The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 17, 1909, Page 1

THE SEATTLE STAR NO THE SEATTLE STA GES VAN Z HOME B ITIGIN SATURDAY, E Ses, TEN PAGES SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, JULY 17, ONE CENT 1909. TEN PA MIMI MMMM MMMM MULL LLL MM MO A SEATTLE BANKER AND LARGE REALTY HOLDER SAID TO THE STAR YESTERDAY: “I will deed to the University of Washington every dollar’s worth of property I own in this city if, in return therefor, the board of regents of the university will give me a lease upon that property such as they have given to the Metropolitan Building Co. for the Union street university tr act and will likewise guaran- tee me immunity from taxation.” ndddgagAH AAU AAA HUN ONEUUUUUEn OHSAS UITIGAL HISTORY OF MRS. FASSNIDGE MOVED | TIICT MAKES] REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY - VOL. 11. HAHELLT 7TH ET BRIGHT SUNNY ROOM , UNDE NEW HAVE GIVEN AWAY OVER iu EM GOLOR 10 TWELVE MILLION DOLLARS Conservative Estimates of Future Value of Property Show the Magnitude of Donation Which Would Stagger the Pallanthrophy of a Rockefeller. IMAGES AGAIN BENCH WOMEN WOULD VOTE WAONGS OF WORLD AND WOMEN AWAY ,DELEGATES TO NATIONAL COUNCIL FINALLY DECIDE ON SUFFRAGISM Took Prominent in the Task of Get- New Men to Sit in Is Highest Court. evidence In the of Wash fe ample fiea) hi ; fully confir by Attorr days ago to committer of the increas« fourt in was to ge the trend © teciatons peourt on corporation and cases inereasing the supreme five to seven members fattodaced in the senate tn that session it was 08 the floor of that body Gf poritical jobbery Dil came up for on Maren 4 of that William Hickman mayor of Seattle, de ‘a political seheme and bay c 4 to trafficking with judicial positions. fd that attorneys outside of were responaiuie, | that there were ulter behind it. Hamilton of Pierce coun wt state Govnor | gisistive that the in the At the closing meetings of the National Council of Women of the United States yesterday jwolved that th for women's entra lutions te that effect were adopted after considera! opposition was finally decided that the gave to the women the only di method of reaching the high aime of the council Teday the suffrage forces have begun work in earnest and posters without number have made their appearance, the wom all over the state having be an active campaign ‘teat it was re convention stand chisement. Reso eee eaeee BANK CLEARINGS, Seattle. $2,002,715.70 25447 41 Tacoma, & Clearings today. . .$1,271,039.00 @ Balances .. 172,168.00 Portland. ® Clearings today. . .$1,156,242.00 169,187.00 ose the bill was de, fas favor, thowe of | PHOS SEES ESTEE ESS appointed to the how president of the de Vanter, and Welsh. corporation backers of | Rot abandon their they had met with Tn 1904 the consoll- | and = corporation of the state, mar the leadership of J. D. then assistant to the presl- h Great Northern ratiroad, le control of the fy of the Republican party, ited the state con |; nominated A} an obscure country @rernor, and made EB! According to Dr. J. E. Crichton, & corporation attorney | health Inspector of the city, eee o the state | his chief Inspector, M. T. Stevens, the city fe powerless to prevent in iMieninated. any way the flagrant violation of the city’s health laws by the United on had nominated | gates government at its detention with very pronounced | tation at Smith's Cove Wanings and sympa! The city is not empowered to Ae On the supreme | force any changes in the govern Person of Frank H. | ment detention house, although the 0 pbpemas Re yt laws of common deceney and san pe a on {tation would require that material T pariner, and Her | changes be made,” sald Mr. Stevens lene conaty inte trin.| Dr. F. R. Underwood, medical in : \ | spector of aliens, and every other ° * * # Clearings today & Balances to making the a man on the sw for In politics | am op- i” UNGLE OAM RESPONSIBLE LOCAL OFFICIALS SAY THEY CANNOT CLEAN UP THE DETENTION STATION, F over Judge C. H. Hanford yesterday ‘| handed down a decision in the See Ham case to the effect that See Ham had not made good his case on habeds corpua proceedings, and that he should be returned to the ‘country from which he came, See ’ Ham is a Chinaman, and claimed that he was bd? in this country. ‘He took a trip home one time and on his passport he stated that he was born in Seattle. On proceed ings being taken against him, how ever, > he was born In San Francisco, and even went #o far an to point out the house where his parents resided at the time of his birta. ments to the bench | eovernment official who has been crowded to such an extent that the {By United aian§ to exiet for 24 hours, as has existed town, near & pous Mem to participate jinterviewed by The Star, admits eens on Page 7.) the truth of the charges of gross Mor exy ls sickening Yet the esting officers will con Con B. ¢ ind will continue to exist at the s, July t7.—-| United States government detention after the remaining tral They were unk: Bd to answer the de OTwAD\ 264 ' sarmalt of the nfo Stabiiahed that the unsanitary conditions at the deten | tion station, yet they say that they ure perfectly helpless to do any |thing in the matter. They claim that ald must come from Washington D.C. Aa it Is, the etation ts \ mwa tia 1¢ to bring in Individuals who hey think have no right to remain ORGANIZED AND TAKE |! this country, and will cram them TRAY in with the rest L FOR THE C. P. R. No other Institution In the city TRAIN HOLOUPS. waald dare permit such conditions station until a perfectly sanitary 4g lll tbe (i anadian | building ts erected capable of pro ently at Ducks, ¢ caring for the unfortu ze Satine. neroreay two of who may be arrested. Seen In th< . ) Late in the firmed men wer: gi men, boys were wir a fem? pon the 1 me latter 414 not walt | but broke for iH feturned jn | Was a brother of ir shot Fr WHE the two y es outlaw h Pome time a by £rntewome ~ RETURN HIM 10 CHINA he endeavored to show that} i 0 WADE IN THE DEW. ex noua we | IN SEATTLE Strange Religious Cult Is Organized Here and the High Pyest of the Order Is Coming. | Religions of all sorts and almont every concetvable cult been established in this city t it re mained for Janet lona Smith, of Chicago, to of Worshippers, times called Al iy the organieation bas a lowing of nearly a hw ny Classes have been on ander the direetion of Miss Smith A most remarkable woman le Janet Smith, with a fascinating manner of talking, and ber expla lon of the objects and reasons ¢ the “Masdasnans” is extromely to teresting Only One of the Beliefs. ‘Of course, the walking in the dew at early morn.” sald Mine Smith, “te only one of the methods we employ in our search after ma terial perfection, All do not ai ways follow thie custom, for some | times It ts imporaible, owing to the lack of grass,” abd here Miss Gmith | laughed good humoredly | “Tt have no grasa in my back yard) here, and so it is months since I have walked through dew. We be-| Heve in working for material per-| fection, and that spiritual perfec | tion will follow. The material! lerust covers the spiritual part of a perron which by origin ie divine. | but which j# so thickly covered at | ime by material imperfection tha we cannot see it, We murt tive | clove to nature, wear as little cloth ing a8 We can, and perfect our selves materially.” Breathing je the keynote of the sect, says Miss Smith, and the first lessons in the work are breathing [tessons Freathing and exercise | and cold showers are some of the aide to material perfection. Have Strange ideas. | Walking In the dew, she says, re duces the amount of electricity In the bedy and improves many of the | senses. All followers of “Mazdarnan bind their feet in soft silk before they put on thelr stockin This is said to assist in perfecting the} sight and hearing | Dr. D. O. Hanish t# the head of the order, and hin followers in all parts of the country call him "Mas ter.” Eapecially in southern Cal lfornia bas he « large following Mra. Maria Kt. Hilton, of Low ell, Mass., who was formerly a reat dent of Beattie, will address 4 meeting at Recital ball, Johnston building, tomorrow evening at & ocloek Mrs. Hilton, like Mise Smith, ta one of the doctor's early converte. and will explain what the order of Mazdaznan” Is stablis#h in Seattle the Masdaznan as they order or “Dew are some ee ee ee eee ed NEW AEROPLANE O. Kk. NEW YORK, July 17.—The aeroplane Goldbug was given a trial by Glenn H. Curtiss at Homatead Plains, Long Island, near Mineola, this morning Curtis circled the Meld seven mes, remaining In the alr 62 minutes and traveling slightly over 20 miles. At times the roplane traveled at the rate of 60 miles an hour . *. * * * * * * * * * * * ~ * \" ee ee ee ee CHAMBER NEEDS AUTOS TheeChamber of Commerce ha had a number of responses to the request for the lonn of autos for the accommodation of the Nationidl As sociation of Editors, who will ar rive in the city on Monday, The Chamber te short about 20 ma chines, and It earnestly appeals again for all who possibly eaf, to put thelr machines and themselves | at the disposal of the Chamber for the two hours between four and aix on Monday, A realization of the opportunity to advertise the city through the editors, by show ing them all the hospi®itty pos sible, will surely bring the destred result. Phone the secretary of the Chamber If you have an auto. Mrs. C. F, Scott Gives Her Home in a Tiny Little Cottage Out at Columbia) City Tote. I WAS an hungered and ye gave me meal, | was thirsty and ye gave me drink, | was a stranger and ye took me in, naked and ye clothed me. Verily | say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these, my brethren, ye have done it anto me. BY BONNIE WHEELER, In a bright, sunny toom in a tiny r ln Columbia City, Mere Alice Passnidge this afternoon reat ed quietly, her bright eyes following the flight of the birds and taking in the glo f the flowers bloom: nd the window, Fresh, pure ty of soft light, through halfdrawn Diinds, a tender nurse, and a doctor, who ia giving his services without pay—all these are here now In an ambulance which Butter orth & Bons sent to the Seattle Genera) boapital the suffertug woman was tenderly removed to the home of Mra C. F Soott, at 8824 37th av. &, which had been opened to her it le net @ large home, but the room assigned to the woman who for 1) month has lain un- able to move hand or foot be cause of her terrible burns, is such @ bright, airy room, and the home she hae been taken to ie one of the happiest in all this big olty. THE WOMAN WHO OPEN. EO HER HEART TO THIS SUFFERING WAIF 16 ONE OF GOD'S NOBLEST WOMEN, SURELY. Then, the nurse, She te giving. her services with no reward other than the reward that will surely follow the doing of such a noble work, She ile Mre H Holm. was one of the first to vielt Mra. Fasenidge and became aroused at the conditions she found at the = | ere are Many others that have been helping, too, and the «ub. scriptions that have been coming in are many, and with each l# the heartfelt aympathy of kind-hearted jmen and women that makes the | gitte doubly welcome. Another home was opened to Mee. F. idge, and that wi it 3903 Orcas st. W. 6. Vun Lot made the offer, and he says the offer ie still open. The doctor who #0 genefously is giving his services preferred to remain unknown, but perhaps | will whiaper it to you some day, Here are some new names On the roll of honor Mre. R.G. Van Stone Mrs. J. G, Standard Friend Mra. Frank Heneley Mra Moses Mrs. Marquettes Friend Mra. WH. Murray . R. L. Stanley veees Already reported .... 8 200 1.00 1.00! 1,00 1.00 1.00 50 8.0 + £00 41.60 Total $66.10 PLAN FOR DIXIE OMY AT THE EXPOSITION A committer arrangements which has in charge the for the bra ton of a Southern y, to be called Dixie day, at the A-Y-P. expoaltion met this morning in the embly room of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce. Judge Alfred Rattle is the chairman of the committee, It ix Mtended to have a big colebra tlon, and to that end an invitation to attend will be extended to all Southerners throughout the weat. It la hoped to get some promt nent Southerner, such as T. Nelson Page or Henry Watterson, to make the addresses on the oceasion ann BIG MERGER IN AIR, (Dy United Press.) The mere: ing of the Bell Telephone company of the country into a gigantic corpo ration representing a capltalization of # 000,000 is believed to be foreshadowed by the action taken by the American Telegraph and Telephone company providing for the absorption of the New York & New Jersey Telephone company, And) North: | MAKE GRAND “USPLAY OF FIREWORKS A Brilliant Pyrotechnical Spectacle Will Be Pre- sented at the Foot of Pay Streak Tonight. Promptiy at 9 o'clock tonight, at the foot of Pay Streak, will be wit neawed 0 © grandest demon wtrmtion techies ever ox ploded oo the Parific coast. The demonstration te given in honor the Washington Pree# Association which in pension the A-Y-1 and Will comprine the best creation» of Hitt Brow, famous the world over for Urlillant, sparkling, selutiliating sensational and wpectacuiar lilumi nations, Several thousand doliars worth af kaleidoscopic combuatibles will be lgnited and for two hours ithe *@ry heavens will be in a blaze pot glory, An effort will be made to ogt0b all former attempts along this pleasing line of entertainment jand the reputation of Hitt Bros j strowta be & aufficlent guarantee of} {ts secompliahment. The Bieplay has been fitly de dominated “The Battle of Manila. it will faithfully portray this torte naval engagement when the modern engines of destruction vied with eneh other tn a fusillade of Mery destroyers and the night alr wae tmnte to reverberate with the deep jintonation of cannons. Thrilling and realistic, indeed, will be thin i erandegt of all pyrotechnic demon trations ever attempted by any exposition of modern times, and it» presentation will be rendered doubly beautiful by reason of the scenic surroundtn | TAXICAB DRIVER IS FOUND NOT GUILTY ‘The Inet of the taxteab cases wan! tried before Justice Brown yester day afternoon and the result wae j the acquittal of William Cotle, He was eaid to have overcharged one jof his custoniers, and after the ver dict a Glenatosed. Redan eenneanee *® YESTERDAY'S A.Y.P. AT. \# TENDANCE, }@ Friday's admissions bd Total for the season * * * * 28,997 1,116.12 * 7 * Pagiedhesebnaws i SALOON LAW D. H. Wilson, Srepelitat of Orpheum Saloon, Is First to Suffer — Charged With Permitting Women in Saloon. hin bartender walter time for Nquor These tw A Warrant ina Hrowr The be made code which Jane 16 The cases will in Justice Brown's day or Friday next week ihe offense comunitted | tuted a now code, ar more than one y The two alleged offende on bonds of $250 each. HUNK TELLER BLOWS OUT HIS BRAINS AND wan arre INSTITUTION CLOSED STARTLING REVELATIONS ARE MADE IN BANK IN CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO. (By Cnlted Press.) SAN FRANCISCO, July 17 William Von Meyerinck, until one month ago paying teller of the Union State bank, at Third and Market, committed suicide during the night at his home in Larkeapur by sending a bullet into hie brain. State Hank Examiner Alden An derson learned of the affair and closed toe bank shortly after 10 o'clock this morning. An investign tion reveale the fact that Von Meyerinck wae short thonsande of dollars. Experts are working today on ithe books of the bank, and it appears from & casual examination that the entire capital will be wiped out by the shortage, The amount involved ia about $140,000. Von Meyerinck was dismissed a month ago and was to make a re port before the directors today re garding his shortage. LAW PROHIBITS _ LEWD SHOWS _ City Officials, Rowever,| Do Nothing About the Disgusting Exhibitions, Being Given Here. Despite the fact that the law clearly defines the offe | preseriber severe state and punishment. who would have the indecent 4 pity officin | the aiithority to close and or exhibl that are in Seattle under the guise of taneeu shows, has endeavored | to aldeatep and evade the qu | when it is clearly presented to him And today the shows are running as before, with thelr lewd pictures and Meming red signs reading “Fo Mon Only Mayor Miller be of theta and pre means tn his hands overthfow Chief of Pollee Irving Ward wa not tn bie office all morning and no expression could be ured from {him | Charles Dolphin and theatre censor other city officials ut closing up the places, but that is the extent of his interest In the matter Sedation 207 of the state criminal code tye Every person who shal! cause to be performed or exhibited, or engaged in the performance or exhibition of any obscene, in- decent or immoral show, act or performance, shall be gulity of i disapproves thetr | artil police sergeant talked with by a fine of $1,000, a year's Imprisonment in the county jail, or both, ers ‘tregiona to quit MORE MEN GOUT ON BIG STRIKE: (ty United & BUTLER, Pa, July 17 thousand employes « Steel Car compan today, and riots are Fearing violence the sent & request to H detachment of to guard the A smal) riot occur a big Hung pieket ed to ret was ston mission by trikers and was the hospital Five hundred workmen quit work at the plant yesterday and 2,500 others followed the example today Those who struck today refused to leave the shops yesterday, but were persuaded Into striking by agita tors who worked among them last night, the Star arrisbure dd he intend The mar into sub of the moved to sympathizer finally re FINDS IMPURE MILK, City Milk Inspector Gus Hender- | won Visited the Maple Valley and Black Diamond districts Inst week, and ordered two dairies in those shipping milk to this city, If the university tract of land now held under lease by the Metropolitan Building Company had been owned by private individuals this is what the Metropolitan company would have had to pay for the fifty-year period of the lease: Ground Rental $ 8,400,000 Taxes on ground and buildings $16,716,000 Under the fifty-year lease granted to the Metropolitan Building Company by the board of regents of the state uni- versity, that company will pay to the university during the life of the lease but $3,988,000. This is the way it looks: $16,716,000 3,988,000 Gift to the Metropolitan Building Co. . $12,728,000 | HOW VALUES ARE DETERMINED. The conservative. The figures of the | Metropolitan Building C: at $3,000,000 the value of the real estate covered by the lease are accepted as a basis, An inereased valuation of $600,000 for every ten-year period is the real estate worth in fifty years from now Total cost to lessee What it should cost What it will actually cost above figures are mnpany fixing then added, making only $5,400,000. Ground rental is then figured at 4 per cent for h ten-year period, upon which basis business property is now being leased in the city of Seattle ca poses 60 per cent of the values arrived at jin the manner indicated above is taken and the present rate of taxation, 33 mills on the dollar, figured upon a basis of $1,000,000 during the first ten-year ),000 during the remainder of the life of the con- For taxation pur s used. The improvements are period and $ tract. These figures are lower, however, than they should be. GIFT TO BUILDING COMPANY. Thus, the board of regents of the state university has giver to the Metropolitan Building Company the full benefit of the state law which exempts university property from taxation, and in addition thereto has leased that company university property AT A FIGURE LESS THAN 50 PER CENT OF WHAT IT WOULD HAVE HAD TO PAY FOR THE GROUND RENTAL ALONE HAD THE PROPERTY BELONGED TO PRIVATE PARTIES. In almost within a stone's throw in any direction from this university tract Seattle men are paying 4 per cent of the value of the property and their just portion of taxation for the privi- lege of erecting buildings, while the stockholders of the Metro- politan Building Co. are permitted to enjoy exemption from tax- jation and to PAY LESS THAN 2 PER CENT OF THE VALUE OF THE PROPERTY HELD BY THEM. wor MCN ROBS PEOPLE OF WASHINGTON. The law that exempts from taxation property used for educa- 1 with the view of encouraging educa- loing this in this particular in- eat g i of eastern millionaires y rigl to the people AND THESE MEN WHO WILL MILLIONS WILL NOT EVEN PAY FOR THE PROTECTION OF THEIR PROPERTY BY THE POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENTS OF THE CITY OF SEATTLE! tate of Washington yperty or pays + will pay the taxes Il provide He will police fire protec that they are all ing for ny On Monday next The Star will have something more to say about this lease. SYMPHONY CONCERT 10: it HELO TOMORROW : | RRR EERE * WEATHER FORECAST. ¥* Showers tonight and Sun. * * day; light southeast to south- : \* west winds. * T | Seattle Biskons Orchestra Levereeree * * exK concert at the A-Y-P. exposition | | tomorrow will be held In the Wash | STOCKHOLM, July 17—The lington State building as a compli-|“!sht anarchists who were recently | arrested in Stockhoim on the charge ment to the state commission, LAb-| of having conspired to assassinate eratti's band will give the usual| the emperor of Prussia have been concert in the Music Pavilion, | sent into exile,