The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 21, 1909, Page 1

HE SEATTLE THE SEATTLE “STAR TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1909, ° imeem sot ee eat. 11, NO 181. ” SEATTLE, WASH., ONE CEN) + SEA TTLE PUBLI C FED ON TAINTED MEAT SCORE OF BUTCHERS CAUGHT IN THE ACT erecta nee eee eters EE ee, FS ROBBED OF MOTHER (ISCOVERERS OF THE LOVE AT THIS BABY FARM) NORTH POLE ARE BACK GOV. JOHNSON COOK GREETED (ROBERT PEARY <trrecrun” and Other Preservatives Use BASErH AWAY. BY THOUSANDS IS AT SYDNEY | to Diseaise Taste and Color of Putrid THSMORNING, IN NEW YORK ON ROOSEVELT, Stusewe end Hamburg Steak || Died After Short Illness, Makes Statement That He|Scores of Crafts, Loaded | Following an Operation) Was at the Pole and Has| With Hundreds of Ad-) —Wife at Bedside at) the Data and Proofs to| mirers, Cheer Arctic! Time of Demise. Show the World. Explorer on Return. Seattle Woman Makes a Business of Tending People’s Babies—Place is Dirty and De- Investigation — Pitiful Little Story of an Deserted Tot Found Here. ted—Babies to Board. Tel M. 6462 being mother of a child which 1 wished to “let out.” and I had said my babe was two years old, and beyond the need of that strange mixture talked about DE it wae not with condensed hor wot that abe filed tor her omy ROCHESTER, Minn., Sept. 1.— bg a te bottle = she pick |Governor John Albert Johnson, up the floor, though mil! housan: | }out of an uncovered lard So baw a witty velop \mtyht beharéip batter. He was a jemocratic standard bear |of the most delightful trips of my | sturdy Ittle chap of two, and for |° of 1912, and three times elected | life across the Atlantic aboard the him her black eyes softened. She | soveruer of Minnesota, died at St.| Oscar I, I am indeed glad to once was pot an ignorant woman, evi-| Mary's hospital here at 3:25 o'clock | more see the shores of my native this morning, following an opera-| land. dently. Rates at the Baby Farm. tion last Wednesday for intestinal | | wish to say that | have trouble. come from the North ind Are the people of Seattle being systematically fed with diseased and de- cayed meat ? Twenty-three butchers, among whom are some of the most prominent in the city, have been arrested for foisting putrid meat on the public which they have disguised by application of harmful chemicals. ONE PROMINENT BUTCHER, WHO ESCAPED THE OFFICERS OF that are born of un- conditions, call up /[ (By Untied Prev.) (Ry United Pree) SYDNEY, N. B., Sept. 21.—Sur | Founded by « flotilla of « hundred | leratt of every description which | were crowded with cheering bu-| | THE LAW, SAYS: pea aan gag tng ene “IF THEY ARREST ALL WHO USE ‘FREEZUM,’ EVERY ONE OF US pir» ~ ntg into Sydney harbor | WILL HAVE TO GO TO JAIL.” made its way Despite the fact that the prices of meat have soared until they are prohibi- BY FREDERICK A, COOK. | Written Aboard Opoar ti, for the) United Press. NEW YORK, Sept. 21.—After one | Thomas will an- She con- vor2 y BETTY HOWELL. to board.” | sentence, but it At the vonsel | through the boats clustering about it Peary stood neer the bow By | tive to all except the must financially fortunate, the butchers are bringing to “What do you charge?” bis side Mre. Peary was seen. She} &.world of tragedy! Per. ‘woman wanted to ih & Little easier for the of @ mother's love or that scarcely Master, the day's she was a widow, “Fifteen dollars for tttle ones, | and twelve for older ones. Last winter I had eight, none of them over two. and that was last summer, when I had five down with summer com- I've been keeping them | two years, and never lost but one, | | Mrs. Johuaon is on the verge of of phyaictans, Shortly after midnight Governor Johnson took a turn for the worse, and the attending physicians real & collapse and is under the care! 1 have brought the story of my trip and the data with me, j The public already has tangible and specific records of my trip. Ia & Very short time the complete nar | rative with all my observations will | be published and placed before the had Doarded the Roosevelt miles to the north of Point Low from the yacht Sheolah. As soon as the Roosevelt had heen brought to a stop in the stream, she.was boarded by the etty and De ten |thelr aid all the skill of the chemist, that the scraps of decaying meat may be disguised to escape the warning of the palate. “Freezum,” boric acid, benzoate of soda, sodium sulphide and all the “pre- inion officials who of- | servatives” the laboratory has produced are used to hide the nauseating taint. own children by giv-| Plaint at once.” |ined that the end was near. For|world for exatyination. It should “clally welcomed the Amorican ox-| She showed me a bed room, with|short periods after midnight the @ bed and two cribs in it. “Might! governor was unconsclo and at I see the rest of the house?” other times his mind “We sleep in here tn the sum-jly clear. At 1:30 he mer, but in the winter I have a/the final period of unconscious stove in the other room, and we ness. Governor Johnson did not sleep out there. I always sleep/once speak of his fate, although he can put my hands of | seemed to realize that the end was near are of her attention to) bilities whirled as the car made gut into the pur Beattie, 1 was on m home of Mra Inserted the ad- I jted—Babies to vm oo ad column of We went back to the fithy room pers. She had Where nine people bad slept all Teeccobel aumber | —“fomsanced aa Pane Fy "| bad supplied her) tions for getting to At the Death for Weary Mothers. mothers, in the twt- & long day of toll, had) game road? Had the way_ gov Mrs. Thomas. Yes,/ ebiidren before. Her Worked on the railroad. od to the children? Yes, | When the end came Mrs John BEGUN BY RUSSIANS). swine horter, I won- sv Bypcremaenutl port mags administration for the the ‘tracks and take the} ouely Injured and a thousand |ijentenant Governor Eberhart, a merery, and the path sug} here-this afternoon. ernor of Minnesota in 1904 have been murdered, tortured — at 2 o'clock this afternoon Why did she take STOCK MARKET. Nita. nary. tral ratiroad to increase the divi-| The remains will be buried in son, Miss Margaret Sullivan, « bosom friend of the governor's wife, Mise Jeamme, head nurse at MASSKERE Of J Bt. Mary's hospital, Mrs. Rowder Bm another nurse, and a house phy — the passing away of Gov- =, Johnsen the of Minne passes into the hands of re ith the prospect of little BERLIN, Sept. 21—Fift, ims and soft little lps at; Jewish men and women have | {fst time tn five years of it? been maceacred, 12 others ceri | Until the next election the af. “d faire of the state will be guided by sthe left,” she had told me beaten by an Infurtated mob one. oe a ia of Russians at Kief, according ue — ay eee ie 2 ogy se to late dispatches received Johnson was first elected places and walks for Outrages of the most atroc- I stopped a man on} lous kind have occurred. Jew- Funeral Held Thursday. ish men, women and children A special train bearing the re mains of Governor Johnson left and outraged by tne peasantry. The slaughter began Thursday. js due to arrive in St. Paul at et gre ry pm The y ie being escort }ed by a detachment of state mi. & husband work-| (By Cnlted Prem.) 4 it was for the} NEW YORK, Sept. 21- Failure) governor's staff will conduct the jot the directors of the Jersey Cen-| funeral services, which will be held | Thursday. thought, but it|@end at the meeting heid late yes-| Plenty of kind, terday afternoon, and the declara- St. Peter's cemetery Thursday af- things for money,| “On of only the regular payment, | ternoon. to the Increased | C@4used violent fluctuations in allied eas of the world. | securities today. a widow, or ec | and yet be| 4¥¥*#¥¥ errerererry, homel babies. | tof steps od me |® WEATHER FORECAST. | k across a no|® Fair tonight and Wednes- * Light west winds. *| same name in Minneapolis, when © or three chil-|® day he married Miss Eberbart the from hummock | * * the water holes | ma» * ae * SER 6 eg Moutenant governor took her name. em = me to a small a were no front | === “BALLINGER SHOULD GO” ire in the rear. Mrs Bet Me a4 the door. the lady that tele asked. She had been (Editorial from Collier’s Weekly of Sept. 18.) MAGINE © reader, that the controversy between Pinchot and Ballinger is a conflict of individuals. In yen it two great forces clash, ’ ied ved construction of the law. We shall speedily see how 4 | that such remarks from his tongue should be accepted as an tf sewing, | He has pushed the law to its limit, if not beyond, der. It was old, ‘ Homed grime that covered the Pinchot, in the administrative dis- furniture and the very ST. PAUL, Sept. 21,—Lieut.Gov. Eberhart, who will fll out the un- expired term of the late Gov. John- son, is a native of Sweden Hi name ia Adolphus Olson, but Mpelegy Unnecessary. Min through the kitchen, swart with files, to a 4 living room. She ts | not, , and evil joke against the public welfare Chaplain Lawler of the late) | there are so many people of the) Ballinger talks about strict} be easy for everyone to understand why I cannot, on the impulse of the moment, read off the menuacript covering my work of the Jast two years. All charges, acousations and belief regerd- | ing my success in reaching the Pole are based entirely on ig- norance of the supplementary data | possess. Criticiem, too, hae been based, by envious per: eons, on the errora in the re . production of my first dispatch. I have come home prepared to} enter into arguments wits either one or fifty men. At preeent T aa} here with a clear record over which I have a right to display a certain) pride | When selentiate study my de! tailed observations and narra-) tives, they are certain to be com- pelled to admit the truth of my 7| Statements. I am perfectly willing! to abide by the final verdict of this| record when it te gone over by) competent Judges This ia my last word In thie disoussion and the verdict of the judges alone can satisfy the public as to the truth of my statements. In addition to my data and ob- servations I shall bring human wit- | nesses to America to prove that I have been to the North Pole. Cook at Quarantine. QUARANTINE, NEW YORK, Sept, 21.—The steamer Oscar U., bearing Dr. Frederick A. Cook, the Brooklyn explorer, arrived here at) 4:20 o'clock this morning. Even at this early hour the explorer was up and on the saloon deck surrounded by passengers. He stated that he had all of bis and explained that Whitney was) only the bearer of duplicate notes) and his instruments. Whitney to Speak Truth, In speaking of Whitney, Dr. Cook sald “He is a noble gentleman and can be trusted. When the time comes he can be relied upon to! speak the truth.” In speaking of Commander Peary, the Brooklyn explorer said: "a deplore Hoe controversy with Com- mander Peary and feel that nothing more should be said on the syb- | fect. I shall let the public decide whether I reached the North Pole. | They shall have all the facts tn the case. However, I cannot help but) | feel that as the Danish nation ao | cepted me without question they | cheeks burned with t original notes and data with bim! ° plo Peary Weloomed. The welcome accorded here was the greatest Peary of the Dominion. ‘Thq city te crowded with visitors from “the surrounding countryside and te inviwhly decorated with fings and emblems in honor of Com mandér Peary. When the Roosevelt approached the harbor vessels of all sizes shot from the shore loaded down with adiniters of the explorer the, tustouts aKa the whistiiog ot | the tugboats the Yensels at) ewan, and continued until | Roosevelt was slowed down and | the reception committee boarded the Steamer to give him official greetings and to welcome him once | more to olvilieation after his suc- Coseful dash to the North Pole. Children are Proud. Probably the proudest obiidren in the world today are the two children ef Commandery Peary, who mpanied their mother on the delah ahd with her boarded the elt before her afrtval here. While the reception committee was welcoming Commander Peary, nis soh Robert stood close to the aide of his elder sister, holding tightly to ber hand, while his excitement which he hardly was able to con- trol, and his eyes never left the figure of his father. PUBLIC FOUNTAINS CLOSED BECAUSE OF GLANDERS EPIDEMIC Owing to the fact that glandera |has spread among horses in the} reception | ever given anyone in this section Upon | city, Dr. Crichton has ordered that) the water be ehut off at all public} fountains until further notice. Dr. Crichton has also iasued ‘orders to all teamsters of th's city requesting them pot to let their! horses drink at any publio drink-| ing places, Glanders is a dreaded hotee disease and brings quick | death. WHEAT MARKET. CHICAGO, Sept. 2i.—Cash wheat foreed futures to a higher point here and abroad today, options clos. ing 1#e¢ to 1%c a bushel higher than yesterday. In the Chicago | market opening strength here was due principally to the sharply ad vanced cables. en a Meat that would gag a dog, properly treated with “Freezum,” | tiny of the most careful housewife and reaches the table. And then there is the inexplicable sickness that can be attributed only gen- Fateaye-4 to “something I ate.” The probabilities are that it was the meat in varying stages of putrefaction, because these preservatives ONLY FRESHEN THE APPEARANCE OF THE ched | MEAT AND HAVE NO EFFECT ON ITS PUTRESCENCE. Rotten meat steeped in “Freezum” is just as rotten as if not treated, only “Freezum” kills the warning odor and gives the meat a fresh red color. But the quality of the meat has not changed, except for the worse. The |“*beef trust” has enough chemists in its employ to create a reasonable doubt as to the actual injurious properties of these preservatives of themselves, but there never has been any question as to the poisonous qualities of decaying meat. Yet butchers themselves, and men who know the business, declare that jthese preservatives are generally used. The two big packing houses of the \city are among those arrested on evidence secured by the state health depart- ment. To protect the people of Seattle from putrid meat, there are two men de- IF NOT, WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? Sausage and hamburger made of 48 Beattle meat markets, LD BAD MEAT Warrants sworn to by state food | ea , 818 Western av,, 81 Columbia houses in Seattle today. ©. A. Sonvighaus, 508 Yesler way L. Marshall, 318 12th av. with sodium aulphite and boric acid J. A. Btavig, 2828 Medison st deadly poisons chemically, and ts} Fred Leissler, 2705 Madison st rottenness of the meat. It merely H. Parkinson, public market freahe: its appearance and leads L. ©. Troughton, Big White market, public warket let av to preserve it lat ai $ Scraps of every description in a E. W. Kirk, Frye-Bruhn Co, |hamburger. If a customer refuses lan order of meat as bad, it goes 109 Occidental av. | Putrid Meat Poisonous. | } also stall tailed from the health department, and one of them is forced to spend all of his time at one packing plant. decaying and inferior meats, fresh ened in appearance with potsons, inepection officers were issued in James Henry (four market Judge Brown's court last night and st. and public market, Pike pla Otto Parthier, 228 N. Broadway The putrid _meat, in itself poison- ©. Weber, 228 N. Broadway then offered to the public for a| Joseph Kleiner, 623 Pike st wholesome meal John Lewis, public market you to belleve {t te pure. Half the public market time the putridity of the meat ts Henry Pletech, Rainier Meat Co., public market. butcher shop are thrown Indiserim-| Fulton market, 713 2nd ay. | toataly. into '@ box of the floor, aft Charles Bruhn (Occidental market), DO THE PEOPLE OF SEATTLE WANT TO EAT PUTRID MEAT? has been the food of the patrons of | are being served on the guilty meat Frye-Brubn Co. (Seattle market), ous to the stomach, has been doped | V. Sontag, 2 Madison st The drugs do not neutralize the! George Helbrook, public market more injurious than the drugs used William Evans (Carstens Packing Co.), Band Box market, erwards to become sausage and Charles Feht (National Meat Co.), 110 Occidental av, 204 2nd av. 8. passes the scru- cretion left to him, has acted as attorney for the people of this is wnliae Sis whdeini €6b@eae linto the box to be _Giaguined and With-| which leaves the sausage and ham- @ the dirty carpet wat a wan two years old ve aye had awful poor! @xplained her protectress.| strictness, let us spend one moment on the P i Pp Mot! Went to Alaska when n't but three weeks old, and! ever since. She had ; tions, and now she's but now she's get @n crawl around. The got her arms banange 4 be Sy Were getting crooked, Bot to let her tand on Lacked Care on the little arma i and the baby's dress wea dd but it coula not have| b on that floor iat bo yo leod her?” 1 asked me} Kive them al! condensed + . when they're little, and & food that a lady for me.” Gonsoction this 4 i mrvileged to In. | Aucertain what “the laconic advertive Made the gretonse of country, living and to come. As illuminating this Ballinger talk about respect for legal Alaska land cases. Immediately after his resignation as commissioner of the gen- eral land office, Ballinger bec: ham group. Are these%men du the smelter trust? coal fields valued at several b Ballinger to take this job? 190 of the Revised Statutes: “It shall not be lawful for any ame attorney for the Cunning- mmies for the Guggenheims and The prize consists of copper mines and illion dollars. What right had Please glance casually at section person appointed after the first day of June, 1872, as an officer, clerk, or employee in any of the depart ments, to act as counsel, attorney, or agent for prosecuting any claim against the United States which was pending In either of said departments while he was such an officer, clerk, or employee, nor in any manner, nor by any mean 8, to aid in the proseoution of any such claim, within two years next after he shall have ceased to be such officer, clerk, or employee.” As lawyers differ about the tec confine ourselves to the spirit, of (Continued hnical extent of this statute, we may which Justice Lamar of the United ~~ Se on Page 7.) Where the purple snow throws back night sun, Where the sun dogs dance on the ic fun, Where @ living foot has never solle Where the threat of death in the 1 blow; Where the God of want stands stern 1s whirled the world; lame, A hardy man, with face of tan, lured With dogs and sledge and his Nekim And won his way to the top of the w Where the long sought goal, the northmost pole There came a man o'er the trackloss waste, ca} | sent BY GLORGE R PULTORD. e the glow of the dazaling mid © pack’s crest In riots of flendish d the breast of the virgin snow, © king's breath smites with an icy and the and gaunt cutting wind guards the crown of aweary and weak and onward by mocking fame; nos he conquered all polar fears ‘orld-first in the world of years out chemical preservatives {t would | be seen to be putrid in an indant but by liberal use of “Freezum" you are deceived and eat it The state has a strong against the 28 butchers arrests have ever been made by the meat linspectors, but they have worked| on this case.for months and know] what they are doing back to you as wholesome. | it Kills the Stench. No matter how old, or how ex posed to heat and air, the sodium sulphite, boric acid or “Freezum,” @ patent preparation on the same order, disguises its appearance, and odor. Not that all sausage and all ham burger is bad, or that much Is not} worse than other, One morning your breakfast may be only inferior! ‘The defendants include some of scraps of meat, brightened up with|the best known meat firms in the @ #mall amount of bengoate of soda. | city, One butcher, who was not ar- The meat is not decayed nor really said this morning: “If they injuttous, to arrest everybody that they will have to. case taste Some Prominent Butchers. rested, are going uses ‘Freezum, get us all.” The issuing of the warrants has disclosed the weakness of the olty meat inspecting force. But two men are provided for all Seattle and her suburbs, One man must be at the Henry packing house every minute of the dey, for Henry has never come under government inspection, The other man should be at the Yakima Sheep company’s plant, The Butcher is Lying. The butcher is lying to you when he sells it. The meat ts masquerad- ing as first quality and he Is asking first quality prices for it. Benuoate of soda ix not poisonous in small | quantities. Neither is strychnine or mercury. But you carefully avoid the latter Five or six days you may got more of the same lot of sausage after, burger plants without Inspection from the city health department, and depending on the state to do the work “Borle acid, sodium sulphite and bengoate of soda are ali poisons, es- pecially the two former,” sald City Chemist Jacobson this morning. “When taken tn small amounts, the system probably throws them off, but in the end they certainly prove injurious. Many deadly potsons are used as medicines in small amounts, but are injurious to the system nevertheless,” ANOTHER FOR SPOKANE, SPOKANE, Sept. 21.—Spokane won the morning game from Van- couver in easy fashion, The score: R.A. B. Vancouver .. a as a | Spokane . Oe ie As | Ratter Paddock and Stanley; Bonner and Ostdiek.