The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 25, 1909, Page 1

a al, NO, 185. “yo. Ts Heads Off In- on of Bouillon’s) of Graft in Build- tment. notified Mayor Miller willing to bring be BR reputable business sf Seattle who will ex | m the circumstances under | he paid $150 graft gaa —A. V. @ building jon, superintendent of pub- not respecting Mr. wishes in this matter, ma if he has any graft ¥ iy must tell it vache not listen to, ‘Hees receive, any of his Mayor Miller, y hangs another tale/ apparent attempt to fevestication of graft 1 against men in the pet the city. Recently Mr. fled the mayor by let- ;: positive evidence of . & well-known reat. city paid $150 to some the building department @ this payment was not Ja¥, Mr. Bouillon deem- ty to call the attention to the matter. The in reply, wrote that all the facts, that the ed was indefinite. dictated another let. the mayor that if he & certain day and ie own convenience the ad the graft money if he had received the mayor, in spite assertions that never annoy him, showed | much perturbed, Mr. Bouillon . Mr. + Mr. Boulilon hear him,” repited the | “I want Mr. Boufllon to te!) jatory. None of his witnesses . by me” p has the maycr of Seattle | to th 3 Quickest way to expose. ous of the recent graft | who told me about pay- for @ buliding permit | table eftizen that his Weight,” said) Mr. ] iy. ) ' ioned him close. } Party, known as a the remain. one personali the building de- Apformed that the ut the impression 0 later received id the necessary board of public the permit rushed Hi that the permit &t first denied, but ante At the time I Proceeding was all sae it But now " eet $150 was or the ean see how Pe WRO handed over the that the board of fan be bribed. As I mer of that board, I do we fo sit sti!) and have exist without ¢. Sto dlaprove the charge.” | Tl I THEN ROBBED mut ® care in the world,| Was suddenly brought mee 9f the wicked ways of | worl <n he received a clip! i an alley off Occi-| Meer Main st, early this Me he found that tis pockets | * in gold and | * man was sent|* of The wound. tal, where an ugiy Was dressed aon 10 leave the hospital with The victim of the Was unable to furnish the any sort of a descrip Assailant, OFFICERS AcauitTeED, BATA, Ga. Bept. 25 POM Martial hay acauitien BREW. Hezethurst and ee ; | } id Privcal Pe FM, Of the Seventeenth in| charged with ti. ; ve Edward Coulte having killed er of the same a WERRR ARK A ADA He * by Aver. ATTENDANCE 3 YOU'RE RIGHT, MISSIS, BECAUSE I KNOW WE NEED esc. STOCKINGS AND GLOvEs BUT THE SOLIDARITY OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY is MUCH MORE IMPORTANT. “All | have to say it is that | believed that the interests of the country, the inte fice the accomplishment of certain things in revision of the tar maintain party solidarity, which | betiev: or two schedules of the tariff.”--President Taft in western apeech, Seinen =. ANOTHER IAL PAYS PENALTY OF JOY AIDE against employes of Winnie Fraser Dies at Se-| attle General Hospital Following Accident Last Thursday. Winnie Elvirn Fraser, who was injured in the drunken joy ride of early last Thursday morning, when | Johnson and Miss) |Goldie Porter were killed, died at| |the Seattle General hospital short: | ly before 6 o'clock due to hemorrhage of | Mise Mabel Death the bral formed last night, but the girl failed to rally. Miss Fraser was 19 years W. J. Praser, her father, and Mrs. joy ride. The body will be shipped to Mt Vernon this afternoon to be inter- tread in the girl's family lot in that | Miss Fraser, or Mra. | Frank Nichols, as she was known Vernon, was employed as a waitress at the Motor cafe, Broad-| taken sick a attle on it Httle town. in Mt. way and Pike st, accident wheel by It was there that she be came acquainted with feurs who frequent the garages | aking) that neighborhood She came to Seattle for the last | time one week ago last Wednesday. | “| hardly know which way turn,” said the stricken father this/ the girls screamed as the car ca reened back and forth, and Hiser merely laughed Then the all-aight carousal and the liquor got the best of them and they fell asleep, to be awakened | by the crashing of timbers as the! #° to the jury early this afternoon Kle, taken home. Mrs. A. P. Sco. car ripped through the guard rail, * | and plunged to the ground below, just as the dawn was creeping over the nearby hills. Hiser told the jury he was run- “When I have recovered my composure, I propose to inst! tute sult agafnst somebody. lieve I have good grounds for dam. | ‘The statement that Winnle Fraser was the wife of Walter Lowe, of Mount Vernon, is a mistake Se RIA IISA IAS A AM MARS NEAR TODAY. * | Mr Matson regained his|* y w i cident inst eventng those who were jat first taken to the Emergency \hospital on the grounds were sent ito the city hospitals or to their lhomes. In many cases the patient | Roadhouses. The bartenders at the road- houses where the “Joy Riders’ obtained their liquor have all been arrested. The men are Charlies Ufin, of the Horseshoe bar; Herman Widemann and Robert Hawkins, of the 6. & A bar, and Harry Haugel, of the Jones place. Repeated rounds of drinke at three saloons, dancing at some, all in a drunken stupor on the return, the chauffeur seeing how near he could come to posts without hitting them, is the sum of the testimony before the cor- oner’s jury today investigating the “joy ride” accident on Fourth av, 8, Thursday morn- Ing, which cost three lives to date. | From 10 o'clock Wednesday night An operation was per-| until 5:30 Thursday morning, when) brother, Michael Fortier, on the |!t will pay all hospital and de morning of May 8, 1909, this morn-|bille for those hurt and all other ing finished his address to the jury, | Just claims. . A short recess was taken and theo Prosecuting Attorney George F.|Ccoma man who was kille Vanderveer made the finishing accident, will be shipped to statement for the state | foe burial, young | the big car plunged off the bridge jonto the tide flats, the eight in the old. | car were drinking and drinking, rid ing from saloon to saloon and back Fraser were at her side when death | again. One.trip back to Beattie for claimed its third victim of the fatal | 6asoline onty, varied this program Nauseated by the Hquor, Winnle Fraser, #ho died this morning, was) the car started to Se-| t trip and the chauf-| feur turned around and went back to one saloon, where the girl was) given a seltzer sour. As the car started back Hiser at the time of the | proudly showed his proweas at the | coming as near to ob- |structions along the road as pos n| sible without hitting them. | And Hiser Laughed. Christine Anderson swore to this this morning as she lay on her cot in} the General hospital (Continued on Page Seven PRESIDENT TAFT SAYS SO s Jury Hears Tale of Wild Night in George- town’s Saloons and home this morning Of the 35 who were Injured, 24 wore able to go home, and 31 6 confined to some hospital, Many ot through the cold, stony corridors of | ployed here five years and in Mi the county court house, and which |Seapolls three years before that made many a spectator wipe away | The accident in due either to utter | tear and even some of the jury | Relect on bis part or faulty meek | nervously wink their eyes, John anism. Milig Day, counsel for Jean Fortier, | Which. now on trial for the murder of gone over in detail by Attorney | Day in his effort to prove Fortier insane at the time he shot his brother. The mean, pinching, heartless disposition of the dead man waa depicted in no uncertain terms, and as the lawyer approach. ed the description of the actual homicide, Jean's eyes, already wet | with tears, blinked nervously, and he burst into suppressed sobs whom were acquainted with defendant, and who knew and liked his sunny characteriatics, and who aiso knew of the straitened cir. | cumstances of his wife, fairly cried openly as Lawyer Mills recited the | Taken home. many alleged wrongs perpetrated upon Jean by his dead brother. She told how | EXTBA OFFICEAS ARE (ssi sian. itt. i'vicuorms (By United Pre ‘ON, T Nearer to the earth been for 15 years, the planet Mars today is the earth today was only 3 ESSE EEE SEER EE HEE Settee eeee SH SSSSES ESE ESSE SESE ERE EEE ET et tH IK RIK REUNITES BIG FAMILY. (By United Press) FRANCISCO, Sept. who recently bought a in Tulare coun-| ty, started to return today to Min his children, numbering 19, families and entire clan back to California with As a result of his trip the population of Tulare county will be increased by 40 persons. WORDS OF PRAISE. Sept. 25, 1909. Editor Seattle Dally Star, Seattle, Wash. My Dear Sir: Your mag nificent editorial on the front page entitied “From Road- house to Morgue,” should be framed and. put in every schoolhouse in the city. | most heartily commend your words and indorese your fight on the infamous roadhouses, the un- enforced laws of this city and state, and the negligent fathers and mothers who are destroy- ing the youth of this city. Continue your work. Respectfully yours, M. A. MATTHEWS, Pastor First Presbyterian Church. Km a tH eee ee ete e eee ee in the settlement of the strike, | oq, 1, M. Messenger ** LORI OI IOIOR ttt Sh be in ie ie die dee ie ie eee ee SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1909. —— VICTIMS OF AGGIDENT ARE | cover+-Accident Is Said to be Inexcusable. All of those injured in the street car Wreck at the exposition entrance yesterday Will recover. Those mup- posed to bé fatally hurt were only badly brutsed and cut by the flying elses P. PF. Winslow, the proprietor of the restaurant, which the car struck, fs at the Pacific howpital and reported to be doing nicely The report that both legs were jbroket and that he was dying was |not true. He is only suffering from in respect to Mr, Tawney’s action In voting for the bill and my action in signing body bruises. f ts of the party, required me to sacri Mise Alice Cardwell of Portland which | had hoped for, in order to [Or one of those supposed ta have f be much more important than the reduction of rates in one | heen fatally injured, is resting eas ily @t the Providence hospital, and the physicians in attendance say | that ahe Is only cut and bruised. | All the others are suffering from | A®.soon as possible after the ac siept af the hospital, but was taken the latter ones were taken to their homes this afternoon Superiatendent Kempster of the Seattic Bleetric company has issued lan official statement on the acct-| | wrestlers ever since Dr. Roller, * tired Roller out and, then to |dent. He eays in part i Accident Inexcusabie. i | The accident was inexcusable by car stopped at the corner above the curve, and should not have been going more than 15 miles an . Lawyer Tells Story of Jean hour when it came to the corner he power must have been on Fortier’s Life in Effort to fometimes human efforts cannot i .|avail against some accident, and Save Him From the Gal-| torn he tunity, mnechantem lows. ‘: makes them unavoidable, In this oi we cannot place the blame The motorman cannot be called in ‘In a passionate plea that rang) @=perienced, as he has been em We cannot as yet say The company has announced that The body of Frank Hull, the Ta The whole harrowing story was Injured at Hospital. ‘The injured at the hospitals this morning were At Providence—-Mra. P, D. Mo Clund of Okleen, Oxla., who, with lher family, were visiting her son Jat 2041 W. 68d, left eye swollen Mra. P. D. MeClund, jr. 2041 W 634, bruised and cut. Taken home this afternoon, Edith McClund ltaken home. Mrs ee Wentchelt 17017 Greenwood av., injured abou mon in the rear, some of | ty Mies, Frank Davie, Vancouy the | or. B.€., cut and bruised. C. Latin of Vancouver, B. C., taken home Ciittord Leighton, Vancouver, B. C Incerated Ip and face badly bruised | Mildred Barnes, aged 9, Ballard, injured about legs, scalp |wound. Mrs. C. FP. Scholl, 1805 13th v., bruised side. W. J. Hemrick of Leavenworth, Wash. sprained an v it is thought that the case wi a | fleld of Council Bluffs, Ia. tojur mn and. daughter Donna, of Sb Michael and Willt j |Wash., taken home, Chas, Castle ] A lot Napavine, Wash., broken arm m Mayer, Union ltown, Wash., cut and bruised. E Jase, taken home. Miss Helen Gard well, who was at first thought (By United P: to have been injured internally, is OMAHA, Sept cxtra of-|only bruised and suffering from era were sworn in today by the | the shock chief of police to prevent the cou] at the Séattle General——Mrs tinuation of the riots which have |qpeodore Scholer, Medical Lake marked the progress of the street | out dnd bruised. Mr. and Mrs car strike for the past three days. | Heimric h of ‘Leavenworth, Wash., The action was taken as the result | oyt and bruised. Mr. and Mrs of serious disturbances last night.|jjeinien, Orland, Or, cut and President Wattles cf the street | bruised. Mr. and Mrs. T. Walker, car company has been fn confer-| Hayton, Kan. cut and bruised, Mr ence with the mayors of Omaha,| Ghas, Johnson of Portland, Or, cut South Omaha, Council Bluffs, Ben-| and brulséd. Mrs. Anna Brown of son and Florence for the purpose of | Kelso, Wash., cuts about face, Mrs * enlisting the city officials to aid| Jean Conant, Auburn, Wash., bruls 61 6Rth av | Nubruiged. Mra, William Watson, th ay. N, bruised. P. F * | Jolly of Joliet, Ia, taken to hotel, WEATHER FORECAST. = & | Gut and bruised Occasional rain tonight and #} At the Minor—T. M. Hornada, unday; moderate west winds, &| Los Angeles, cut by glass *) At the Pacific—P. F. Winslow, wana Kw we eK bruises about body * @ —— | DOING WELL | All of Those Reported to be | Seriously Hurt Will Re- | defeat, or men who had agreed be- | # better man than Roller. War- in the} a| Iter than Roller, were willing to|® ment.” |to k With Roller defeated, he would no la few weeks ago, it was on the un |the terms of his agreement THE SEATTLE STAFF ONE CEN} WARNER SHOWS UP DR. ROLLER'S GAME LETTER READ AT RINGSIDE WI l SCENES THE ARENA nd d the first fall within 25 minutes and the s¢ Warner Forced to Put up $1,000 to Allow the Lo- Mer will dare to wrestle me cal Man to Throw Him with any other referee than Herman. I want to wrestle Twice. on the square, and hope you will use your influence to help to post one thous a forfeit that minutes. In order to protect r the first fall as soon as I pe ly. I then want y to insist that the referee be changed and I want to wrestle Roller on t ive the people a run for their money. I expect everything n the putting the lights out to being arrested by the I do not believe } make Roller wrestle me. I have $1,000 at stake and must protect it, Curley and Roller have fixed this match and |\“Lays Down” Twice to would not agree to wrestle unless I agreed to every demand | Fulfill Contract and they made that I would not throw Roller. ¥ : B. R. WARNER | Then Goes on and Gives Fine Exhibition. ‘ For several years past, wrestlers have been brought to f the city of Seattle to meet Dr. WRESTLING GAME HERE F. Roller on the agreement that they would “lay down” to the Seattle man and permit him to win. Ordeman-Roller Frame-Up 444444 444444 eH He *%| Since the day three years Is Postponed for All #Jo& canrott’s stTATEMENT® ago that Frank Gotch, in. the . * ie * Time to Come as Result * “I promised my friends an * . of Last Night's Fake. *® evening of excitement and | *| iled to throw Roller in an *® think I kept my word. Roller *! hour's stling sores LiiSa the’ Girton” vrselling |. hour's wrestling, because he. Last night's exposure of the fake| ® have ever seen, and Duncan *| had agreed to let Roller go the wrestling game.in Seattle wilt ef * McDonaid w ttle bit the */ full hour, the wrestling game * rottenest re e | ever saw on fe ly py . o ‘ ctually put an end to WHOSIBE) » o mat. Warner wrestied ac- #|in this city has been a fake pure in this city for s , and simple. me years tO COM®. % cording to instructions. He was Beattie has be a rich feld for # tefd to go underneath until he Of all the matches held here |since that time not one in ten has been on the square. Ol- son, Beall, Burns, Westagaard, and all the rest of them have | “laid down” to Roller when, in nearly every case, ‘they could | have easily thrown the Seattle ;man had they so desired. Last night at the Arena at the exposition grounds, the in- evitable exposure came. No more dramatic incident marks the sporting history of this city or country than that which oc- jcurred when Bert Warner de- liberately laid down on his back, his two shoulders to the | mat, after 30 seconds of wrest- ling. . and opera house in this city, ® go after him. If his shoulder * had not been hurt he would was the idea of the men who. con-|y have got him. Warner told me trolled the game to keep Roller #& before he went on the mat that well up at the top #o that he would | * there was only one thing in the vorve as a big drawing card for |* World that would make him lay . | * down to Rotler, and that was matches In this city | ® to save his mother’s life. He To this end all of the wrestlers | #® wouldn't do it to save his own. who have been brought here in the # | am perfectly satisfied with last three years to meet Roller have | # the showing Warner made and either b men whom Koller could | % am still convinced that he is a entered the professional ranks. It fore coming here to “lay down” to! & ner did what he agreed to do, jocal man, Berg, Burns, Weste- | ® ‘laid down’ twice. A lot of peo- Beall and others who have # pie at the ringside wondered Roller in Seatt! and whom # why | did not name the man has defeated, could easily # who held the §1,000 forfeit » thrown the local man at Any) & money. 1! had giver my word time after the first few minutes of @ that under no circumstances Wrestling. Of all the men whom | ® would | divulge his name and Roller has met here, Klank and Ole | # | kept and will keep my prom- Donalson are probably the only|w® ise. He was at the ringside men whom Roller could actually last night and is well known in defeat | ® Seattle. He still has the $1,000, hits Gis Gand | ® but | am confident that he will | * turn It over, Inasmuch an we These men, the ones who are bet-| ® fulfilled our part of the agree- here and “lay downy” so as come * ep the game good in Seattle. |Wkkeakkkekkk kkk * Roller was dumbfounded, He gazed at the form stretched longer be a drawing card, and.with | STATEMENT OF “BERT” the game dead in nearly every city of the United States, Seattle would WARNER thereby be lost as a field for the sport. When Ordeman came to Seattle out on the mat at his feet, then looked inquiringly to the box occupied. by Jack Curley, his manager, held his hands out to the referee as though appealing “1 don’t claim to be a wrest- but Dr. Roller does. | was % anxious to make him wrestle * one match on the square, so derstanding that he was tq win the» that the people of Seattle eee or 3 explanation, a ern ares ae a ane to Bolt se could eve just what he was. for an explan ag = then, pa ne PIAS yes pd Out, le if thy seeming to realize that some- and Ordeman was given the match jad not dislocated my g ealize that some * shoulder, Roller couldn't have *% thrown me if he had stayed on * the mat all night. | was just |thing startling and unexpected was about to happen, gazed over to the side of the ring where Joe Carroll stood, com- placent and smiling as usual. Cries of “Fake.” The crowd that almost filled the Arena immediately set up a cry of “Fake!” and became so boisterous that it was many when he threw Roller on his. head on the mat, and the local man was carried out in a suppec ly uncon. * eclous condition ¢ onsiderable aot Bec. Phebe! Btn medi money was bet on Ordeman by ne * | left the mat when | went attle men who, it is 3:4 amma on * on. If the $1,000 | was com- acted on behalf of those who knew | % Deieg to deposit as a guaran. of the “frame-up. ; ach | * tee that | would ‘lay down’ to After this Ordeman mat h ik WAS 4 Roller Is not returned to me, | given out that Ordeman had hii * will feel partly repaid in the clined to meet Roller again with Dx exposure of Roller, But | a year, but, as a matter of fact, If|% think that inasmuch ae | ful- last night's exposure had not come. % filled the terms of my agree: Ordeman would have been bac \ | ment, there will be no trouble pre In three weeks, and would! y gbout this money.” lost to Roller in the Arena or |, ahd Opera House of this CHY. Wye kkk ek eR KR : en Roller threw down Joe Car a jrisen from his seat and was it marked the beginning of the | ~ a of faking in Seattle. Carroll at forget “pert Warner. also /@bI¥ Interfere with the plans Curley has made for the big Gotch-Roller eee eee eee eee ee eee eee eee eee eee eee eee eee 2S minutes before a man, who had holding in his raised hand an open letter, could make himself ag and was willing to t ; het ee Pail to get on the match in Kansas City this winter.|/heard. When the noise had pad sy , EB Joasibie | Preliminary arrangements have al-| <4) ier ony ‘ mat with Roller ; eoenble | ready this match, |SUbsided sufficiently, this man effort as made to fe p Jack ur oh, 4 ? . iy ‘ "weattoh Roller with Warner pi the ; y in inside read from the paper which he . Mrs . rircles is that Gote as to “lay ‘ ‘ but always Curley refi He to pat | eee te ae fag ated 4 ey. held in his hand, first explain- Wa ‘ ; Fon Bag tL ® |payment to him of the entire gate|ing that he knew nothing of it oxihibcs jreceipte, which might amount to! except that it had been handed Insisted on Deposit the sum of $25,000. Roller was to | XP! Mat it had been handec Finally Warner agreed to com-|be then taken by Curley on a tri-|to him by a reputable man, with ‘ly with the demands of Curley, |umphal tour of the country, making | ipo po. e > re: i ood, arrand made for |lots of money, until it came time |e Teduest that, he read it to the match of la Suspicious |for him to give up the champton-/the spectators after the first of Warnor, Curley, acting for Roll-|ship to someone else, or until he! fai} in the re he 5 of vernanded a deposit of $1,000, to| was double-crossed, as ie alwaya| (2. i% the match. The letter be forfeited if Warner did not “lay ‘likely in the wrestling game, as| Was that appearing above, sign- down. This money was put up by |Curley and Roller found out last ed R. Warner.” Warner. When he exposed the | night. x whole thing last night he took a! ttle followers of the wrestling} ‘The uproar at the conclusion chance on losing this money, al-|game, now that they know what though technically he complied with | they have been handed for the past |few years, will not be sorry to lose |-~~~~ Last night's exposure will prob | Roller and his friends. (Continued on Page Two.) jof the reading of the letter al- et