The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 28, 1909, Page 1

pOLLECT SIXTEEN PAGES, PREMIU _ DODGE’ALL ” oe DRAL IN na Committee Has Made of Discrepancy: ——_ we " y the direction tommittes, 8 ver gitaire exist 10 the contrac’ collect a lAree men she f tim & ahead of time ee goaare! contractors, ded a contract by the clty the low service gervice revervotrs Lake. In these contracts that for each day complete its work contract date they | & premium of $60; yan overtime they ya penalty of Bou fate service & Jones, it i alleged days ahead of time. a premium of “oh public works Here. Thomson says this He explains to that Ide @| entitled to & prem- ouly en 100. mervioe reservoir it that Ide Were given an els montha any peoalty ying TP etere the th the audits tigation an of the city strange he at Ide &@ amount for com 5 oyu pee the even stock tn the company AMERICAN IMPROVEMENT _ COMPANY MUST SETTLE DIES WHEN 0. H, ALLEN MUST PRODUCE! $90,000 ACCORDING To COURT DECISION, All contract holders are to re | thelr money back and 6 per cent fnteorest or the title to thetr | lands, Just. aa they desire, is the! rating handed down by Judge Fra ter this morning th the sutt of Nelli |} Kelso against the American Im provement and Investment com pany, which haa been In the courts ever alnoe December, 1906, The defendant corporation ts given 90 days tn which to, make | the adjustment of all land con | tract judgments, claims, mort | @ages and taxes. It must pay « total of $74,194.26 to secure the property under suit from the hands | of the receiver and must, if the contract holders desire their money pay About $15,000 additional. This receiver's foes receiver's fees for Counsel 7,600, | The case against the American | Improvement and Investment com pany te one of the old cases that bas attracted much attention. | According to the decision given by Judge Albertson in the first rial, the company, which was a $10,600,000 land concern, wax found to be guilty af fraud, It was prov ed that the company could pot at any time give ® clear title to any | of ite lands. i In his deciston, Judge Albertson | j#tated that the company consisted of DH. Lee and two “dummy” trustees and that they had secured money from many sources, prin cipally by selling lands, bonds, and The land, which ie in the Lake Wash. ington district, has sever been celve roller Cat | platted. A receiver waa then ap- Mt several dix the committee, Investigation ry peculiar state of This? the board of public had certified & Jones wore fe immense premniam Teservotr ahead of y exeused iy on the other that the exten- ft fe vaid, will ite from collecting did We &) men at work | rush the work force, ex- ‘the $9,250 pre ‘ing, 49 bo) be excuse | seen at Whi @ penalty on the m Held Up. ty not demand- pointed. The decision today will probably drive Lee out of business, as the |Amount he must secure will be in neighborhood of $90,000. | SNEAKING — INTO U. S. ag jmiles north of Biaine, last night, }bat dodged the immigration Press) BELLINGHA + May 24—Four Russians, who had eluded the im | Migration authorities at Blaine, at the British Columbia boundary were captured at Custer. 16 miles Belt im, by Immigre- tor at 7 o'clock The foreigners wore ite Rock, B.C. three | Taat it. of- feers at the boundary town. There Were seven In the party, but three jand 1 can’t stand it ‘son, but let that alone. | HIS WIFE QUITS HIM HE SAYS HE CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT HER LOVE. Despondent é ‘Men Takes Carbolic Acid to End Troubles, Diytutng that Rehinbold Hagen locker, & sausage maker, 50 years old, was about to commit suicide James Dergetedt, a 1t-yearold news boy knocked a small glass full of carbolic acid from the man’s hand] only to receive a kick for his inter between First and Second ave. on Cherry st, last night Newsboy Tries to Prevent, ‘The newsboy then ran to find a police officer but during hin ab sence Hagenlocker drained the con | tents of a bottle containing carbolic | acid and staggered to Firet av, and Cherry st, where be fell. Hagen locker was carried to 4 drug store at the foot of Cherry st and later taken to the efty hoapttal, but he succumbed to the deadly poison be fore the ambulance reached the! municipal butiding The newaboy'’s hands were slight ly burned when be knocked the acid from Hagenlocker's grasp. The sul elde had been In Seattle but 4 sbort time. He worked a few days at the | Carstens Bros. packing plant as al saunige maker. Letter States Reason. The following letter found by Dr. | 1. B. Groene at the city hospital tn} Hagenlocker's pocket oxpiains tie | reasons for ending bis life “Beattlo, May 27. To whom it may concern: It is hard for A man to do anything like ference, in an alley 1 do now. I do this act for love and I can't live no longer. My wife, a lady respect ed in Portland, wants 4 separation Give my body to the doctors so my wife will have no expense tn Portland Have mercy, Her address te 331 Four teenth street, Portiand. | ama Ma le Not # Fool, “And if any man die for love like) the biame rest | eee the officers at Custer and 1 do, men, do not think he Is a fool startling condi- auditing com on the county road in |the direction of Bellingham. Sev- eral men started fo pureuit and | 1 can’t eat and f can't sleep, | can't work, all on account of my wife, no) there Is no use for me {6 live fn} te on | Immigration Inspector Hubbard, of thi# world, You will find out all & Jones. ‘Smith & Co. and ie Who have big con- | at the pres | Bmore thorough tn | Carroll, pores RE cominitice, Statement re contracts, and the city engineer, chairman of the ‘Goart for a rewing ing, and the PH of such legal took the case under who formerly B. Union st. claimed was the sole aur 5 her mother the ma be te her, and that FPR has the machine in her only borrowed it who lives ‘Bid ih the widow , Claims that her the machine And therefore, because M6 ler husband, the machine to her. E Machine Was purchased 10 Both claim that 1 isn't omy that endoars the to them, but the many Mes that mat surround it REW GUNPOWDER | a W ATCEN STOVE * |, May 2s evening, Mrs. Fred a ved What she #ipposed Of old tea tn the ft in the Gunpowder bat followe the ime fille t with We farnliure wreclod OWA G0 badly burned M00 breaet that it thet whe can re Carrying & 4-month arma ay the time child was but wi WH vooove: ‘" . at hus. for ae At Anw dew kitchen and = NOISE OF this city, left last night to in the seareh for the aliens, who! are gay os to be hiding in the; woods. A large number of foreign. | 4 ore have eluded the officers thi | spring and succeeded in entering | ‘the eo Tatted Crates, States. i aalet | BOWLING the matters, but I advise any mar ried man not to Interfere with others families. I don't have to be & hobo, so let this be a lesson to many others. My wife la Mre. Der tha Hageniocker. (Signed) “R. HAGENLOCKER.” Seema e | CANT AROUSE POLICEMAN Policemen are sound sleepers That ts a well known fact, but the attorneys in the care of P. ©. Trout man againet E. E. Still, proprietor of the bowling alley at 5130 Ballard v., brought an affidavit to court ‘his morning from a policeman, who swore that he could sleep even if his roome were over a bowling alley. Trovtman broveht sult because the bowling alley owned by the de phoma? Buen so much poise that bie wife, an old lady, could not sleep. Affidavits from the roomers) in the boarding house over the al ley were introduced this morning, | as evidence to the effect of rd alley on the nerves of those who! were exposed to the hoise of | game. All were annoyed by the al with the exception of the police of- | fleer Judge Main lasued an Injunetion | RUNAWAY BOY HAPPY NOW - who fol- Wenatehee, & train was one Jose Sparks, the hoy lowed the elreus from was thie morning put aboard and started for home, He of the happleat boys in the state, and he sang all the way down to the station, Jenne did not know why he away from home, but he jut did And he doesn’t want to try it main Not that he was not treated well at the Jatt, but they don't want the P ee RA whole ran STORM WARNING. The weather bureau has te med the following bulletin The southwest storm warn * ing ie displayed at all sound points, A moderate storm is approaching the Washington const, It will cause high south winds this afternoon and to- night, edad RANCH BRINGS $60,000. ELLENSBURG, May 28.—A real estate deal was closed here whereby | the Jacob Bower ranch of 2,078 acres was sold by Mr. Bower to) Henry Kielaberg, the hay aod grain dealer, the conmfdoration being 900,-| 000. The ranch Is located seven and & half miles northwest of A lonsburg. A water right wae | jaedee in the sale, Fe * * * * * * a * * * * * * * * * »* en jail to be an attractive and Jense did not find it wo. When Probation O/ficer Vincent pened the door this morning Do » go home, the boy Jumped for place r and waniil you want Jeane fairly Joy “Oh, 1 do want to 1 will never leave it ¢ sbbed in relief Joune’s fathor wired the money for hin and the boy home. n are thia morning. THE PEOPLE LOSE THIS SUIT | The supreme court this morn- ing decided in favor of the Washingten Dredging & Im- provement company in the osle- brated case against the state of Washington and 20 Geattle cit- inone. W. F. Hays, attorney for the Washington concern, was not in the olty thie afternoon, and could not seon for a ment. FRAUD CASES IN FALL. TULSA, Okla, May 28.—Judge| | Marshall returned to Galt Lake City | today and It is believed that the ‘town lot fraud oases, which the fed. eral grand jury has bee Investignt- | ing for several weeks, will not be called for trial before next fall, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, ALL READY ORAS AUTO RAL CARS AND DRIVERS IN) CONTEST ACROSS COUNTRY. Ten Cars Are Entered, and! Start Will Be Made | Sooty, 3P.M. (Ry Untied Prev) NEW YORK, y for Mayor McClellan to start the New York-to Seat tle, Alaska Yukon-Pacific expo sition auto race at 3 o'clock on the afternoon of June 1, from the city hall, coincident with the opening of the big fair at Seattle. The care and drivers were announced today, as follows: Two Forde—driven by Burt Scott and Frank Kullek, Acme—driven by Salseman. Welch—driven by Trewin, Zust—driven Sewk George Chartes by George in—driven by 8. 8. Mapes. There will also be two Stearns care, one Shawmut, and one Thomas, the n of the drivers were not known, The route will be via Albany, Syracuse, Buffalo, Cleveland, Toledo, Chicago and St. Louis. West of St. Louls no daily schedule has been arranged and the contestants will be at lowed to choose any of a dozen official routes between that city and Seattle, GO GERMANY COUNCIL MEMBERS NOT ONE BETTER WORRIED ABOUT CHARGE AMERICAN STEEL COMPANIES MAVE KAUPP PROCESS BEATEN A MILE. (Ry United Pree) PITTARURG, Pa, May 28.—That three American steel companies have evolved methods of hardening armor plate superior to the famous Krupp process, was made known to day when tho mystery attached to the visit to this etty today of Baron Von Rodenhausen of the Krupp tn |torests, was cleared For many years American manu facturers have pald the Krupp com- pany for the privilege of using {ts process, an annual royalty of more than a mililion dollars. For some itime the Carnegie, Midvale and \Nethiehem Interests have not paid this royalty, and the baron’s visit was made with the object of learn- ing the reason. The result of bis conferences with the officials of three com- panies was atartiing, He learned j that each company, within the ladt | yenr, has perfected a process that enabled it not only to equal the exoellont quality of the Krupp ar mor plate, but to manufacture ft at a coat of $120 a ton lens, The Americans announced thetr willing | ness to demonstrate to the baron that the patents of the Krupp com tee had net been infringed LOSES LEG SAVING LIFE (Hy United Press) FREMONT, Neb, May 28 Fremont youth, is tal here, and Deput Ait hae suffered the am putation of a v8 an the reeult struggle in which the tried to prevent Kent fror throwing bimeelf under the whe of a moving train, Kent had been adjudged Insane and wae being tak the state hospital at LAncodn. Prank | fying in} Shertft ent. & doaperate | deputy 10 ent STRIKERS TIE UP SHIPPING. (My United Prom.) PARIS, May 28.—The of the sallor#, stokors ahd stewards of the merchant marine I extending. The men demand a weekly of rest and equalisation of pay on pas- senger and freight boats, The tle up fe complete at Marsefiles, where 60 veanela are unable to move, and J at Havre, Dunkirk, Bt. | Nazaire, Toulon and Bordeaux, Tor- pedo boats are being employed for the conveyance of the mail to Al- gerin and Corsica. The compantes | concerned have asked the govern ment to lend them crews from war- ships to insure the movement of the matte, BUYING Be 2 a By, United Prom) PHILADELPHIA May 28.~1t! was reported here that & contract | for 105 locomotives had been placed with the Baldwin Locome | tive Works by the Harriman line This is the largest order placed | with the firm sinco the pantie of 1907, atrike day | daredevittry, |for probate today 7/000, and aggrexating $560,000, MAY 28, 1909, PAGES. ONE CENT SCORES OFFICIALS OF CITY FOR “ DU BIST VERUCKT,” KAISER SAD YAN, | AGREE, BUT MONEY. TALKS” —NEWEST CIRCUS DAREDEVIL May 28. Frenzlo | daredevil NEW YORK, the latest clreus Even New York blanches when he does his stunt with Buffalo Mit's show in Madison square warden, Frenato {a a German youth of 2% aleer Wilhelm knows about his | He told me ‘Du blat veruckt,' “| says Frensio proudly, “I know it's eraty and foolhardy, but $500 a bight He ehragged his shoulders much as to say, “How can | turn) it down" | Frengio climbs to the dome of Madison Square Garden and sud denly shoots down head first, He strikes on his chest and stomach Of & perpendicular slide. The nolse wounds tike kicking a horse In the! ribs. The slide gradually curves! until it points upward again. Into the alr he shoots, from his stomach over the edge, turna a som ult| right in his fall his brains would and lands on his feet be dashed out or his head broken It pute your heart in a clump to/off at the neck watch him, and several women It's too foolish to talk about ft," have fainted at the sight of thia|saya Frenzio, “I'm a fool and I human body dashing through space. | don't even give my right name, I If Prenzio didn't strike the slide| need the money; that's all FRENZIO, HOW FRENZIO NIGHTLY TEMPTS BROKEN NECK WITH WILD —EE Seer ALL ROGERS’ ‘SAILOR IS WEALTH TO ROBBED OF RELATIVES DIAMONDS WILL FILED FO FOR PRO. HIDES VALUABLES ON BATE TODAY IN THE U. S, CRUISER nweW YORK. MILWAUKEE ; Collects Money From Debt- Estate Estimated at Fifty rg sienna, ors and Then Loses Millions. It All. Diamonds valued at $1,000 and | more than $1,500 In gold and sliver | Were stolen from Philip T. Hopkins, | 4 sailor aboard the United States | cruiser Milwaukee at the Pug Sound navy yard at Bremerton By ig 5 night To the Seattle police today Hop kins stated that he would pay a reward of $600 for the apprehen: ion of the robber or robbers Hopkins for several years has been one of the many money lend era nboard battleships and crutsera The crew of the Milwankee were paid yesterday Hopkins ha made his collections from the sailors as usual of leay ing the cash and jewels with the paymaster, Hopkins secreted the cash and diamonds behind a bull head in a leather pouch. When Hopkins awoke yesterday morning he found the leather pouch miseing, He came to Seattle this rning and laid the facts before (By Vntted Pres.) NEW YORK, May 28.—The will of Henry disposing of his estate, estimated between $50. 000,000 and $75,000,000, waa filed With the ex ception of a bequest of $100,000 for a permanent echool fund for hia home town of Fairhaven, Maas the entire estate goes to relatives To the widow the will gives the Now York residence, the stables and automobiles, with a trust fund not to be below $2,500,000 nor above $3,000,000, created for the purpose of providing her with an annnlty of $106,000, At her death her property and funda revert the fesiduary eetate. Trust Funds Arranged. Trost funds ranging up to $200, are created for the benefit of relatives, traste are Rogers, Inate Benide me the $1 ed f 500 in cash, the ir nd rings valued at $200, a net with bloodstones and diay turquoise stick pin irrounded with diamonds r rood conduct medal which ns received while aboard the 8. Alabama USES MIRROR TO END LIFE Wy United Press) VICTORIA, B. C,, May 28 With two bullet holes through the head, the body of Richard Khelert was found in his bed at his lode: | tng house on Gladstone today man's right hand grasped a while the left held a mir The incomes from these to be paid to the beneficiaries dur tng lives, and upon thelr deatha the funds revert to the tute, After thelr uasy estate trumts for one « Masor thelr ew f nds, “a bequests, the resid ix divided into four the benefit of his four children. When each child be comes 40 years old, one-half of the principal of the trust ts to be turn ed over for disposal, but the other half ls to be held in trast until his or her death Bequests for Son. Henry H. Rog In, receives the home at Fairhaven, and the trastees are requested to make him president of the Virginia rallway The will aleo aske the trustees to make Urban Broughton, son-in-law | lof the Inte financter, chairman of the board of directors of that cor poration, ror. @ ‘LONE ROBBER GETS |The, discovery wa HUNDRED DOLLAR: Ehelert has realded inas, The police (ity United Press) | wae living under DENVER, Colo, May Kitteridge saloon, at Glenarm and 16th ats, the vory heart of the|from documents had been erased buainose district, was held up by al He had been on the lone-highwayman last night. He! waterworks construction oy the city fofeéd the barkeeper, who waa! but wae reticent as to his past life. alone Jn the place, to onter a tole-| ie appeared to be a man of refine hone closet and locked him in,| ment and education ‘he robber then rifled the cash| No motive for regiater of $100, | known, ay sue revolver made by the with) whom since Christ believe the man an assumed name destroyed and several signatures the suicide Is 28,—Tho | as all papers tn the room had been | | troduced to the Joketent. THIS DEATH SOME ONE TO BLAME FOR THIS CORONER WILL. HOLD INQUEST OVER BODY. | An Unknown Man Falls to His Death Near the City Hall. “There should be some pro- tection for the citizens ot Be attle who are compelled to travel along ‘Terrace st., where an unidentified man met his death fast night. Some means of protecting human life must be provided, Terrace st., at the point where this man met his déath, is a menace to human life, and it would seem that some of our clty offictais should explain why that par tloular part of the street is left In such a dangerous condition” —Statement of Coroner J. C, Snyder. In order to ascertain just wh Terrace st., near Fifth av., is in # condition dangerous to humah life, Coroner J. C. Snyder will, af 10:80 o'clock Monday morning, hot an inquest over the body of an uf» identified man who plunged to hin death last night. | In all probability Superintendent of Streets M. T. Maloney, City Bp. gineer R. H. Thomson and Super intendent of Buildings F. W. Grant will be subpoenaed to give testi mony The unidentified man who met j death last night was, in the opim lion of Coroner Snyder, either in- toxicated or lost his way as a stranger. The man plunged over a |retaining wall on the Terrace st | side of the muntetpa! building and |fell 25 feet to the cement pave ment. His skull was creshed and his left leg broken. He wi ken to the city hospital by Police haut feurs’ Dan Keane and Jack Weedin, | but was pronounced dead by Dr, J. ©. Crichton as soon as the hospital was renenedy) OCTOGENARIAN WEST SHOW IN NEW YORK, COMPLAINTS A ABOUT CONCRETE MADE, HOWEVER. Me jnot view tmbers of the clty council do with much apprehension e broad jaration of Supt | Youngs: lighting and water department, that there had not been | & foot of paving or concrete laid | in the city that came up to the | | ®pecifications of the city coun | 1 cannot think that there is| tractors are eating the city.” | WAS MORBID AND A HERMIT | stated Counel van Wardall today.| AND NEIGHBORS FEAR HE now that our concrete walks | have been declared by experts from | 18 A QUICIOR. }a Canadian city as the best they | found In any of the big cities of} What has become of “Old Man this country. If the concrete does | Lyons,” an octogenarian of South [no come up to the specifications, Park? je probably the case that the| F. H. Thompson, a neighbor, be- | specifications are a lide over the | lieves that Lyons, who is 80 y mark that should be fixed,” old, has done away with hi Thinks It Is Strange. and this morning he enlisted the statement seeme rather | aid of the police to locate the miss strange,” explained Counetlman | {ng man. Weaver, “but from my personal ob-| Lyons, whose first name is not servations | am led to belfeve that | known to residents of South Park, jconerete walks which have been lived the life of a hermit in a little laid in this city come up to gyery | shack javerage requirement, The walks| Once in @ long while the aged have stood the test of constant use | man would unbend and talk to his satisfactorily, so far as appears | neighbors. n the surface | Several years ago Lyons’ wife There ts evidence about the ad- died and ever since her demise he ministrative halls, however, which | has been acting in a strange man- tends to show that ‘Youngs was | ner. right, to @ certain extent, in his} Several times he told his nelgh- sweeping declaration | bors that he intended to do away It i# known that certain sections | With himself. Neighbors have been of the conerete laid for the paving |looking for bim since his disap Jof Bastlake ay, were highly unsat pearance yesterday morning. isfactory The declaration a as made openly that part of this con- crete was of such an inferior qual ity that-it could not stand = the test | Concrete Is Poor. Complaints have also been made at the cfty hall about the quality | of some of the concrete used in the improvement of Olympte place. It ts claimed that this concrete was | clent in several respects, 80] There is to be no sprinkling of much 80 a8 to give rise to objec-/iawns and gardens tonight. The lions from property owners water shortage {s still rather sert- The elty has experlenced almost | ous and until notice ts given in the constant trouble from a certain sec- | newspapers no water can be used j fon of the Cedar river pipe ne, in except for purely domestic pur whieh the te is alleged to | poses » been below the standard re-|” The supply in the reservoirs ta Principal Assistant City /about the same as yesterday. The Scott, now dec: ed, had | gain Wednesday night was only aix- ordered @ portion of this pipe taken teen inches. j ont before his death because it was A large number of people who } so inferior, but ie fs openly charged have been caught violating the rules prohibiting sprinkling have been fined $2 and It is estimated that within the past few days sev- eral hundred people have called at the water office and settled up for their fines, in order to avoid have ing their water supply cut off. that this inferior pipe was imme diately afterwards covered over while the Inspector was away else where on the job. The question that arises in the minds of several city officials is why the city ever paid for this part of the work, MANILA, May 28.—The trial of the native tribesmen who murdered Dr, William Jones, the noted an- thropologist of the Field Columbian museum of Chicago, in Isabella province, Luzon, last March, was concluded at Bayonbong today. ‘Three of the natives were sentenced to death “The conere SPECIAL STUNTS AT DINNER At the Press club dinner tonight in the Butler Annex in honor of L. W. Reddington, the newspaper cor- respondent with the Thomas path finding ral stunts | . will be characteristic of | HAMILTON TRIAL “TOMORROW, jall Press | OLYMPIA, May 28.—Ortis Ham. | The club members will /ilton, former adjutant general of } gather at and after being filled | the state national guard, will be ar with nutritious niceties, will be in-|raigned Saturday on the charge of embezziing money from the state, | | automobile pulled off olub affairs, j