, according to reports received here, late today. Scores of towns in Arkansas and Tennessee are reported to have been devastated by cyclones, and it is certain that the list of known dead will be greatly increased when more detailed repozis are received. AFTERNOON BURGLARS (By Untied Prem) CHICAGO, April 30.-—Two per sone are dead and 50 injured, some of them fatally, an a result of the storm which struck Chicago last night. Wires are down in every direction, and communication with the outside is intermittent damage Chicago and throughout Illinois and done in Immense was northern Indiana, Owing to the poor wire communication but mea gre details have been received. It} is feared that when the communt-| cation with the interior is re-estab-| som ae lished, the death Hat will be greatly| THEY MAKE CALLS AT increased Two boys, the sons of J. 8. By-| APARTMENTS AND ers of this city, were reported miss. tng today, snd police are searching RESIDENCES for them. It is feared they were pavetaneree ay killed during the ste Storm Freak | J. L. Jaffe, H. O. Price and The storm wa Pa Mrs. E. R. Keller Are nwept certain s¢ city and left others ur ty the Losers five houses were wrecked the a brad co others Ms r 8 Silverware and jewelry formed So eens ieht| the loot taken from the apartments ground af being struck by Nght) of 3 1. Jaffe and H. O. Price, at pa 11615 East Madiso At noon today the authorities ¢*} stemnoon betwe timated that the total loss tm one. Shite : tear 2 dane. ik cago resuiting from the storm would) of solid ware, a purse containing ainount to between one and t¥O| $19) q costly” diamond. brooch, am million dollars. v4 methyst stickpin and a silv Reports recetved here this after-| Sone” Ickpin and a silver dog noon state that a blizzard is raging Price's loss was almost as great. jn Wisconsin and Minnesota | Mre. E.R. Keller, of 1529 Boyl- | y aton av., reported to the police that | Cyclone Also Rages. |her-residence was entered yester- | MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 30.-—For| day afternoon. The thief stole a the sixth time in a year the cyclone} gold brooch and purple broad- belt of Tennessee, Missourl, Arkan-| cloth gown sas, Missiasippf and the adjacent states has been swept by a series ot! storms, leaving 40 persons dead, hundreds injured, six hamlets de-| stroyed and a property loss amount | ing to millions of dollars At Golden, Mo., four persons were | killed and at least 12 serionsly hurt. | Every building tn the town was lev —_—_—— eled by the storm, and the property| GRAFT PROSECUTOR MAY BE loss is immense. | FORCED TO RETIRE IN Reports from Horn Lake, Miss. | CALHOUN TRIAL. } the town has been razed | . land that four persons lost their lives, while a score were injured (Ry joa Prose.) Five persons were killed at| SAN FRANCISCO, “April 30.— Young's Crosaing, Tenn., and no es-| Special Prosecutor Francis J. Hen timate of the Injured bas been| ¢yY 15 believed to be on the verge made, The property loss ts very| Of 4 nervous collapse, For the last heavy, and will mount high into] Week he has been in poor health |the thousands of dollars and it is believed that the peratst- Saad ent worrying tactics of the defense Town Is Obliterated. lin the Calhoun trial have brought Medina, Tenn., reports two killed | '!™ We . condition where 'a break and a doren hurt, and Locke, Tenn.,| 2°¥® !* imminent. has been entirely obliterated by the| Heney asserts that his condition storm. No lives were lost is not serfous, and that he will pot Messages received here today retire from the case untill it goes state that a dozen buildings were | to the jury. demolished at Raleigh, Tenn. last| His frieads, however, are inclined night, and that the property loss is|to take his illness more seriously. heavy He is exceedingly nervous ané his At Henderson. appearance has changed noticeably were killed, and West Marion, in the past week It would occa- Tenn., three men Ark.,| again. Good descriptions were fur pra the police, | og revenge out of Kirkman’s pock-) papers, because it has been with us so long | other cities or countries would have no com- {84 W eaties each . port a ae ad. cam ithe ig ie ne were com- a 4 thoir| @t at this time. | : Ff Severe damage resulted at all three| pelled to take to his bed se S eekias ic evicent trem the Wandestord, who ie one of the|that it has ceased to be news mercial relations with us. ‘That's why the| places. ee) PSWhen proceedings in the case fact that @ police patrolman had bese: ampben eae % eng pg c ose Compare it with bubonic plague, What | $38,000 was so readily expended to exterminate ergs reports piaietis that it jhe resumed today, Hoey furned looked into th h but a few | because of his taking the records ip te. * ~ - " oa i , a ‘ " escaped the worst of the storm. the greater part of the work over to Winutes before. the highwaymen|Whioh wore secured by fraud from | terror lies in those two words—bubonic | rats. And it was worth the money. But the Another Town Destroyed. his assistant, John O'Gara, sitting entered. Both bandits appeared to - Title Trust wes Pov for - lague! What a seurrying to hygienic cover | silent, creeping consumption, noiselessly pick HARRISBURG, Hls., April 30. 34 {nv fees offering occasional on < e hinks | Wife to copy. This was done, he ' » | The town of Texas City, 10 miles) bits of advice be yard aad sail Bowers. thinks | Tie go that none of the records it is imminent! Boards of trade, cHam- | ing its victims here and there and quietly shov-|nevth of here, was completely de. eat he i City Detectives Nark Hubbard and abl age ayy - beg 5 of merce, boards of health, clubs, | ing them into the grave, does not prevent ships | rored and persons ware, kille oe ere detatied to in-| then tn the employ o! he ie 5 4 by last night's storm, according to pa od My akaey “i the Trust company unions, organizations of all charactets bind | from tying up at our wharves or put an unclean slivices received here today | bandits had made good their escape |themselves together with a panicky igstinct to | brand on our bales of goods One man was killed and 16 in-| eiecnlatliniisincesassiniene | | fiot f , | : 1 ‘ ured at Wasson when a boardiug} SEN. CHAMBERLA fight the fearful foe. Newspapers whisper | Commercially, then, it is a matter of indiffer ester ha’ amOnaesind: tear. ace tes ‘ 1 ; wrecked, but it cannot be lear ; , ae Jall things the outside world must not know | out of every ten deaths, so long as the deaths | RyecKed: Dut It Cantiok oe toast PRESIDENT | Ww AgHINGTON Apri Sen-|there is any danger at the very worst | are not needlessly obtruded on the public because of the poor wire service FLUSHING, L. |, April 30.— Jator George BE. Chamberlain of re oe TN > 4 | co the : , ak here today. A relief train has been| Capt. Peter C. Hains, on trial ob ayaa }Oregon was elected to a seat in this knowle Ige must be reduced to a mini- | Du ng 1908 consumption claimed 218 vic-| sont to Texas City to ald the per Sep tha feardas af Willen =. April 30.—Prest- | the committee on fadisn Caer lt mum. City councils declare an emergency | tims in Seattle sons injured and left homeless by} Annis, collapsed during today’s z eyed preps rh fre phe aa eee ercaney | and adequate appropriations are made, ship- > Imagine what consternation these figures ac eae 1; eens eee i sggro minatima to the senate 80 f ; a a : r ciate justice of the supreme court| on the committee, and Chamberlain | ping is watched, and a legion of men go crawl would cause if they told the tale of smallpox ST. LOUIS, Aprtl 80.-Reports| deputies. It is stated that he a Arizona, Ernest W wis, of Was chosen his successor Ties " ‘ s of vermin fonte } ~ 218 os ie ips ‘ adores . | this afternoon from Tennessee, Ar is suffering from a complete - one an nah nga te fs ling into the haunt vermin infested rats. But the 218 who died last year aré just @3|\incas and Misslesippl, indicate| nervous and mental dreak- rt of Mexico, Al-| | Oey pve dy fn ye op ey And yet bubonic plague danger is remote | dead as if they died of smallpox; their homes | that storms that swept those! down. His cheeke are sunken ‘ of Mexico, ana| from the Cooks’, Bartenders’, Walt-| Sa ati: pe cw eis oie piel? Bets a states last night and today caused| and his hollow eyes are circled Marrit C. Mecham, of New Mexico, |¢t® and Waitresses’ unions wii) and almost negligible in mparison with con are just as desolate; the sorrow in the hearts enormous property loas and it ap-| with deep black rings, suas Tae ey ae ee ~ rae hg Be ne | sumption, of those they left behind is just as poignant;| pears certain that the death list/ Early today Gen. Hains, father O'Firien of the Church of!annual convention which convene ; e will be greatly inc ‘1 father of the defendant, took the Lady of Good Help bas com-|there May § The party from Be Thirty-eight thousand dollars has been | and | It ie estimated that 20 persons | the stand for cross-examination, pleted arrangements for ey ss Pha yelary the ir ning 4 =‘ appropriated by the city council to exterminate They planted the germs that will take a/were killed in this section alone, | < = som esting entertainment at hie jarris, necro! o e Cooks, Rob is fe known to be Gand ‘oday’s Treasury Report. bernian bali tonight. An exellent |ert B. Hesketh, business agent of| rats on the theory that they are likely to trans- | greater number to the grave this year. ee ee ie tee or ts wd WASHINGTON, April 80.—The musical proaram wit be rendered | jl Oks, aren da Pasian eet some Oriental plague. WHAT IS SEATTLE GOING TO DO jin Desoto county, is reported to | enn a tonay shave m4 and carde and other amusements ‘ : ~“ OOTY ~~ nee | CUPS OST S47; disbursemen! will be enjoyed Goode ° Waiters, and Walter | What has been done for the plague within | ABOUT IT? Continued on Page 13 | $1,100,000, Todd, of the Bartender Ofte