The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 19, 1909, Page 1

% presented to th WiLL PROHIBIT LEWD AND BUNCO THEATRES Miller Draws Up re to Put the * Houses Out of in Seattle. any ex in for fan Only iret ave, Th prepared t Mi nt and a ably biy be and if acted! At back and voted on ? of the objectionable af the shows have been re the flaring signe and @thibited in the win eyttore to com Dave no place tn the dusiness district today they games, the proprie ly taken precan tion of the state fhe Star exposed them Many interest {» shown, Ras a distivet feeling after having paid od & glance about new ordinance do away with the fave ANNING THE FAIR m Day being celebrat ) exposition today on the program | will be well rep fair thie week excursion will ar d by the Jour All the morn People will sve the Abd in the afternoon, at } the forma! program of | held at the Oregon | “BUGS all are} TEN PAGES WOMAN PUTS CITY Pala Betrays taser of Gang Which Has Burglarized Houses in Seattle for, Several Months Past, When 4 certain young girl t City Detective Bam G, Corbett and Humane Officer John Vaupell Saturday morning that a burglar Was paying unwelcome attention to her, the tines were laid for the arrest of & gang of thieves who have been operating with marked success In Seattle for the past four months, H. G. Moore, & young ex-convict and self-confessed burglar, was the firat to be taken Into Later the detectives went “ house at 112 Bell st, which was used as headquarters for the gang and arrested Irene Fisher, alias Mise Lou Slater, allas Mrs. O. M }Slater, and Steve Arana. Claud | Payne, another member of the SANS. Wan arrested at the same place Saturday night, and since that time Herman Fitnt was taken As 4 suspect. Irene Fisher posed as Moore's wife. Moore confessed his participation tn several dosens of bargiartes in Seattio and other coast cities and says he will attempt to compile a | list of them for the potice. | | John P, W f Was arrested to | | day for receiving stolen property from members of the Moore gang. | Walther conducts a small stand at} First ay. and Main at. Walther formeriy was a baseball | player, GRAND MUSIC. FEST PLANNED : ouatody ait followed by a recep-| Ht Portiand wom wil welconre | brief responses will SB Oumber of Portland! | Carriers’ band will fm the evening on Oregon building brought a cum from the Oregon cap ‘Mt the State building listened to & con band, and a few by the expo | The Salem people day seeing the fair UG SUM AND | BEGIN. WORK | UN HOSPITAL KIRMESS MEANS 1ON WILL D SOON. be begnn at once on i hospital, which mM at Crockett et. and [& cost of $75,000. and M the finest west of @itire cost of the Been raised, the pro Kirmess sweiling the are warm in thetr People who patronized m8, and say that without 8 the Kirmess fund they been able to pre the rains ot the hoe pe be open te from al) parts of Weat of Chicago and the large cities are ex dow bods. that remains to be Wy be procured by 0 AN VFAOM WOMAN ae ' {0 the police today that took $43 in goid ana tank yesterde A gold watch & brooch and tw $9.47 and anviner tor O40 taken by the L a rth tor TUNNEL. 1s Y OPENED ~The grea river | VANCOUVER'S PRIZE WILL BE HERE TO / TAKE PART, BAND week to the A.¥-P. expoattion of| the Sixth, Duke of Connaught's Own, Regiment baad from Vancou ver, there ie being planned for aj week from Friday the greatest mu- | sical spectacle of the season-—-a mi) Hary tattoo with eight bands, (we regiments of militta and a company of artillery participating. The fw mous bugle band of the Sixth Regt-| ment is the crack military band of | | Canada and will be at the fair ali’ is next week, playing with the, | Elks’ cireus on Wednesday and! |Thersday and giving concerts) dally The spectacle planned for the Amphitheatre on Friday will be per- ticipated in by the Sixth Regiment | Liberattt’s, Wagner's, Port Lawton, | Martine Corps, Navy and Artillery bands, the Clan Fraser Highland band and any other bands that can be secured. The production tncludes the mill tary airs and bugle calla of all na tions, the salute to the flag, and a varied number of military and patriotic pleces Fully © musicians will partic! pate and the result will be one of the big miasical features of the ox position Arrangen t Canadian band we terday by Lieut. McManus of the Sixth Regiment, and Chairman Joatah Collins, of the exposttion de partment of special events s for the visit of the mpleted yes Re EXPOSITION ATTENDANCE. Saturday's adinis sione « ‘ Sunday's admissions . Total for season .. 26.906 2h144 1,167,177 [ee tteteee * * * * * * * Lat Rah SOME PRESS CLUB NIGHT F EA TURES ON PAY STREAK PRES. CNL BERG ON PILGR/MAGE FROM STRELTS Lt In connection with the visit next | 52 OARES TO 8 GHRISTENED TA-I-BE Thirty Little Tots Will Be on Hand for Big Cere- mony at the Exposition Tomorrow, Thirty of June babies born In the month od p will be christor AY tomorr Auditorium of the oxpost on o'clock afler om, and will be given loving cup: t exposition ma A hy ning } agement as kon of thelr ge rm during the the Seattle fair Several exposition officials will lattend the ceremonies and in case each child ta not acc the n readiness. ompantod by a mils exp sition will have Will be a Godfather. If godfathers or godmothers are hand Director of Specta) Events Loule W. Buekley will be ready to act in either capacity Mr. Buckley has promised to go to any lengths in making Baby Chris not on ftentng day a success. Nurses and all the necessary ar tleles for the care of the youngsters will be provided in dressing rooms at the Auditorium #0 that no in convenience wilt arise from the numerousness of the exposition bables Following are the christened The Lucky Babies. 1. Blew bablea to be in Ww June iTUh NG. Porstad. 4th Pith ay, Bors “| have been entertained for the Kis “Wendl 9 Mob, 4911 Loales Kathering barn June Mr and Mrs. BM. Horse, jebard A Alexandria. bore June 4h Me, and Sire. B. Waters, 4318 Fourth W. Ottver Wendel. ber Mr and Mre. Joke Anderewo, maple Jue 18 tenet, Mare Juve 1 me . Amy. tere June mh. ond Mee Hore. a ¥ uo, r Beventh tf Me 4, Mre “attdred dame 02 and M MF. trees, D. Brews, TL Mery Margaret Ida, bore Abbott Jone vie ™ Tit Lake on June Mrs. Cart Groha, Box 14, Brvwneviiie nd Mire. €. Hemphrer, 1458 Mrondwar Mre 38 14 Terry av Kennedy Mr. aad Mee, Baw ivtegernid m8 ah HE SAYS ld. WIFE CURSES AND ABUSES HIM WHEN DRINKING oF w MAN Accuses HIG MATE DOING THE THINGS SOME MEN DO. as he alleges, his wife, Mary Loftquiet, abused and cursed him, got on frequent drunks and threatened his life, Magnus Lot quist has asked for a divorce. The Lofquiste Were married In Tampa, Pia, in 1893 Clara Smith divor from Smith this abandonment fendant be made to give her money to prosecute the conse. Maude Feres axks for a separa tion from R. E. Feree, charging abandonment. Susie Torgeson asks for separation from Rudolph Tor alleging abandonment and Hecanse, filed eult for Frederick W. J morning. charg! and asks that the ¢ wait eon abuse. Val R. Plerson divoree from Mande Pierson. married in Everett In Bottomley was giver trom Charles Bottomiey Clara Moore wae granted a sepera tion from Rey W. Moore, otherwise a as William Ray Moore was granted a 1908 a di wore Mande voroo GIF HAL AK NAMY SS as DELEGATION EADING ADDRESS IN ARABIC W. Wilson, Madrona | | EDITION SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, THE MONDAY, JULY 19, 1909, REAL EDITORS OF REAL NEWSPA PERS IN SEA TTL E More Than Three Hundred and Fifty Delegates to National Editorial Asso- ciation Meet. | | —— The att With t . Editorial fourth a) old-time editor bs in Be ting of the National ociation for ita twenty convention in the Be Pre tub thi | atthe tral b the moat repre newspapers of ¢ wathored to each other | tt at and among U room” In the Cen liding morning 160 of editora of nd and anoth United State t hin paper matic hun dolegatos are ar women editors bout the busine ompanions ki ental He k swap Ww 0 got ¢ was enthuse By who koow & puch A un any of ale per publieattor | the so-called | majority Talk of the West. From 9:50 to 10:30 the delegates | congregated in the assembly room meeting different changing their impressions of the great Western country. Plane were being made for the twenty days jtrip through Alaska as well as ar rangements for entertaining the delegates while in Seattle. The a sembly room crowded busy delegates receiving their mall and attending to their different in toreste BB. Herbert, calied "Pather” be cause It was he who founded the } association and who has not missed a single convention since ite origin in 1886, was the center of attraction jand the delegates crowded around | the aged editor to congratulate him and talk of old times All Are Delighted, Many of the editors have never been West before, but every one of them oxpressing himeecif or herself }as delighted with the country, climate and the people of Seattle as well as the entire Pactfic slope, jno far as they have gone. They pant presented with country editor in the * with week on thelr way to the tion and will be entertained for three more weeks before returning to the pencil and The business session opend this morning after Father Herbert had delivered the invocation | President Maya deferred the ap pointment of committoes tl this afternoon and the reporte of the officers were read. Announce ments were made and the tickets | for the A-Y-P. exposition and Pay | Streak ore issued. The conven thon adjourned till 2 o'clock bred jafternoon, During the day the del-| egates are to be shown the city exes automobiles, Are Welcomed Today, Addresses of welcome were made this afternoon by Rev. Dr. Matthews, representing Governor Hay, Mayor Miller, President Chil- berg. of the exposition, and by Kenneth C, Beaton, president of the | Seattle Proms club. Responses were jmade by BB. Herbert, P. V. Col lins and Governor A. B. White, of Charleston, W. +a. Tomorrow the business jon will continue and addresses on top jew of interest to the editors will be delivered by members of the sociation, In the afternoon party will visit the fair and irom 6 to 8 p m will eat dinner on the exposition ground. Tomorrow night the editors will join with the creas club in a wild) raid on the Pay Streak, BURGLAR ROD DRUG STONES BREAKS INTO THREE PLACES BUT GECURES SMALL AMOUNT OF LOOT, The burglar who makes a clalty of robbing drug stores was at large laet night, although his opera tions failed to net big returns By using a jimmy on the rear door the burglar forced an entrance to the Worthen Drug store at 312 B. Pike at. and rifled the register of $16. A jimmy wae also used on the back door of the Broadway Drug store at 618 Broadway. The burg lar secured 60 cents’ worth of post age stamps. Anattempt wae made to pry open the back door of the White Drug store at Eighth av, and Pike et early thie morning but evidently the burglar was frightened away “pe oF CAIRO (GORROT VILLAGE L ueang ‘Sands. delegates and ox: | the | conven: | | osm SHOCKING STORY OF A PRETTY GIRL } ELLA GINGLES, THE LACE MAKER, (My Uolted Pressey CHICAGO, July 19.—The care | Fila Gingles, the Trish lace charged with stealing | senmational teatimor fashionable wlevard. ry of be hotel on Jackson maker, She accused Mina Agnes Barrette lace dealer, of plotting white slave to rominent politielan tn shocked the entlte country, was given to the juryjitiie afternoon, The state ask ed fF conviction on the clatm that the story of abuse and inhuman | treatment told by the girl | fabtiestion invented by her | Odhitwel for the girl contended the Inet that her story wae true and aerertid that she wae (he victim of 8 White slave plot and was sub. jected to indignities seldom tf ever | before detailed in a public court | room, Not ainee the famous trial of Johan Hooch have men and women fought to get Into @ court room as Pog id to bear the story of pretty ingles. Dey after day sho oat Aneistant diet J States At Short tried to batter the girl's story him. Although 4 records of the weather insisted the night m whe wa mistreated in the Wellington was 4 moonlight night and sot rainy, as the records show The girl's story has reopened talk of & new white siave crusade in Chi cago. Despite attacks made on her testimony many believe she told the truth and point to facts which they say bear out her story Mise Gingles on the stand spoke in a low votee and with an Irish ac eeut, Her ebiidhood life in Ganada has been investigated, and the as sistant state's attorney is frank in ize ph, fon Brentano's court and told saying nothing was found against | shocking stories of 11] treatment in her there erates eee eee down withetood by the bureau, she wae a eee eee | WILL BE ON JOB TOMORROW EVE donkeys tor the speci special cer ceremonials and the Igorrotes are there to do Newspapermen Will Make Streak the Memorable ve H. Pearson, manager of the ” trie wheel, bas written a letter | Event of the A.-Y.-P, E. to President Kc the club a present o: the big wheel | and the machinery to run it Ah King, of the Chinese village, # offered to furnish silken regalia and appropriate muate for the offi | cers of the Kangaroo court and ways | that the gang may deplete the vil. | lage if it finds it needs elee sesaalcciille | Not lees than 150 newspaper mon, | all ir or less Insane, will be on)», tomorrow night to make Pr eid night on the Pay Streak a litte | event that b bit the wildest and biggest taken place on the “Joy Path” since the expo got ready | for business ‘The conceesionalres, down to the} Private Detec-e-tive Force. ] last one of them, have put in with) Chief Wappenstein has been ap: | the newspaper men and every show Proac hed with a proposition to with: house op the street will be ready! draw his police from the Streak with spéeial events of every kind, 40d permit the “Defective Force tall of them good, and to what they Of the Press club, to enforce the law | [have the Prose club actors, most of and “Wappy” says he doesn't see them bad, will offer additional anything else save to fall for it {one that are now all framed up The executive department of tne Captain A. M. Baber, of the Beki-| ¢xposition ts taking as lively an tn mo village, President of the Conces terest as any of the others. Presi stonalros Association Richard dent Chilberg, when watted upon Schneldewind, on behalf of the Ig bY 4 committee from the club, said orroté village, aud Sam C. Haller, that he would stand for anything general manager of the Monitor and ®@v¢ murder, and Frank P, Allen Merrimac, bavé all addressed let. Jr. director of works and Loule ters to the Presa club officers Baeder, bis able assistant, known ofteriag thet assistance, and to all exposition plenickers as the that means that every showman on | “Evidence Kid." have made similar the Streak will be there with bells declarations, “Jim” Wood, director | on, for Captain Baber, as president Of exploitation, is on the list and of the aweociation, speaks With au- 18 lending active assistance in fram-| thority for every show on the lat | ing the program | except the two last named The doings will begin at & o'clock and finish when they are over. The Will Hold Court, club members are requested to meet Ditector of Concessions Mattox! at the press roome, King County has been at work for a week pant building at & o'clock ready for the framing up and making things easy start of the big parade, led by the for the news men when they are Portland Journal's Carrier band of ready to start. He haa provided | 26 pieces j them with a building for their kan arsoo court and the Shetland pony merrygoround has furnished a * WEATHER FORECAST, team for the patrol wagon. Namy * Fair tonight and Tuesday; Salih, of the Streets of Cairo, has ® light northeast winds, tebeeeye bis bord of camels and wae ee eee . * ” Mae * eee eee eee’ * * * * * A pe ot th wat athe wy? To f \ r rm ‘i £ ane Al ial Mss 7] U- DirArPAN 2S, i Vella \ BALLyY Ho) ———> BALL YHO STAND BRo7THER- 00D oF SCANT AYTIRE GUARD oF Hone READY AND WA/T ANG jit might be | institutions would apply | exception Beaten making | anything | | course the Yo G/VE (NS/6N' | of SEATTLE TEN PAGES ONE CENT STATE MAY YET 6 M GIFT 1) TROPOLITAN GO. Howard Cosgrove, Member of Board of University Regents, Says There Are Precedents for Tax- ation of Exempt Property Held Under a Lease—~ Declares Assessor Should Do Duty and Let Courts Decide. j of Wash ident Coegrova h membe morning As to the e of the » Metro in making ng come quest 1 i not p red ¢ What today looked irately pany, made 4 bargain would be a a tf mi ex a few emely difficult to acc considered & good bargals ears be as a bad insemuch as it the future pon judge MAY HAVE MA DE MISTAKE. to be the te that 4 mistake ta not 4 ny, sum intimated that regents made in and it is further intimated t the Metre university or the It seem figuring rental charged the matter of taxes wa no taxes can be polltan Building com ie losing a ‘ee considered cry eauehold interest of the and therefore either county jof money “It would appear to me that this Idea is wrong and that some one Is at fault for not assessing and collecting taxes from this company. Our constitution and statutes provide that all property not exempted shal! be subject to taxation. Sections 8501, 8595 and 8634 of Pierce's code provide that leasehold or possessory interests in state lands are taxable In the (14 Wash, 586) the court held that personal property for the purpose of taxation shall be and all improvements upon lends, the ett in the ot Washington, the parties making the case of Percival va. Thurston c t to embrace include which is to which can never be ncquired by construed te ot the tithe jmprovements In of Moeller va (44 Wash decided in the court held that a leaschold interest was taxable, but intimated that it could not be collected, inasmuch as it should be taxed as real and suggested that the legislature r ody bearing {n mind this of the seesion laws for that leasehold interests vented state the case Gormley 465) 1906 instead of personal property, the matter. The legisiature of 1907 decision, passed a law, found on page 20 year, providing that for purposes of assessment, | should be considered personal property. CAGE 18 FULLY COVERED, “It may be urged that the statute exempting state property would apoly, but the ease of Moeller vs. Gormley settles that question; and urged that the statute exempting property of educational but the particular statate itself makes this evidently “That real estate owned or controtled by such Institutions (meat ing educational institutions) and Jeased and rented by them for thé purpose of deriving revenve therefrom shal) be exempted from taxation under the provisions of this act.’ It would therefore appear that the leasehold Interest of the Met- Huliding company has been subject to taxation ever since the execution of the lease, although the taxes may not have at all times been collectible, However, the legislature remedied the matter of collection in 1907, + TRY IT OUT IN COURTS. “King county's assessor assessed this property, Of Metropolitan Bailding company would take the matter into " the courts, raising several legal questions which would have to be settiod, but which | belleve would be finally decided against the com- pany. It is not within the province of the assessor to settle these questions, He should assess and an attempt should be made to collect leaving the courts to settie the legal matters. “1 was not a member of the board of regents which made the present lease, but | believe it was made in good faith by the board, and according to the best judgment of ite members. It is too late now to make a better one, if this is unsatisfactory, but it is not too late for the assessor of King county to see that this leasehold interest is hereafter properly assessed, which | sincerely hope he will do.” not ropolitan should have ROOSEVELT 10 SQN TEXAS BANKERS ARE. ENSUE LIONS VISITING FAIR TODAY BE, A. member A party ig 180 Texas bankers in charge of T, C. Yantis, who is prea {dent of the saptolatige. arrived in the city this morning from San Francisco, They will visit the AY.-P, E. and will make a tour of the elty, after which they will de- part tonight for Victoria and Van- couver, B. C. The bankers are making a four weeks’ trip and started out via the Santa Fe through the Grand can- yon of Colorado, thence to Los Angeles and San Francisco, and so to seattle. The return journey will be made via the N. P. from Vancouver to the Yellowstone Na+ tional park, thence to Denver, where the party will break up, leay- ing for the various homes of the members. NAIVASHAL, Ff July 19.— Tariton, of the party guiding the Roosevelt expedi tion, reported here today that Col. Roosevelt will soon encounter a great number of lions Tarlton makes this report apending much time in ching waterholes and locating suitable places where the hunters can camp He says the hunters will soon find themselves in the presence of plenty of bis black -maned Hous. Losiie a after peta ay FORTUNE GOMES REGISTERED MALL The attic postoffice this morn- ing received tn the form of register- ed mail a shipment of $400,000 }worth of gold from Alaska. This shipment was consigned to the Na- tional Bank of Commerce and was | brought down by the 8, 8. Dolphin, | which arrived in port yesterday, ‘ADDS THE GAS METER hed his sma | | | snrougn the rear door of the Dandy Lunch Room, at 1618 Western av, and rifled the gas meter @ small sum of money, last night