The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 26, 1909, Page 1

ENTRY IS | GIVEN U.P. TO THE SOUND OVER THE N. P. TRACKS. ARRIMAN WILL USE BRIDGE ON COLUMBIA m if ‘I Indignation, maybe not the wild eyed kind, but none the lean deep rooted anger, reigna in the ny-Dlaine Park addition and other home bulidera tn the Madrona park nelahborhood. A.V j public ulllities and official cham plon the olty of all that ts | good for Seattle and her residents and taxpayers, is the of it all. Mr. Boulllon lives at the corner of 88th av, and East Howell at and he bas 4 new lawn on which the young and tender grass i# ap pearing as the hirsute growth aprouts on the old youth. He Has Hopes. And, like the youth hopes for a beard, Mr. Boullion }thinks maybe some day he will have @ real grass sward surround ing bis handsome new residence There are neighbors who also have sprouting lawns and fond |hopes of green patchos to visitors during the coming summer | but a® this neighborhood, extend jing back from the shores of Lake Washington in the Madrona park distriet, is composed of citizens who are a@ bit proud of their civic righteousness, they have all with the exception of Mr. Boulllon, heard and heeded this request aye, demand, of the city water de partment to stop the use of city water for sprinkling purposes until the reservoirs can be replenished. Heed the Warning. The head of almost every house |hold in the Madrona park district , jas did those in other sections of Double Track, few SS fom me _ “ t Inge ies y the city water de pecitic will begin | po io and discussed and honest gue Gouble tracking Its/iy considered what a terrible ul fan haodi® the} calamity would befall the ety ot three companies, | Seattle should they go ahead an¢ the Northern Pacific use water as usual, and wen when hereafter will be Biads of business by Companies and will be first-class, double for all the toteresta be and Puget sound between Hill and Tt fe believed in Wall iy, will end the legal battle ee the Union Pacific and the fie over the rate ques the Portiand gate f for cause who has 1 Magnates Bury the Hatchet in the ‘ Northwest. (My Vatted Press) YORK, May 26.—J. Kraut sit director of operations of the Hines, today officially that arrangements have through which the the Northern Pacific “pad the Great Northern ratlronds Bave. to “bury the hatchet Ske Northwest and use jointly be ‘over the Columbia river to the Northern Pacific line me Sonth Tacoma and Vancou DIES AT ALLOTTED AGE OF MAN Joon H. Epler, 72 years old, @ retired marine engineer, died of eBronic heart trouble at the city howpital last night, Epler came to Beattie several weeks ago from Portland, Ore. and was aomitted to the hospital, Bverything possible was done make easy the off man's last days there will be no 4 “unnecessary or com-jon car g” where agree. le leaves a son, Fred Epler, own- ib ~~ Bg & bank at Sherwood, a n < oftics county, thir state, who was today ein tated ite |advieed of the death of his father. ‘Rot be there until |The aged man's father and mother, in Europe. both mage than © years of age, are in Wall st, that the | stilt alive, and reside in Penneyt- ‘will finance the|vania, The body wil! be held at the ‘of the Northern Pa. | undertaking establishment of But- the necessity for|terworth & Bons pending advices from his son at Sherwood, DENIED CITY WINS CA ly commissioners this| ‘The jury, in the case of Austa to grant lMquor! K. Meacham and Edgar J, Meacham H. Bilis, of Hot! against the elty of Seattie and Gusiay Holst, of the Sprager Concrete company for was recently ar-| $1,000 damages for personal injury, Nquor on Sunday. ! gave the verdict to defendants eireles the move {ty ae having great sg * Together, it means the big re ting together In close AIL WOMAN wi CREA eRe ARR RR RRR EES _ PRESS CLUB DINNER FRIDAY EVENING, Beattie Preas club will give a dinner next Friday fa honor of L. W. Redington and hie associates of the ding expedition from New York to Seattle. The be held at the Butler Annex, on Marion st, at al ock, and a charge of $1.50 per plate will be made to Seb members. No notices will be sent to members of the ‘And seats will be provided only for those who notify Sec EB. A. Friend, Main 1060 or Ind, 441, before noon on hes seeeeeeeae BRR RHR AP SAILORS PUT IT ALL OVER AMERICAN SAILORS the second round, RK. O, Higgins of the California defeated M. Turner of the same ship in four rounds. The jiu Jiten and Japanese feno- ing matches were unusually inter. esting. GOLD BRAID AT TACOMA (By ©) Press.) TACOMA, May 26.—Admiral Ifieh! of the Japanese squadron and Admiral Sebree of the United | States Pacific fleet, and thelr offi cers, were last night given public and formal welcome to the city In a great reception at the Tacoma hotel. Gov, Hay and staff in full uniform, Mayor Linck and the peo- ple generally of Tacoma to the number of thousands, attended the reception and gave greetings to the city's guests. | The marine band from the Wash- ington furnished muste for the evening. The reception was suffi clontly formal to be attractive, but not so much so as to be tiresome. There was a general spirit of good Wonaid knocked out H.| feeling, and the event was cosmo Bed won the Tennensee polltan in every detail Bip the wecond round. | California knocked Of the Washington in | vfficors. CONTEST IN WHICH NATIONS APPEARED WON BY FOREIGNERS. (By United Press.) TACOMA, May 26—Tacoma’s| Visitors put it ti over) i satlors in the boat! Om the bay yesterday after Contest in which both Were represented was won Both the Aso and Stews came in ahead of the} in the 12-oar open event, | the Aso boys took the first the Boya third in the 120ar aor riainment wa: 4 to over tnd furnish 1,000 visitors from the and American warships Mother 1,000 Tacomans at the Tast night in the big ath SMlertainment of the sailors boxing matches rewuited in two week ind a third decision. Be they were strenuous trom the California won the relay And the big cup. The floor B89 Slippery that after the mon Way things were going Of thelr shoes and ran HY This? SOSA AAR BAAS AAP AA RAM eS nds of residents of the Den-} | Roultlon, superintendent of face of a Téyoar | / show) SON OF NONAGENARIAN TH AN INSAN ‘Tonight a banquet will be given) by eitizens in honor of the visiting immediately called and took posses-|@d that they will give the railroad TEN PAGES ‘ Ordinary Taxpayers Indignant Over Use of Water by A. V. Bouillon, City Official \\ 4g.2¢ 7& ( Bjiiseiine = ¥ ln big fire broke out discover that there Was no water with which to fight the flames They considered it #0 sincerely | that they oy ulily refrained from aprinkling thelr lawns, They all did this, and no but @ true suburbanite can appre clate the sacrifice It entailed. Theo the word spread that A. V Bouillon, official keeper and ex pounder of all things good and righteous at the city hall, was sprinkling his lawn Indignation reigned It reigned and grew with the | night, so that the man at the tele phone tn The Star office today was kept busy trying to answer question: They Want to Know Why “Why ie it the elty’s superin Htendont of public utilities fs given the epecial license to sprinkle his lawn when the ordinary taxpa: ene has not only been requested to re frain from doing #o, but ts threat ened with arrest and a fine if he dares sprinkle just one little sprinkle at any time, day or nigh until more water Is brought Into the city? As yet ft comains unanswered. ra! | TN eee eater eeee * WEATHER FORECAST. * Rain tonight and Thursday; # ® moderate south winds, * PORE EEE EER EER EES TO SETTLE THE GROOVE RAIL CONTROVERSY The question of compelling the Seattle Kiectrie com: grooved 6 State of the “T" rails now In service on streets where there ls heavy traffic, will be settled by the report of a committee which ts to meet and report to the board of public works on Saturday morning at 10 o'clock * * BIG REWARD FO FIEND’S ARREST ¢ Pree) Los Anges May 26.-—That the search for the fiendish aasaft it of little Anna Poltera may not) fing, the board of supervisors to day offered a reward of $1,000 for the capture of the murderer. This brings the total reward offered from all sources up to $1,750. Search for the childslayer con- ‘tinued yeeterday and today without |the unearthing of an sddittonal clew, [SRST BATTLES E MAN MAN WINS, AND HE THEN KILLS HIM- SELF. Charles Faulk, a carpenter rensid- ing at hin father’s home, li2é W 59th at, Batiard, shot himeerlf in the forehead with a big 45 Colts revolver shortly after 6 o'clock yesterday, and fell dead at his sister's foot. The man had heen despondent and | worrying over the death of hie baby | enita, and the fnet that his wife had |gone insane as & consequence, He |had also had troubles In connection with property which he owned at Toth at. which he tried to dispose jof, but to which he could not giv ja clear title on account of his wite's | condition, Struggle Begins. Yesterday he came he Pp. m and went vp stairs, and hie sister, Mra, M. Boyle, who feared trouble, followed him. He begged her to go away and leave him, and upon het refusal to dese he came down statra to the kitehen. Here he pulled out his big revolver and made ae though to place It to his head. And then began the struggle of lite and death. Mra. Royle, who is but a frafi woman, wrested the gun from , the Insensate man, and he In bis turn wnatched it back from her, Once more the plucky woman returned to about 6 the life fight, and once more she got | porresston of the gun. This time she ran with it to the kitchen door, but could not escape that way owing to ‘furniture which #he herself had piled againat It in fear of burglars. Ghe Tries to Escape. She darted back towards the front of the house, but waa obliged to pass Faulk on her way ax he watched the gun from her, and placing the muzrle to hin fore- head, fired, In an instant he was dead at the horrified woman's feet, The bullet pasred out at the back of the head, and was found on the floor, Deputy Coroner Engemann was | elon of the body, this | my to Imetall | ‘This was fatal,’ Mn SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1909. PLAN FOR THE CARE OF SICK ESTABLISHING CAMP, | |County Will Furnish the! Grounds for the Consumptives, hat | homes for from con is now an assured thing The nucleus of the fund was se | cured Monday nlaht, when the lead ing cafes and grills down town gave | 10 per cent of their dinner receipts to start this fund. Like a snowball, it will grow |because the hearts of fre with the movement be no stopping it Whon the total of the benefit of! Take your dinner down town night ined yerterday, | there was Joy in the camp of the! workers In the cause. Has Been Working Hard. The Anti-Tuberculosta League of King county bas been working! }heart and coul to secure ground} jfor & camp and to have the means! |to care for the sufferers when they | did secure the ground. Yesterday they got nde and the money * the league ie jubilant One hundred and fifty-seven dol |lare and pinetyseven cents for the ;camp that le to be started tum | diately. This was the amount ra jed by the consumptive benefit din ner. A splendid sum and it will mean many times that amount In dd comfort | thowe who are red for by the Antt Tuberculosis League of King county, Added to this is other fands held by the feague. Caring for Patients. The league is caring for eight) pationts at this time and can now care for others, The patients are beiny cared for in tents. One of the \onts is located on Broadway, three In the Kastlake av. district and two in Georgetown, The antituberculosis }Will mean eare and |many of the sufferers | sumption fund | and the people there will | both the No wou i iy | camp. Yesterday the county com lution to the vexlng problem of what Seattle ie to do wil sumptives, The question rained by ‘The Star has been hard to down. The commissioners will loan enough land on the county hospital grounds to erect tents to care for those who need care at this time, But it wae suggested yesterday by the commissioners that the care of the consumptives was a matter of A bill along that line is now be ing prepared and will come ap be | fore the special eession of the legis |lature if one ts held. Seattle te proud of the fact that for a olty of her size she has fewer consumptives than any other city, but she is also proud of her gem erons hearted men and women, and the has reason to be, for whon they are needed In the cause of suffer. ing humanity, they respond with time, strength and money. The call wae made Monday night, and they were not found wanting. ‘The result was twofold and they can be doubly happy now. SENATOR IS ELECTED IN ILLINOIS SPRINGFIELD, lil, May 26, —William Lorimer of Chicago, member of the national house of representatives and prom. inent for years tn Chicago politics, wi oted §=United Btates senator today. FALLS AND IS KILLED Frank Oleson, a laborer, fell from a trestle at the foot of Marion at. shortly before noon today and sus. tained internal Injuries from which he died at 10 o'clock this afternoon | at Providence hospital. The injured man was at work on the trestle when he slipped and fell, alighting on his back. Oleson was 40 years old and single. He) had been stopping at the New Bng- land hotel for several weeks. OLE HANSON BUYS LAND Ole Hanson and Charles Deifel, } local real estate men, today com- | pleted the purchase, of 23,820 acres | of logged-off land in Mason county, The consideration is sald to have beon close to a third of a miNion | dollars The deal in the largest in the his. tory of Mason county and one of the | largest on record In the state, The Hand, which {# situated between Shelton and Summit, will be out jinto 20-nere tracts. It Hes on th jsurveyed Hine of the Northern Pa ‘offic and the owners have announo- 4 rightofway without dpy cost, |GOOD START MADE IN|; | Younger daughters, fre: husband. Then she saw he was TEN PAGES MURDERS HER FATHER AS HE SLEEPS IN H —T ; | GREWSOME CRIME IS COMMITTED BY A CRAZY GIRL. inet down . whore tears would lo ie. Mother «' mine, O uid make me whale, Mother o mine, O mother o' mine! (My United Press.) AUL, Minn, May Above the grewsomeness of a ter rible murder in 8t, Paul shines the wonder of a mother's love. Mra. Louls ened at do’ Arbogast was awai ok in the morning | by the erten of her beautiful daugh: | ter Louise, who fe 24 yearn old Arising, he met Loulee and two who had also been aroused in the haliway “Something is the matter with Papa. Something te the matter with the gas,” sobbed Louise Mra. Arbogast rushed to the room where her husband slept. Husband's Bed on Fire. The room was filled with emoke from 4 charring Name on her hus band's bed. The mother rushed to the bed and fought the flames with * hands, calling meanwhile to by Loutse’s moans, bleed. beameared and that blood covered the bed, pillows and sheets. Turning to the moaning Louise she caw that the girl's silken night. Gown was soaked in blood. “Louise?” shrieked the mother in! @ terrible question. “Yeu. | did it,” sald Louise. The girl, who was engaged to be married to Henry bg on propery selon of a well-to-do St, Paul family had only recently returned to her home from a sanitarium, where she had boon treated for a nervous all it, tho mother suddenly realized that her daughter was insane. The mother love, in the midst of all the horror, rose to meet the ter rible occasion Bloody Ax Hidden. She rushed into the cellar with blood-covered ax; behind her the Now about the ground for the} wont her two daughters, fearful of scorched. the terrible soene above, Behind talseloners offered a temporary 60} them came the blood-bespattered, | mother called the police beautiful Louise, moaning. her com-| Then, the ax being hidden, the when they arrived. BOUILLON MAKES A REJOINDER ANSWERS THOMSON IN A STATEMENT TODAY. Superintendent of Public Utilities Gives His Yesterday City Engineer Thom- son, in bis capacity as chalrman of the board of public works, noti- fied A, V. Bouillon in the open meeting that if he continued his tactics In objecting to the exten sions of street contracts reported | upon favorably by the engineering department, he would lose the con fidence and respect of not only the | éther members of the board of pub: Ho works, but also of the public. | Today Mr. Bouillon makes the fol-| lowing public statement touching | thie incident: “Tf fatlure or inability to be sub-| gervient to arbitrary rulings and ef forta to see the city’s business transactions Initiated and carried | out on & fair, equitable and busi noasiike basis and if to raise ob- jections to any procedure in con flict with the above make one a caviler, then I am guilty under the accusation of Chairman Thom gon of the board of public works, and if to Insist upon common sense, fairness and equity tn the transac tion of business with the city Is to} doprive a member of the influence on the board of public work, and the public of fairness and impar tality in the actions of that body thon my advice to the peoplo of Seattle would be to proclaim the chairman of the board dictator, Jeave to him the selection of his staff, abolish all other offices and take thelr chances. fe | DICK JOHNSO DEAD (By United Press.) CINCINNAT May 26—N. 8. (Diek) John: for 18 years asko- ciated with the United States inter- yal revenue service, but who for sook the government to purchase a string of race horses, committed sul olde in Keyport, Ky. yesterday Jotmeon had become a familiar fg- ure the eastern turf, large bathroom aa IS BED | | 8 LOUISE ARBOGAST, — ae =< the matter with Something's the matter with the gas,” she over, So the mother and. sisters did not add to her story. The mother was ao {ll the police took her to the hospital, together with the moaning Louise. For three days the police were on the case, but the mother did not confess ber daughter's crime until the police had thelr own minda. Poor girl! Don't hurt he pleaded The police arrested the girl, but grewsome procession went Into the It was, perhaps, the most terrible bit of houseclean ing that women's hands have ever done, Unaceustomed as they were to doing housework, the mother and the two sane sisters washed clothes with desperation. They performed the terrible tank of taking the bloodsoaked sheets from beneath the body; they cleared the stains from the carpet; they washed the blood, as beat they could, from | Loutse’s nightgown, The mother's jnightgown, which had been burned in the fire, was destroyed. ) ‘Bomething’s papa she All this terrible task the mother) it ie not probable that she will be! performed with her hands literally | prosecuted. Now she only smiles and talke pleasantly with the sher- iff, who is a friend of the family, | It is feared that the young man quiet she was to have married In June | Will lose his reason, Then, after this was done, the Loulse would not keep DISCOVERS THAT HI MARRIAGE /S VOID The divorce proceedings of Mary |spouse with the three children of A. Prothero against Charles A, |that marriage. Prothero instituted Prothero, which have been before |!¥oree proceedings but fafled to Judge Gilliam, came to an abrupt make the legal publications. When the case came up before termination this morning when it|man the pretng wan water iene was found that the divorce granted | default decree, the judge not being Frothero from a former wife had not |@Ware that the proper notices had been & legal one, [Rot been posted, ~ rothero was married In Septem-| After finding that the for ‘ber, 1890, to Rebeoea Prothero. After | riage was ane in sore tines i living with him over ten years Re: | liam dropped the ease from the becca skipped out, Jeaving her | calendar, aa sa WATER SITU BETTER BUT IS moaned over and| worked it out in} ONE CENT HE BUYS "DRINK: DIES |JOE MAHONEY TAKES | HIS LAST NAP UN. DER CAR. ‘TRAINMEN MOVE CAR DURING THE NIGHT | His Mangled Body Picked Up in the Railroad Yards. After having spent his Inst cent for liquor, Joe Mahoney, a resident of Colfax, this state, went to deep under 4 boxear near the Columbia & Puget Sound depot jest night. This morning bis mangled body was found. The body had been dragged fully half @ block, and was {rightfully torn and crushed. Mat Kiley, John McNaughton and Charles Benton, members of the Northern Pacific switching crew, stated to Deputy Coroner William Borthwick that they moved the train of cars under which Mahoney had been sleeping at 3 o'clock this morning. As it was dark at that hour fn the morning, the switching crew falled to see Mahoney. The train- |men heard no ontery, and the dep uty coroner believes that Mahoney | was killed as he lay asleep. From papers found in his cloth ing It was learned that Mahoney had been employed on @ ranch near Colt It is thought that Mahoney spent his last penny for liquor and then crawled under the box ear for shelter, He was about 50 years jold. Deputy Coroner Borthwick will make efforts to locate Ma- honey's relatives. JOSEPH BURNS A Joseph Burns of 222 Columbia st disappeared from bis home last Fri- day, and since that time his wife has not seen nor heard from him, When he left home Friday Burns told bis wife that he would return in time for dinner, Mrs, Burns hag enlisted the ald of the police in an effort to locate her missing spouse, KNOCKED DOWN BY STREET CAR While attempting to cross in front ot an cag tog street car at 11th ay. an it nion st, yesterday afternoon, Fred Mix, of 1100 Bast Unton st, was knocked down and severely Injured. At the Seattle General hospital it was learned that Mix sustained two broken ribs and @ fractured collar bone. ed ION SOME SERIOUS THERE IS STILL NEED FOR CARE IN ITS USE. Water from Lake Washington | was turned Into the city mains. at| an early hour this morning to re lieve the present acute shortage following the repairs which put the Cedar river plpe line out of com mission last Sunday, Two pumps are being worked at the old Lake Washington reservoir. This lake water will not be used north of Madison st, During the night the supply of water In the Lincoln low service reservoir gained six feet and the reserve supply was increased from 19,000,000 gallons to 21,000,000 gal jonas. (Ay United Prews.) HUTCHINSON, Kan, May 26.—-True to the prinolples of unionism, even at the risk of losing a chance to be a hus- band, Coleman C. Clinton Is the | ¢ynosure of all eyes here today because of his refusal to accept jage tic hat did not bear the union label. Clinton is now married all right, but he did not let the ceremony pro- ceed until he was certain that it was going to be a union wedding. In other words, he induced the authorities to find a certificate that showed it had been turned out by union printers, Clinton's home js in Portland, Or, and he is a notype operator, Recently he No Gain at Volunteer, The supply in the high service reservolr at Volunteer park did not show any material gain The Lake Washington water will be used until the reservoir supply LINOTYPE OPERATOR REFUSED TO BE MARRIED UNLESS LICENSE BORE UNION LABEL—HE GOT IT. came to Hutchinson to wed Miss Ethel Johnson. Probate Judge Jordon, who had just received |fresh lot of new marriage certifi. cates, handed one of them to Cline ton when the latter called for the necessary paper. The Portland man examined it closely and tossed it back, “No unfon label on that,” declare ed Clinton indignantly. “No wed j ding bells for me with a nonunion marriage certificate figuring in the deal.” All hands in the court house got busy and finally an old certifjcate | with the printers’ unton label on it | was found, So the marriage cere mony was performed yesterday, al- though for a while it “ppeared as if iit would be delayed, = = has been worked up to 30,000,000 gallons, 80 that the city will be protected with an amply ‘supply of water, not only for domestic use. but to fight fire in case of a con flagration There has been constleradle | criticism of the water department | because It allowed the repairs on the pipe line to drag along until the approach of warm weather, rather than make the changes dur {ing the rainy months, when there was no big drain on the water supply Repairs Not Anticipated. The fact is,” declared Youngs today, “that we could not Jantietpate this repair work, and it was absolutely out of the question to have the changes made = any sooner.” Supt. Youngs that he be Neves the water supply will be back jto normal reserve by tomorrow |night, In the meantime the use |of hose or water for sprinkling pur poses ts absolutely prohibited, and anyone found violating this rule will be arrested and fined, + ta ye: * BANK CLEARINGS, Seattle, Clearings today . .$3,052,812,59 Balances . 627,589.68 Tacoma, Clearings today .. Balances ++ $885,080 38,052 * * * * * * * Portland. *® Clearings today *® Balances * RRR MEER EER TAFT ISSUES A HOLIDAY ORDER (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, May Presi- dent Taft today ed an executive order directing that when national ¥ * * * * * * * * * * * * * Supt says 26 | holidays fell on Sunday, all govern- ment employes entitled to a holiday should be granted leave on the Mon- day following. SN ELD FOR ASSAULT | | R. Trimmons of 87th and | Wallingford ay., who was arrested yesterday by Deputy Sheriff Zim- jmerman on the charge of assault jand battery and threatening to kia his wife, was given his preliminary hearing this morning and placed on a bond of $2,000. A coincidence in the arrest of Trimmons is the fact that about a year ago, in Salem, Ore., Trimmons’ brother assaulted and killed hie wife and tried to commit suicide, |He was recently hanged for his jerime, Trimmons a few days ago tried to kill his wife but was not suc cessful, |