The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 18, 1909, Page 1

T HUGBAND ) NOT SUCCEED IN AMEN Bemoans She Is not at With Man Who s Jealous of Her. _ he didn't a on me, don't want p ihls way after he acted ie dia yesterday, He to kill me several knew he had stood in the day and, without at me. | haven't idea of why he do bandages, 4 wh wy ber husband fA a room 6 4 slight consider ig just pelow the met Mere the bullet Aa Kray photograph oo head fast i and the how the cate Hide Her Trouble. . J. B Crichton Mrs. Etn: i to give any informa to the Mentity of wer amt wart them to know ee fn,” said the wounded ls true my husband kill me several times, Ri do not know. We married very long, but wite. I did not have warning that he was oot me fi reached my room yes oon I lay down on the been there but a few he opened the door the doorway and, with |, drew bis revolver and all T remember about he bad completed bis of His Death. wutil this morning mded woman learned nd was dead, a vic same revolver which her. When told that dead, she began to d that her husband proper burial. When to who her parents B mamtained a stud- now in Coroner J ion, it develops father advised Eim- ” if she continued dance halls at ble — te rt stat. buld not beep nis wife fag tn cheap restaurants ting dance halia. Elmquist stated that | Seat neane BY A WATCH. Press.) Or., Aug. 18.-—- friends of Ralph this city, learned yor life was at Seaside by ch which his father as a reward for The young man a rifle which lly discharged. k his watch th a pocket over deflected, and fh his arm, shat AND * * * * *, * * * * * * * * | . Sabadell! * * *! * «| TDK his wife intended to go to and and that he had about concluded to follow bie fatherindaw's advice and end it nll Was a Divorces Woman, d that wounded ors name ia Gitleaple resides at poka ne that the woman Alfred B. Hensel were found in later she began to he married at Spokane tn 19 the room, Three divorced and with Elmquist of Detectives Te to belleve anely jealous insists that her was above r jand that Paper wan to yearn was u | Live Captain is tneline quist was te woman, Bhe duct as a wife No arrangements for El funeral have yet been mad Elmquist was a contra is sald to have been making com iderable money, at least more than enough to keep his wife good ircumstances without her working for a Hving. She was employed as & Waltress at the Dixte f ~ ANOTHER ONE CENTHOLD-UP -—(S CHARGED Madison ‘Street Cable Line | Patrons Make a Holler | Against Practices of Se- attle ee Company. nant Ein the con. each ulat’s 4 that of ‘or, who a The street car riding public must ts inconveniences as well ax fees rendered it by the Se atthe Eleetr compar according to complaints filed with Superin tendent of Public Utilities A. V Houlllon today At numerous times last few weeks the M. ble, from the Into the city, has been broken down for from 24 to 48 hours at a latreteh, and all of the many patrons of the Beattle Electric company liv ing on the Madison line between |the power house and tne lake, have boon foreed to transfer from the cable line between the power house jand the lake, onfo the 19th av. ele tric line in order to get into elty, causing delay and much incon | venience | Now it develops that they heen forced to pay for this delay and inconvenience, and a mighty holler has gone up to Mr, Boulllon. Fourcent street car tickets are good fora continuous ride from one end of the cable line to the other, and hundreds of working men and } women have been using them dally jo going to and from work, but |when the downtown end of the cable is out of commission they }have discovered that they must pay a Scent fare in order to get the transfer that makes |t ponsibie to | ride between their homes and their | places of employment Not only must they start eariler in the morning and be out later tn | the evening, not only must they ride pall over the elty by a circultous route, crowd and jam off one car onto another, but they must pay an extra cent for it, and they are angry; yea, mad about it Mr. Boullion stated today that he would not only take this matter up Immediately, but would also see why the company had so any breakdowss | on the cable line during the! have| THE BOY WHO WEPT WHEN HE BECAME |} AMED MIRZA, SHAHINSHAH, 1 CEEDED HIS DEPOSED FATHER AS SHAH OF PERSIA, Mohammed All Persia, who suce cock throne on t ther, in January of was de posed on July 17. He was succeed ed by Sultan Ahined Mirea, who, al though not the eldest son of the ex shah, Was the hely apparent, the mother of hi brother not be ing a Kajar The ebab, who Jaimed under }the ttle of Sultan Ahmed, with Azad-U)Mulk, head of the tribe, as regent, ts but If yoars He wept bitterly when the moment Mirza, shah of d to the Pea death of bis fo a eider pring was pr E “KING OF KINGS” SEATTLE, WASH., YEAR-OLD BOY WHO SUC | came for him to leave hin prede censor on the throne and his moth: and it required a stern mm to the effect that crying was not allowed In the Russian legation be-| fore he dried his eyes. Then the ite man came bravely, @n-| a large carriage, and drove off alone t Bultanatabad he was met by the regent and the depute tion, and ceremoniously notified of his high position and of the hope entertained by the nation that he would to be a good ruler, Toshallah replied the lad. | out prove 1 will WEDNESDAY, AUGUST MUST ORES METROPOLITAN LEASEH ASSESSMENT IS SUS | by | noun | opening | the k 18, 1909, WN ORDER 10 GET LETTERS | Drastic Ultimatum Made at Summer Resort and Pretty Girls Scantily At- tired Under Ban. (ty OCEAN PARK, Cal, get mail United Press) Aug. 18. at the unless | You can't Ocean Park postoffice you are dressed. This le the Powtmaster today ved to the ultimatum handed fn Stilison and he that it must be ot letter. Hinee the of the summer season in full swing at this of dainty summer girls, clad the attractiveness | fore haw been an * now resort hord: in bathing sults, of which never appreelated n Park trip gaily to the postoffice each morn ing for a letter from home Other letter secke yparently don't mind, but stmaster Stilleon’s sense of ' shocked I can't help what they wear beach,” he is quoted as having “bat I don't Intend that they so-called bathing on sald, shall bring those suite Into w federal office Henides,” he added the erowd outside the offic ai] time tn get dense that people who really business in the office have culty im getting Inside meaningly very x have aiff morning at o. & prominent died of appendict tis midnight night at the home of W. A. Day, 601% Eastiake Mr. Smith har been In the clty for several dayne visiting the fair, The body t# at Bonney-Watnon's, awatt tne the efrival of his widow and daughter trom Montana Alonzo Smitn Alonee Smit attle man of Montana at last aera eee eee ee . ® WEATHER FORECAS * Pair tonight and Thursday; & Wight weet winds, Teneweseseeesed TAFT'S ENTERTAINMENT | IS RECONSIDERED President Chilberg and Other Exposition Offi- cials Object to the Golf Tournament. Country Chub, Soelety entertainment of H. Taft elther The Golf program for the President William will or will not be sanctioned by the A-YoP. exposition, according to the decision of rather a stormy meeting being held today by the exposition officials. Including President Chifberg, Vice President MeGraw and Chairman Josiah Col ling of the ceremoules committee. who drew up the program that has aroused a storm of protest from ex position people and local citizens. Collins Insists. Mr today, and made that the program for visit, as prepared by strictly in accord with dent's own wishes. ‘When I saw Mr. Taft in Cin clnnatl he expressed bis willing |ness to give us one day at the ex position, but at that time, and since then by wire, he hi ex preased a desire to spend t m ond day at Seattle in rest and sncmcitr Beenuse Mr. Taft Is the statement Mr. Taft's him, was the presi IBES SUFFER WHILE [AMMAS LEARN BEAUTY Also Sweat ing the Dis- ng of Tips on Femi-| Oe thing in the world big, rugged enn kit Attempts to care for wl of autocrats—a Is this a fact when 8 the job, which was ified at the expoal i Yerterday afternoon, Papas aevembled on of Auditorium the muchly adver Yale discoursed on to make It stick In the Tips. Bee eele’s tips the matalde present od Of helplessness fi the gods the Mises, the Bnd the rest liad the jink drink paeudo- an ae It Three ible f those on the Ue pink-«ktuned dar. u hungry, com ‘et up just as the Was immerved in a tiny tot clung to! future president erted ax though bis) * day. to search dad. About where he carried his pencil and fountain pen. | Being @ man, said dad didn't tum ble to baby's wants, but when he did several cruel, hard-hearted vil lains suickered. Mamma Was Rea! Busy, | The helpless dad turned a deop crimson and prayed for the arrival of mamma, Bat mamma was ge ting beauty hints hot from the Y Mps, and she right then had no thought of baby and dad, Dad fin ally bit on @ happy acheme, how lever, and let the little chap try to swallow his Ingersoll. Baby did hin best to make a holse like an ostrich, folling the infant. At that, baby coased vibrating his larynx and dad cast a look of disdain on the anickerers. And another thing | breadwinner who knows | hold a baby like a mother! | be did! show me the how to It can't And no more eloquent proof of| \this ‘claim was ever shown than when a big, brawny chap, weighing close to a fifth of a ton, tried to rock a pink and white package to sieop, It was @ scream in more ways than one. While tears rolled down the baby’s chubby cheek | perspiration gathered on daddy dome, He Found the Pin. For fully 15 minutes that little the | little blood pumper was on from lblink. After shifting baby but dad held on to the chain, thus! larm to arm with a countenance pathetically ludicrous, daddy ly located the seat of the trouble It was a pin, by heck! It would have taken mamma about elght sec onda to discover sald pin. | Some re nice, well-behaved bables chewed on rubber rings or secured a half nelson on a pecullar ly shaped bottle with a rubber at tachment, and seemed content. The male sentinels over these bables were happy until the pin baby and the hungry one began to ery. Sald male guardians were then torn with fear that their charges would swell the chorus But after Mme. Yale's beauty dope ran out for the afternoon, the as sembled mammas came forth and fully 50 papas breathed deep sighs lof relief, mopped fevered brows and those who #moked, #moked up And they do say those tobaccos never tasted so sweet in years, It ltnkes a baby to show a blg man up. Ce ee ie ee ee eed PUT LID ON SAY8 TAFT, (By United Press.) DENVER, Colo, Aug. 18 President Taft ha@ sent a per sonal appeal to President Walsh of the Transmisalasipp! congress to put the lid on the Pinchot Ballinger controversy, according to gossip here to- »* * * * * \* * * * * * * Prrrr rr eee ee ee Collins returned to the city! final-| eK Seeeeeeee + ee a lover of golf, the outing at the Country club was planned. 1 be lieve that the people of the North west will have ample time and ebance to see and hear the presi dent in one day as he desires, Object to Program. Other exposition officials main tain thelr attitude of tnsisting that | wr Taft's viett be made more of a public affair, and that he spend bis time at the fait and in meet ing and Wpeaking to the people of the Northwest, [t is anticipated that the meeting today will reeult in material changes being made in the Taft pfogram, with a view of making it & thoroughly democratic affair | HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL IN POLITICAL BREAST—SEE “SILVER DICK” WARNER Dixon Warner, still well | Silver Diek, Adam known In Beattie as his sobriquet of the Popullet days, is a candidate for mayor of Los Angeles on a Good People’s and) Montelpal Ownership platform, with| a prohibition plank thrown fn Relieving that every city in the United States te controlled by graft nd grafters, Warner has taken his slogan from the Bible, “Thou Shalt | Not Steal.” He has lived In Loe Angeles seven years, and belleves| that if he can centralize the votes of those who want good govern-| ment and the jaboring classes he will beat his other half dozen op ponents and elected mayor of Los Angeles. Like most other can | didates Silver Dick has been forced into the race by the petitions of) hie friends, Here is hie platform: | “Municipal government ie a pub- jie trust for public betterment and should have a charter commensur ate with ite needs ‘The rich shall not graft off the| public necessities of the poor Stop farming out public atilitie to individuals and private corpora-| tions, and stop now. The public |etreets and public utilities belong {to all the people and are held in | trust by the elty government for all the people and are not for private | exploitation Malfeasance in office is Indefen sible. Lawes are made to be en forced as well as obeyed equally Taxation for the alike. Kvery dollar of taxable property should be taxed as pro vided by lawat its actual cash) | value,” lon PUBLIC EN equally rich and poor! Urging that the efty counell take me nection to Immediately force an n the Seattle Elec Ren ment company and the Seattle regarding the ox which f# made through the of their franchises, Superin- tendent of Publle Utilities A, V Boulllon today filed a letter to the councll with the eounctl clerk Mr, Boulllon says that a reason able time has elapsed for th to | patch up their difference regarding the revenue to be paid each other) for each transfer Isaued, and that it] left to thelr goodness or conventence | the matter will never be settled, \ ton & Southern change of transfor, obligatory upon them terme ‘STEEL RATS SAVE | Jacks. | Companies are operating 1 perfectly “BILVER DICK” WARNER, WOMAN FROM DEATH CHICAGO,< Aug, 18.—Steel rate employed tohold her pompadour In position, anved the life of Mrs. Mabel Moore today, who was rob bed of $1,500 worth of dlamonda, | after two menu had beaten her over the head repeatedly with black ‘The brutal attack took place in front of Mra. Moore's home, Doe tors declare that her injuries would have proved fatal except for the presence of the rats, which broke the foree of the blows rained upon her by the thugs. She wae taken to the hospital, | where whe In now undergoing treatment ITITLED TO THE TRANSFERS “The franchise under which both clear,” says Mr, Boullion, “They are réquired to issue transfers to the other lines and this they have not} been doing.” The suggestion made by Mr. Boutlion that If the companies 4 not come to an am agreement soon the elty council should place| the matter In the bande of the law department of the city and with a| view ef forcing the issuance of transfers immediately, letting the} companies: adjust their differences As may sult thelr conventence, in | when he |comes back lclined to do 80, |the people are determine "The people are the sufferers,” he| faye, “and it i# high time that they be given a fair deal.” E SEATT MAKES LAST ATTEMPT 10 DEFEAT HENE AT POLLO BY [oT THAW USING MON His Sister Alice Travels Paid Workers Labored All Many Miles Through the Rain in Effort to Get a Parole for Him. «ny MPEGANTIC United Press) Me, Aug ly exhausted and Mice Thaw, for Yarmouth, last White Piaina, N. ¥., her ther, after to his freedon 20 miles through the the Canadian downpour of rain merl night lolt herole She woods across secure walk border in a terrific Mill to Juatice and tried to persuade him Thaw After a long cane, the former ¢ to post a mi for Thaw's leaned Mille refused to cor or the offer After Monday could o avel trails leading to Mille camp, ten miles awa mayed by the roads plucky young woman started yesterday morning from the camp and walked the entire distance, of the ffored ‘ discusstor security if re jon dollars as good conduct r plea # rae w ihe muddy ountaln dis one over the Not the accompanied | Jonly by a guide ‘WOMAN GETS SLAPPED FOR SENDING POSTAL | GARDS 10 HER HUBBY (iy United Press) CINCINNATI, Aug. 18—Willlam Bchenck, of Elwood place, offered a jnovel excuse for slapping his wife faced Judge Hoffman in| | the police court today, that he was a victim of “postal card mania,” | and charged his wife with sending them. He presented several cards to the court. On one was written, All in and down and out”; another showed # handsome young woman with outstretched arms, yawning. Underneath the picture was printed the words, Another had written on it, “Come In; the water ts fine,” The wife charged that Schenck had slapped and then punched ber in the face while be was talking with her Sunday night. Judge Hoff. man placed the case on the open docket and told the wife not to send her husband any more postal | cards, | publican. Day in the Employ of Republicans and Graft Prosecutor Loses. United Press.) SCI this afternoo cedes that Charles M, Fickert ur’ republican 1 the republ nominations in yout Bulletin saya for went to Char wmall an and de for district ‘8 primaries The de district at M. Ficke Neither spared | A ama labored all polls d erathe torn Th ocra nominator torne by nor money Was ters of F pald workers y tor him at the The opposition, which Francis J. Heney, exp noney. Heney himself all campaign eaplte lied a large weratic vote. afternoon kert favored ded no was away and ts dinad per all he p contage of the de The th firma the early sta William Crocker, the for mayor ed and Dr. T. B. regular deme t for mayor by tile count con nts that regular was nominat Leland, th nomina Ww. was lee RRR 1 don't care if he never! | AeVeP, ATTENDANCE. ® Yesterday * Total » . * PESTER S ST SH 4S FALLS ON HOT STOVE; (5 BRANDED FOR LIFE SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18.— With the words “New Depar. ture” In reversed order burned deep in the fiesh across his forehead, physicians state that G. lawata, a Japanese now ina hospital at Alameda, will be a walking advertisement for a cooking range the remainder of epping over a hurn- Ing gas stove in his room yes tripped and the letters of the trade mark branded themselves deep upon his forehead, ONE CEN} AINED State Will Gain Nothing | From Big Gift if Tax Is Not Collected, Says Commissioner. / Jniess the etate collects ite tan get a All the the prop fifty office than ssioner taxes net the ag Metrope easet w out of the bulldings erected or be The never erty wil valueless ir of a yeare fe buliding . that State Tax Comr Testifying exactly to the con- trary, State Tax Commissioner Frost told the board that $480,- 000 was-not only not exorbitant, but that $576,000, or 48 per cent of $1,200,000, would be a@ fairer value and a generous one te the company ded that it sity regents tollet vas some business pon which business wo and @ d expired; , bean put such oteins cur- that the arbi- due wulte with 5 te that the land fr the streets stant the were m nev 4 fina made assese, war trar without thoug and was Was Poor Bargain. That the buildings on the lease- hold will be valueless at the end of 50 years and that the state must collect {ts taxes to make a@ cent out of the ground, was what State Tax Commissioner Frost told the board. The life of a modern of- fice building ts leas than 60 years,” sald Mr. Frost. ‘There is prob- xt an office building in any in the United States built 50 re ago and still used for of- 8. J. F. company Douglass, secretary of the did the testifying for the Metropolitan. It was he who made the declaration that to date the investment had lost money. | “What was the value of the leasehold, in your estimation, on ee “Continued on Rees Seven. CANNOT STOP THE PROBE OF © THE STATE SUPREME COURT Public Deneads That the Investigation Proceed, kaaga dents in the curred when fight Todd yesterday oc of Whitman | pointed his finger squarely in the Showing Up All Points| in Sullivan Case. (Star Special Correspondence.) OLYMPIA, Aug. 18.—It would be} | Just as easy to stop the progress of | inate gotuate with a pitchfork as to further and ultimately complete investigation of the su preme court and all ne con nected in any way with the settle ment of the Sullivan estate, This ie the consensus of opinion he: among not only the legislators but in all circles, When the French dismiss the committee was voted down the legisla and spectators felt that they were in the center of a veritable Niagara, The storm of protest and indignation was 8o vio jont, so powerful, as to throw the few supporters the olution & cyclone prevent the resolution to of | that could be found In the assembly, into a panto, Even’ EB, B. Palmer | who was flatly accused on the floor | of inspiring and directing the action lof the Clark county representative, ran to cover, declaring that he was not averse to continuing the prob ling. At the same time the Seventh ward statesman defied the Halsey or any other committee to get “any thing on me,” “Cannot Stop It.” “We have started something that we cannot stop, even If we were In said Representa tive Peter David, a member of the committee, “This must go on, for d that we shall go into the very entrails of the whole Sullivan deal, and if there {s anything crooked, expose \tt and insist on the punishment of the crooks, If any are found, There is an underlying sentiment all over the estate that will not down, de manding that the work of invest! gation be thorough, and if we do not do our duty the people will find others that will.” One of the most dramatic incl | that are Hable to be jin the same house | indignantly | "ribbed up face of Representative French and said with intense seorn “Can It be possible that the gen tleman has presented this resolu tion at the behest of the interests injured by the proposed investigation? 1 sincerely hope that such fs not the motive him, because in that case 1 would have to express deep sorrow at being compelled to serve with him.” Denial, his feet and that he was yosing inter the impu French Makes Franch jumped to dented the ests and warmly res tation of bad faith v. Hay, while refusing to belleve that there anything wrong with the court this morning that would is sald be gratified if the investigation is com- plete, comprehensive, painstaking and searching, Good heavens,” exclayned the executive, “if our supreme court Is corrupt, {2 what tribunal will it be possible for us to place confi dence?" Whatever action this legislature may take, whatever conclusion the committee may reach, whatever interests may fight the Investiga- one thing lw perfectly clear to veople here, and that is that sooner or later the whole matter will be threshed out and the blame for the administration of the Sulll- van estate, if there is anybody to blame, will be put on the proper shoulders Attorney General Bell says he will be perfectly willing to take any action consistent with his duty and the report of the committee. aE tion the QUID OF TOBACCO SAVES MAN’S VS LIFE ULL COLLECTOR BEATEN UNTIL HE 1 MADE ANVING MANAG (By United Press.) BERKELEY, Cal,, Aug. 18.— After lying in a comatose con- dition since Sunday, Charles Fischel, who, it is alleged, was beaten by W. W. Woods, Mre, Jessie Woods and A. W, Cox when he attempted to collect a bill, recovered consciousness yesterday and today he is a raving maniac, according to his physician, It is not. known whether the man’s condition is permanent or temporary and he Is being watched ol The three persons alle, ed to ponsible for Fischel’s are under arrest, (By United Press.) LOGANSPORT, Ind., Aug. 18.— ugust Walters, a park policeman, killed by electricity assisting Nneman repairing an are light, and he grasped the wire which is used to lower the lamp, Instant ly fire flashed from Waiters’ body, after in the fell, ble to re- lease his hold on the cable and was pitched and with great rapidity, It was several hours before regained consciousness. sived a current of 2,200 volts, Physicians attribute Walters’ ea- cape from a tragic death to the fact that when he first grasped the cable the shock caused him to swallow a big quid of tobacco, This tobacco tn the stomach acted las a stimulant and kept up hear? action, was almost today while a who wa cable and spinning around air he but was un thrown about Wal- ters He re .