The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 28, 1909, Page 8

* EAS IN DARK DENS WHERE THE WOLVES OF CHINATOWN HATCH NEFARIOUS PLOTS MATS HOLD UP Tht WAN — EW YORK, June 28.—Necause at 7 guided young «trl Women Bandits rad Fred waa taurdered by har, slaat-ared over ub morbid minded are Shaw Into Alley and) crowding to Chinatown — these edented numbers MM o¢ nights in unpre Then Slash Him With a You oe t ming down nh anging to the ride ratly Knife: and’ Steal His) ine. eck wagons |'Lhey come on treet oa nd on Money, le me and w h, young ivla - - Jand little child drageing ‘ @icth ang /each other to the narrow streets ney between Sixth and|CAcH omer tO UN lor to gape it # and oa and Unt) wideeyed wonder at the quaint I who live balustrated buildings, the dark t av, was robbed and smelly tenemet and the A chop suey joint t ls a senwn é bed and beaten by (WO) tion for them when a — slinking female robbers early yesterday | Chinama or bareheaded woman morning | crosse Mott at Shaw was taken to tho city hos | Streets usually quiet now re ; . j satel ble Gn 1 from early evening until pital WETS TC WES Grae ht with the babble of mixed Gition was not serious, He recelv-licneues from Harlem, from Jer ed several wound J may be dis|sey Cit Paris, Canton fixured for i Chicago jamazoo When Bhaw was passing the| Chinatown ts at drawing A. Oe % to (Card than the theatres for the alley, he b rd won call te al visiting host at the hotels him,’ Thinking someone might be Senkune his Mie Seal seal in trouble, he went up to her, The fat pitifully in thi gue woman then grabbed him and he| soc of the metre found she was as powerful a8 an!” Chinatown life is an eae ordinary man sut but pres She ran her fingers through his! ¢, Sank SOG ta pockets, taking out the $25, whieh! pin) factor to be} she passed to another woman. | avait wither to Sank Bhaw tried to get his money back population When the woman drew a knife but it ia the from her dress and slashed him) ey sne headquarters of the across the face United States, It ers an area There have been several reports) of eight a in the very of negro women operating In the poart of the clty, five minutes’ residence districts of late, One Vie) watk from the city hall. laun- | tim was robbed of $120 4 fow nights | qeymen Maine to St. Louls} ago, Patrolman Nabors was &|inake re pilgrimages here costed by one of them and he ar |The exterior of the town ts bland rested her, She was fined $50. [and interesting, and somewhat trace of the women who rob-| fascinating to the curious mind bed Shaw was found after they jjixe q Chinaman's fac disappeared in the alley } Ite shabby brick la conce al |iniquities almost unbeliev Its | ound = tur to BOMB OUTRAGE [ : ants like the Port Ar mk where Elsie Sigel met the wolves that destroyed her. ow! courts the pher, so riminal and vicious seek out (My Unlted Pree) the Chinaman. In rear tenements CHICAGO, June %.—An explo} (one #uch house bas no windows) tion, supposed to have been caused /there are club drinking by dynamite, did great damage in| rooms, fan tan gambling joints and the business di ct here last night,jopium smoking dena where the injured two or three persons se Serely, and wrecked stores and win dows for a block near Clark and ‘ashington sts. The exact nature of the explo: is unknown beeause of the grea’ amount of debris thrown around the | | alley where It occurred. ‘The police | rooms. ion t think It another in the geries of gamblers’ war bombs that have} mystified detectives for more th two years, The seene of the explosion was in BY GILSON GARONER, an alley in the rear of the Central) WASHINGTON, D. C., June Telephone exchange. This exchange | Everyone in Washington, especial was unable to do any more busl-jly those who are watching the ness during the night. Two rea-|pure food law and the prohibition faurants facing on Clark st. were | crusade, Is wondering what Presi blown practically into the street,|dent Taft will do with the report food and dishes being scattered}on whinky adulterationa recently over the car tracks jmade by Sollettor General Bowers In this alley also was the rear en-|The report says that makers of trance to Powers’ and Lamberts’! bogus whisky can keep on making saloon, headquarters for Martin B.|it without labeling It anything but Madden and his associates in the | pure whisky. This has been the tutiding trades, leenter of a flerce fight for some Madden and hia men are tiguring | time, the legitimate whisky men, largely in labor disputes at present} who distill it and don't rectify or and have been the subject of grand | “blend” it, are insisting that imita Jury Indictments. tion whisky is condemned in the 28 THE INSTINCT TO “SMOKE.” A Chinese Baby Playing With an Opium Pipe. Chinaman as criminal and the late on even terme The d ravity in theee places ts wafit for th ‘ ) ot man or woman, aund un fit to be ribed. As Chuck Connors says, “It is an easy drift from the white light dis natown, for the wormar re.” Th triet to Chi who doesn't ¢ 6 has China town accumulated the dregs lowest social order The thieves and scoundrels come as If from to atinet There is one notorious club or PURE FOOD LAW MENAGED BY TART OTAND ON BAD WHISKY has been called to a decision June 4 by the court of appeals of the District of Columbia. Justice Van Oredetl in thin de upholds the Roosevelt-Honaparte Wiley classift cation of whisky “blends,” “com pounds” and “imitations The opinion of Solicitor Genera Bowers ia contrary to that of Jus thee Van Oradell, He finds a way in which the intention of congress can be misunderstood. He way also in which the eifoct pure food law can be set finds a f the and defeated, To Mr. Howers ment President Taft will bring the full force of hia wellkoown judicial raind. Another place opening Into the alley, which was badly damaged, was the cash register store of Mont Tennes, who ts alleged to conduct several gambling places, | Tennes’ place has been raided fre quently by the police, and another bomb was exploded there a year AKO. The police estimate the damage! at $100,000. One theory I that 60) electric installers who have been on a strike against the Chicago | Telephone company, which suf-| fered the greatest . damage, may have been behind the outrage, An- other theory Is that gamblers, whe have suffered loss through the co- operation of the telephone com- pany with the police, sought to re- taliate. Twenty-five thousand tel ephones were put out of service by the explosion. A number of girl operators were at work. Many of them fainted and ‘others ran fi from the butiding. HE SAW AN AD ABOUT HIMSELF; GOT RICH J08. STURM, PITTSBURG, June 28 Classi. fied advertising solicitors on Pitts pure food law. In considering the nullification State food commissioners of the pure food law the hands jthroughout the country believe of the ecutive branch of the |President Taft will sign the government, the public always opinion. must bear in mind that it was the | The food commissioner of Texas | makers of imitation whisky—the has wired the president “Texas will not follow the Bowers imitation whisky decision. This state stands by the Roosevelt Whiley federal court interpretation as they are called— under name of the National Whole. sale Whisky Dealers’ association, and which was represented in lof the pure food law. Colored epir ington by Head Lobbyist its cannot be sold In Texas as Warwick M. Hough—it was thi whisky.” | imerot whieh for 17 years, accord. Another official wrote ing to their own boastful state “In my judgment this dectalon| ments, prevented the passage of hreatens the enforcement of the | the pure food law, tire pure food law. It is not After the pure food law was merely & question as to the sale of passed the other interests chic fly imitation whisky as such. If the opposed to the law, namely, the federal government now reverses | patent medicine makers, laid! the rulings made by President/down. They changed thoir labels! Roosevelt, Atty, Gen. Bonaparte, jand obeyed the act One criminal | Judge Humphrey, Judge Thompson, | ¥ : prosecution was brought againet a Dr. Wiley, Associate Justice Van patent medicine maker, Robert Orsdell and others, the stat {fl Harper, of Washington. Mr. Har clals will find themselves in direct | per was fined for making a deadly antagonism to the federal author-| headache cure, which he marked as ities.” & harmless “brain food.” The attention of the president Uy worthy of note that no Only Two More Days To Buy Millinery At One Half The GREAT CONSOLIDATION SALE which has progress at the two Wonder Stores, 1420 Second and 1621 1524 Becond ay., ends at both stores Wednesday evening. The stock must be reduced to crowd two immense stocks into one store. Necessity compela the tremendous sacrifice Hut to make our loss your gain you must buy before Wednesday even ing, after which time we vacate the store at 1420 Second av Price been in av Every Trimmed Hat, Every Bunch of 1 Flowers at either store 2 Shapes of Every Description Reduced burg papers patted themselves on the back the other day when Jos. | Sturm, whom lawyera were looking | for all over the world, to give him| a fortune, walked into Mayor Magee's office I read about it in the papers,” sald Sturm, showing a clipping. Twenty years ago, in Bavaria, Bturm saved the life of an aunt of his, The aunt died a few weeks ago leaving $556,000 in money, a great} big farm and 8,000 sheep, She be-| a ed it all to Sturm, Lawyers started hunting him It was thought he bad lived in Pittsburg| at one time, The paid ad did the| reat 50 PER CENT WONDER MILLINERY CO, SALE ON AT BOTH STORES, 1681-1523 Second Av. 1420 Second Ay, | jeant at the present time, THE STAR ~MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1909 HSE OF ACC aT | | AT A BASEBALL NE | 1 Wi } (Dy United Pree) tr f (eam in ot | town and I th 7 ! g Pp ices st | SI ECIALS |! 1 fot, I ( ee a bur blood | ty ay hite and Ecru Nottingham Lace ol nh pe t ' | bog | Curtains, 69c Pair hen “| Usually Pri ed at 90¢ uf , tel T Auby ot these ec Oy at b , 1} - a yee © FUN 4 yards jong: b Fi | = 1 be : 3 : I ‘ I | Values by 15¢ a a Yard, Tomei t . ( | Mi ompr rising dora! ; Four | | = a % to 16¢ © tomor- | | DROWNS BEFORE WIFE {nue H | New Wash Goods TOP PHOTOGRAPH BHOWS ACTUAL OPIUM.SMOKING SCENE nen poi | Unusually Low Priced Tomorrow at IN A NEW YORK CHINESE DEN. BELOW, CHUCK CONNORS |, t i D ra) Exy AND TWO CHINAMEN DRINKING IN THE PORT ARTHUR, iio ogy wa i “> THE PLACE WHERE ELSIE SIGEL MET LEON, drinking On hich ta entered | years old, is eaponsible for the ‘ dark, covered a the writer has whom she ha ought ( Ld swoon an high ax 60 men, women and! town. It is onid of her that eb Ne of purcha i} if és little ated at the round te | a @ it he t noms to got ao | terds M E. ¢ f ” bles in t t midnight, drink | quainted with girls on the et ! 1 fe f Hope Brand Muslin Josie,” the girl for whom the| thelr fate eae Benes Te mS LB aaory) 7 ef Agee | Specially Priced Tomorrow at pole have been searching since ~ ged ne yh 3 ered th 1 That | 1,000 in of the well-known “Hope” Mustia; that he ¢ vald throw light oa i < mae able family of Long 1 ! ¥f rd ¢ ope é on wide and full bleached exceptional pte oon f¢ ina wn, wa 4 “The cae amines ; i ite . ; usling under YARD a thie aad ob saat tar ut oplum smoking. 7! s : nal / | with shifty eyes and thin, nervy ee eee ot ene wod by 1 H lips, and her manr myeter ps ge gaat pay ihe eat : : of 6 re and haunting. It te said that thin fe** pple ard. which | m4 ee ene oa ROBE : Tar. sich sla Mercerized Table Damask a Chir that the I f a or . . criminal prosecution has been a le fen 0 eh / ! An Extraordinary Tuesday Special at p brought against any whisky | en! This | ful ¢ s ne r vy quality, 60 inches wide; « ' mabe any rectifier, although the) The ’ fi nO OF WRLUr OS os et ’ ctive designs to select from, To f bien violating the law and fighting fm the d t, ma , @ arrange lo ¢ our the enforcement of the law naw Whites Ox uly a ge inet ny ec eye Since | . for rly tw re. drifta in, but he i the “Bu fast 1 tea < B ‘or nearly two years. schoo i P t a trip ! my SENDS LOBBY TO spe Several yours Share-bae, been eee ant yard. Cali fH | STANDARD und prices STATE CAPITAL » day meetings at their home DEVELOPMENT y scandal resulted from COMPANY, Another strong will urge ting In Brooklyn not long ago. 106 Cherry &t. (Ground Floor the Improvement of waterways in| « the Duwamish river sec at the state legislature this wee James Wison of Oxbow, leading factor in the fight for better water ways im the valley, will see that the bill calling for the improve taent te not pigeonhoted SHATTUCK WINNER OF THE BIG SHOOT CHICAGO. fee: 25—Fred Shat tuck, of Columbus, today won the anoual and American trap shoot ing handicap with John R. Living stone, Springfield, Ala, a clone nee The two men were ted at the conclusion of yesterday's event and the match today was to deter mine the championship, Shattuck broke twenty straight birds, Liviog stone getting # score of ninefeen straight before missing. Man Amuck With a Gun. QUINCY, Ill, Jane 28—George Gurney yesterday shot his father, Dr. Seneca Gurney 79 years, wounded his sisterin-Jaw Mrs. Seneca Gurney, jr, aged 37, and then killed himseit. CHANGE NAME OF BUILDING JOHNSTON CO, BUILDING NOW KNOWN AS EILERS MUSIC BUILDING, The seven-story Johnston Co. }vullding at Third and University, the home of the Pioneer Piano ; Dealers of the Northwest, will h Plumes, Ribbons and Trimmings all reduce d, A genuine clean ||| after be called the ny Ts Mus sweep of everything at unheardof prices, }) Butlding This ia done so as to conform with the new corporate name of the Johnston concern, which will here after be known as Eilers Muale House, A few desirable offices are va Apply to Mr. Graham on the premises for further information. and killed | Inviting China t BREMERTON PATTERNS The Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railway IS NOW OPEN AND PREPARED TO HANDLE ALL FREIGHT BUSINESS except perishable, on the same schedule time as other lines. Package cars from Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth LOADED THROUGH WITHOUT TRANSFER ee | For Rates or Other Information Apply to R. M. BOYD, Commercial Agent R. M. CALKINS, Traffic Manager 517 Second Avenue, White Building, Seattle, Wash, Seattle, Wash. or