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

NO, 110 TEN PAGES itl WOMEN SHAKE B OF SUFFRAGE | | e insulted, Refuses to | . Elimination of Humphries From e for U. S. Senate. June im the b of the «t righ! =~ EXPOSITION 1S =~ NOW MAKING c= 11 ON WM HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON, of the National Board. MI8S LAURA CLAY, of the National Board. — MAING LAW UIT, PUTS AN END TO U Accounts Show a 1 Net Prof- Fred H. Peterson Takes it to the A.-Y.-P. Com-| Poison in His Refresh- pany of $66,000 During ment Booth at the A.- the First Month. Y.-P. Exposition. ato ed ty i « state of 1 The money One month after accounts of the profit of $46,000, ACY P Despondent because of a threat ened law suit, Fred H. Peterson, proprietor of the New York caf bear the entrance of the exposition srounds, ended hin life ing @ quantity of ¢ alum last night The body was found by John Cas tro, the cook, when entered a rear room in the cafe this morning Peterson intimated to friends fay that he was tired of the battle of life and that his business was steadily groWing worse Coroner J. © Snyder, who loves tigated the suicide, learned that Po terson leaves a widow in Masse obusetts. Before ending hin life Peterson wrote @ letter to bis J i another to J. A. Johnson, of 4 Hrooklyn av. from whom he rented the cafe bullding Peter son's bank account shows a deposit of $170 The suicide requested Johnson to assume charge of the cafe and to toake arrangements for the funeral |The body was taken to the under taking establishment of Butter | worth & Sons. exposition is making! his fel Thatentd 1 eracking & it Stand. the senate this @ ap indication amendment will Which will be a tment to the polit Benator Piles, who ly anxions that Rave 4 chance to bench and hie tn Be senate Just now) the Bol suspicion, there Those who assert Takguage of the mew bis the opening the fair show a net the total receipts for the month beine approximately $220,000, while the ranning ex penses have been $164,000. The total attendance, when thé fair closes tonight, will have been 670 000 for the month, The percentage of complimentary passes is about per cent. Hence the pald ad missions exceed 475,000 of 50 or cents each. . “The month's showing wald Ptesident Chilberg, “indicates that we will have one of the most finan cially successful expositions ever hold. The Portland fair ofters the beat comparisdn, and that expos! tion in itx first month had an at tendance of 287,000. Of course our running expenses are nearly twice as creat, being about 000 a day.) while Portland cost ¢ 0. “The attendance has passed the figures estimated In advance, and | am inclined to raise my preexpo- | P resolution of the sition forecast from three million Federated Im. (to four million. The crucial month | referred to |! past, and our success will in not known | efeaee from now on. hy financial fe at work to keop *howing for the mor h ought to be court. At |increaned by about $20,000 when the Was changed (| Mat rate concessions are checked eas POLICEMAN {S t Was not “but it was be | A petition signed by fifteen bust ” nen of First av. 8, wae pre E "special interests IMRS, J. F. WILSON sHows ” jsented to Mayor Miller this morn Ar IN NERVE IN STARTING FIGHT [fo oni rn the diecharme uf Pa | | to maintain contro! WITH BURGLAR. trolman William Donnelly. Accompanying the petition was a jletter written by 8. M. Feldman, of 207 First ay. 8., calling the mayor's attention to several cases which he Out—House Steps for a Probing. by swallow yanide of potas he that even Mr predicament thle afternoon | Interests” The nervy prowler who attempt ed to break Into the residence of Mrs. J. PF, Wilson, at Ravenna park last night, was given a hot recep tion when the pincky woman fired five shots point blank at the to trader, He seampered away to the underbrish, and Mra. Wilson believes that some of the shots took effect. Mre. some thinks warrant Donnellys dis , charge The petition alleges gross brutal ity and persecution of Feldman and it further states that the pa trolman has viciously treated sev eral individuals without cause, who were unfortunate enough to ~fall| into bis power | The mayor has taken the matter under advisement if Wilson was friends when stealthy footsteps on poreh. She her and suddenly opened the door prowler seemed he tarned opened fire COMPLAINT 15. MADE NGMINGT AAILADADS i United Pree) SHINGTON June 30 ” athingly denouncing alleged rail Y With the deter road @iserimination against Utah Wely that al! a ee in favor of San Francisco and him have to er cities of the Pacific coast, m When he was , complaint was filed with the inter MOMmissioner ay state commerce commiasion to of Bam |i h. by the traffic bureau of the Com tary of state ercial club of Salt Lake City Morning too The complaint charges a dozen {0 inwure @ thor. | railroad corporations of exercising 5 of all th ate |throngh vast corpor power, a RB COMMtive brow nictow influence merciless Whe the a chting and destructive to the peo MM addition + and development of a country Topriated avers the conditions In the lature, ( are striking exan the inves inequality and injustice WAS taken jn he commercial relations of the ‘the howe mix) with the and with ” MIT Hen! Lo t ent led. The t tomorrow Miditiona| « ba been ro oy 7 preside dy Proceed ft, how iy ait in th tivan ta! CaN the baw pomit! entertaining whe heard the rear revolver | were oe DARE NEARLY COSTS A WOMAN HER LIFE = flee, Mra. Wilson (ty t HOLINAS, Cal A me cussion arising over the harrowing ence of Stanley Franklin, the young artist who narrowly oscaped death in the treacherous, Fee. oe Baturd remulted ye wager betw Neilte Seanad mine pretty daughter of W. N. Adams, | a ploneer resident of this elty, and a girl friend, that almost cost Miss Adame ber life The tide in the channel was un-| usually low and Mino Adams wager ed with her friend that she could | wade across, About haif way be tween the shores she suddenly sank from sight. Coming to the surface she stroggied vainly against the « tide that swept her toward sea A fisherman chored near the hurried to the reseue the unconscious young woman to the sho She was resuscitated after an hour's herole work, WELFORD BEATON IS NOW MUCH BETTER Welford Beaton, chief of publicity of the A-Y-P. B., who Je fl with jtyphold fever at the Minor hospital, has passed the crisis of the disease | and is now In the convalescent stage, It ls not expected, however, [that he will be able to return to ol hte duties before August 1, secured Service.) —The tm Against State In ir Schively will Among ti B that of perjur committed county grand al WOE committed aft: Of the fast wens and while § Insurance it is a ma Sand this ¢ ¢ ate ir whose boat waa an mouth of the bay and brought jon state f the 4, east RRR Hh WEATHER FORECAST. Falr tonight and Thursday; # ght eat winds * © * » * * ~ ~eeeeee ” ENE see ate 1S NOW A SUBSTATION. ‘ Seattle postoffice officially } over the Youngstown we and J. W. Harris was bolnted clerk In charge. way | aoctaliat EI DITION | = ONES SKELETON | Fight in State Organization| Is Taken Before the Na-| tional Board at Secret Meeting Held Today. With in the ment as the Amertoan spoctatora tate of Wa & merry war be.ore Suffrage board the Hotel Lit The national leaders nent yellow host prominent women suffragiat move the auffragiats hington waged the N pal locked room oln thie morning with prom! arrived on the and thin the clowet in & ir workers vat state pecial | morning the mke of the Washington Association wa the bones shake rd night Equal gotten out before the nation al bo Great Secrecy Great secrecy was attempted in bringing to a head thie fight whieh for mouths bas stirred the state lorganization, The “Insurgents,” led jby Edith de L. Jarnaith, asked the | national board to consider protests }againat the manner in which the state organization Ie being con ducted The meeting was called a!) doors looked, and the fight w on, With Miss Jarmuth leading the fray for the insurgents and Mra Emma De Voe Smith, state pre dent, handling the case for those in power Mra. Leonia W. Browne, of the Green Lake club, ts said to have been excluded from the executive meeting this morning Are Fighting Hard. The entire morning wae occupied the disputing parties, Hoth are fighting every inch of the The contest has been ex by aide: groun tended into the meeting this after! hoon The Both factions will die game Insurgent” branch of the Bufffage party in this state have bitterly opposed the short session called by President Mra. DeVoe, and claim that it is but a move to pre vent any attempt to change the per sonnel of t state board This question was taken up by the state board, who may see to it that the convention this afternoon te adjourned and called again after the national convention completes its work Another Question Another question which widened the breach two factions is the question of the number composing « quorum of the executive committee. The opposing | members want at least seven to! constitute authority to handle the affaire of the league. The present number is three, one of whom in the president These matters were placed befor the national board al the executive session this morning. has The session this afternoon at the | | Plymouth church, according to Dr, | Eaton, Is to be an executive session also, and whether there will be an election of officers or not Dr. Baton could not say Ready For Convention. A reception will be given at the LAncoin hotel thie evenihg, to the delegates of the tion and their friends The #let annual jthe N. A. W. 8 A. will open tomor jrow morning. The session will be ‘executive, the firet formal meeting |being in the afternoon at | Plymouth ehureh A short talk by the president, Rey. Anna H. Shaw, Carrie Chap man Catt, Kate M beth J. Hanser, and other promin ent sulfragiets, will be esting features of seaslon Gov. Hay Will Talk. ‘The president's annual address will be given tomorrow evening at the welcome meeting, to be held at the Plymouth choreh. Governor Hay and Mayor Miller will extend the welcome of the elty and state to the visiting women. the afternoon ee i ee eed P4 La * * * * * * * ’ BANK CLEARINGS, Seattio. Clearings today, $1,894,123.40 # Balances 408,123.40 + « C learinge lances * Tacoma today. .$ 888,107.00 68,069.00 Portland. today . .$1,021,06 161,686 | ® Clearings ® Balances * ET oe MAYOR OF GHIGAGD SUBJECT OF ATTAGK BY THE SOCIALISTS, (By United Pres) CHICAGO, June M0.—Threata of another per#onal attack May imilar to that published loaue of the Daily jocal organ of the party, caused a represen: tative of the mayor today to re quest the postal authorities to bar the paper from the mails. Busse! was finyed bitterly by the paper yesterday, The issue also prom. ised a renewal of the attack today The matter will receive the inves igation of the postal authorities. wpon Huse torday’s the or in Soclaliet WANTS NAMES OF VISITORS, Mr. Same! Hill, president of the Washington Good Roads assocta thon, requgita that visitors from the states of California, Missouri, Ne vada, Pennsylvania, Utah and Ari zona who are now In the elty and expect to remain here during the next 10 days, should mall him thelr names and addresses to his office, 843 Central building between the) national associa | | convention of the | Gordon, Bitea- | the Inter) SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1909, SHALL SE | Suffrage | and | KN. Woon. | footed hettlement Worker WOULDN'T THIS HAPPEN HERE? Here's a tine example of what lendid thing it Is for all the |] uplifting interests lv a city to |] WOrk together: Thirty men in tardated In the Boston-1915 plan. gathered Bunday ning, May 2, at the Boston City club, to talk about the welfare of boys It developed and was confesned in open meeting that there Were nen present who bad been working half their lives fom the same end, who w totally wniamiliar with the tabs of one another's cam phigu, and who were learning for the first time that th Were other men in the elty who were desperately inter ented in the very same thing far which they were giving tigie and ton. So many of thope’ present were so delight ed by the discovery that he himeeclf was not working alone that the dinner waa one of the brightest and happiest that Howton has ever neen This is only one instance of how Boston, since finding it self, ts able to look back and '} Iauwh at ite former clomeay \] ladleroun, jerky efforts to help iteett. MEN TY Labor NEW CLUS WN ELSIE SIGE MURDER ChGE ‘Latest Theory Implicates! Chinese Secret Orders and Situation Is Now More Complicated. | (Ry United Pree) | NEW YORK, June 30. | den activity of the officers de tallied in the search for Leon Ling, supposed slayer of Elsie Sige!, was learned today to be due to the betief that six Chi- nese are implicated in the ofime, four actually participat ing and two others acting as ac complices. Several of those Chinese are sup | posed to be In hiding in New Jer wey, And this theory is thought to explain the fact that 40 detectives were sent among the Oriental quar ters in that state yorterday Although the police refuse to dis cunt thelr latest theory, it is thought they have learned that the girl beenme too familiar with the workings of some of the Chinese secret societies, This would pro vide @ motive for her assassination by the larger number of Orientals thaB at firnt believed to be impli cated | Rumore that an expreseman gave the police thelr Information are dis credited here. It i# considered most likely that nome of the clever Chi | Danen detectives have ferreted out the new clue through thelr hold on residents of the section of & ie elty to which they ar FIFTEEN YEARS OW PARKHURST | —_on FORMER BANK OFFICIAL SEN TENCED TO SERVE LONG TERM IN PRISON | R.F Parkhurst, former assista cashier of the First National of Seattle, convicted of the cation of the bank books to. cove a shortage of $60,000, was this af ternoon sentenced to 15 years’ im prisonment and fined $100 and the coats Of prosecution by Judge Har ford in the federal éourt Parkhurst's attorneys |plea that he be confined King. county jall pending Appea lof the case, ‘This was denied by | Judge Hanford, and Parkhurst wiil be taken to (ue federal prison with in a few days Parkhurst 15 counts ut hank falaifi made a in th a ! was found guilty on SETTLE DAMAGE SUIT. The Northern Paelfic Ra'iway company yesterday settled out of eourt the case brought agalnet It iby J, C. Potter for $6,000 damages jby the payment of $1,500 BOSTON TEN ATTLE BE BORN HAS BEGUN PAGES ABKATLAME Header TWENTY MOTTOES FOR SEATTLE UNDER THE BOSTON UPLIFT PLAN 1. Expert aécounting To understand To have the best public he body Careful accounting of hu ROUTCOR q Better relations between cit Extend pre and Introduce Study the of Washing whale Orgat Ae Leading srORKOW Meretant HEUNARD o resident Chambe nor of city finar waste and losner alth ‘ nierpr strive 6 nit “ and ainte to better it a fystem of public education intelligent sysien perfect See ure Map & physical Katablish neighborhood cen Regt of tec Establieh perfect public Hibr knowledge by free pict t the publi plan for school be “ of transportat course tures in enters man and free enters branche le Inere res cture me musie in if "i rals is 19 20 apactiated workers fitted to do tt Labor for a pension w Find oot what each him according! Alleviate and preven’ Aboliwh tenement districts and Furnish small, clean homes fo SCHOTT DIES SOYA WINS IND WOMEN CONTEST FOR DISFIGURED. MOTOR BOAT Coroner Will Hold No In- ‘Seattle Boat Tal Takes First quest Over Body of Man, Money in the Race From Killed in the Big Auto-| Vancouver to Seattle— mobile Smashup. The Sunset Is Second. y in life a t poverty onsumption The Soya, Mill company tained by Ed Ames, of 8 crossed the finish of the g ce of 225 miles from V vu ver to Seattle at 10:53 this morning Her time for the race was 24 hours and 53 minutes, leaving Vancouver at 10 ck yesterday morning The Sunset, of Seattle, owned by H. Huss and captained by Starrett, finished second at ty, Just 28 minttes behind the owned by { the Puget Je, and cap Coroner J. C. Snyder this morning decided that an in quest over the body of Cart Schott was unne “wit nesses state that Schott was driving the car at a high rate of speed,” said the coroner to- day. he witnesses are equal ly positive that the freight cars carried the proper lights. It is a Gad case, but every indication places the blame on ochott's shoulders.” aitle at mo Fr H +a] winner The ¢ tained Nome. nan, owned and hy Mrs. James Wood finished third, at 11 The fourth boat to reach Seattle was the Alia It broke down off Ballard and was towed {n to town. The boat yet fininhe race was t the ausp e Pacific I tional Power Boat association. The first ize, & handsome cup, was offered by T. F. Day, of New York Allanbee Unlucky. for the break gines when but snk cap of Death stalked in this and claimed th morning first vietim of the mad automobile rife of a party of seven, along the Georgetown road early Tuesday morning Carl H. Sehott, the driver of the wrecked machine, died at 4 o'clock Uie morning. He never re gained consciousness. He failed to rally after the operation yesterday and died without giving a statement of what caused the terrible acel-| dent | Two of the other have The of th a Had it ing down women tn the} not been auto at the time it crashed head-on into the string of freight cars atja few miles from the finish line « the siding at Van Asselt are still} Weat Seattle, the Allanbee. in « critical condition. land operated by President Me( Hattie Webster, who atarted out/nan, of the P. M. BL A on the ride of pleasure, pretty and |tered from Vancouver gay. will prob be disfigured for couver- Seattle race. life. One of her companions, Grace | tedly have won Thompson, will the scars of! The Allanbe the cuts on her until herjof 3 ho and doath | the The other young woman who left] miles of dance hall for the ride, in from nd many days in a state Her are badl three of her ten and regis in the Van hand with a 4h minutes cident but point on the last and led the face was of the a Alki Tacoma tos son the auto Soya will hyaste shattered The three men sertously injured are doing nicely today but all were badly shaken up as a result of the experience of nerve: inexplicable went man wrong with who were half of the smashed | signal entire lower of distress and was towed fn Woman Gete Place SEATTLE THE TALKED |r nw, ete won ABOUT METROPOLIS {ssn a" mar athe las but says tha yugh it ve the which won thi Ir and home we ident of Trust com last night | eraft ‘ ert trip to New! Fou ht by and othe tern cities. ty and forced that the heat back shelte d that he is James D. Hoge Union Savit returned A thre FM the pany f tary om York Ls Ife say wae awfh be back | In m Seattle city 80 there glad put to Met fence | t within h or » favoraly did n this tri jorning, “The ed in the Rast lots of travel ont Ky money {s and ous about aa Mr. Hoge t is ver ul and there here ti nd August thing in th nM good Th torm ea ever thing now croy point me: and tn the Williams, seer of the Poultry thia afte of lareer um of Yakey's court, The jury two hours, and returned verdict of gullt willl ney have y notlee and the motion will be | day Ary Produ A Vnion gullty th POSTPONE MURDER TRIAL The trial of che ed with the murder of his brot and sister-inlaw, was postponed b Judge Mitchell Gilliam this morn Ing untl) Septe upon the intro duetion of fan's affidavit that the trial at this Ume would en danger the life of Fortier's wife. Jean Fortier y by embe in was ont with the mbe tt n mt would undoubt- | ONE CE AGAIN? LIFE ANEW One City Is Doing a Won- derful Thing in Trying to Make Itself Better for the Rich and Poor Alike. doing a wonderful ig to make itself it's effort is an every American he Boston plan must be cities. The e@ Star desires to Seattle could follow what re staff Boston t Boston plan from the standpoint of one city. The Editor of app know b Bo sults. respo we n’s plan and with Therefore, a cor dent was sent te write the BY W. G. SHEPHERD. June 20 ton thene You He days Beattie out what Is the Seattle has i thing, more hax gone & king one vast, puiltogether effort to right # it can succeed. Can it? which means all of in every walk of life {s success that it in uake an exhibition or it as all other like Topsy, as grown, * Krow fashion, grown the wf it world over,” says Ed- head of the Boston moveme have in the past grown ungule it @ change has come ! Cites are being yw same way, Citles the wa A. Filene Who Can Be Architect? the thing in Boston u is this planning architect of a city? the architect, that Who Who for instance, th ld be of Beatt on alone; not ex not park- 8; not millionaires; Y but the people. And the wonderful thing In Bos ton have found the way in whieh a he people can work to gether ney are going to work desperately for the next six years, and fn 1915 they are going to In- vite the people of the country to Boston. They are going to exhibit ther their elty government, thelr mayor, their factories, their wharves, their parks, their homes for laboring men, their city indebt- edness, thetr business houses, their schoole—thelr whole city in its every aspect Tolle ers elty the Backbone, first thing that Boston dis- ed in preparing for the com- exhibition of itself ts that the bone of the elty is not its business vats, but Ite tollers. The first thing to do in Boston —-they ail admit it, bankers, heads of public service corporations, manufacturers, all of the men who are commonly called “the kid glove element”—is to give the toiler plenty of wages, so that he will be happy and hopeful and heve a chance to save and to keep hie family happy and healthy and give his children a sensible educa- ion On the committee of 15 men, who known as directors of “Boston will find Henry Abra- secretary of the Boston Labor union, and Arthur M, Huddell, vice presideat of the International Union of Steam Engineers, and Richard C. M. D., & blue blood, who is In service here, and Louis D. who Is an arbitrator be- tween labor and capital, and Robt. N. Woods, who is head of the Southend house, Thus one-third of the committee represents the ele- ment of the toller, ar 1915," you hams. Cabot social Bran of Make Toiler Happy. have gone pretty deeply susiness of trying to make happy. They're working toller of the future—the in school. And, by the another sign of Bos- that one of its first should be directed towards vis which are the basis of our civilization? The Boston-1915 committee le helping to establish a system whereby every schoolboy shall be studied for the purpose of discov- ering what he is best fitted to do in Ie Bos the toiler and his family a square deal, wants to rout out the t ts and give every his own home, In h this you will find example of how much for a city when eve mcether Tear Down Tenements. k a man to tear dow and turn out the o hi They to the toile with the who | t § sagac boy wa tor efforts it » give aboring connectior Niant the mar Apa in Bost the v mimittee zolng to giv: 8 for the bes mes for workit going to select out s where many of th bulit; they are gc railway they are going to ompany and the elec sing to show wh his tene tld nice clean him in more And the city will be saving, the throw they are ing thi an ng compa ansporta ing tenements asant purposes (Continued on Page 7.)