The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 27, 1909, Page 1

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be the Result of Accident at Expo- motorman ttle Elect « age, is worr for when the fair rush of the past. s« be droppe It ts the old « to the talk pay n who will heard at ear barns of the city . reached ite de ‘ i tetartne all of ite car Nowing the jon entrance hing, whe e man was BS persons injured the fact that Coroner i hold no inquest over Frank Hull, of East Ta Man Who lost his life age Street car men «ay lelindy, of the wrecked head when the air to work, and the Se- ¢ company offictals, in say “the acct the coroner's that he is satisfied hing potsible was the car, motormen lors declare that brake was ever band no attempt was ree the power. rman Metindy turne to slow down for the s#omothing was wrong reaching his side and more atum enough to Pthe car to take the leaving the tracks, threw the gates | street car mem, a!) say it 0m the corner Rot & grees hand, s0 the company can losing his head was Mone old man will be pof Why Roller “Double-Crossed” ld — Can't Deny Pe A little bit of wrestling ar that may be of interest to : web, stil] cred that Roller 2 takers. * Warner was com SD $1,000 ax a guar Would “lay down" to the Arena last Friday tive of Warner's and Star office and aid Matter before ..¢ editor 4 whatever you want us representative it » By pea and wrestle me lier, we'll do it. If Bae? ouble-cro Why the “Doudie-cross.” en ot The Star ts § human being Be i © adn reel and ¢ A of that kind # do. & man “double-cr: is bait on th § man talks about and prociaims » that so long the A ; tan be Nitle harm and gente fustice in the “double We the editor of 1 tar Fepresentatty« oft t the Public, Met if you the hi advice e story at the een ree Roller to mM the square. War } a at him, but Tesult, the people will eee 908 Wrestling natch Entrance, Say the , © JA, UKE PUBLIGA, for bis; seneugh to have cut) @ warning to) [5 AGAIN POSTPONED me panic strick an eme gency others may to themselves th comp wi tir when laid off the What Will They Dot who ed out all past th he a men at of October are Men have grown in who evay men atree re oand = th ike books and who younger men as ama eurs, must make for those of a younger generation with cooler heads me may find places. as watchmen or car helpers tn the barns, but the majority will find thenmeives facing a new start in the world at a tin when they should retire to live in comfort What to do will be the question They are up against the twentieth eentary policy, “the survival of the fittest,” and they must face the} muste the street car serv know oy look upon t way - | LEFT LYING TO BE BY THE ROADSIOE CHAUNCEY WRIGHT FINALLY APPEARS AND PLAYS THE GOOD SAMARITAN. But a certain Samaritan, he journeyed, came where was; and when he saw him, he had compassion on him, and went to him, and bownd up his in olf and on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him— Luke K:30%4., Had It not been for the generous. pity of Chauncey Wright, the well | known restaurant proprietor, a Jap anese who was kicked by & horse near Snoqualmie Falls, yesterday | Might have died. The Oriental was suffering trom @ fractured leg and as he lay by the roadside several automobile parties passed him without offer ing assistacce. Mr. Wright came upon the in jured man and promptly brought bim to Seattle in hie auto. The Japanese was taken to the Seattle |General hospital by Mr. Wright, as | } | twho ordered every comfort riven | to the Injured man. Wright ¢on-| docts & restaurant at 164 Washing jton st | Runnells, ta—Three robbers who Attempted to loot the Farmers’ Say- ings bank of this eity have been surrounded by = posse of citizens near Cordova. SOME HISTORY it will up the game ax It is being conducted in Seattle today.’ No Denial Yet. This conversation The Star office on th Tuesday, September ted upon th eryone $1,000 w then | oceurred in * morning of a1 Warner advice given him. As knows, the story of the ® told at the ringside, and after much delay and con fusion, Warner and Roller met in ® contest that might have been going yet without a fall, if Warner hadn't hurt his shoulder. | And despite the fact that there has been no denial of this $1,000 transaction, Jack Curley still talks of further wrestling matches in S¢ attle. Koller has not had a word to say That the public will not stand any more matches to which Curley or Roller is a party, is a foregone conclusion | THE W'COY HEARING | The hearing of M. P. MeCc United States examiner of surve charged with embezzlements of be $7,000 and °$8,000, before United States Commissioner Arm strong, was again postponed this morn The hearing was set for ween Monday INSANE MAN LOST; | Njcecla Soloman, an atient, eseaped from ‘odes ‘ation tficers at the King #t, station ye terday afternoon and is believed wandering bout the etty fan is about 40 years old about 170 pounds istache and has a ee ee ed A-Y-P, ATTENDANCE, Youtorday a * * * * Tom ” More than this, | samy xnnyy yenynre eur|the subject all Peary | kimos COOK’S RECORDS HAVE BEEN LEFT IN THE FROZEN NORTH LAr: fA THEORY TO OE PPD 10 MEN WHO. PERATE STREET CRS SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, MONDAY, SE Fe DITION AGS SRS x PT. 27, 1909, DR. AND MRS. COOK ON THE DOCK IN BROOKLYN, WATCHING THE CHEERING CROWDS. PHOTOGRAPH MADE FOR THIS NEWSPAPER BY SPECIAL PHOTOGRAPHER COURT, Will Oey Proof. (By United Pree.) NEW YORK, Sept. 27 mander Robert E. Peary to allow Harry Whitney game hunter, to bring Dr A. Cook's Instruments back to Civilization, the physician will be delayed at ay of the North Pole. This, at least, ie the assertion ing made here by prominent se tiets, who declare that it will necessary for Dr. his instroments In order stantiate his claim. Cook Undismayed. Brooklyn Hy € ' the Frede and to The ever, physictan, in to this country hie claims will stop and bring bis lastrumonts. The ecientists are skeptical ab the ship reaching Its destination fore the Arctic winter sets tp, accordingly believe that it will at | at ‘Discoverer Receives Word From Whitney That All Were Left at Etah--This Som fusing | big rick data Brooklyn ast r in confirming his discovery be! feo be Cook to produce eub how undismayed and deciares lthat the ship bringing his two Ee to substan: | tah | pout | was that the charges made Whitney would not help Cook by Peary also refused to discues the) assertion that Whitney jeft the Roosevelt only because he * was foreed to do vo. In concluding the pts Peary anid TAFT IN HOWARD DON. “1 have only | Cook did not + this to Dr. ch the pole. I am prepared to leave the verdict to the world. When I have finished with OC@ek, I will bave proved, as I said before, that Cook did not reach the Peon. STATE TOMORROW A. mM. Will Cross the Line Into. State of Washington at Daybreak and Soon After Reach Spokane. (ty United Prees) SPOKANE, Sept. 27.—Presi- dent Taft and his party will enter the state of Washington about daybreak tomorrow morning, according to a dis patch received here this after. noon, provided all train sched. | | wles are kept. The line will be be-| crossed shortly before 6 o'clock and) and the presidential party |e be) due to arrive here at 6:30 at a year before Cook will be |. O'clock. The president will re- fn @ position to lay -hix proofs be |’ main here until tomorrow eve- fore authorities ning, leaving for North Yakima Dr. Cook announced today that) ae 9:25 o'ciock. At North the things Whitney was forced (0) Yakima a stop will be made leave behind were a sextant, hort) untii 2 o'clock Wednesday aft- zon finder and the flag he flew St! eenoon, when President Taft the pole. He also declared that! starts | for tie, arriving while the stuff cached at Etah Was! there at 8:15 that evening, unpecessa to prove his claim, he; wanted to bring back the tostra ANACONDA, Mont, Sept. 27.-— mouts to quiet all of his critics “The strike in over,” announced Message From Whitney. The {natruments packed waterproof material will are and in} not | Senator Carter today, ed the special train of President Taft at Silver Bow Junction, and |his words brought a feeling of re as he board | Hie fall was paintess and he re turned to the surface without ‘a scrateh or a jolt. His descent was made in the shaft of the Leonard copper mine, which is bored 1,800 feat downward into the earth's ortat | The president stayed his down | Ward flight at the 1,200-toot level | }and watched with interest the elec tric drills biting out chunks of cop- per ore. From the mine the president pro- e@eded to the court house square j here, where he addressed a great | throng. President Taft is suffering today j with a sore foot, and limps when| he walks, He received a slight, | Injury to one of his toes at Beverly | when he was playing golf early in the month, but thought nothing of the injury at the time. Constant! | standing while shaking handa with |hundreds of persons had agera Vated the hurt into a pronounced #ore, and today the presidont’s foot in, swollen iutderably Dr. Richardson, physician tendance upon the president, is tréating the injured member, and Assured bis patient that there need At 12:46 the president left Butte | for Helena. President Limping. in at be damaged be no fear of serious consequences The message from Whitney, — a all aboard the president's | 70 spite of the pain it mives him to \s aboard the Jeanie at Hattle Har) - walk, the president omitted nothin: bor, was tollo Upon learning of the end of the| SP iy. ieogram arranged for cto Started for home on Roosevelt jatrike, President Taft lett the train | oday Nothing has arrived for me. Peary| Here and visited the great Washoo _aiehe mn would allow nothing belonging to|*melter, which was one of the Bie you on board. Said leave every- | smelters involved in the trouble} FAILED LOCK SAFE. thing in cache at Etah. Mot Cap | between the striking miners and Failure to lock bis safe cost M tain Bartlett, of Jeanie, at th| the mine engineers T. Madsen, a restaurant proprietor Star. Did not go back after going|, A® automobile ride about the city at 2i4 Union st. $75 Saturday aboard schooner. Going St. Johns,|followed and the short journey | night. Madsen says $50 of the then take steamer home. | from here to Butte was resumed. | amount stolen belonged to a woman Hope you're well, See you soon, whe left It with him for safe keep. explain all. Good shooting. WHITNEY.” Peary Gets Busy. SOUTH HARPSWELL, Maine, | Sept. 27.--Stirred to action by the approach of Harry Whitney to ely {ilzation, Commander Robert &. Peary started for Bar Harbor this morning “to converse with General Hubbard, president of the Peary | Arctic club, concerning the advis ability of immediate aunching charges against Dr, Frederick A Cook The explorer will remain at Bar Harbor until Wednesday anc whether the charges will be given out from there rests, he says, with General Hubbard Commander Peary today said “1 Am the Ma ‘The Roosevelt sailed from Eagle Island for New York last night When the vessel passe Hook [ shall be on the bridg when it docks I will tell the 1 that the man who found the North Pole is standing on the bridge of the ‘Roosevelt Commander Peary refused to dix cuss the charge made by Whitney in his cable message to Dr. Cook that Peary would not allow Whit ney to take Dr, Cook's belongings on board the steamer Roosevelt and d him to leave them cached Still Denies Cook, In answer to several questions on would say Goes Down in Mine. BUTTE, Mont, Sept. 27.—Prest dent Taft dropped a quarter of a mile into the earth here today PINCHOT COMES OUT ON | TOP--BALLINGER LOSES) to Reflect on Chief For- ester in Writing Letter to Ballinger. | | SALT . Sept, 27.80 far as Pronident Taft Is concerned, the Pinchot-Ballinger controversy is at an end, with Pinchot quite apparently leading Ballinger in the favor of the president } On Saturday there was made | public here by Mr. Pinchot extracts from a letter writfen by the pres dent at the same time he wrote the letter of exoneration to Ballinger In this letter President Taft speaks in the highest terms of Pinchot, and suggests that his resignation jas chief forester would be a na | tonal calamity The fact that Mr. Pinchot at | “(Continued on ‘Page Nine.) jing. Detectives detailed to investi gate learned that the combination had not been tampered with and evidently was left unlocked ‘President Did Not Intend JEAN FORTIER A MAN OF SORROWS Lying prone on bis hard bunk,! with his head on arms, and scarcely moving muscle, Je Fortier is again a man of sorrows. During the progress of the last trial just ended, in which he was found guilty of murder in the sec ond degree for the killing of his brothe Michael, on the morning of May 7, 1909, Fortler gradually pleked up his courage and even ex pected an acquittal when the jury retired Once again life seemed worth the price and once more he was con tented with his lot And this seemed still true, when the jury falled to acquit him, but returned a verdict of murder in the second degree, which means a sen tence of from 10 to 20 years in the | penitentary, READ THE REAL STORY OF THE GOTCH-ROLLER WRESTLING MATCH IN TOMORROW’S St THE SEATTLE THE SEATTLE THE GRAFT CHARGES That Attorney Ned Roney, with offices at 606 Oriental building, paid to a go-between named Anderson $150 for a permit from the board of public works to move a house from First av. S. and Walker st. That after the board had on one pretense or another held the permit up from meeting to meeting the applica- tion was finally rejected. That Roney was informed that Anderson could secure the permit from the board.’ That Anderson, being questioned by Roney, said he could have the board reconsider the application and grant the permit. That Anderson declared that in order to get the permit he must have $150 to influence the board. That Anderson, to convince Roney that he knew what he was talking about, said he would not take the money until after the permit had been placed in Roney’s hands. That the permit was granted and that for it Roney handed Anderson $150. BARTENDERS STRIKE OVER TO BE TRIED IN MONTANA OF FEDERATION AND THE MINERS GO BACK. | |Men Who Sold Liquors Which Caused Fatal End (By gE, United Mont., the Vrees.) Sept organizat a | to Joy Ride Last Week of Western Federation of } Ma Miners on the rocks of internal dis | Will Face Justice. sension, the engineers’ union nut ber 83 of this city today en aS the suspension of work in 45 local Robert Hawkins, bartender at/ mines by agreeing to return to the STAFF 0 CEN} NO PERMIT WAS GRANTED UNTIL GRAFT MONEY PAID { Attorney Roney Says He Is the Man Who Put up $150 in Order to Get House Moving Permit From City Board. Ro , who paid ent, $150 for a 4 is ging house 3., between Hole 8, to a ne publle utilities, divulged this story of today T Mayor Miller id to he his witnesses wo Rone 4 statement In a letter to his superior, Mr. Bouilion named three of the parties who participated in the transaction. E. A, Roney, through his brother, Attorney Ned Roney, who made the orig inal application for the permit, paid the $150 to a ward heeler known only as Anderson, who kept $50 for himeelf and turned the remaining $100 over to some one yet unknown to either Bou- ilion or Roney The supert of public utfk ities > was first med of the : il, president ; m1 tract & Guar riding recently edly en- Roney acquainted case. Roney, speaking declared y that @ fact Attorney hia brother was purely money graft Yes, | paid a man named Anderson $150 to get me a mov- ing permit,” he said. “Although the permit was rejected at one time it was granted by the board of public works at ite meeting following the payment of the money. brother had acquired | y y ugel, Tanks of the federation from which the 8, & 8. saloon; Harry Haugel, bey vocaed ae Pikes j f the building in ques- bartender at Jones’ place; Charles was given so many days in | Ufin, of the Horseshoe saloon, and|, Th? ensineers will formally re to remove It from the site it a urn to the eration today !f | occ d at that time. At the expl- "| Herman Weldeman, of the 8. & 8. | everything goes as planned, and | ra of that time he was te pay saloon, who were arrested on & the 000 miners who refused to}the of the lot $25 w day jeharge of selling liquor to the joy-, work {n the mines here with en-! for it remained there. riders Wednesday night and Thurs- gineers in bad union standing will : day morning, a few hours before| return to work. The night shift} Applied to Maloney. the accident in which Goldie Por. of 4,000 men will Teopen the mines My, brother asked me to get er, Mabel Johnson and Winnie at 6 o'clock this evening him a moving permit. I applied to |Fraxer Nichols went to their death) The action of the engineers|M T. Maloney, superintendent of |when Henry Hiser drove an auto-|averts for a time at least one of | streets, and he practically promised mobile over the bridge at Fourth | the greatest labor troubles thr that it would be granted. When it jay. 8. and Lane at., will be tried be- ening the Western ederation. The | came up at the bonrd meeting | was jfore Justice of the Peace Fred walkout of the miners foreshadow- told that I hadn't advertised for It. | Brown. October 1 ed a shut down of all the big smel- after 1 had advertised 1 was in- } Deputy Prosecuting Attorney | ters in the state, which would have | formed at the next meeting of the Jobn H. Perry and Coroner Snyder thrown thousands of smeltermen | poard that {| should b advertised are gathering the evidence out of work. |twice. I did so the accused saloon men. Fred Lindsay, one of the victims | of the accident, was taken home| yy yee RRR ERE ee | vesterday afternoon. Axel Ander-| » son ig belleved to be dying at the ® WEATHER FORECAST, city hospital, His sister Christine|® Fair tonight and Tuesday; Tommy Finch ts His ® light east * EREEEEERAEEVRERE BY lis out of danger winds at the Seattle General hospital |condition {# satisfactory +e eek ‘*‘WHAT’S THE USE?” | HE ASKS THE JUDGE world without his consent leaves it against his will and Own Confession trp between is mighty rough and the Drink Bleared Hobo Is by| His rule of contraries is the feature of Hopeless and Void of All :nis trip Lif “When he is little the big girls Promise in Life. kiss him, when he is big the little girls kiss him bad manager If he’s poor he’s a if he's rich he's dis It was an unkempt hobo who S firenche-njtl 3 sicichat to the iron rating of the |heHest. If he needs credit, he can’t ee oea tet dock. He gave the | Set It, and if he's prosperous every same of. Arthur Halliwell, He|20dY wants to do him a favor. Tell varmed A drink shaken hand over|%,™4n you like him and he's suspi Rin bloaty face, gaped a couple of|COus. Tell him you don’t ike him imes oked on listiessly when |“" Ne ® sore oan rs on en «4 prey fre a If he's in politics, it ts for graft] jolie Jud t ve up and | he isn't In polities, he’s a bad him why he aid not brace up and) ciizen. If he doesn't give to char-| re t e's ati he ¢ PS, ‘s What's the use, Judge? A man’s|{1¥ be's stingy it hh ote Ife is filled with trouble and} crite and if ne isn't he's taboo | itemptation. He comes into this) «1? ne shows affection, he's a jsoft specimen—if he cares for no one but himself, he's cold-blooded If he dies young he had a great future, if he dies of old age he missed hie calling. If he ves money he’s a pig, if he s it y's a loafer. Ifehe gets it he's a grafter and if he don't get it he's ja fool—so what's the use? | You may go,” said Police Judge | Gordon | ‘HODGE 1S BRINGING | The crushing blow was dealt when he was told that he was to be KER BACK tried at once for the killing of his Ue brother's wife, which followed a few) > ie Pe hours after the first homicide Sheriff R Hodge wired this morning that he would arrive c at the clouds agai . gs Fis “a Jon ed ra hg he ee. {from California tonight at. 8:1 app . os “°° ‘ ‘ yp | With A. B, Stonaker Stonaker is neure which life held fOr | wanted in Seattle for defrauding |_| A. Carlson out of several hundred mand ever sinc he han barely dollars’ worth of bullding ma moved nough to ea € ems | teria crushed and broken He had] thought that If convicted on Uy?! Had it not been for the loud and charge of the first murder that the ntinued barking of her dog, Mra second charge would be dropped R. Upson, of 208 BRighth av and upon this he had built his|}might have awakened = y hoes morning the victim of a The date of the second trial has| Mrs. Upson’s dog made such a noise not been set and in the interim|that several neighbors shoved thelr nothing so far has seemed to ap-|heads out of various windows in| |pease his melancholy, time to see & man running away. | jed in your hand, | per Other objections One was that I had mits from the Gre Northern Pacific 1 were raised, in’t obtained per- t Northern and llroads to cross their tracks with the house. I had already sect i these permits. Fi- nally, at a subsequent meeting of the board, Superir moved that the apy permit be rejected ‘ity Engineer R. H. Thomson voted with him, and I didn’t get it “Some time later D. E. Riley, who conducted the lodging house, came to me and said he knew a man who could obtain the permit, but that it might cost $150. |! asked Riley to send the man to me. This man, whom | know as Anderson, a ward heeler, called on me. Can you permit?” asked of him Yes, for sition Do you mean board of public works? No, not exactly that, but I must have $150. You need not give me the money until the permit is plac- aid Anderson. ndent Maloney lications for the get this $150, was his propo- to bribe the T querted, Who Got the Hundred? curious know if kind of work was going on,” con- tinued Mr. Roney, “so | agreed to give him the money he asked for, At the next meeting of the board, on February 19, 1909, the permit I gave Ander: the He told me that 0 of it himself, and that the re- would be handed to some The name of that persons he would not yy to this was was granted. $150. was for mainder other son person or diy In his Mr letter Bouillon says to the mayor today “The gentleman from whom obtained the information in the first place Mr. Louis Stull, president the Wash ington Abstract & Guaranty company. The permit in ques- tion was one for moving a building applied for by Mr. E. A. Roney, denied Feb. 9, 1909, reconsidered and ordered read- is ° vertised Feb. 16, 1909, and granted Feb. 19, 1909. The transaction was handled by Mr. Ned Roney, 0, the firm of Roney & Loveless, lawyers, 606 Oriental building, Seattle, who confided to me the 23rd inst. in conversation the essen- tial features in the case. While | remain of the opinion that my communication of the 23rd inst, was sufficiently definite and specific to justify the initiation by you of steps for aw investigation, | trust that (Continued on Page Nine.) on meres basins aa

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