The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 28, 1909, Page 1

_ THE SEATTLE | ~—S TAF 11, NO. 187. TTLE, WASHINGTON, TUBSDAY, SEPT. 28, 1909. ONE CENT. AYOR DISMISSES BOUILLON | ILLON MAY BE NEXT MAYOR pval of A. V. Bouillon from the position of super-|tion, and has made everlasting enemies out of every public bes i AY, | RO KY | Ha gt of public utilities has made Bouillon the logical candi- | Service corporation in this city. Republican nomination for mayor, For all of these reasons Mr, Bouillon has been removed} A : from of e throughout the city ‘this morning where men | ‘TOM Olice ze n It is essential to the success of the Republican party that} pal affairs the name of Bouillon was mentioned in | i there must be harmony in the administration of city affairs. ——a - —" « - area MMNORADOS. I, BULL TCIY MLL ANSWERS THE with the approaching campaign. my in this sense means that there must be no} the reason Mayor Miller may give for his action, easons for the removal of Bouillon are that he has It means that if any city official is found stealing monéy insistent in showing up graft in the city administra jthe employers of these men (the pe of Seattle) must know nothing of it | @ that the public service corporations of the city have 4e pl his dismissal It means that the mayor, members of the board of public] hi Srnthie Oiliea ta Awell 1 08 : works and members of the council must swap back and forth, | | intment tothe office in April, 1908, sillon | — ‘ ' " } without any interference from the outside, to the end that politi- a disturbing element in all city affairs with which the | cal fences may be kept in repair and the great Republican party} | Despite Fact That Bouillon Makes Statement That the | Is Stiliin Office, He Is} Mayor's Letter Is Mis- i Not Allowed at Board| leading and Is not Based 4 Meeting. on Facts. t padlic works had anything to do. He refused at all /assured of its grasp upon Seattle's city government jp be a party to any act that was not entirely within the Mayor Miller made a very serious mistake when he ap- jeopardized to any extent the interest of the people pointed A. V. Bouillon superintendent of public utilities, Tt was a bad thing for the mayor and the Republican party. | But it was a splendid thing for the people He declined to observe the old custom of covering — Contrary to ection 12, article 19, |e aR Re ping secret all signs of graft or improper conduct on - It has brought to light from out of the general rottenness | tity officials or employes. ‘ ‘ jof the city charter, Mayor John F, j = of local municipal affairs a man of the people, a mam who can/ Miller thie indvuing dented Gupecti- \* eta oa HIS the day he assumed office, Bouillon has seemed to |). trusted—one who is thoroughly honest | tendent of Public Utilities A. V. |x pista. z | | Bouillon, whom he ousted from office|*® | have not made covert and Fealize that he is in the employ of the people of el IS IT ANY WONDER THEN THAT THE PEOPLE} le and not of the corporations or of the Republican| OF SEATTLE ARE TODAY DEMANDING THAT A, V. sole aim seems to have been to protect the interests : |BOUILLON BE THE CHOICE OF THE REPUBLICAN gle. To this end, he has been willing to sacrifice the PARTY AS ITS CANDIDATE FOR THE OFFICE oF! of the hess aes party and of ‘Cay Miler edmintetre: (MAYOR O Miller administra- | MAYOR OF THE CITY OF SEATTLE? concealed charges. Such charges | have made are open and clearly expressed in the correspondence of rec- ord and | have not refused to distiose or make known any information concerning said charges to any person, of- | yesterday because of his persistency in exposing graft charges against | city emp the right to particl | pate in today’s meeting of the board jof public works | Thus has the elty executive heaped upon Mr. Bouillon more in a digniver ficial or body properly quali- | When Mr, Boullion appeared at fied to deal with them. The hia off this morning to prepare charge that | have indulged in for the meeting of tt action, conduct and words Im- pugning the integrity of fellow members of the board of pub- lic works without just or suf- ficient ca in open session of said board of public works at divers times |s not in accord ance with facts, mor Is the further charge of absence of official courtesy and respect in my dealings with the city council and the various com- mittees thereof on divers and frequent occasions. All my action, conduct and words are of record in the official files. The statement made by Thomson in his letter to the k, he wae surpr FOLLOWED BY PRESIDENT Sa WiaNheD = ; poration cour who Informed him | that he could not be prevented under |the law from sitting on the board a persistent rumor 1s circulation | until his successor had been ap- the Keynote of the Administration and An- | Thieves Looting His, Want Bouillon’s Job as poon’ won cirk wig = old al na a Many Changes He Will Ask Congress to Ht SUE AAILADAD Quarters in Claire Hotel former newsp 4 that it was} Superintendent of Pub- (7. ))°3) yer man of Seattie,| Mayor 3 the position, to the Her declared \* * * * * * * . * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * id op . suid oppose any atep 3 ight take towards attend - * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * \* * * \* * * * | i* * “ —— | lic Utilities. rae ae waver that for business | Doultien mayor is not in accordance at the Next Session. Because he was thrown gut of and Is Wounded. | Peete re oeet Bat, seca it ng Se seine with the facts. I clearly told | - Hussey immediately became the ‘Mr, Calhoun informs me that, un- “> leading candidate for the im-/ der the city charter, I can ern Pacific and struck over the ox ° e ~—_ " head with a club, on March 21, ‘Throw up your hands! | Ernest B. Hussey, a civil engl portant post. It Is understood that | pate in the moeting,” expls AT H. HAZARD. jis being executed rapidly by the| 1909, along «ith a gang of hoboes, This was the command which }Meer with offices in the™ Alaska el 6 pepmae will be announced ousted ott fal. United Press, /keological bureau |C. R. Whitlock te suing the rail greeted Joe McKaig, a laborer, dullding. will be appointed to suo , " pe sony the Auburo station of the North fe nl him that testimony in the case would have to be obtained from witnesses who would doubtless give it upon request by a properly and lawfully con- é with Mr. Calhoun Taft) As to lands which are purely |road company for $1,000 damages. when he turned on the light in A: V. Boutiion as superinten-|tne report further thet to mee tnt | ongtnat point.” replied the mayor, | stituted judicial body. The lagrienttural, there would seem to! The case is being tried before por urth han to sa at and Mr. Bouillon did not sit at the!» ¢acts in the case reported by Sept. 28.—President od jhis room at the Claire hotel, 1927 | 6 tof public utflities, according to'he had a man in mind -| meeting. be no reason for dropping the ordl-| Judge Wilson R. Gay today Ris muchheralded |. method of disposition under| Whitlock had purchased a ticket | First av., last night to do enisat |the homestead and other laws from Auburn to Covington and was| McKaig whirled around to = MA ONEY CA N’T EXP d Water Power Sites. sitting in the depot amoking, when two roughly dressed intruders, one L e co Thomson are evidently based upon his own assumptions suggested by knowledge of his own, as | never even so much as mentioned a Cox & Gleavon deal. | repeat that he has him- self laid bare sufficient facts to confirm ti impression that there has been something ir reguiar and to justify an in- vestigation, which is all that uggested be done in the first place. The charges upon which the honorable mayor bases my re- moval are mere political trump-ups. the station agent, August Rebel, “with respect to forest lante|@eciéed to make a cleanup of the \% Wh0@ leveled « revolver at him owned by the public they should | tramps in the place. He falfed to heed the command | RGES that be intended | be surveyed and held by the gov Whitlock t* a logger and, being immediately and the prowler shot) aad pledged his | “Toment under the regulation of the roughly dressed at the time, the phim through the right arm, The! the waste of forestry bureau permitting a sale station agent ix sald to have mit voce caused great commotion in of such timber as shall be neces |taken him for one of the Knights bai Superin Gets meeting oe ee en ae ceelets preser. |Of the Cinder Path, and he kicked the hotel. The two tntruders ran perintendent cee aces. |from the room and made good their Mixed Up When He complimented the vation him out Richard A. Bai As to water power sites, there ———a a eneape er as been # hange of com . : x el + ¢ Abeacederk ri ap ar ge ib ano a PRE RERESRENESEEEES McKalg was taken to the City| the secretary's | 4 me that a specta’ ieauea ree Getla iee weed p er mild be made in the in would be en cn he we wane te descriptions of the would-be burg: | | Tries to Tell About the | | House-Moving Permit. 2b ebb Re ee ae ot AA AAR AAA AE DARE EAE EEA REA RAS EAR ER EREE 5. * * AVP. dahihaesceiidy * . * i . * . €nd for the best the Yeuterd 20, i people at larg: control . a Bird 3.174.007 Jars, and their arrest is expected | Contradicting himself at |*** RHR RRR HR RR : 5 . development of electrical ¥ Nothing was taken from the wound-} | every turn, in attempting to ex. | os # the Forests. ppliances and the transfer of power ye aaa w eee eee eied man's room Plain his position on the Roney permit, once refused and |. Following graft charges made by voller ad (Continued on, Roge Mine.) finalt |him against city employes and sub+ mvmg the forests and the . inally granted by the board of agar ) ploy ® power of the tiey 4 public works, M, T, Maloney, | Stantiated through investigations city superintendent of streets | rdered by the mayor and by wit and sewers, finally gave it up | "esses whom he named, A. V. Boutl- in despair and passed the blame | /0n, Superintendent of public utilf- on to his assistant, G. J. Cay- ties, was late yesterday afternoon wood, summoned to Mayor Miller's office YOU BET, | WAS AT THE POLE : = DERRUCTS I of and requested to tender his resigna- tion. Upon Bouillon’s refusal to quit his office at a time when develop ments indicate that he was speedy Maloney with ferent ver an hour gave ns of his stand which it {8 char {1 some one In that Kot $100. He con in thus removing without good pe Pinchot and Secre dicted hineal? : ily approaching a hotbed of graft aovere Wilson, genera acambente ana oan mewhere in the city administra- ‘ fr. Pinchot’s plan | tn hin attemnte wildly | tion, he was summarily, ousted by } Mr. Taft said | When first t he | Se mayor : Beat body of America | BA Monroe ers ah One copy of the letter removing Se eee the benefit of | / + ai oa eh lr it and| Mr, Bouillon from office was sent hak a Judge, However, Decides the Dullding would. blockade ‘all ‘@,Mt%, Bouillon and another was Congress for Ai a : traffic on the street eee pa ee sia rf ug That Treatment in Coun- yeaa | ing that congre P | R 8 Be! i A fees thet congress! 4. Jai) May Cure Them ecords Belie His Story | ‘The action of Mayor Miller mr of Colorad: ieve Why, the did you finally with era ooo of Drug Habit. draw your objections and allow the| Cause the head of one of hie loa ao cra of board to pass it?” fiquired the re-| Ost Important departments 2 eae naa ape by Fe ER | was taken directly after he had Drojec: Rergaen! ould | two trembling, 4 Because the building was a| ‘ead In The Star an account | eee Se large one and originally Roney| of the latest exposure of graft - for relic ve ithe dock of the police saked for s permit to move tt com chows ANKE softer ‘Hel Romes to M by ure-| day afternoon and Wi e volub plete. Later I believe a compro-| SMOWs that after Ned Roney, , pec inten with the volut a prominent Seattle attorne: | mise was effected and the building | cut in two and moved,” he replied, | ad Pald $180 to a mysterious allowed to go to ot $16,090 to lesue bonds ‘ oak 4 ‘ man named Anderson, a mov- 0 to np ’ as a ui Bow pe aoe © “r pa countenances Pa 8 original request, on file ing permit, which*had previous- ¥ fected. Thes wed the terrible ravages of joard of public works ly been denied, was granted by sr va rarnngeme 4 fror phia, but each eagerly promised office, proves absolutely Mr, the board of public works, > the re 6H break off the ha if only a | | Roney never wished to move | Oe tompleicn break of | the building any” other way Mayor Miller was so incensed WO Oe iis bot thle | than In two’ eustlona, | when he learned by this article that } m wont hit said ae 4 Mr. Boufllon wag still on the job Sihe eubjoct ot e woman, “We are trying | t0| ut in two before the permit was! ministration, and, moreover, that ithe pre please don't send us to dail finally the men who moved it state | "@, mleht continue his quiet investi. eaters shad a The little woman, natnrally fratt |they could never have done the |BAtions If he were not disturbed, Bas BMGrOUs in | tat now creature with a gleam | work had they not moved it in two er an ed that cabinet officer Aa fstatce Ot this waslot despair in bar eine: wart and |sections, and that matter was set. | fore him the Pacis aded In vats | tled days before the permit was | Mayor Is Angered. } There ily one way to brea Snapshot of Commander Robt. E. Peary, taken at Battle Harbor, bas ssay tern Sag | The mapa wet rther angered namie bet ve a Tobago big crag reg Labrador, while the Roosevelt was stopping there for repairs. Peary || Mii Maloney did not know Mis toy a report submitted to him on ne sara lands,” he sa in jail, 1 shall send you refused to pose for a picture. gade his explanation, however. | suBday by City sa taventigntad ie , ‘ > the coun i ' a first charge of graft made by Mr, tidy 1" 4 cla And the Hitle drag-wrecked wom : Pioneer Mining Man Dies. Gold Hill Water company, and had Tells a Different Story. Bouillon, that aacrat rebates Gn PO ee 88 to sho n wank to the bench, put her arms) Mat Hansen, Peary's negro companion, and the only civilized . . 4 de ais ie! aaaben OF alheha walle. BaDOte 3 Aboard of pubis ‘works meet:c Prtnedipea ah-aaBiryan cigs 8 APO Mineral ja) nd around her drug-soaked husband man to accompany Peary in his last spurt to 90 degrees north lati RENO, Nev., Bept. 2 apt, J.) charge of a 16 water supp ‘or f ke electric lamp contract had been dead | {28 interfered with the conversa-| withheld by an employe of the po Not cr rmmaememi | ee (Continued on Page Nine.) cs WM! lands. Tholand shook with sobs. Some shame| tude, where the pole is located. Photographed at Battle Harbor, |B. O¥erton, who for 30 years was|the Virginia City mines, PRO TAY as authorized, | remained Labrador. president of the Virginia City and|in this city, 85 years of ¢ 1 1 peptic ee erihet rosa (Continued on Page Nine.)